It was a measure of his powers of persuasion that he managed to coax the 77-year-old Astaire – who had insisted that his contract rule out any dancing, having long since retired – into performing a series of song and dance duets, evoking a powerful nostalgia for the glory days of the American musical film.

May also revealed that a series of duets that Mercury recorded with Michael Jackson are to be released in 2012.

Clooney recorded several duets with Marlene Dietrich and appeared in the early 1950s on Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town series on CBS.

Blanton also recorded a series of bass and piano duets with Ellingto

Nine of the songs from the series featured on Lougheed's 1988 album Evergreen Nights, though Lougheed only sang some of the songs ( sometimes in duets ), while some were sung by other artists ( Curtis King Jr and Stephen Lunt ).

In 1967, Konitz recorded The Lee Konitz Duets, a series of duets with various musicians.

Schneider and Wopat sang several duets on the TV series, sometimes with co-star Catherine Bach.

Tammi Terrell ( born Thomasina Winifred Montgomery ; April 29, 1945 — March 16, 1970 ) was an American recording artist, best known as a star singer for Motown Records during the 1960s, most notably for a series of duets with singer Marvin Gaye.

This opera is notable for the series of four duets for the main characters and the waltz song " Je veux vivre " for the soprano.

One remembers the work as a series of very pretty duets, varied by a sparkling waltz air for Juliet, in which Madame Patti displays that tragic genius, which belongs to her equally, with the highest capacity for comedy.

An interview Reba McEntire gave as part of the press coverage of her then upcoming duets album revealed that the show was not being shopped around and that the series was indeed finished.

In the late-70s, she teamed up with country-pop superstar, Kenny Rogers for a series of duets, which brought her career in directions it had never gone before, earning Platinum selling albums and No. 1 records for the very first time.

Dottie West, who had been around since the ' 60s, completely changed her image into a more sexy and risky profile in the early ' 80s, following a series of hit duets with Kenny Rogers.

The first series of Sherlock Holmes adventures ends with Holmes and Moriarty grappling together on the edge of a cliff.

A series of conferences with friends and bankers began about this time ; ;

Let us quote once more from R. G. Collingwood: `` History is properly concerned with the actions of human beings Regarded from the outside, an action is an event or series of events occurring in the physical world ; ;

Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.

Volumes One and Two, selected from the sound tracks of a television series, contain `` conversations with the elder wise men of our day ''.

As of October 25, the AEC had reported 24 shots in the new Soviet series, 12 of them in a megaton range, including a super bomb with a yield of 30 to 50 megatons ( the equivalent of 30 million to 50 million tons of TNT ) ; ;

But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

Practical management problems and their suggested solutions are dealt with in a series of SBA publications.

At that time it was a series of sophisticated social dances whose steps were often combined with other steps devised by the choreographer.

between the north shore of Deer Island and the Salisbury side there was an arch of 113 feet and a series of piers with a draw forty feet long.

The differences between onset age and completion age with respect to the corresponding mean age have been brought into juxtaposition by means of a series of arrows.

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

Congress reacted with a series of measures modifying in various ways what it had granted in 1875.

One such wife, Dr. Linden says, became disgusted with her weak husband and flurried through a series of extramarital affairs in the hope of finding a stronger man.

Hypothesizing a series of developmental stages that begin in the individual's infancy and end in his old age, Erikson has indicated that the adolescent is faced with a series of identity crises.

In a series of fairy tales and fantasies, Melies demonstrated that the film is superbly equipped to tell a straightforward story, with beginning, middle and end, complications, resolutions, climaxes, and conclusions.

Within an easy walk from Capitol Hill where Pennsylvania Avenue comes together with Constitution Avenue, begins a series of great federal buildings, some a block long and all about seven-stories high.

Hansen will engage in his first workout at Miami Stadium prior to the opening tomorrow night of a two-game weekend series with the New York Yankees.

The owners would like each club in the fourteen-team league to play a home-and-home series with teams in its division, plus two games against teams in the other division.

Taylor said Mrs. Huntley and her husband also will be questioned about a series of 15 Portland robberies in spring of 1959 in which the holdup men bound their victims with tape before fleeing.

The series of ballets is sponsored by the Milenoff Ballet Foundation, Inc., a non-profit foundation with headquarters in Coral Gables.

Written by Brian K. Vaughan and drawn by Roger Petersen and Giuseppe Camuncoli in 2001, the third Swamp Thing series focused on the daughter of the Swamp Thing, Tefé Holland.

In 2005, he played the lead role in a 24-part television series " Palace Artist " broadcast by China Central Television, as the 18th century Italian Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione.

His greatest success “ The Outsiders of Oskoken Castle ” was soon followed by similar books about working class children: “ Der Trommler von Faido ” ( The Drummer of Faido ), “ Matthias und seine Freunde ” ( Matthias and his Friends ) and the four volume series “ Giuseppe und Maria ”.

Urania is by far the longest life science fiction series published in Italy ( in July 2005 the issue number 1500 was released: it contained the translation of Stories for Men, a short novel by John Kessel ; Il ranch di Cranwell, a short novel by Giorgio Monicelli ; and short stories by Fruttero & Lucentini, Gianni Montanari, and Giuseppe Lippi ).

Both series share editor-in-chief Giuseppe Lippi and cover artist Franco Brambilla.

* Giuseppe Felloni and Guido Laura, Genoa and the history of finance: A series of firsts?

Guzzanti's career began when she took part in a series of successful television comedy formats such as Proffimamente ... non stop ( directed by Enzo Trapani ), L ' araba fenice ( directed by Antonio Ricci ), La TV delle ragazze and Scusate l ' interruzione ; her imitations of the famous Italian porn star Moana Pozzi gave her popularity, and the Italian film director Giuseppe Bertolucci recruited her to star in his film I Cammelli.