The album also produced his first Number One hit in " Why ", as well as the No. 4-peaking " Amarillo Sky ", which had previously been a non-charting single in 2002 for McBride & the Ride.

Lockhart, born and reared in Amarillo, Texas, earned degrees in mathematics and aerospace engineering from Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Austin before being commissioned in 1981 into the United States Air Force.

The Amarillo Dillas were brought back in 2006 as one of six charter members of the independent United League Baseball ( ULB ).

* Teel Bivins ( 1947 – 2009 ), a former U. S. Ambassador to Sweden and a former member of the Texas State Senate from Amarillo, Texas, died at the age of sixty-one of progressive supranuclear palsy, first diagnosed in 2006, while he was in Stockholm, Sweden.

* Cellular One of Amarillo Purchased April 2006

To coincide with the 2006 World Cup, a new version of " Amarillo " was released on the novelty single "( Is This The Way To ) The World Cup?

In April 2006 at local Amarillo indy-wrestling promotion West Texas Wrestling Legends, Jay's nephew " Radical " Ricky Romero III and Mike DiBiase teamed up as " Team 3G " ( Team Third Generation Wrestlers ) and went on to become the first-ever WTWL Jay Youngblood Memorial Tag Team Cup Tournament winners at " The Legacy of Legends " show.

In early 2006, Mark wrestled at the Amarillo, TX based indy-wrestling company West Texas Wrestling Legends ran by his brother Chris.

Amarillo Design Bureau has — as part of its license for the Star Fleet Universe series of games — incorporated many aspects of The Animated Series into its works, not least being the inclusion of the Kzinti, although in a modified form.

In the playoffs, Amarillo defeated Alexandria for their first league championship since 1999.

Amarillo would continue their success in 2009 with a 44-35 record and another championship, defeating San Angelo for the title.

Due to the small amount of territory covered by I-40, only one Texas welcome center is located along this stretch of road, in Amarillo at the exit for Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport, serving both sides of the interstate.

Roberts County is also the scene of a recent battle for water rights, where the City of Amarillo, Texas, the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority, and T. Boone Pickens have sought to purchase the water rights within the county.

Operations ceased August 1945, and in 1949 the site was sold to Texas Tech University at Amarillo for agricultural experimentation.

Located on Main Street, this French restaurant has come a long way since its beginning as a private club for French airmen at Amarillo Air Force Base.

It is believed that he was headed for the Amarillo, Texas area, but he camped one night at Wolf Hollow Creek in Indian Territory and remained there until his death a few years later.

In 1985 the Harrington Foundation of Amarillo paid for the computerization of library records, joining the library for the first time into a consortium with most of the public libraries in the Panhandle.

Located approximately fifty miles north of Amarillo, the city is named for

By 1900 Tulia was prospering as a stopping point for freight-wagon traffic en route to the railheads of Colorado City and Amarillo.

The city of Fritch is primarily a bedroom community with the majority of citizens commuting to nearby Borger and Amarillo for work.

On July 20, 1973, Smithson died in a plane crash, while surveying sites for his work Amarillo Ramp in Texas.

Among them are Peoria, Illinois for half of its city council, Chilton County, Alabama for its county council and school board, and Amarillo, Texas, for its school board and College Board of Regents.

was nicknamed “ Amarillo ”( Yellow ) During the 1956-57 season, when the club won the right to play in the 1st division in which they played in their first tournament for the Copa México against Club América.

MacDonald for articles about a murder in Amarillo, Texas

The Mayfield Brothers of West Texas, including Smokey Mayfield, Thomas Edd Mayfield, and Herbert Mayfield, were among Ford's warmup bands, having played for him in concerts in Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas, during the late 1940s.

After further course work at Columbia in the spring of 1916 and summer teaching for Bement, she took a job as head of the art department at West Texas State Normal College from fall 1916 to February 1918, the fledgling West Texas A & M University in Canyon just south of Amarillo.

In 2005, Parkinson returned the compliment by appearing alongside other UK celebrities such as Ronnie Corbett, Jim Bowen, Geoffrey Hayes and Shakin ' Stevens on Kay's video with Tony Christie for their number one single, "( Is This the Way to ) Amarillo ".

The Gorn race appears in the alternate Star Fleet Universe, represented in the range of games from Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. as well as the first two Star Fleet Command games ( and the Orion Pirates stand-alone addon for Starfleet Command II ) from Taldren.

Also in 2005 Corbett appeared with comedian Peter Kay, in the spoof music video for the number 1 single Is This the Way to Amarillo ?, mimed to the song by Tony Christie.

Sedaka also released the song in the U. S. in 1977 as the shortened " Amarillo ," but it was only a mid-chart entry, peaking just shy of the Top 40.

The Burbank sessions yielded a few spontaneous recordings, including a jam titled " Sweet Amarillo " and a simple, improvised song titled " Rock Me Mama.

In 2005, " Is This The Way To Amarillo ", a song Greenfield had written with Sedaka in the early 1970s, reached # 1 on the UK charts in the original 1971 version by Tony Christie.

As well, a re-release of the Greenfield / Sedaka song " Is This The Way To Amarillo " ( originally a UK hit for Tony Christie in 1971 ) became the UK's best-selling record of 2005.

Is This the Way to Armadillo is a spoof video of the song Is This the Way to Amarillo produced by the Royal Dragoon Guards stationed in Iraq.

Refining at the mines as well as at a copper refinery in Amarillo, Texas produce 375 million pounds of refined copper each year.

In September of that same year, a show was held in Funk's hometown of Amarillo.

They also appeared in the video for Tony Christie's " Is This the Way to Amarillo ", which was re-released in that year.

The same year Christie re-recorded " Amarillo " together with the Hermes House Band for the German market, reaching # 25 in the German charts and having several TV performances.

Besides that, they ended their inaugural year at 9-7 and won over the Odessa Roughnecks in the Semifinals, yet lost to the Amarillo Dusters in Intense Bowl I.

After a year of online rumors that there might be some new Polar material in the works, 2008 will finally see the highly anticipated release of a 4th Polar solo LP titled ' In the end ' on Warm Communications out of Amarillo, Texas.

In 2005, Baker appeared in the video to " Is This the Way to Amarillo?

It was knocked off by a second Comic Relief single – a reissue of Tony Christie's " Is This the Way to Amarillo " with the associated video seeing comedian Peter Kay mime alongside various guest stars.

These include an annual Staff Stars in their Eyes, a Staff Cabaret, and a Staff versus Student University Challenge, sponsored cricket matches and mufti days, and an Amarillo video featuring staff.

In 2005, Harris was among the all-star line up in Peter Kay and Tony Christie's music video, " Is This the Way to Amarillo ".

In 2005, Hayes appeared on the television show This Morning, talking about the heyday of Rainbow, and also appeared in the all-star line up for the video of Tony Christie with Peter Kay's # 1 hit single " Is This the Way to Amarillo ?".