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As The Blue Belles, their first single was ironically a song that the group didn't participate in-" I Sold My Heart to the Junkman " was, as explained in Patti LaBelle's memoirs, Don't Block the Blessings, originally recorded by The Starlets, then riding high on their hit single, " Tell Him No " and were on the road when the song was released, unable to promote it.
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Sim appeared with Cole in the films Cottage to Let ( 1941 ), The Happiest Days of Your Life ( 1950 ), Scrooge ( 1951 ), Laughter in Paradise ( 1951 ), The Belles of St. Trinian's ( 1954 ), An Inspector Calls ( 1954 ), The Green Man ( 1956 ) and Blue Murder at St. Trinian's ( 1957 ).
The group was formed after the disbanding of two rival girl groups in the Philadelphia / Trenton areas, the Ordettes and the Del-Capris, forming as a new version of the former group, later changing their name to The Blue Belles ( later Bluebelles ).
Robinson credited the song to the Blue Belles, who later were sent to promote the song, which peaked at the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100, in 1962.
Following a potential lawsuit from a president of another record label for using the name Blue Belles, Robinson gave Holt the stage name, Patti La Belle ( La Belle means French for " the beautiful one "), and altered the group's name to Patti La Belle and Her Blue Belles.
* < sup > 1 </ sup > Holt changed her name to Patti La Belle in 1963 after Harold Robinson was sued by a manager of a group, also called the Blue Belles, therefore becoming Patti La Belle and Her Blue Belles.
As The Blue Belles ( aka Patti La Belle and Her Blue Belles ; Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles ):
* Sleigh Bells, Jingle Bells and Blue Belles ( Newtown, 1963 )
Gordy hired Cindy Birdsong, a singer with Patti LaBelle & the Blue Belles, as a temporary stand-in for Ballard in April 1967.
In the Jazz Age and during the 1930s, " all-girl " bands such as The Blue Belles, the Parisian Redheads ( later the Bricktops ), Lil-Hardin's All-Girl Band, The Ingenues, The Harlem Playgirls, Phil Spitalny's Musical Sweethearts and " Helen Lewis and Her All-Girl Jazz Syncopators " were popular.
They and nine others are selected to form the Rockford Peaches, while 48 others are split among the Racine Belles, Kenosha Comets, and South Bend Blue Sox.
After almost rejecting the group due to him not being initially impressed with the looks of Patsy Holt before Holt and the group sang to him during an audition, which prompted Robinson to change his mind, signing the group and changing the name of both the group ( into The Blue Belles, based from a Newtown subsidiary, Blue Belle Records ) and Holt's own name, from Patsy Holt to Patti LaBelle.
From 1963 until 1967, The Blue Belles, later Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles, found relative success on the charts and were raved for their live performances.
The Blue Belles had some success after joining Atlantic in 1965, recording two relatively successful albums, 1966's Over the Rainbow and 1967's Dreamer scoring modest charted singles such as " All or Nothing ", " Take Me a Little While " and " I'm Still Waiting ".
In 1999, Birdsong and the other Blue Belles received a Pioneer Award from the R & B Foundation and were honored by Lauryn Hill.
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In addition, Blue Cross coverage for all employees and their dependents was extended to provide the full cost of semi-private hospital accommodations.
The Airedale Terrier Club of America and the Kerry Blue Terrier Club of America have under consideration donating trophies to the boys or girls who win with their breeds in Junior Showmanship Competition at any Show.
The law also directed local communities to hold referendums to determine the status and extent of Blue Laws in their respective jurisdictions.
As the two couples began supporting each other during recording sessions, the sound of the girls ' voices convinced the songwriters to model their ' group ' on the like of MOR acts Blue Mink, Middle of the Road and The Sweet.
The Belgian Blue is named after their typically blue-grey mottled hair colour, however its colour can vary from white to black.
Blue Steel required up to seven hours of launch preparation, and was highly unreliable ; the Royal Air Force estimated in 1963 that half the missiles would fail to fire and would have to be dropped over their targets, contradicting their purpose of serving as standoff weapons.
The Blue Angels ' six demonstration pilots fly the F / A-18 Hornet in more than 70 shows at 34 locations throughout the United States each year, where they still employ many of the same practices and techniques used in their aerial displays in 1946.
During their aerobatic demonstration, the Blues fly six F / A-18 Hornet aircraft, split into the Diamond Formation ( Blue Angels 1 through 4 ) and the Lead and Opposing Solos ( Blue Angels 5 and 6 ).
Instead, Blue Angel pilots tense their muscles to prevent blood from rushing from their heads and rendering them unconscious.
The Blue Angels use a United States Marine Corps C-130T Hercules, nicknamed " Fat Albert ", for their logistics, carrying spare parts, equipment, and to carry support personnel between shows.
The first Blue Angel Flight Demonstration Squadron ( 1946 – 1947 ), assembled in front of one of their F6F Hellcat s ( l to r ): Lt. Al Taddeo, Solo ; Lt.
The officer selection process requires pilots and support officers ( flight surgeon, events coordinator, maintenance officer, supply officer, and public affairs officer ) wishing to become Blue Angels to apply formally via their chain-of-command, with a personal statement, letters of recommendation and flight records.
On 8 November 1986 the Blue Angels completed their 40th anniversary year during ceremonies unveiling their present aircraft, the McDonnell Douglas F / A-18 Hornet, the first multi-role fighter / attack aircraft.
In 1992 the Blue Angels deployed for a month-long European tour, their first in 19 years, conducting shows in Sweden, Finland, Russia ( the first foreign flight demonstration team to perform there ), Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain.
In 2006, the Blue Angels marked their 60th year of performing.
The next day, the Blue Angels announced that they were initiating a safety stand-down, canceling their upcoming Naval Academy Airshow and returning to their home base in Pensacola, Florida, for additional training and airshow practice.
On 26 May, the Blue Angels announced they would not be flying their traditional fly-over of the Naval Academy Graduation Ceremony and that they were canceling their 28 – 29 May 2011 performances at the Millville Wings and Wheels Airshow in Millville, New Jersey.
In February 2006, a University of California Blue Ribbon Commission that included Lawrence Korb, a former assistant defense secretary during the Reagan administration, William Perry, Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration, and professors from the United States Military Academy released their assessment of the GAO's analysis of the cost of DADT released a year earlier.
Another unreleased recording, " Latitude 88 North ", was released as the third bonus track on the 2007 remastered version of their 1977 album Out of the Blue.
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With its coating of gold radiator paint removed -- a gaucherie of some earlier tenant -- it will now occupy its rightful place in the oval Blue Room on the first floor of the White House.
Larry Scherer last night pitched a no-hit game, said to be the first in Billiken baseball history, as the Blue and White beat Southeast Missouri State College, 5-1, at Crystal City.
Jean Fardulli's Blue Angel is the first top local club to import that crazy new dance, the Twist.
During the first half of October the Blue Ridge and other parts of the Appalachians provide a spectacle stretching from Maryland and West Virginia to Georgia.
* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
The first party to successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by Gregory Blaxland in 1813, 25 years after the colony was established.
The first occurrence of the phrase blue law so far found is in the New-York Mercury of March 3, 1755, where the writer imagines a future newspaper praising the revival of " our Connecticut's old Blue Laws ".
Belgian Blue cattle were first used as a milk and beef breed.
Blue shorts were retained, but the socks were for the first time red, with a white flash.
The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.
The first female Blue Angel flight surgeon was LT Tamara Schnurr, as a member of the 2001 team.
" The Blue Angels ' first public demonstration also netted the team its first trophy, which sits on display at the team's current home at NAS Pensacola.
For the 1957 show season, the Blue Angels transitioned to the supersonic Grumman F11F-1 Tiger, first flying the short-nosed, and then the long-nosed versions.
Also in 1986, LCDR Donnie Cochran, joined the Blue Angels as the first African-American Naval Aviator to be selected.
In 1998, CDR Patrick Driscoll made the first " Blue Jet " landing on a " haze gray and underway " aircraft carrier, USS Harry S. Truman ( CVN-75 ).
Between 2 and 4 September 2011 on labor day weekend, the Blue Angels flew for the first time with a 50 – 50 blend of conventional JP-5 jet fuel and a camelina-based biofuel at Naval Air Station Patuxent River airshow at Patuxent River, Maryland.
The computer Deep Blue was the first machine player to overcome a reigning World Chess Champion when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.
Carmilla was first published in the magazine The Dark Blue in 1872, and then in the author's collection of short stories, In a Glass Darkly the same year.
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