His songs have been performed by many popular contemporary singers, including Glen Campbell, The 5th Dimension, Thelma Houston, The Supremes, Richard Harris, Johnny Maestro, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Isaac Hayes, Art Garfunkel, Amy Grant, America, Linda Ronstadt, R. E. M., Michael Feinstein, Donna Summer, and Carly Simon.

Death Be Not Proud takes place in part in contemporary New York City, in the Neurological Institute, and at the Deerfield Academy where Johnny was a student, and at his mother's home in Connecticut.

Largo, an accordionist and session musician, was a contemporary of Johnny Marks, a composer best known for his popular mid-20th century Christmas melodies.

Johnny was also a friend and contemporary of New Jersey Soprano boss Tony Soprano.

Unlike contemporary peace officers, these lawmen generally pursued other occupations, often earning money as gamblers, business owners, or outlaws — as was the case with " Curly " Bill Brocius, who, while always referred to as an outlaw, served as a deputy sheriff under sheriff Johnny Behan.

The full Crime Syndicate members later appear with the original pre-Crisis iterations of Power Ring and Johnny Quick replacing their contemporary counterparts as a mirror to the events of Green Lantern: Rebirth and Flash: Rebirth.

Over the course of the early 1970s, several variety shows ( including Welk's, but ranging from long-running series such as The Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollywood Palace and The Red Skelton Show to more contemporary shows such as Hee Haw, The Johnny Cash Show and This Is Tom Jones ) were pulled from network schedules ( particularly ABC and CBS ) in a demographic move known colloquially as the " rural purge ".

It continues to be used by contemporary composers including Johnny Coppin.

The incumbent 7th Marquess of Bute, known as Johnny Bute, opened an award-winning contemporary visitor centre in 2001 that tells the story of the family and estate.

Among the ranks of contemporary swallowers are Morgue, Red Stuart, Dan Meyer, Brad Byers, Murrugun The Mystic ( Scott Nelson ), Thom Selectomy, Johnny Fox, Dai Andrews, Natasha Veruschka, Todd Robbins, Brett Loudermilk, Brianna Belladonna Young, Thomas Blackthorne, István Betyár, the Space Cowboy ( real name Chayne Hultgren ), Matthew Henshaw, Matt the Knife, George the Giant, Travis Fessler, Erik Kloeker, Chris Steele ( Capt.

Mantello directs a variety of theatre works, as the New York Times noted: " Very few American directors -- Jack O ' Brien ( director ) and Mike Nichols come to mind -- successfully jump genres and styles the way Mr. Mantello does, moving from a two-hander like Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune to the huge canvas of a mainstream musical comedy like Wicked, from downtown stand-up ( The Santaland Diaries ) to contemporary opera ( Dead Man Walking ) to political performance art ( The Vagina Monologues ).

Although he was often overshadowed by his contemporary, Johnny Bench, Simmons is considered one of the best hitting catchers in Major League baseball history.

Creative New Zealand funds Tautai, an organisation promoting contemporary Pacific Island visual artists such as Fatu Feu ' u, painter and sculptor Johnny Penisula, multi-media artist Shigeyuki Kihara and printmaker, painter and sculptor Michel Tuffery.

Guru Dutt stars alongside Madhubala, supported by Lalita Pawar, Johnny Walker and Jagdeep in this socially critical romantic comedy set in contemporary Bombay.

Weisman's compositions continue to be re-interpreted with vigor and imagination by such iconic contemporary artists as Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, The Cramps, Nick Cave, Junior Brown, the Yellow Magic Orchestra, k. d.

During their initial UK tour of April 1996, with contemporary punk bands PMT and The Filth, The Loonies were billed as " a vicious headbutt between Johnny Moped and Jello Biafra ".

Recognized mainly for a personal brand of " contemporary early-jazz ,” he strives to extend the legacy of the unique clarinet style anchored in the musical vocabulary created by early New Orleans clarinetists such as Lorenzo Tio Jr., Sidney Bechet, Omer Simeon, Barney Bigard, and Johnny Dodds.

After this success, Sumner and Marr took a more commercial direction, blending synthesizers, guitars and analogue technology whilst retaining the template of contemporary alternative rock.

To some extent, Voloshinov's linguistic thought is also mediated by the analyses of his Soviet contemporary Nikolai Marr, and by the work of the Crocean linguist Karl Vossler.

Smiths Row, a contemporary art gallery, is located in The Market Cross, restored by Robert Adam in the late 1700s.

Inspired by contemporary dance music like Italo house and acts such as Technotronic ( Sumner even did a remix of Technotronic's " Rockin ' Over the Beat " in 1990 ), their initial concept was to release white label records on Factory and remain an anonymous entity, in contrast to their considerable reputations with The Smiths and New Order.

Squire and Couzens started a new band, The Fireside Chaps, with bassist Gary " Mani " Mounfield, later recruiting a singer named Kaiser and drummer Chris Goodwin, and changing their name to The Waterfront ( after the film On the Waterfront ), their sound influenced by 1960s groups and contemporary bands such as Orange Juice.

In 1955 an estate car version was introduced, marketed as the Ford Squire and mechanically identical to the contemporary Escort, an estate car version of the Ford Anglia 100E, but with wooden strakes and a higher trim level.

`` There was always and at all times a contemporary music and it expresses the era in which it was created.

A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.

most important to Patchen, he was a non-literary hero, and very contemporary.

The fins of a Caddy were sticking out of the garage, while the inside of the house was a comfortable mixture of old and expensive contemporary furniture.

A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary American mores entitled `` An American Journey '' was given its first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company.

I went to a retrospective of his work when I was eighteen, and I thought he was a contemporary of Cezanne's ''.

He was inspired by several others ( including Honoré Blanc ), or at least by the contemporary zeitgeist that was building around such ideas.

The word was probably derived from the contemporary name, les argotiers, given to a group of thieves at that time.

Her second husband, Pere Milà, was a developer who was criticized for his flamboyant lifestyle and ridiculed by the contemporary residents of Barcelona, when they joked about his love of money and opulence, wondering if he was not rather more interested in " the widow ’ s guardiola " ( piggy bank ), than in " Guardiola ’ s widow ".

It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.

" Amazing Grace " was one of many hymns that punctuated fervent sermons, although the contemporary style used a refrain, borrowed from other hymns, that employed simplicity and repetition such as:

In the sense that most modern languages are " algol-like ", it was arguably the most successful of the four high level programming languages with which it was roughly contemporary, Fortran, Lisp, and COBOL.

But Leotychidas was ultimately set aside as illegitimate, contemporary rumors representing him as the son of Alcibiades, and Agesilaus became king around 401 BC, at the age of about forty.

As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.

He was an older contemporary and an alleged lover of Sappho, with whom he may have exchanged poems.

Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

He was a younger contemporary of Phidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among which a Hephaestus and an Aphrodite " of the Gardens " were conspicuous.

While being a Middle Comic poet, Alexis was contemporary with several leading figures of New Comedy, such as Philippides, Philemon, Diphilus, and even Menander.

The casino was a showcase for the Pamphili collection of sculpture, ancient and contemporary, on which Algardi was well able to advise.