Mahalia Jackson's 1947 version received significant radio airplay, and as her popularity grew throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she often sang it at public events such as concerts at Carnegie Hall.

The Amiga provided a significant upgrade from 8-bit computers, such as the Commodore 64, and the platform quickly grew in popularity among computer enthusiasts.

The strip's popularity grew from an original eight papers, to ultimately more than 900.

The Capp-Fisher feud was well known in cartooning circles, and it grew more personal as Capp's strip eclipsed Joe Palooka in popularity.

As hip hop's popularity grew, performers began speaking (" rapping ") in sync with the beats, and became known as MCs or emcees.

As the BBS phenomenon grew, so did the popularity of special interest boards.

As the popularity of BASIC grew in this period, magazines ( such as Creative Computing in the US ) published complete source code in BASIC for games, utilities, and other programs.

As the game grew in popularity, it came under the ban of king and parliament, both fearing it might jeopardise the practice of archery, then so important in battle.

As the popularity of this type of team grew, more and more of them were formed, attending competitions sponsored by many different organizations and companies, each using its own set of rules, regulations and divisions.

ITV's other flagship soap opera Crossroads saw a marked increase in viewers at this time, as its established cast, such as Meg Richardson ( Noele Gordon ), grew in popularity.

Starting in 1962 with a four-team knockout competition known as the Midlands Knock-Out Cup, and continuing with the inaugural Gillette Cup in 1963, one-day cricket grew in popularity in England.

More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declinedhe became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.

From 1998, the game grew in popularity: a public server was installed that hosted games permanently, archiving them and showing an animated gif replay of each game on its website.

Eastern cults such as Mithraism also grew in popularity towards the end of the occupation.

Once the concept of broadband Internet access came to be associated with data rates incoming to the customer at 256 kbit / s or more, and alternatives like ADSL grew in popularity, the consumer market for BRI did not develop.

Although Wagner became fiercely critical of Brahms as the latter grew in stature and popularity, he was enthusiastically receptive of the early Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel ; Brahms himself, according to many sources ( Swafford, 1999 ), deeply admired Wagner's music, confining his ambivalence only to the dramaturgical precepts of Wagner's theory.

They played initially in clubs and ballrooms, then in larger auditoriums as their popularity grew.

Despite the boycott, Kahane's popularity grew among the Israeli public, especially among working-class Sephardi Jews.

The attribute was popularized by search engines such as Infoseek and AltaVista in 1995, and its popularity quickly grew until it became one of the most commonly used elements.

Ultimately, efforts to curb the unconstrained growth of tourist courts were futile as motor courts ( as motels were called in the 1930s and 1940s ) grew in number and popularity.

After a shaky start for a few issues, the magazine very rapidly grew in popularity.

Between 1884 and 1900, coca and cocaine grew in popularity for medical purposes and mass consumption in the United States.

The Pixies ' legacy and popularity grew in the years following their break-up, leading to sold-out world tours following their reunion in 2004.

A traveller in the early Middle Ages could obtain overnight accommodation in monasteries, but later a demand for hostelries grew with the popularity of pilgrimages and travel.

As Robyn's popularity grew across the globe, especially in the United States, she was diagnosed with exhaustion and quickly returned to Sweden to recover.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Its popularity can in part be explained by its neoplatonic and Christian ethical messages, although current scholarly research is still far from clear exactly why and how the work became so vastly popular in the Middle Ages.

LaGuardia's popularity slipped away and he ran so poorly in straw polls in 1945 that he did not run for a fourth term.

Also gaining popularity is the concept of " Green Gardening " which involves growing plants using organic fertilizers and pesticides so that the gardening process-or the flowers and fruits produced thereby-doesn't adversely affect the environment or people's health in any manner.

Rossini ’ s popularity in Paris was so great that Charles X gave him a contract to write five new operas a year, and at the expiration of the contract he was to receive a generous pension for life.

Garlic was long frowned upon for causing halitosis, so has never played a large role in traditional German cuisine, but has risen in popularity in recent decades due to the influence of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, and Turkish cuisines.

However there has been no evidence so far and as a result it was believed that it was act of the new government to get their popularity and support among the civilians.

To distance itself from the combat-oriented traditional MUDs it was said that the " D " in TinyMUD stood for Multi-User " Domain " or " Dimension "; this, along with the eventual popularity of acronyms other than MUD ( such as MUCK, MUSH, MUSE, and so on ) for this kind of server, led to the eventual adoption of the term MU * to refer to the TinyMUD family.

Being pressured by his advisers to declare coffee the " bitter invention of Satan " because of its popularity among Muslims and it being a sort of antithesis or substitute for wine ( which was used in the Eucharist ), upon tasting it he instead declared that, " This devil's drink is so delicious ... we should cheat the devil by baptizing it.

He said that, rather than blaming manufacturers of apparel that gained popularity, " deal with the conditions that make a kid put so much importance on a pair of sneakers, a jacket and gold ".

The improvement in traction and performance was so immense that from the wheel's release in 1972 the popularity of skateboarding started to rise rapidly again, causing companies to invest more in product development.

The overstruck mintmark issues are also scarce and expensive, especially in the higher grades ; even so they may not have the same popularity as overdates found in pre-Washington quarter series.

In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt offered Taft the seat on the Supreme Court to which he had for so long aspired, but he reluctantly declined since he viewed the Filipinos as not yet being capable of governing themselves and because of his popularity among them.

In the United Kingdom, espresso coffee initially gained popularity in the form of the cappuccino, due to the British custom of drinking coffee with milk, the desire for a longer drink so the café may serve as a destination, and the exotic texture of the beverage.

As the list faded in popularity, so too did it fade in the number of cross-linked subscription nodes.

In the 1980s, the popularity of Californian Chardonnay would explode so much that the number of vines planted in the state eclipsed that of France by 1988.

Most Egyptian deities were first worshipped by very local cults, and they retained those local centres of worship even as their popularity spread, so that most major cities and towns in Egypt were known as the home of a particular deity.

Her downfall was due to having so few like-minded people on European integration amongst her colleagues and that as she had adopted a line that would improve her party's popularity, it was foolish of them to force her out.

Part of its popularity may have sprung from the increasing historical and geographical knowledge, so that places of which little was known and so marvels were plausible had to be set further " long ago " or farther " far away "; this is a process that continues, and finally culminate in the fantasy world having little connection, if any, to actual times and places.

It was so well received by both dancers and dance masters in Paris that its popularity was referred to as " polkamania.

As the importance of Osiris grew, so did his popularity.

With the popularity of the internet, some pen pals include their email address along with their snail mail address so people can make sure their letter will successfully make it to the intended pen pal.