It was there that Young retrieved, at the request of mission control, the largest rock returned by an Apollo mission, a breccia nicknamed Big Muley after mission geology principal investigator Bill Muehlberger.

The organized corruption included the bribing of Chicago Mayor William " Big Bill " Hale Thompson, and Capone's gang operated largely free from legal intrusion.

* 1903 – Big Bill Broonzy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 1958 )

For example, Bill Haley's incompletely bowdlerized cover of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " transformed Big Joe Turner's humorous and racy tale of adult love into an energetic teen dance number, while Georgia Gibbs replaced Etta James's tough, sarcastic vocal in " Roll With Me, Henry " ( covered as " Dance With Me, Henry ") with a perkier vocal more appropriate for an audience unfamiliar with the song to which James's song was an answer, Hank Ballard's " Work With Me, Annie ".

Big Bill Broonzy said of Charles ' music: " He's mixing the blues with the spirituals ...

The IWW was shaped in part by the industrial unionism philosophy of Big Bill Haywood, and in 1910 Haywood was exposed to sabotage while touring Europe:

* Green, Bill, Ben Peskoe, Scott Shuffitt, Will Russell ; I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You, ( Bloomsbury USA – August 21, 2007 ), ISBN 978-1-59691-246-5.

He was given the nickname " Big Lub " because of his size, but his college friends knew him by the nickname " Old Bill ".

* May 18 – Big Bill Haywood, American labor leader ( b. 1869 )

* June 26 – Big Bill Broonzy, American blues singer and composer ( d. 1958 )

The IWW's first organizers included William D. (" Big Bill ") Haywood, Daniel De Leon, Eugene V. Debs, Thomas J Hagerty, Lucy Parsons, " Mother " Mary Harris Jones, Frank Bohn, William Trautmann, Vincent Saint John, Ralph Chaplin, and many others.

The other faction, led by Vincent Saint John, William Trautmann, and Big Bill Haywood, believed that direct action in the form of strikes, propaganda, and boycotts was more likely to accomplish sustainable gains for working people ; they were opposed to arbitration and to political affiliation.

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

As co-leader of the Dicey Ross Band with harmonica player Bill Dicey, Ross recorded with Big Joe Turner in 1976 for Spivey Records, a Brooklyn label owned by Victoria Spivey and Lenny Kunstadt.

Known as " Big Bill ", Thompson was the last Republican to serve as Mayor of Chicago, and ranks among the most unethical mayors in American history.

When Cermak challenged the incumbent " Big Bill " Thompson in the 1931 mayor's race, Thompson, representative of Chicago's existing power structure, responded with ethnic slurs:

* Big Bill – A trucker who eats lunch at the restaurant where Al and Mae work.

On June 27, 1905, in Chicago, Illinois, Debs and other influential union leaders including Big Bill Haywood, leader of the Western Federation of Miners, and Daniel De León, leader of the Socialist Labor Party, held what Haywood called the " Continental Congress of the working class ".

* Peter Carlson, Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood.

In 1966, the Comets ( without Bill Haley ) cut an album for Orfeon as session musicians for Big Joe Turner, who had always been an idol to Haley ; no joint performance of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " was recorded, however.

His influences ranged from the blues of Big Bill Broonzy, the jazz of Charles Mingus, to the classical piano of Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Big Bill Broonzy and Memphis Minnie cut a few sides each backed up by their own jug bands ; Memphis Minnie also sang and played with The Memphis Jug Band.

The Big Broadcast of 1936 starred Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Jack Oakie, and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and also featured other performances by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers, who would appear with Miller again in two movies for Twentieth Century Fox in 1941 and 1942.

American-born entrepreneur Lee Gordon, who arrived in Australia in 1953, played a key role in establishing the popularity of rock & roll with his famous " Big Show " tours, which brought to Australia many leading American rock ' n ' roll acts including Bill Haley & His Comets, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly & The Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis.

The only fighter of note he did beat in that period was future coloured champ Big Bill Tate, whom he KO-ed in the second round of a scheduled 10-round bout.

*" Big Bill Blues " by Big Bill Broonzy

One of the first generation of blues artists to take up the electric guitar, in 1942, she combined her Louisiana-country roots with Memphis blues to produce her own unique country-blues sound ; along with Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red, she took country blues into electric urban blues, paving the way for Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, and Jimmy Rogers to travel from the small towns of the south to the big cities of the north.

Traditional artists like Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Boy Williamson II reinvented themselves as folk blues artists, while Piedmont bluesmen like Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee found great success on the folk festival circuit.

The first major artist was Big Bill Broonzy, who visited England in the mid-1950s, but who, rather than his electric Chicago blues, played a folk blues set to fit in with British expectations of American blues as a form of folk music.

A pioneering oral historian, he also recorded substantial interviews with many legendary folk and jazz musicians, including Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Muddy Waters, Jelly Roll Morton and other jazz pioneers, and Big Bill Broonzy.

* Big Bill Broonzy

" He had a different style of playing a guitar " Big Bill Broonzy remarked drily.

He returned to Chicago at the age of 30 and joined a circle of recording artists, including Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red, who introduced him to the record producer Lester Melrose, who claimed composer credit and publishing on many of Dupree's songs.

Among the artists he recorded and brought to the world's attention were Joe " King " Oliver, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Memphis Minnie, Roosevelt Sykes, Lonnie Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Bukka White, Washboard Sam, Champion Jack Dupree, Jazz Gillum, Arthur Crudup, Victoria Spivey and Leroy Carr.

Born Lee Conley Bradley, " Big Bill " was one of Frank Broonzy ( Bradley ) and Mittie Belcher's 17 children.

In 1955, with the assistance of Belgian writer Yannick Bruynoghe, Broonzy published his autobiography, entitled Big Bill Blues.

The Smithsonian's Folkways Records has also released several albums featuring Big Bill Broonzy.

Many notable musicians have recorded John Henry ballads, including: Joe Bonamassa, Furry Lewis, Big Bill Broonzy, Pink Anderson, Fiddlin ' John Carson, Uncle Dave Macon, J. E. Mainer, Leon Bibb, Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Gillian Welch, the Drive-By Truckers, Ramblin ' Jack Elliott, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

He settled in Chicago in 1939, and began teaming with Big Bill Broonzy in clubs soon afterward.

* Big Bill Broonzy

After exiting Larkin's employment in 1941, Vinson picked up a few vocal tricks while on tour with bluesman Big Bill Broonzy.

Influences he discovered, and cited as he progressed, included Woody Guthrie, Big Bill Broonzy, and Lead Belly.