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Big band singers, who had previously been considered instrumentalists and were rarely singled out, now became huge stars, like Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dinah Shore.
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* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army
Big band arrangements are informally called charts.
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Lee appeared in Broken Social Scene's music video for their 2006 single " Fire Eye'd Boy ", judging the band while they perform various musical tasks, and in 2006, Lee joined Lifeson's supergroup the Big Dirty Band, to provide songs accompanying Trailer Park Boys: The Movie.
A petition he has been circulating via Heather Duke, to get the band Big Fun to perform on campus was actually a disguised mass suicide note.
The song " Teenage Suicide ( Don't Do It )" by the fictional band Big Fun was written and produced for the film by musician Don Dixon, and performed by the ad hoc group " Big Fun ", which consisted of Dixon, Mitch Easter, Angie Carlson and Marti Jones.
Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band.
In the time between the release of the band's second seven-inch EP and the Out of Step record, the band briefly split when guitarist Lyle Preslar moved to Illinois to attend college for a semester at Northwestern University, Preslar was a member of Big Black for a few tempestuous rehearsals.
Minor Threat, which had returned to being a four-piece group with the departure of Hansgen, played its last show on September 23, 1983, with go-go band Trouble Funk and the Big Boys, ending with " Last Song ", which was the original title of " Salad Days ".
In May 2008 Morris undertook an ambient mix on BBC Radio 1, and put an Irresistible Force band together to play at The Big Chill festival.
1977 also saw the debut album from Hamburg's Big Balls and the Great White Idiot, arguably West Germany's first punk band.
Particularly prominent products of the scene were The Grateful Dead ( who had effectively become the house band of the Acid Tests ), Country Joe and the Fish, The Great Society, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Charlatans, Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane.
" in imitation of In 1992, Phish introduced collaboration between audience and band called the " Big Ball Jam " in which each band member would throw a large beach ball into the audience and play a note each time his ball was hit.
In early 2005, 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts as a group has " dissolved / evolved " with Crowe feeling his future music would take a new direction and he began a collaboration with Alan Doyle of the Canadian band Great Big Sea, and with it a new band: The Ordinary Fear of God which also involved some members of the previous TOFOG line-up.
His most enduring relationship, however, was with the music of Thelonious Monk: he recorded the first album to feature only Monk compositions ( Reflections, Prestige, 1958 ) and briefly played in Monk's band in 1960 and later on Monk's Big Band / Quartet album ( Columbia, 1963 ).
Rolling Stone referred to them as " The band from Big Pink.
After the success of Music from Big Pink, the band went on tour, including a performance at the Woodstock Festival ( which was not included in the famed Woodstock film due to legal complications ) and an appearance with Dylan at the UK Isle of Wight Festival ( several songs from which were subsequently included on Dylan's Self Portrait album ).
The Mick Jones 1980s band Big Audio Dynamite covered the song, as Keep off the Grass.
The film itself has been widely sampled: Punk band Big Audio Dynamite used an audio clip from the movie in its song " Medicine Show "; the audio was taken from the scene in which a judge, after reading a long list of criminal charges, sentences Tuco to be " hanged from the neck until dead.
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She began singing in the local choir and expanded her listening to blues singers such as Odetta, Billie Holiday and Big Mama Thornton.
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Basie favored blues, and he would showcase some of the most notable blues singers of the era after he went to New York: Billie Holiday, Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Turner, Helen Humes, and Joe Williams.
JUMP among others while Chinese pop icon Jay Chou and South Korean singers BoA and Rain and music groups TVXQ, Beast, Shinee, Super Junior, 2NE1, Big Bang, Wonder Girls, T-ara, Kara and Girls ' Generation are examples.
It attracts over 40, 000 people per year and features singers such as Neal McCoy, Little Big Town, Kellie Pickler, and Reba McEntire.
In 1949 the band left Decca Records and joined first RCA Victor and then King Records, recording with singers Big John Greer and Annisteen Allen.
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* Big Mama, a band of four female pop / R & B singers in South Korea
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PizzaExpress holds an annual competition, the " Big Audition with Jamie Cullum " for singers, songwriters and musicians.
Jossy Joss and Big Ben are one of the earliest singers of Namibia.
Possessing a wide-ranged voice, Rose would regularly meet in Kingston with singers, musicians, writers, and producers such as Dennis Brown, Big Youth, The Wailers, Gregory Isaacs, Sly and Robbie, and others.
The accident took place on the same day that a plane carrying Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all three singers.
Beger was frequently ridiculed by satrists and some artists, including singers and bands such as Paweł Kukiz or Big Cyc recording songs devoted to her.
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Formerly one of the lead singers of pop group S Club, she launched a solo single after the group's split in 2003, which cut short the production of a proposed album following an appearance on Celebrity Big Brother.
During the first years, the group underwent several member changes, and included singers like James " Big Chief " Wetherington, Denver Crumpler, Jake Hess, Doy Ott, Hovie Lister, Rosie Rozell, and Jack Toney.
The second, Fisherman Style ( 2006 ), utilises The Congos ' " Fisherman " riddim and features new material from a variety of singers including Horace Andy, U Roy, Big Youth, Luciano, Tony Tuff and Dillinger.
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During Spirit of the West's 2009 live performances opening for Great Big Sea, the two bands have been known to perform the song together, with singers from each band alternating verses.
The show features aspiring young singers who battle it out each week to become the next Little Big Star.
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