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While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

The late-1960s brought hope of a renaissance, with third baseman Ron Santo, pitcher Ferguson Jenkins, and outfielder Billy Williams joining Banks.

On his first day he axed the characters of Derek Wilton, Don Brennan, Percy Sugden, Bill Webster, Billy Williams and Maureen Holdsworth.

He co-starred with Esther Williams in Billy Rose's Aquacade during the NEW YORK World's Fair, 1939 – 41, pursuing her throughout a span of two years.

Rocca has 3 music videos to his credentials and wrote / rapped / starred in the " James Bond Spoof-Secret Agent OO Soul-with Billy Dee Williams ".

In the 1971 Emmy Award winning TV movie " Brian's Song " which portrays the story of former Chicago Bears running backs Brian Piccolo and Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, it ’ s the night after Piccolo's second surgery and Piccolo ( James Caan ) is talking to Sayers ( Billy Dee Williams ) on the phone.

** Billy Dee Williams, American actor

Three-minute masterpieces flowed from the minds of Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Ellington's son Mercer Ellington, Mary Lou Williams and members of the Orchestra.

Three of the most prominent are Jan Ors, a fellow mercenary and love interest ; Lando Calrissian ( voiced by Billy Dee Williams ), the sophisticated baron-administrator of Cloud City seen in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi ; and Luke Skywalker, protagonist of the original film trilogy and leader of the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV.

He is portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

He would often appear as a character in a sketch ; in the second series, when Horne decides he wants to be a seaside end-of-the-pier-show impresario, one of the acts he auditions is Dentures as ' The Great Omipaloni, the world's fastest illusionist-and also the dampest '; in the third series he was Captain Ahab in the first part of The Admirable Loombucket ; also in the same series, in The Big Top, Luigi Omipaloni, the trapeze artist at Cuckpowder's Mammoth Circus, and Buffalo Sidney Goosecreature, the fearless desperado and adversary of The Palone Ranger ; in the fourth series in Apache Story, he is Rain In The Face-Kenneth Williams, as Billy Two Cheeks, exclaims " He speaks with forked tongue!

The cast includes Margaret Colin ( Lady Croom ), Billy Crudup ( Bernard Nightingale ), Raúl Esparza ( Valentine Coverly ), Glenn Fleshler ( Captain Brice ), Grace Gummer ( Chloë Coverly ), Edward James Hyland ( Jellaby ), Byron Jennings ( Richard Noakes ), Bel Powley ( Thomasina Coverly ), Tom Riley ( Septimus Hodge ), Noah Robbins ( Gus Coverly / Augustus Coverly ), David Turner ( Ezra Chater ), and Lia Williams ( Hannah Jarvis ).

In June 2010, Webb released Just Across the River, an album of newly-arranged Webb song that featured guest appearances by Vince Gill, Billy Joel, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Jackson Browne, Glenn Campbell, Michael McDonald, Mark Knopfler, J. D. Souther, and Linda Ronstadt.

Williams was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana, ran away from home at age 12 to join Billy Kersand's Traveling Minstrel Show, then moved to New Orleans.

Florence Henderson, Gwen Verdon, Kathy Johnson, Barry Williams, Billy Blanks, David Hasselhoff, John Franklin, Ryan Bollman, Brian Robbins and Ruth Buzzi were among the stars who appeared during the run of the show.

At a concert at Howard Theatre in Washington, D. C. Mickey & Sylvia heard Jody Williams play a guitar riff that Williams had played on Billy Stewart's debut single " Billy's Blues ".

It was nominated for three prime-time Emmy awards, and featured a star-studded cast including Charlton Heston, Keith Carradine, Paul Sorvino, Billy Dee Williams and Danny Glover.

*" William W. Williams ", the full name of " Big Billy " from the " Gangreen Gang " in The Powerpuff Girls

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" Dust in the Wind " has been covered by: Sarah Brightman, Scorpions ( Acoustica ), Christian artists Acappella and Billy Smiley, former New York Yankees center fielder and jazz guitarist Bernie Williams ( The Journey Within ), and ex-Kansas lead singer John Elefante ( 2006 ).

The family includes Professor John Robinson ( Guy Williams ), his wife, Maureen ( June Lockhart ), their children, Judy ( Marta Kristen ), Penny ( Angela Cartwright ), and Will ( Billy Mumy ).

It stars Paul Muni, David Wayne, Betsy Palmer, Billy Dee Williams ( in his film debut ), and Godfrey Cambridge.

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She and Billy Strange worked on the arrangement, and it was Sinatra's idea to change from a mid-tempo romp ( as sung in Cher's hit single ) to a ballad.

Other leading acts included Billy Fury, Joe Brown, and Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, whose 1960 hit song " Shakin ' All Over " became a rock and roll standard.

Bearden turned to music, co-writing the hit song Sea Breeze, which was recorded by Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie ; it is still considered a jazz classic.

It is designed for me to hit Billy Joe 15 to 17 yards downfield.

* The Suez Crisis is mentioned in the 1989 hit song " We Didn't Start the Fire " by Billy Joel.

" Take the " A " Train " which hit big in 1941, was written by Billy Strayhorn.

One of the early female singers to use scat was Aileen Stanley who included it at the end of a duet with Billy Murray in their hit 1924 recording of " It Had To Be You "( Victor 19373 ).

Leading off against the California Angels ' Clyde Wright in the 12th inning, Rose hit a single and advanced to second on another single by the Los Angeles Dodgers ' Billy Grabarkewitz.

Virgil, though hit, fired his next shot at Billy Clanton.

Relieving Billy O ' Dell at the start of the ninth inning, Wilhelm held the White Sox hitless for innings before finally surrendering a hit in the 17th.

2006 saw the debut of the hit original movie High School Musical and the series Hannah Montana, the latter of which launched the career of its star Miley Cyrus ( who appeared alongside her father, popular 1990s country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, in the series ).

In 1951, Mel Blanc ( with Billy May's orchestra ) had a hit single with " I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat ", a song performed in character by Tweety and featuring Sylvester.

Other artists have had doo-wop or doo-wop-influenced hits in later years, such as Led Zeppelin's 1973 song " D ' yer Mak ' er ", David Bowie's 1973 hit " Drive-In Saturday ", Billy Joel's 1984 hit, " The Longest Time ".

Yankee manager Billy Martin quipped, " It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man all season.

Their 1954 version of " Melody Of Love " was recorded prior to the Billy Vaughn version which was released in late-1954 and became a # 1 hit in 1955 and so was re-released in 1955.

Vaughan was reunited with Billy Eckstine for a series of duet recordings in 1957 that yielded the hit " Passing Strangers ".

In 2009, he appeared in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, the sequel to the cult hit, as ' The Roman ', the main villain and an old acquaintance of Il Duce, the character played by Billy Connolly.

" We're gonna hit the big boss for a raise ") ( Billy Bletcher, Eddie Holden and Billy Sheets )

" For the next several years, she turned down virtually all film offers, the two exceptions being Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair ( 1948 ), in which she played a congresswoman and rival of Marlene Dietrich, and as a homesteader's wife in the classic Western Shane ( 1953 ), which turned out to be the biggest box-office hit of her career.

Billy Ward and His Dominoes had a # 13 hit with the song on the Billboard Pop chart.

In 1976, Baer directed the feature film Ode to Billy Joe, which was based on her hit song

From 1974 onward, Bandstand featured another instrumental at its mid-show break: Billy Preston's synth hit " Space Race.

A & R manager Frank Neilson was able to score a major top ten hit in March 1981 for the label with " Do The Hucklebuck " by Coast to Coast as well as signing Ian Dury and Billy Fury to the company.