During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

Brown also performed buck dances for change to entertain troops from Camp Gordon at the start of World War II as their convoys traveled over a canal bridge near his aunt's home.

Touring throughout 1964, Brown and The Flames soon grabbed more national attention when they performed at The T. A. M. I.

Brown performed the song in the film at Apollo Creed's final fight, shot in the Ziegfeld Room at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and was credited in the film as " The Godfather of Soul.

Brown appeared at Edinburgh 50, 000 – The Final Push, the final Live 8 concert on July 6, 2005, where he performed a duet with British pop star Will Young on " Papa's Got A Brand New Bag ".

In 2006, Brown continued his " Seven Decades Of Funk World Tour ", his last concert tour where he performed all over the world.

Also in 1964, the duo performed the title track for the Columbia Pictures film Ride the Wild Surf, starring Fabian, Tab Hunter, Peter Brown, Shelley Fabares, and Barbara Eden.

Then he followed that up by hosting the CMT Awards in June and performed " Cowboy "," Bawitdaba " and " Good Ol Boys " with Hank Williams Jr, Trace Adkins, Martina McBride, Kellie Pickler, Randy Houser, Zac Brown and Jamey Johnson.

Brown performed poorly the following two seasons, and the Giants struggled to 5 – 11 and 6 – 10 records.

On 2 December 2011 Ian Brown and John Squire performed together live for the first time since 1995.

This trick can be seen performed by Derren Brown on his Channel 4 television series The Events.

", a 2009 soul song performed by the English singer VV Brown

Brown was also a producer, with John Ziffren, and performed and co-wrote the theme song.

Several well-known performers have performed at the festival, such as Robert Cray, Coco Montoya, Elvin Bishop, Sista Monica, Clarence “ Gatemouth ” Brown, Charlie Musselwhite, Bonnie Raitt, and Al Green.

There he led the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils, who performed regularly on Duke's campus and up and down the east coast.

Les Brown and the Band of Renown performed with Bob Hope on radio, stage and television for almost fifty years.

Brown and the band performed with virtually every major performer of their time, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nat " King " Cole.

" Brown's first taste of being onstage occurred at the age of three when one of his childhood idols, James Brown, performed in Boston.

** Hugh Brown & Steve Vance ( art director ) for Brain in a Box-The Science Fiction Collection performed by various artists

Tatum's work was used and referenced heavily in the WB TV series Everwood ( 2002 – 2006 ), with some actual sound recordings used and compositions being performed in concerts by Ephram Brown ( portrayed by Gregory Smith ) in select episodes.

" He generally selected the music they performed, including songs by the Beatles, various Motown artists, James Brown and other rock standards.

Nevertheless, they found instant appeal with teenagers and young adults who were engrossed in the swing and jazz idioms, especially when they performed with nearly all of the major big bands, including those led by Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Joe Venuti, Freddie Slack, Eddie Heywood, Bob Crosby ( Bing's brother ), Desi Arnaz, Guy Lombardo, Les Brown, Bunny Berigan, Xavier Cugat, Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis, Nelson Riddle and mood-master Gordon Jenkins, whose orchestra and chorus accompanied them on such successful soft and melancholy renditions as " I Can Dream, Can't I?

In June 1964 Burke toured with James Brown, Otis Redding, Joe Tex, and Garnett Mimms on the Summer Shower of Stars Tour, and performed on June 20 at the Donnelly Theater in Boston, Massachusetts.

** Richard Leigh ( songwriter ) for " Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue " performed by Crystal Gayle

Ellington debuted Black, Brown and Beige in Carnegie Hall on January 23, 1943, beginning a series of concerts there suited to displaying Ellington's longer works.

Soul singer James Brown was known to wear capes and prominently used it during concerts when he feigned exhaustion.

While Nekon was in college, Brown scheduled concerts and other appearances around the Hokies home schedule to ensure that he would never miss a game, and became a fixture at Lane Stadium.

Around this time Brown was also appearing in Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts, organised by Norman Granz.

Chris Brown, Tyler the Creator & Lil ' Wayne wear this once or twice on their music videos & concerts.

PNC Park has also hosted various concerts, including The Rolling Stones and Pearl Jam in 2005, Jimmy Buffett and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes in 2006 and Dave Matthews Band with opening act, Zac Brown Band, on July 10, 2010.

During the Federal period King toured with many of the R & B acts of the day such as, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson and James Brown, who performed in the same concerts.

Several American musicians were brought to the UK for concerts and tours, including rhythm and blues artists such as Roy Brown, Jimmy McCracklin, Charles Brown and Professor Longhair.

Among the recent examples have been concerts by more recent acts like P! nk, Taylor Swift ( both in 2009 ), Chris Brown and Katy Perry ( both in 2011 ).

The orchestra performs its concerts at Whitney Hall in the Kentucky Center for the Arts ( Korda 2001 ), The Louisville Palace, and at The Brown Theatre.

Joseph Brown continued in business by himself, quickly rebuilding the establishment which had been lost in the fire and beginning those first steps which were to establish him as a pioneer in raising the standards of accuracy of machine shop practice throughout the world.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.

He was an ardent champion of the Brown & Sharpe Apprentice Program and personal counselor to countless able men who first developed their industrial talents with the company.

* Later in 1919, a British aeroplane piloted by Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight, from Newfoundland to Ireland.

In 1977, she recorded her first album titled Amy Grant, produced by Brown Bannister ( who would also produce her next 11 albums ).

Brown was the first college in the nation to accept students regardless of religious affiliation.

Brown owes its founding to the support of learning among a Baptist Church association but in 1762, the Baptist Minister Morgan Edwards was at first ridiculed for suggesting the founding of a college.

" Nonetheless, Edwards joined several others as an original fellow or trustee for the chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( the former name for Brown University ), the first Baptist college in the original thirteen colonies, and now one of the Ivy League universities.

This copper-plate engraving from 1795 is the first known image of Brown.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

Brown left the band in 1932 to form the Musical Brownies, the first true Western swing band.

Coolidge's grandmother Sarah Almeda Brewer had two famous first cousins: Arthur Brown, a United States Senator, and Olympia Brown, a women's suffragist.

The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.

Paul Brown, the first head coach and namesake of the Browns, who won 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships as coach of the Browns, is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member, and is widely regarded as one of football's greatest coaches of all-time.

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.

The name of the team was at first left up to Paul Brown, who rejected calls for it to be christened the Browns.

One of the new ownership group's first acts was to assure Cleveland fans they would give Brown the same kind of leeway.

In 1957's draft, however, Cleveland took fullback Jim Brown out of Syracuse University in the first round.

In his first season, Brown was the NFL's leading rusher with 942 yards in a 12-game regular season and was voted rookie of the year in a United Press poll.

On the game's first play from scrimmage, Brown raced 65 yards for a touchdown, giving Cleveland a 7-0 lead.