The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

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* 1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer ( d. 1984 )

The singer Ethel Merman, who was a friend of Hoover's since 1938, said in a 1978 interview: " Some of my best friends are homosexual.

Sondheim would have liked to write the music as well, but Ethel Merman, the star, insisted on a composer with a track record.

* February 15 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress ( b. 1908 )

* May 21 – Gypsy: A Musical Fable, starring Ethel Merman in her last new musical, opens on Broadway and runs for 702 performances

** Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes, starring Ethel Merman, premieres in New York City.

* Together on Broadway: Mary Martin & Ethel Merman ( 1977 ) ( Broadway )

Many episodes featured people most British viewers had barely heard of at the time, such as Linda Ronstadt ; some featured veteran performers like Ethel Merman and Rita Moreno ; some featured well-known pop singers, including Elton John, Diana Ross, and Leo Sayer.

* Muppet Treasures-Hosted by Kermit and Fozzie as they once again clean out the attic, with guest stars Zero Mostel, Loretta Lynn, Paul Simon, Peter Sellers, and Ethel Merman.

A version of the song set to a disco beat was recorded by Ethel Merman for her infamous Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

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.

Within two weeks of opening in Top Speed, Rogers was chosen to star on Broadway in Girl Crazy by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, the musical play widely considered to have made stars of both her and Ethel Merman.

The rest of the cast included humorist Fred Allen, singers Mindy Carson and Frankie Laine, stage musical performer Ethel Merman, actors Jose Ferrer and Paul Lukas, and comic-singer Danny Thomas ( about to become a major television star in his own right ).

Ethel Merman ( January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984 ) was an American actress and singer.

Merman was born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann in her maternal grandmother's house located at 265 4th Street in Astoria, Queens, in New York City in 1908, though she would later emphatically declare that it was actually 1912.

She considered combining Ethel with Gardner or Hunter, her grandmother's maiden name, but finally abbreviated Zimmermann to Merman to appease her father.

" Merman was fairly blasé about her notices, prompting George Gershwin to ask her mother, " Have you ever seen a person so unconcerned as Ethel?

Blues singers Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Gladys Bentley sang about affairs with women to visitors such as Tallulah Bankhead, Beatrice Lillie, and the soon-to-be-named Joan Crawford.

Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford.

Ethel Merman, in her Broadway debut sang " I Got Rhythm ", " Sam and Delilah ", and " Boy!

* In Desperate Housewives, Felicity Huffman's character, Lynette Scavo sang a line from this song after telling her sister's boyfriend she'll sing Ethel Merman " at the top of her lungs " in an attempt to make him consider taking her sister back

Ethel Waters's recording of the song in 1933 was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003, and the Library of Congress honored the song by adding it to the National Recording Registry in 2004.

His only singing role was as Cosmo Constantine in the original 1950 Broadway stage version of Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam, opposite Ethel Merman ( although he is heard singing a song in the 1933 film Little Women, displaying a pleasant voice ).

* Ethel Waters, blues and pop song singer.

Hamilton supplied the lyrics of " The March of the Women ", the song which Ethel Smyth composed in 1910 for the Women's Social and Political Union.

* In the late 1940s and early 1950s a version performed by organist Ethel Smith was used as the theme song for the Big Jon and Sparkie radio program, a children's show presented on weekdays and Saturday mornings.

The popular children's television show " Sesame Street " once did a parody of this song about the letter U performed by Ethel Mermaid, a fishy spoof of Ethel Merman.

In the song, Ethel sings about how none of the other letters in the alphabet give her more joy than the letter U, backed up by a school of fish.

The song is also featured in the 1954 movie of the same name, where it is notably sung by Ethel Merman as the main musical number.

There was also a disco version of the song made during the 1970s, with Merman reprising her singing role ( see The Ethel Merman Disco Album ).

The song became one of Ethel Merman's standards and was often performed by her at concerts and on television.

A version of the song set to a disco beat was recorded by Ethel Merman for her Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

The song " I Like the Way " has been featured in advertisements for BMW, Citroen, Ford, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Diet Coke and Ethel Austin.

The musical starred Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman and Betty Grable, and the song " Friendship " was one of the highlights.

" The song was first performed in Annie Get Your Gun by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton.

Unfortunately ( as told in the lyrics to the show's theme song ), that would all come to an end for Ethel in 1925 when "... she was struck down by a trolley, golly.

It features a memorable performance of the song " With You on My Mind " by Ethel Merman.

* The original Kaufman-Ferber play The Royal Family, which opened on Broadway in 1927, angered Ethel Barrymore to the point of a threatened lawsuit.

Call Me Madam was recorded by RCA Victor with all of its original cast except for its star Ethel Merman, who, due to contractual obligations, could not be released from her American Decca Records contract.

That film also preserves the original Broadway cast performances of Ethel Waters and Brandon DeWilde.

** Ethel Merman & the original cast for Gypsy

Ethel Merman reprised her original role as Annie with Bruce Yarnell as Frank and Jerry Orbach as Charles Davenport.

His uncle, Dr. Julius Sassenrath, headed the educational psychology department at UC Davis, and his aunt, Dr. Ethel Sassenrath, was one of the original researchers of THC at the California National Primate Research Center.

The original cast included Christie MacDonald as Princess Jeanne / Sylvia, Thomas Conkey as Prince Franz, Edwin Wilson as Lieutenant Karl, Frank Belcher as Petrus Von Trump, Tom McNaughton as Mikel Mikeloviz, Ethel Du Fre Houston as Dame Paula, and Hazel Kirk as Liane.

In 1939, he co-starred as Louis Blore alongside Ethel Merman in the original Broadway production of DuBarry Was a Lady.

The original Broadway production, directed by Robert B. Sinclair, opened on December 26, 1936 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it ran for 666 performances with an all-female cast that included Arlene Francis, Ilka Chase, and Marjorie Main.

Often described as shy, Adams was referred to by Ethel Barrymore as the " original ' I want to be alone ' woman ".

She was the last lead female performer from the original production to die ( having been predeceased by Alexis Smith, Dorothy Collins, Ethel Shutta, Mary McCarty, and Fifi D ' Orsay ).

She appeared on stage in the early 1930s and was a chorus member in the original 1934 Broadway production of Anything Goes with Ethel Merman.

( At the request of Sen. Kennedy, Laxalt arranged to have President Reagan present Ethel Kennedy with the original copy of the medal honoring her late husband Robert F.

On the premiere episode of The Big Show ( NBC Radio ) on November 5, 1950, original Broadway cast members Ethel Merman, Paul Lukas, and Russell Nype appeared in the first half hour ( of the hour-and-a-half program ) and performed songs from the score in order of their appearance in the production, while host Tallulah Bankhead filled in story notes between songs ( although accidentally missing one story cue ).

Ethel Turner was educated at Paddington Public School and Sydney Girls High School-she was one of the school's original thirty-seven pupils.

Later bequests to the library by Todd's daughter, Ethel Todd Woodhams, and from Elizabeth Dewing Todd, the widow of Todd's son, Paul, brought together much of Todd's original collection.

Ethel and Albert's daughter Suzy ( Madeleine Pierce ), born in 1946, was the only other voice heard on the original series.

Essentially, it reprised Ethel and Albert, but the new name was necessitated because Lynch had long since lost the rights to the original title.

Very few of the original Ethel and Albert radio programs are known to have survived, but almost all of the CBS Couple Next Door episodes exist.

Among them were The King and I, Carousel ( with its original star, John Raitt ), Annie Get Your Gun ( with its original star, Ethel Merman ), Show Boat, and South Pacific.

* 1956, duet by Ethel Merman and Virginia Gibson, original Broadway version

She had a successful career at MGM, RKO and Columbia including important roles such as the tragic Beth in the original Little Women, among many other film appearances including Frank Capra's Lady for a Day and Gabriel Over the White House ; Sequoia ; Limehouse Blues with George Raft and Anna May Wong ; The Ghost Goes West, opposite Robert Donat ; and Rasputin and the Empress, with the Barrymore siblings ( John, Ethel, and Lionel ) in the only movie they all made together.