Leo Reisman's orchestra version had the biggest hit on records ( with Arlen himself as vocalist ), although Ethel Waters's recorded version also sold well.

* Ethel Waters's performance is the one that is selected in the compilation The Essential George Gershwin.

The latter recording led the jazz and gospel singer Ethel Waters to say that " Tormé is the only white man who sings with the soul of a black man.

Her career had started back in the early 1920s, and from there on, she became a successful jazz and blues recording artist, being critically acclaimed to the ranks of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith.

* The Ethel Merman recording is featured in the film All That Jazz ( 1979 ).

* From 1976 to 2007 the rock band Genesis played the Ethel Merman recording at the end of gigs — it can be heard at the end of their 1977 live album Seconds Out.

In 1983, Marks Mankwane reunited five of the original Queens for full-time recording with Mahlathini ; Hilda Tloubatla, Juliet Mazamisa, Ethel Mngomezulu, Nobesuthu Mbadu and Mildred Mangxola.

During an extremely long career ( Adelaide entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most enduring recording artist ), Hall has performed with major artists such as Art Tatum Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Fela Sowande and Jools Holland, and has recorded as a jazz singer with Duke Ellington ( with whom she made her most famous recording, " Creole Love Call " in 1927 ) and with Fats Waller.

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

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.

* 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 Merman sang the song in the original Broadway production and Broadway lore holds that George Gershwin, after seeing her opening reviews, warned her never to take a singing lesson.

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.

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.

Ruby Keeler, born Ethel Hilda Keeler, ( August 25, 1910 – February 28, 1993 ) was an actress, dancer and singer most famous for her on-screen coupling with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers, particularly 42nd Street ( 1933 ).

In 1925 he married Agnes Dora Vye-Parminter, who in 1933 bore a daughter, Rosemary Ethel Honeywood Mann.

The Ogunquit Playhouse, begun in 1933, attracted performers such as Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, and Laurette Taylor in the early years and more recently, Sally Struthers, Lucie Arnaz, and Lorenzo Lamas.

Design for Living previewed in Cleveland, Ohio on 2 January 1933 and opened in New York on 24 January, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway to popular and critical acclaim.

It opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 29, 1932 and transferred to the Shubert Theatre on January 16, 1933 and closed on July 1, 1933 for a total run of 248 performances.

* Ten Minute Alibi at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, October 17, 1933 to January 1934, as " the hunter "

Mrs. Hewlitt led the birthcontrol league, Mrs. Ryerson was arthritis, and way in the distance could be seen the slate roof of Ethel Littleton's house, a roof that signified gout.

Julius's wife, Alan's mother, was Ethel Sara ( née Stoney ; 1881 – 1976 ), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways.

However, both Julius and Ethel wanted their children to be brought up in England, so they moved to Maida Vale, London, where Turing was born on 23 June 1912, as recorded by a blue plaque on the outside of the house of his birth, later the Colonnade Hotel.

The immediate difficulty with the match was that Ethel was married already to Arthur Tree, with a son, Ronald.

The couple had at first exchanged letters, which Beatty signed ' Jack ', as Ethel was still a married woman and discretion was advised.

Beatty's father was also unhappy about the match, fearing a repeat of the difficulties he had faced with his own relationship with a married woman, but with the added risk of publicity because both Beatty and Ethel were famous and the risk that Beatty's illegitimacy might be exposed.

Ethel wrote to Arthur, telling him that it was her firm intention never to live with him again as his wife, though not naming any particular person or reason.

" Ethel suddenly realizes she was just talking to Arden herself, who soon passes Lucy and Ethel's table to leave the restaurant while the pair gawk.

The film starred Louise Fazenda, Dorothy Phillips and Ethel Wales and was shot in early 1927.

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.

According to Ethel Williams, who helped popularize the Texas Tommy in New York in 1913, the Texas Tommy " was like the Lindy ", and the basic steps were followed by a breakaway identical to that found in the Lindy.

He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward ( Alec ) Cook ( 1906 – 1984 ), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, née Mayo ( 1908 – 1994 ).

* Ethel Lilian ( 1864 – 1960 ), who married the Polish scientist and revolutionary Wilfrid Michael Voynich and was the author of the novel The Gadfly.

The Canterbury, New Hampshire, Shaker village was operating as a historic site even before its last member, Ethel Hudson, died in September 1992.

Meanwhile, tensions between the two nations rose as 1956 saw the suppression of Hungary by the soviets ; the U. S. and European nations drew certain conclusions from that event, while in the U. S., a powerful social backlash was afoot, prompted by Senator Joseph McCarthy, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, two atomic spies.

Troughton was married three times and he is survived by his second partner Ethel Margaret ' Bunny ' Troughton.

His mother Ethel ( née Seddon ; 1882 – 1957 ) was a schoolteacher prior to her marriage.

The most successful of these was the 1969-70 revival at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, starring Robert Ryan and Bert Convy as Burns and Johnson, which ran 222 performances.

It was awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

William Halse Rivers Rivers was the oldest of four children, with his siblings being brother Charles Hay ( 29 August 1865 – 8 November 1939 ) and sisters Ethel Marian ( 30 October 1867 – 4 February 1943 ) and Katharine Elizabeth ( 1871 – 1939 ).

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.