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" Thereafter he regularly sang leads on tracks including " Then I Kissed Her ," " Cotton Fields ," " TM Song ," " Take a Load off Your Feet ," " Lookin ' at Tomorrow ( A Welfare Song )," " Peggy Sue ," " Lady Lynda ", " Come Go With Me ", " Good Time ," " Honkin ' Down The Highway " and " Crack at Your Love.
In 2008, after Drew Carey took over the host position on The Price Is Right, Fields began to regularly appear on camera, interacting with Carey during the show.
The 1730s were the years of Boson's greatest success and it was during this time that he regularly carried out work for Frederick, Prince of Wales at his houses at Leicester Fields, Kew Palace, and Cliveden, Buckinghamshire.
In 1989, the series re-located to France and became French Fields, although only McKenzie and Rodgers, of the main characters, starred regularly in this new series though Philip Bird appeared on several episodes and Ann Beach made an appearance in the final episode.

Fields and performed
He both performed comic characters ( Flash Bazbo — Space Explorer, Mr. Rogers, music critic Roger de Swans, and sleazy record company rep Ron Fields ) and also wrote, arranged and performed numerous musical parodies ( of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others ).
Priest's wife kept a boarding school for young gentlewomen, first in Leicester Fields and afterwards at Chelsea, where the opera was performed.
The play was popular enough that it was still being performed as late as 1732, when it was staged at Goodman's Fields Theatre.
As a part of the promotion of this album, he appeared on the fifth episode of Studio 60 during which he performed a segment of Dowland's " Come Again " as well as his own " Fields of Gold " in the arrangement for voice and two archlutes.
It was performed in 1741 at Goodman's Fields Theatre and in 1742 at Covent Garden.
Sidney Fields, in the his role as Professor Mellonhead, was the " fill-in " manager in the absence of Abbott and performed the straightman role with Lou Costello.
Fields also performed with Costello in Las Vegas in 1958 after Abbott and Costello split.
In London the previous year, Senesino, a singer who had been a part of Handel's " Second Academy " which performed at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, quarrelled with Handel and established a rival company, the Opera of the Nobility, operating from a theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
* August-The Playhouse to Be Let, an anthology of work by Sir William Davenant, is performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.
He has performed and recorded with Tom Waits, John Zorn, David Sylvian, Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, The Lounge Lizards, Arto Lindsay, T-Bone Burnett, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Cibo Matto, Elysian Fields, Sam Phillips, Elvis Costello, David Poe, Allen Ginsberg, Foetus, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Susana Baca, The Black Keys, Stan Ridgway, Vinicio Capossela, Alain Bashung, Lyenn, Hector Zazou, McCoy Tyner, Elton John, Madeline Peyroux, Marianne Faithfull, Leonid Fedorov, Tonio K, Andres Calamaro, Anarchist Republic of Bzzz and others.
* Nothing Is Real ( Strawberry Fields Forever ) ( 1990 ) performed by Margaret Leng Tan at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.
* " Sit on my Face " – A ribald parody of Gracie Fields ' " Sing as We Go " from Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album, performed by Cleese, Chapman, Gilliam and Jones in waiter outfits, sans trousers or underwear.
It was a popular attraction and stars including Gracie Fields, Leslie Henson and Claude Hulbert all performed there.
She toured in variety with the comedians Syd and Max Harrisonwith and on the Gracie Fields Show, and performed with another dance group, The Three Girlies, before making a gradual switch to straight dramatic roles.
He performed with such comic greats as W. C. Fields, with whom he played the bartender in the 1940 film The Bank Dick, and the comedy team Abbott and Costello, who would reportedly trim his scene-stealing material.
The Gothic Archies are a self-described goth-bubblegum band created and largely performed by Stephin Merritt, more famously of The Magnetic Fields.
In March 1987 the group was the subject of an episode of the ITV arts series The South Bank Show, on which they performed " Air ", " Bean Fields ", " Dirt " and " Giles Farnaby's Dream ".
The Fantasticks has been performed at The White House, for the Peace Corps in Africa, at the Shawnee Mission in Kansas, the Menninger Foundation, Olympian Fields, Yellowstone National Park and the White Sands Missile Range.
In 1928, he starred with Adelaide Hall on Broadway in the hugely successful musical revue Blackbirds of 1928 written by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh, in which Robinson performed his famous stair dance.
Elysian Fields have also performed in several tribute concerts produced by the impresario Hal Willner, including one of Randy Newman's songs in Los Angeles, where Oren was a musical director, and another for Edgar Allan Poe.
Elysian Fields performed at the Carnegie Hall on April 5, 2007, in Michael Dorf's all star tribute to Bruce Springsteen ; Oren was once again musical director, backing up several artists including Badly Drawn Boy, and Bruce Springsteen himself for the rousing finale of " Rosalita ".
In February 2009, Elysian Fields performed in Paris in a sold out show at the Salle Pleyel, as part of John Zorn's Serge Gainsbourg tribute concert alongside Marc Ribot and Sean Lennon.
Together, they formed the English Opera Company, and Carey wrote two librettos, for Amelia ( set by Lampe and acted at the Little Theatre at The Haymarket ( an opposition playhouse favored by Henry Fielding )) and Teraminta ( set by Smith and performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields ).

Fields and TV
American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.
He also played well-known figures such as Napoleon Bonaparte in Waterloo ( 1970 ); Benito Mussolini in The Last Four Days ( 1974 ) and again in Lion of the Desert ( 1981 ); W. C. Fields in W. C. Fields and Me ( 1976 ); Pontius Pilate in Franco Zeffirelli's TV miniseries
Jerry Seinfeld is an avid fan and " The Old Man " ( Season 4, Episode 18, aired 18 February 1993 ) featured a cantankerous old man named " Sid Fields ," played by veteran actor Bill Erwin, as a tribute to Sidney Fields, the landlord from the Abbott & Costello TV show.
Also in 2009, Horrocks took the lead in the BBC TV production Gracie !, a drama portraying the life of Gracie Fields during World War II and her relationship with the Italian-born director Monty Banks ( played by Tom Hollander ).
( TV ) .... Gracie Fields
In the late 1960s Warner Brothers again spoofed Fields's persona with their character Merlin the Magic Mouse, voiced by Larry Storch, and a TV ad for Cocoa Puffs cereal featured Sonny disguising himself as Fields, voiced by Chuck McCann.
* The TV show Gigglesnort Hotel featured a puppet character named " W. C. Cornfield ", which was an obvious caricature of Fields.
Master impressionist Rich Little often imitated Fields on his TV series The Kopykats, and used a Fields characterization for the Ebenezer Scrooge character in his 1978 HBO special Rich Little's Christmas Carol, a one-man presentation of A Christmas Carol.
In the 1982 ABC TV biopic Mae West, starring Ann Jillian, Fields was impersonated by comedy actor Chuck McCann.
* In the TV show Deadwood, season 2, episode 5 (" Complications "), Samuel Fields, the " Nigger General ", is tarred at scalding temperature on the shoulder by a lynch mob leader, before the procedure is interrupted by sheriff Seth Bullock.
In 1956, Fields played Miss Marple in a US TV production of Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced.
Fields had two Christmas TV specials in 1960 and 1961, singing her old favourites and new songs in front of a studio audience.
1971 saw A Gift For Gracie, another TV special presented by Fields and Bruce Forsythe.
In 2009, Jane Horrocks took the lead in the BBC TV production Gracie !, a drama portraying the life of Fields just before and during World War II and her relationship with Monty Banks ( played by Tom Hollander ).
In 2001, Rae, Lisa Whelchel, Mindy Cohn, and Kim Fields were reunited in a TV movie, The Facts of Life Reunion.
In one TV talk show appearance on KPIX's The Morning Show, she accused Debbi Fields ( of " Mrs. Fields " cookies ) of being " no better than a heroin pusher " for using so much processed white sugar in her products.
# " Fields of Fire " ( Riverside BBC TV )
Distant relatives active in entertainment or media include singer / voice actress Melissa Disney, TV Guide executive Anthea Disney, Lancing College resident and part time musician Samuel Giles Larsen-Disney ( married to Georgie Eve Griffin, Head of Fields house ), musician Colin Thomas and surfer Derrick Disney.
After a lifetime in Australian television, Maurie Fields became the 13th inductee into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame.

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