One of the famous Morecambe and Wise routines was their 1976 Christmas Show parody of the scene from the film Singin ' in the Rain, where Gene Kelly dances in the rain, and sings the song " Singin ' in the Rain ".

In the famous dance routine in which Gene Kelly sings the title song while twirling an umbrella, splashing through puddles and getting soaked to the skin, Kelly was sick with a fever.

Notably, every year Boise State University holds the annual Gene Harris Jazz Festival, in which schools from all over the nation, as well as famous musicians, come to celebrate Jazz as an art form.

Featuring strongly in both critics and readers end of year polls (" they to outshine every other band around with heady, faultless grace "-Melody Maker ), Gene were the proud recipients of the inaugural NME Brat Award for ' Best New Act ', and as such played at the sold out Brat Award ceremony at the London Astoria.

His son, John Mark was born with Trisomy 21, Down syndrome, and Gene Stallings has a school for children with disabilities named after him on the University of Alabama Campus, for which he hosts a charity golf tournament every year.

The two returned to the X-Mansion to warn the X-Men that Gene Nation was planning to kill innocents for every Morlock killed during the Mutant Massacre.

Gene always says that first runner is a gimme, you should be able to come through in pretty much every situation like that.

The week of the Kentucky Derby was the most successful week of every year, and celebrities such as Harry Truman, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Crawford, Gene Autry, Eva Marie Saint, Queen Elizabeth, and Muhammad Ali stayed in the hotel at this time.

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While bassists such as Jack Cook slap bass on the occasional faster " Clinch Mountain Boys song ," bassists such as Gene Libbea, Missy Raines, Jenny Keel, and Barry Bales slap bass.

He and Merritt visited various friends in the entertainment field including Gene Vincent and Ross Hagen ( who starred on the late 1960's hit television show Daktari ), and who worked with Patterson on his Bigfoot song they recorded in Hollywood.

The first verse of the 1927 version is sung by Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra at the start of the MGM musical film, Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( 1949 ), a movie that also features a song about the famous and fictitious double play combination, O ' Brien to Ryan to Goldberg.

One early master of ragtime scat singing was Gene Greene who recorded scat choruses in his song " King of the Bungaloos " and several others between 1911 and 1917.

Celesta provides the signature opening of " Pure Imagination ", a well-known song ( sung by Gene Wilder ) from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Other cartoons included Lariat Sam, which was developed by veteran game show announcer Gene Wood, then a show staffer ( who also sang the cartoon's theme song ).

His next partner, Lucille Bremer, was featured in two lavish vehicles, both directed by Vincente Minnelli: the fantasy Yolanda and the Thief, which featured an avant-garde surrealistic ballet, and the musical revue Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ), which featured a memorable teaming of Astaire with Gene Kelly to " The Babbit and the Bromide ," a Gershwin song Astaire had introduced with his sister Adele back in 1927.

To this day, the team plays the song before major playoff games, currently with Lauren Hart ( daughter of Hall of Fame Flyers broadcast announcer Gene Hart ) performing the first part of the song, a recording of Smith singing the second part, and Lauren Hart joining the recording for the finale.

Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by George Sidney and starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, in which two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, accompanied by music and song, meet an aspiring young singer and try to help her get an audition at MGM.

The train station sequence in the 1955 film classic Oklahoma !, with Gene Nelson singing and dancing the song " Kansas City " partly atop a moving train, was filmed in Elgin.

In 1949, Haney was hired by Gene Kelly to be his assistant choreographer on MGM musical films, and she aided Kelly in some of his best work, including On the Town, Summer Stock, An American in Paris, Singin ' in the Rain ( she dubbed Kelly's taps in the title song ), and Kelly's dream project, Invitation to the Dance.

The band's final album, Mardi Gras, was released in April 1972, featuring songs written by Fogerty, Cook, and Clifford and a cover of " Hello Mary Lou " ( a song Gene Pitney originally wrote for Ricky Nelson.

The film " Hot Rod Gang " shows West Coast Swing being done to the song " Dance to the Bop " by rockabilly musician Gene Vincent.

Gene Autry's recording of the song hit # 1 on the U. S. charts the week of Christmas 1949.

Johnny Marks had composed the title song ( originally an enormous hit for singing cowboy Gene Autry ) in 1949, and producers Rankin & Bass retained him to compose the TV special's soundtrack.

" However, the single " Midnight and You " ( ABC 4388 ), a " moody love song ", which was written and arranged by Gene Page, and inspired by Barry White, attracted contemporary audiences, and helped Burke recover " from several years of ignominy, scraping the bottom of the R & B charts ", ... which gave him his biggest hit for half a decade ", reaching # 14 in the R & B charts.

His major vocal inspiration during his formative years was the " Singing Cowboy ", Gene Autry, and in particular, his signature song, " Back in the Saddle Again ".

In 1958, when she was 13, producer Owen Bradley asked her to record a new song by Johnny Marks, who had had success writing Christmas tunes for country singers, most notably " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( Gene Autry ) and " A Holly, Jolly Christmas " ( Burl Ives ).

This song by Benny Carter, Gene DePaul, and Don Raye successfully combined boogie-woogie and Western, or cowboy music.

In addition, there was a growing " cast of characters " including an NBC electrician who played " Father Ed ," a priest who would get flustered when his cue cards were deliberately turned upside-down ; Canadian comedian Murray Langston, who as " The Unknown Comic " wore a paper bag over his head ( with cut-outs for his eyes, mouth, and even a box of Kleenex ), and " Gene Gene the Dancing Machine " ( Gene Patton ), arguably the most popular member of the " cast ", another NBC stagehand who would show up and dance whenever the band played the song " Jumpin ' at the Woodside ".

Johnny Cash recorded a song in 1978 about Autry called " Who is Gene Autry?

His first major song with his own lyrics was " Rockin ' Chair ", recorded by Armstrong and Mildred Bailey, and eventually with his own hand-picked studio band ( featuring Bix, Bubber Miley, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Bud Freeman, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and Gene Krupa ) on May 15, 1930.

* May – Gene Autry's Melody Ranch, a CBS Radio Sunday evening program on the air since 1940 ( except for a hiatus from 1942 – 45 ), ends its run.

* The original Republic library ( except for the Roy Rogers and Gene Autry catalogs, owned by their respective estates )

Due to a series of tragedies, the original Morlocks no longer reside in subterranean New York ( except Marrow who was one of the originals as a child ), although a violent splinter cell Gene Nation and a comparable group called Those Who Live in Darkness have emerged.

In real life, the creation of the Prime Directive is generally credited to Gene L. Coon, although there is some contention as to whether science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon, who wrote of the Prime Directive in an unused script for the original series, actually came up with it first.

Five years earlier, Welbach had caused a traffic accident in which he hit the car of local mobster Arnold Margolese ( Gene Hackman ), who was jailed for five years after the police searched his car following the crash, finding someone tied up in his trunk.

The film stars Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock, the producer, and Gene Wilder as Leo Bloom, the accountant, and features Dick Shawn as L. S. D., the actor who ends up playing the lead in the musical within the movie, and Kenneth Mars as the former Nazi soldier and playwright, Franz Liebkind.

In the early 1990s, Taylor teamed up with Adam Again's Gene Eugene, The Choir's Derri Daugherty and The 77s ' Mike Roe to form the alt-country / roots band, Lost Dogs.

At the age of 15, after discovering Gene Byrnes ' Complete Guide to Cartooning at the public library, Bakshi took up cartooning to document his experiences and create fantasy-influenced artwork.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer Gene Pitney also grew up in the town, from which he obtained his stage name: " The Rockville Rocket ". Charles Ethan Porter ( c. 1847-1923 ), an African American still life painter, moved to the Rockville neighborhood as a child.

Gene Autry did spend some time growing up in Tioga, but not more than a few years.

Blue Gene / Q systems also topped the Green500 list of most energy efficient supercomputers with up to 2. 1 GFLOPS / W.

While playing with bandleader Joey Greco, Criss ended up studying under his idol, Gene Krupa, at the Metropole Club in New York.

* Gene therapy vectors ( such as viruses ) can be PEG-coated to shield them from inactivation by the immune system and to de-target them from organs where they may build up and have a toxic effect.

Gene McKay, a news anchor and radio personality for WIS, the NBC affiliate in Columbia, came up with the idea to have a festival based on Okra.

Questions were posed both to Gene Simmons and Shannon by Bonaduce while each was hooked up to the polygraph machine.

When Michael Okuda was asked about the design of the LCARS display, he responded " I came up with the LCARS style in part because of Gene Roddenberry's directive that he wanted his new Enterprise to be so advanced that it looked simple and clean.

Her name was Sarah, and she would grow up to be Marrow, the leader of the mutant terrorist group Gene Nation.

Allele frequency or Gene frequency is the proportion of all copies of a gene that is made up of a particular gene variant ( allele ).

By the middle of June the riots in Los Angeles were dying out but the riots spread throughout California to cities in Texas and Arizona while incidents broke out in other cities such as Detroit, New York and Philadelphia, where two members of Gene Krupa's dance band were beaten up for wearing the band's zoot suit stage costumes.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, and growing up in nearby Westport, Martin began modeling at 17, and appeared in the original film version of The Poseidon Adventure ( opposite Gene Hackman ) at the age of 19.

On the show Siskel & Ebert, Ebert gave the film thumbs up while Gene Siskel gave the film thumbs down, saying, " I didn't find the characters that interesting and I really didn't like the villain in this piece.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave Space Jam a " thumbs up ," which Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune also gave the film, although his zeal was more subdued.

On the film review television show Siskel & Ebert & the Movies, critic Gene Siskel said the film was as " good looking as it is funny " and that " despite some slow patches " he recommended the film, giving it a " thumbs up ".

Copperfield notes that his role models growing up were not magicians, that " My idols were Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Orson Welles and Walt Disney ... they took their individual art forms and they moved people with them ...

In 2003, Weller teamed up with electronic rock duo Death in Vegas on a cover of Gene Clark's " So You Say You Lost Your Baby " which featured on the album Scorpio Rising.