It was not until Herbie Hancock's " Rockit " in 1983 that the turntablism movement was recognized in popular music outside of a hip hop context.

Meanwhile, in 1954, he began working with Tony Hancock in BBC radio's Hancock's Half Hour, playing a character with his own name ( but having the invented middle name Balmoral ), who was a petty criminal who would usually manage to con Hancock.

Main Wilson was casting Hancock's Half Hour, a radio series starring Tony Hancock.

His first broadcast was as a regular on the radio show Educating Archie, and this led to appearances on Hancock's Half Hour.

The first British sitcom was Pinwright's Progress, broadcast by the BBC from 1946 to 1947, but the form didn't really take off until the transfer of Hancock's Half Hour from BBC radio in 1956.

Hancock's boat was seized after he had unloaded a cargo of 25 pipes ( 3, 150 gallons ) of Madeira, and a dispute arose over import duties.

Humiliation of authority was something only previously delved into in The Goon Show and, arguably, Hancock's Half Hour, with such parliamentarians as Sir Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan coming under special scrutiny — although the BBC were predisposed to frowning upon it.

Longstreet followed up with a surprise flanking attack from an unfinished railroad bed that drove Hancock's men back to the Brock Road, but the momentum was lost when Longstreet was wounded by his own men.

Alexander called the removal of Longstreet the critical juncture of the battle: " I have always believed that, but for Longstreet's fall, the panic which was fairly underway in Hancock's Corps would have been extended & have resulted in Grant's being forced to retreat back across the Rapidan.

It was on one of his return visits to the UK in 1968 that he also brought back the late Tony Hancock's ashes to the UK in an Air France bag-“ My session with the Customs was a Hancock Half Hour in itself.

At the same time, the BBC was also running Hancock's Half Hour starring Tony Hancock, the first of a new generation of comedies based on believable characters and situations.

Hancock's Half Hour later transferred to TV and was phenomenally successful throughout the 1950s, running concurrently on radio and television until 1960.

The route into London was plied by Walter Hancock's steam coaches for a period during the 1830s.

She was famous for being Mr. Hancock's daughter.

Also included on the record was a cover version of Herbie Hancock's " Maiden Voyage ," featuring the voice / guitar soloing of Georg Wadenius.

A few years later he joined the Royal Court Theatre company and was the foil to Tony Hancock in some of Hancock's last work for British television.

Hancock's progress at West Point was average.

The region was quiet at the time, and Hancock's time there was uneventful.

Hancock's young family accompanied him to his new posting, where Allie Hancock was the only woman on the post.

Davis also proved to be an able talent-spotter ; much of 1970s fusion was performed by bands started by alumni from Davis ' ensembles, including The Tony Williams Lifetime, Weather Report, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Herbie Hancock's funk-infused Headhunters band.

This then relatively novel format, of what was in effect a single sketch each week lasting the entire half-hour ( though in the radio version James and the others sometimes played different roles ), was reflected in the show's title, which aptly described the series as Hancock's " half-hour ".

Bowdoin and Samuel Adams went after the Hancock-Cushing faction, seizing on the recently established and locally controversial social club ( known either as " Sans Souci " or the " Tea Assembly "), at which card play and dancing took place ( these activities had previously been banned in socially conservative Boston ), as a sign of moral decay that took place under Hancock's term.

An episode of the BBC radio sitcom Hancock's Half Hour paid tribute to Osborne's play in " The East Cheam Drama Festival " ( 1958 ).

In 1969 he accepted an offer to play with Duke Ellington's big band, and he stayed with that ensemble for six months before leaving in 1970 to join pianist Herbie Hancock's fusion sextet.

In 1778, Simcoe, during a foraging expedition opposed by rebel militia, commanded the attack on Judge William Hancock's house, killing 20 American rebels in their sleep and wounding 12 others.

* Hancock's Half Hour-Sid James claims Hereward stayed at Hancock's house as a ploy to get the house renovated by the National Trust.

This recording features the adoption of a sound pitched between Philly Soul and the mid-1970s albums by Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, along with aspirations to Chick Corea's jazz-fusion group Return to Forever.

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Hancock's character had various addresses, but by the third radio series he had arrived at 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam.

Moira Lister appeared in the first series, before being replaced by Andrée Melly for the next two ; both women played love interest for Hancock's character, in essentially ' straight ' roles.

In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted for by industry professionals, Hancock's Half Hour was placed 24th.

" The other five were by BBC Records, released as Hancock's Half Hour: " The Poetry Society " and " Sid's Mystery Tours ", released in 1980 ; " The Americans Hit Town " and " The Unexploded Bomb " in 1981 ; " The Scandal Magazine " and " The Last of the McHancocks " in 1982 ; " The Sleepless Night " and " Fred's Pie Stall " in 1983 ; and finally " Hancocks War " and " The Christmas Club " in 1984.

The radio series of Hancock's Half Hour was first released on cassette by the BBC as part of their Radio Collection series of audio cassettes in the late 1980s.

Some well-known soul jazz recordings are Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder ( 1963 ), Herbie Hancock's " Cantaloupe Island " ( 1964 ) ( which was popularized further when sampled by US3 on " Cantaloop ( Flip Fantasia )"), Horace Silver's " Song for My Father " ( 1964 ) ( quoted by Steely Dan in their " Rikki Don't Lose That Number "), Ramsey Lewis's " The In Crowd " ( a top-five hit in 1965 ), and Cannonball Adderley's " Mercy, Mercy, Mercy " ( 1966 ) ( also popularized further when covered as a top 40 pop song by The Buckinghams ).

* Nick Hancock's Fishing School ( produced by STV Productions, 2007 )

Hancock's dilatory responses and refusal to produce an accounting of the college books dragged on for several years, as a result of which Bowdoin orchestrated his censure by the Harvard board of overseers.

He was previously chair of the Russia group, until being ousted by Labour's Chris Bryant, because he was felt to be too lenient towards Moscow: " We were concerned by Mike Hancock's pro-Putin and pro-Medvedev position.

In December 2010, it was announced by the Hampshire Police that Hancock would not face charges over claims of indecent assault which had led to Hancock's arrest on 12 October 2010 and release on bail until January 2011.

Reinforcements arrived during the night — the Union IX Corps under Maj. Gen. John G. Parke ( which had been relieved from duty in the trenches around Petersburg as Hancock's II Corps troops returned from Deep Bottom ) and Confederate Maj. Gen. W. H. F.

All guitar-like parts were handled by Herbie Hancock on his first two albums with the group, with one exception: The " rhythm guitar " heard interacting with Hancock's synthesizer bass early in the track Chameleon is actually Paul Jackson playing in the upper register of the bass guitar, as pointed out by Steven F. Pond in his book Head Hunters ( 2005 ).

John Hancock's signature is the most prominent on the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.

As an example, the final " k " in John Hancock's famous signature on the US Declaration of Independence loops back to underline his name.

He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films.

His Sidney Balmoral James from Hancock's Half Hour also appeared in his own Citizen James series.

It is this " rounded " or chiming sound that is called the classic Rhodes sound, which can be heard on, for example, many of Stevie Wonder's or Herbie Hancock's songs.

" Hancock's persona of the pompous loser out of his depth in an uncomprehending society still informs many programmes today ", according to Phil Wickham.

Gen. George W. Getty's division ( VI Corps ) and Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps on the Orange Plank Road.

Grant used Upton's assault technique on a much larger scale on May 12 when he ordered the 15, 000 men of Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's corps to assault the Mule Shoe.