A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

In the mid-1980s, Grant began touring and recording with young up-and-coming songwriter Michael W. Smith.

As the two couples began supporting each other during recording sessions, the sound of the girls ' voices convinced the songwriters to model their ' group ' on the like of MOR acts Blue Mink, Middle of the Road and The Sweet.

BDP as a group essentially ended because KRS-One began recording and performing under his own name rather than the group name.

Holly then hired Norman Petty as manager, and the band began recording at Petty's studios in Clovis, New Mexico.

He began his professional career at the age of six, and has worked on over 400 television episodes, 18 motion pictures, various commercials, and scores of voice over work, as well as working as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and writer.

Following the recording sessions with Tim, Neil began writing and recording a third Crowded House album with Hester and Seymour, but these tracks were rejected by the record company, so Neil asked Tim if Crowded House could use the Finn songs.

Nick Seymour, Barcelona, October 2007. Crowded House began recording their follow-up to Time on Earth in April 2009, at Finn's own Roundhead Studios.

Atkins began working on recording sessions, performing on WSM-AM and the Opry.

Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording, " Sentimental Journey ", in 1945.

Having established himself as a solo artist with " Space Oddity ", Bowie began to sense a lacking: " a full-time band for gigs and recording — people he could relate to personally ".

He began recording around Los Angeles in 1982 as a member of the Radio Crew, and also Uncle Jam's Army.

Under Jæger's commandment that Munch should " write his life ", meaning that Munch should explore his own emotional and psychological state, Munch began a period of reflection and self-examination, recording his thoughts in his " soul's diary ".

Bell Laboratories began experimenting with wider-range recording techniques in the early 1930s.

RCA Victor began recording performances by several orchestras on optical sound around 1941, resulting in higher-fidelity masters for 78-rpm discs.

In 1971, Brown began recording for Polydor Records which also took over distribution of Brown's King Records catalog.

He also began drawing and painting birds, and recording their behavior.

In the late 1960s and into the 1970s, stored audible materials began to dominate the music recording industry and revolutionized the portability and ease of use of band and instrumental music by musicians and entertainers as the demand for entertainers increased globally.

However, when recording sessions began Atlantic wanted more of a rock sound and didn't initially like " Cowboy ," " Devil Without A Cause " and " Only God Knows Why.

Following Beck's departure in October 1966, The Yardbirds — tired from constant touring and recording — began to wind down.

Later that month, they began recording their first album, which was based on their live set.

Though limited in resources, the band began recording and producing songs within Shinoda ’ s makeshift bedroom studio in 1996, resulting in a 4-track demo tape.

The band parted ways with Anodyne, signed to Megaforce and began recording new material in the winter of 2008.

Beginning in September 1997, Tripp began secretly recording their telephone conversations regarding the affair with Clinton.

Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.

It began invariably in low tones, almost conversational, and then gradually worked up to high, shrill appeals to God and man.

`` How many times have I told you '' -- he began, and was almost glad when she cut him off -- `` Too many times ''!!

They borrowed a typewriter, raised about $2,000 in contributions, hired a secretary, persuaded a couple of young men to join them for almost no pay and began mailing out a collection of unstapled leaflets that they called Guideposts.

When a fisherman brought her up in his arms, still, small, as if she were a child asleep, I began to shudder with a terrible excitement, almost triumphant, that I still cannot account for.

Or what was it that, before Via, Sonny, Walter and all, I began almost to dance with shuddering and cry out, `` I knew she'd do it!!

Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

The history of Aegina, as it has come down to us, is almost exclusively a history of its relations with the neighbouring state of Athens, which began to compete with the thalassocracy of Aegina at the beginning of the sixth century.

Everyone was to be " adjudged a Papist " who refused this oath, and the consequent penalties began with the confiscation of two thirds of the recusant's goods, and went on to deprive him of almost every civic right.

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

Both ships were soon fighting enemies much more powerful than themselves and began to take severe damage: Captain Henry Darby on Bellerophon missed his intended anchor near Franklin and instead found his ship underneath the main battery of the French flagship, while Captain George Blagdon Westcott on Majestic also missed his station and almost collided with Heureux, coming under heavy fire from Tonnant.

Although Nelson's biographer Ernle Bradford assumed in 1977 that the remains of Orient " are almost certainly unrecoverable ", the first archaeological investigation into the battle began in 1983, when a French survey team under Jacques Dumas discovered the wreck of the French flagship.

When filming began at the end of 1928, Chaplin had been working on the story for almost a year.

The Cold War began almost immediately following World War II and lasted through most of the 20th century.

the government began a fish-farming program, and by the end of 1968 there were almost 12, 000 ponds.

The first group of Ottomans who entered the city were killed almost immediately, with the effect that the other Muslims began to retreat.

" He also began doing more carving, rather than the method popular with his contemporaries, that of modeling in clay or plaster which would be cast in metal, and by 1908 he worked almost exclusively by carving.

Near the year 550, however, the British began to lose ground once more, and within twenty-five years, it appears that control of almost all of southern England was in the hands of the invaders.

Darwin was young and generally in good health, though six months previously he had been ill for a month near Valparaiso, but in 1837, almost a year after he returned to England, he began to suffer intermittently from a strange group of symptoms, becoming incapacitated for much of the rest of his life.

Lambert's army began to desert him, and he returned to London almost alone.

Efforts to redevelop the docks began almost as soon as they were closed, although it took a decade for most plans to move beyond the drawing board and another decade for redevelopment to take full effect.

Less than a hundred years later, Aristotle developed an almost " biological ' theory of the development of tragedy in Athens: according to this view, the art form grew under the influence of Aeschylus, matured in the hands of Sophocles then began its precipitous decline with Euripides.

Beginning about 550, however, the British began to lose ground once more, and within twenty-five years it appears that control of almost all of southern England was in the hands of the invaders.

Fung holds, then, that Paul's apostolic mission began almost immediately in Damascus ( Acts 9: 20 ).