At the age of five, his young voice and exuberance won him a talent contest singing a then-popular song, " Have You Ever Gone Sailing ( Down the River of Memories ).

In February 2010, Larrikin Music Publishing won a case against the group arising from the uncredited appropriation of " Kookaburra ", originally written in 1934 by Marion Sinclair and for which they owned the publishing rights, as the flute line in the song " Down Under ".

Downpatrick has had mixed fortunes over the years but has still managed to produce excellent county footballers such as Ray McConville, William Walsh, Conor Deegan, Barry Breen all of whom won All-Irelands with Down.

Down are the most successful team north of the border in terms of All-Ireland Senior Football Championships won with 5 in total.

Earth, Wind & Fire also won a Rock Music Award in the category of Best Soul Album for Gratitude and Down Beat magazine's Readers Poll for favorite Rock / Blues Group in 1975.

She won Esquire magazine's New Star Award for 1947 as well as awards from Down Beat magazine continuously from 1947 through 1952, and from Metronome magazine from 1948 through 1953.

His 1983 follow-up album, Can't Slow Down, sold over twice as many copies and won two Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, propelling him into the first rank of international superstars.

Zawinul and Shorter's continued dominance of the American jazz scene was emphasized when Tale Spinnin won the Down Beat best album award for 1975 ( the third Weather Report album to do so ) and Native Dancer was the runner-up.

The following year he took his son ( the future Viscount Castlereagh ) out of Cambridge University and had him run for the seat Co. Down in the Parliament in Dublin which he won.

( Gallagher admitting he ' cried like a baby ' when City won the Premier League title ) He is a friend of former City midfielder Joey Barton, as well as Celtic manager Neil Lennon and Italian striker Alessandro Del Piero, who described Gallagher as Italy's " lucky mascot " during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and appears in the Oasis video " Lord Don't Slow Me Down ".

In 1955, Williams won Down Beat magazine's New Star Award.

That same year, he won Down Beats international critics ' poll for Best New Male Singer, as well as their readers ' poll for Best Male Band Singer — citations he would continue to accumulate throughout his career.

Also in 2006, Ian won the Best Actor Award at the 2006 Monaco Film Festival for his portrayal of " Francis " in the independent film, Stripped Down.

From 1959 to 1964 he won Down Beat's critic poll for flute.

While enjoying success in the middle-of-the-road and pop fields, Eckstine occasionally returned to his jazz roots, recording with Vaughan, Count Basie and Quincy Jones for separate LPs, and he regularly topped the Metronome and Down Beat polls in the Top Male Vocalist category: He won Esquire magazine's New Star Award in 1946 ; the Down Beat magazine Readers Polls from 1948 to 1952 ; and the Metronome magazine award as " Top Male Vocalist " from 1949 to 1954.

Quigley Down Under is probably one of his best known Western films, however he also won a " Western Heritage Award " for his 1997 role in Last Stand at Sabre River.

Hines then won the 1966 " International Critics Poll " for Down Beat Magazine's " Hall of Fame ".

Among their racing successes, Down Again won the 1990 Monrovia Handicap at Santa Anita Park.

O ' Connell was selected by Down Beat readers as best female singer in 1940 and 1941 and won the 1940 Metronome magazine poll for best female vocalist.

He opposed the subsequent Belfast Agreement in the May 1998 referendum and his party won five seats in the Assembly elections later that year ( Robert McCartney in North Down, Cedric Wilson in Strangford, Patrick Roche in Lagan Valley, Norman Boyd in South Antrim and Roger Hutchinson East Antrim ).

In 2006 North Down Athletics club won the Hibernian League and became Irish Champions for the first time in their history.

Daniels won the Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance in 1979 for " The Devil Went Down to Georgia ", which reached No. 3 on the Hot 100 in September 1979.

Other roles include: starring opposite Jim Carrey in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon ( 1999 ); as Joan Vollmer in Beat ( 2000 ) alongside Kiefer Sutherland ; and a leading role in Julie Johnson ( 2001 ) as Lili Taylor's lesbian lover, for which she won an Outstanding Actress award at L. A .' s Outfest.

Wright won a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Beat by the East German swimmers. Graduate of New Albany High School 1973, University of Hawaii1979.

Except for the skill-based Jackpot Bowling ( 1959 – 1961 ), a period on Beat the Clock ( 1960 ) when its Bonus Stunt grew in $ 100 increments past the $ 10, 000 mark until finally being won for $ 20, 100 on September 23, and the short-lived ABC quiz 100 Grand ( 1963 ), the networks stayed away from awarding five-figure cash jackpots until the premiere of The $ 10, 000 Pyramid in 1973.

Ray Dorset, the lead singer of Mungo Jerry, had his first taste of fame when his band ' The Tramps ' won the Loughton Beat Contest in 1964.

The Westward Beat Competition had a panel of judges that included Brian Epstein and Dick Rowe and was won by The Rustiks.

Berger continuously won the Down Beat critics poll in the category of the best jazz vibraphone player of the year between 1969 and 1975.

Burton was named Down Beat magazine's ' Jazzman of the Year ' in 1968 ( the youngest ever to receive the title ) and won his first Grammy award in 1972, Burton began a now 38 year-long collaboration with pianist Chick Corea, recognized for popularizing the format of jazz duet performance.

Swallow has consistently won the electric bass category in Down Beat yearly polls, both Critics ' and Readers ', since the mid-80s.

After seeing an issue of Down Beat where Ray Brown had won the critics ' poll for best bass player, Holland went to a record store, and bought a couple of LPs featuring Brown backing pianist Oscar Peterson.

While with Ellington, Hibbler won the Esquire New Star Award in 1947 and the Down Beat award for Best Band Vocalist in 1949.

Elling has won the Down Beat Critics Poll thirteen times, from 2000 – 2012, and the Down Beat Readers Poll six times and the JazzTimes Readers ' Poll seven times, all in the Male Vocalist of the Year category.

The album was nominated for a Grammy award, won the 1968 Down Beat " Album of the Year " award, and reached No. 8 on the Billboard jazz charts.

The Four Freshmen won Best Vocal Group of the Year in Down Beat magazine's Readers ' Polls in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 2000, and 2001.

Her book Beat Not the Bones won the then newly created Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers ' Association of America for Best Novel of the Year in 1954.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

The " National Team " of government critics won 12 ( later reduced to 11 ) of the 15 seats, and independents won the other three, after a campaign opposing the appointment of

The film was overwhelmingly lauded by critics when it finally appeared in 1979, and was selected at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d ' Or, along with The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

Such movies were commercially successful and often enjoyed international distribution, but won little acclaim from critics.

Hitchcock primarily made thrillers, which, according to the Cahiers du cinema crowd, were popular with the public but were dismissed by the critics and the award ceremonies, although Hitchcock's Rebecca won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 1940 Academy Awards.

Starting in January 1863, he returned to the Boston Museum for a series of plays, including the role of the villain Duke Pescara in The Apostate that won acclaim from audiences and critics.

[...] We're really proud of what we've done, whether critics like us or not, whether we've won Grammys or not, whether any of that stuff.

The 1960s proved to be a fallow decade for Brando, and after 10 years in which he did not appear in a commercially successful movie, he won his second Academy Award for playing Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather ( 1972 ), a role critics consider among his greatest.

In 2002, she performed a triple-role alongside Ralph Fiennes in David Cronenberg's acclaimed thriller Spider, a film that won her several international critics ' awards.

After his election in 1800, some called him the " Negro President ", with critics like the Mercury and New-England Palladium of Boston stating that Jefferson had the gall to celebrate his election as a victory for democracy when he won " the temple of Liberty on the shoulders of slaves.

The film was financially successful and generally well received by critics in the USA and won an Academy Award for sound editing.

Praised by critics at the time of its release, All About Eve was nominated for 14 Academy Awards ( a feat unmatched until the 1997 film Titanic ) and won six, including Best Picture.

Mystic River was praised by critics and won two Academy Awards – Best Actor for Penn and Best Supporting Actor for Robbins – with Eastwood garnering nominations for Best Director and Best Picture.

Part memoir and part spiritual quest, Walden at first won few admirers, but later critics have regarded it as a classic American work that explores natural simplicity, harmony, and beauty as models for just social and cultural conditions.

With the film score for El exilio de Gardel he won the French critics Cesar Award in Paris for best film music in 1986.

On its release, critics hailed its overall presentation and numerous scripted sequences, and it won over 50 PC Game of the Year awards.

Jones's literary debut won praise from critics and from fellow-poets such as Eliot and W. B.

The film was a success, and Davis's confronting characterization won praise from critics, with Life magazine writing that she gave " probably the best performance ever recorded on the screen by a U. S. actress ".

Praised by many critics when first released, Sunset Boulevard was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won three.

It was shown at the San Sebastián Film Festival, where Rowlands was named Best Actress and Cassavetes won the Silver Shell Award for Best Director, and the New York Film Festival, where it captured the attention of film critics like Rex Reed.

It won the International Critics Prize at Cannes and was acclaimed by critics everywhere as one of 1974's best films.

Despite negative reviews from critics, Pearl Harbor became a major box office success, earning $ 449, 220, 945 at the world wide box office and won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.

Cries and Whispers was nominated and won several other awards on festivals and from critics ' associations.

The film also won several awards from critics ' associations, including the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, National Board of Review awards and National Society of Film Critics awards.