His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

Howard Winchester Hawks ( May 30, 1896December 26, 1977 ) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era.

Other classic but now defunct sports car races include the Italian classics, the Targa Florio ( 1906 – 1977 ) and Mille Miglia ( 1927 – 1957 ), and the Mexican Carrera Panamericana.

The film was novelized in 1977, in paperback under the pseudonym of " Carl Dreadstone ", as part of a short-lived series of books based on the classic Universal horror films.

The disc was a reunion of the Phil Keaggy Band in which they updated their classic 1977 album, Emerging.

In August 1995 ForeFront Records released One Way: Songs of Larry Norman, a tribute album that included covers of 14 Norman's classic songs by ForeFront artists, including dc Talk ; Audio Adrenaline, Grammatrain ; and Rebecca St. James, whose father, David Smallbone, booked and promoted Norman's first concerts and distributed Norman's early records in Australia, including his eponymous 1977 album, ( which is also known as Starstorm ).

1977 ) – a trademark dispute in which the terms " lite " and " light " were held to be generic for light beer and therefore available for use by anyone – the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, after considering a definition from Webster ’ s Third New International Dictionary, wrote that " he comparable definition in the previous, and for many the classic, edition of the same dictionary is as follows :..."

Michael Frayn's 1977 play Donkeys ' Years is a classic bedroom farce ; Frayn parodied the genre in his 1982 play Noises Off via its play-within-the-play, " Nothing On.

Their first album, Suicide ( 1977 ), is regarded a classic.

The classic ' Zig-zag ' logo appeared in 1977 designed by Stuart Kettle-this initially featured a mechanical bird flying above it, but later, Chris Wroe ( who drew all of the classic caricatures of the Tiswas team ) replaced this with a drawing of the Phantom Flan Flinger.

After the band returned to the UK in 1977, they began to merge their American influences with a classic, hard rock.

Nancy Kelly ( March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995 ) was an American actress, who was a movie leading lady in the late 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James ( 1939 ), which also featured Henry Fonda, and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone later that same year.

His In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods about the history of mountaineering on K2 ( 1977 ) is considered a classic of mountaineering literature, and his 1986 book Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape is one of the best selling how-to photo books of all time.

In 1977, the cult classic Shaw Brothers film Shaolin Temple was released and in 1982 a film by the same name starring Jet Li is credited as a major reason for the revival of the Shaolin Temple in China after the Cultural Revolution.

Producers had given exclusive merchandising rights to Post as part of his contract for working on the film, and Post Studios had already successfully marketed tie-in masks for the classic Universal monsters, Planet of the Apes ( 1968 ), Star Wars ( 1977 ), and E. T.

Robert Paul Smith ( April 16, 1915-January 30, 1977 ) was an American author, most famous for his classic evocation of childhood, Where Did You Go?

* Molly Spotted Elk ( Mary Alice " Molly Dellis " Nelson Archambaud ), 1903 – 1977, internationally known dancer who starred in the classic film, " The Silent Enemy " ( 1930 ), written and produced by Douglas Burden.

It is for his more infamous productions that De Laurentiis's name has become known — the legendary King Kong ( 1976 ) remake, which was a commercial hit, Lipstick, the killer whale film Orca ( 1977 ); The White Buffalo ( 1977 ); the disaster movie Hurricane ( 1979 ); the remake of Flash Gordon ( 1980 ); Halloween II ( the 1981 sequel to John Carpenter's 1978 classic horror film ); David Lynch's Dune ( 1984 ); and King Kong Lives ( 1986 ).

During the Christmas season of 1977, CBS brought his highly acclaimed American Ballet Theatre production of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet The Nutcracker to television, and it has remained to this day the most popular and most often shown television production of the work, at least in the U. S. In addition to Baryshnikov in the title role, Gelsey Kirkland, Alexander Minz, and many members of the American Ballet Theatre also starred.

* Watch his classic try against the Scots at Murrayfield in 1977

The EM algorithm was explained and given its name in a classic 1977 paper by Arthur Dempster, Nan Laird, and Donald Rubin.

* 1977, Beiderbecke's 1927 recording of " Singin ' the Blues " inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame

In 1977, Robinson's composition " Singin ' the Blues " was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in a 1927 recording by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet as Okeh 40772-B.

In 1977, Lang's recording of " Singin ' the Blues " with Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

* 1977: Singin '... # 60 US

Maxin, who won a BAFTA for the Best Light Entertainment Show for the Morecambe and Wise 1977 Christmas Show, was also responsible for devising and choreographing many of their great musical comedy routines including " The Breakfast Sketch ", " Singin ' in the Rain ", and the homage to South Pacific, " There is nothing like a dame " featuring BBC newsreaders in an acrobatic dance routine.

" Singin ' the Blues ", released by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet and Eddie Lang on guitar in 1927 as Okeh 40772-B, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1977.

In 1973 he presented a unique 6-part documentary on BBC Radio 1, The Rolling Stones Story, and in 1977 he established a Sunday-night blues and soul show on Radio 1, Alexis Korner's Blues and Soul show, which ran until 1981.

* " Birmingham Blues ", a song from ELO's 1977 album Out of the Blue

* " What Is The Blues " LP-1022 with Eunice Davis on Spivey Records 1977

Although Decca had set up the first of the British " progressive " labels, Deram Records, in 1966, with such stars as Cat Stevens and The Moody Blues, by the time the punk era set in 1977, Decca had pop success with such acts as John Miles, novelty creation Father Abraham and The Smurfs, and productions by longtime Decca associate Jonathan King.

The central theme of Rhapsody in Blue is used as a riff in The Electric Light Orchestra's " Birmingham Blues " off their 1977 hit album Out of the Blue.

In 1977, Cropper and Dunn famously became part of The Blues Brothers Band, appearing on the number one album Briefcase Full of Blues.

In 1977, ACL producers made " London Homesick Blues ," written by Gary P. Nunn, the ACL theme song.

* Goodbye Blues ( 1977 )

* Sinking Ship Blues, Toronto 1977

The UK signing policy was vindicated when Climax Blues Band scored a Top 40 hit in 1977 with " Couldn't Get It Right ".

* Alice Cooper — July 30, 1977, with The Climax Blues Band and February 19, 1979, with The Babys

In 1977, the Arena and the Blues were purchased by Ralston Purina, who rechristened the building The Checkerdome after the company's checkerboard logo.

In 1977, Ralston Purina acquired Missouri Arena Corporation and the St. Louis Blues National Hockey League franchise.

Pena is probably best known for writing the song " Jet Airliner ," a major 1977 hit for the Steve Miller Band and a staple of classic rock radio ; and for appearing in the 1999 documentary film Genghis Blues, wherein he displayed his abilities in the field of Tuvan throat singing.

They finally broke into the mainstream European market with their 1977 set Gone to Earth, which contained the song " Poor Man's Moody Blues ", a homage to that band's " Nights in White Satin ", and also an appellation foisted upon Barclay James Harvest by press critics in the early 1970s.

* Señor Blues ( CTI, 1977 )

The 1974 – 1977 Monacos received star treatment as the Bluesmobile in the 1980 feature film The Blues Brothers, directed by John Landis.

In 1977, he had a US number one with " You Make Me Feel Like Dancing " ( a Grammy Award winner for the year's best Rhythm and Blues Song ), as well as the romantic ballad, " When I Need You " ( 1977 ), which reached number one in both the UK and US.