Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

The character and themes from the comic strip Little Nemo were used in a song " Scenes from a Night's Dream " written by Phil Collins and Tony Banks of the progressive rock group Genesis on their 1978 recording, ... And Then There Were Three ... Another progressive rock group, from Germany, called Scara Brae also recorded a musical impression of the comic on their rare self titled disc from 1981 ( the track was actually recorded 2 years earlier ).

* Manhattan ( album ), an album recorded in 1981 by jazz flugelhornist Art Farmer featuring the above composition

* Soundbytes ( 1994, compilation of tracks recorded 1981 – 1986 )

Merrily We Roll Along ( 1981 ), with a book by George Furth, is one of Sondheim's more " traditional " scores and was thought to hold potential to generate some hit songs ( Frank Sinatra and Carly Simon each recorded a different song from the show ).

* 1981: Jazz vocalist Carmen McRae recorded this song on her album " Live at Bubba's ".

* The Original Modern Lovers ( recorded 1972, released 1981 )

In 1981, the threesome recorded and released a single (" Getting Out Of Hand " b / w " Call on Me ") on DownKiddie Records ( their own label ).

Warriors was the last album Numan recorded for Beggars Banquet Records, and was supported by a 40-date UK tour ( again with support from robotic mime and music duo Tik and Tok ) – Numan's first live tour in the UK since his Wembley appearances in 1981.

The lowest recorded temperature is − 38. 0 ° C recorded in February 1981, and the highest temperature was 17. 8 ° C recorded in August 1942.

The popular Welsh folk song Yma o Hyd, recorded by Dafydd Iwan in 1981, recalls Macsen Wledig and celebrates the continued survival of the Welsh people since his days.

* The 1981 – 82 Comets reunion group recorded on single in 1982, Bring Back the Music / The Hawk Talks ( Music City Records ).

They started doing separate ventures ; Louis Johnson played bass on Michael Jackson's Thriller and recorded a gospel music album in 1981 with his own group Passage, which included his then-wife Valerie Johnson and former Brothers Johnson percussionist / singer, Richard Heath.

The Police's fourth album, Ghost in the Machine, co-produced by Hugh Padgham, was recorded at Air Studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, and released in 1981.

Over 1981 and 1982, Summers recorded his first album with Robert Fripp, I Advance Masked.

Nico recorded her next studio album, Drama of Exile, in 1981.

Wells also recorded the fastest British 100 / 200 times in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 100m in 1984.

He would go on to produce two reggae albums recorded in Jamaica ( 1979 and 1981 ) and two electronic funk albums recorded in New York ( 1984 and 1987 ).

In 1981, Art Garfunkel recorded " Scissors Cut ", " In Cars ", and " That's All I've Got to Say " for his album Scissors Cut, and Arlo Guthrie recorded " Oklahoma Nights " on his album Power of Love.

French and Saunders were featured on the 1981 live comedy album of The Comic Strip recorded by comedy entrepreneur Martin Lewis for his Springtime!

Johan Cruijff returned to the club in 1981, with the club producing some talented youngsters in the mid-1980s such as Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard.

After a drop-off in such seizures for some years, several U. S. tuna boats were again detained and seized in 1980 and 1981.

The Village Gate, the Village Vanguard and The Blue Note ( since 1981 ), hosted some of the biggest names in jazz on a regular basis.

A pivotal book on Hart was written by Neil MacCormick in 1981 ( second edition due in 2007 ), which further refined and offered some important criticisms that led MacCormick to develop his own theory ( the best example of which is his recently published Institutions of Law, 2007 ).

At the height of the strikes, nearly 30, 000, 000 working days were lost in Britain during 1979, but that had fallen dramatically to some 5, 000, 000 during 1981 as a result of the Thatcher government's union reform policies.

Slavery is still said to exist in Mauritania, some 100 years after slavery officially ended in the West and since it was officially abolished in the country in 1981.

With the Labour left still strong – in 1981 Benn decided to challenge Healey for the deputy leadership of the party, a contest Healey won narrowly – Foot struggled to make an impact and was widely criticised for it, though his performances in the Commons, most notably on the Falklands war of 1982, won him widespread respect from other parliamentarians, though he was criticised by some on the left who felt that he should not have supported the Thatcher government's immediate resort to military action.

The magnitude of Vega was measured again in 1981 at the David Dunlap Observatory and showed some slight variability.

For some, this wedding of politics and armed struggle culminated in Danny Morrison's statement at the 1981 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in which he asked " Who here really believes we can win the war through the Ballot box?

In 1981, he released a 45 rpm single, his first solo record (" I'm Not Your Steppin ' Stone " b / w " Higher And Higher ") and did some club performances and live television appearances, including taking part in a " Win A Date With Peter Tork " bit on Late Night with David Letterman.

In 1974, the Magnavox Company was acquired by Philips, and all Philips consumer electronics in the US under the Norelco name began rebranding them under the Magnavox name ; Philips acquired the similar-sounding company Philco in 1981, and Philips was able to freely use the Philips name, alternating with the Magnavox name for some electronics, with the personal care business continuing to use the Norelco name.

" The Nights have proved an inspiration to some modern Egyptian writers, such as Tawfiq al-Hakim ( author of the Symbolist play Shahrazad, 1934 ), Taha Hussein ( Scheherazade's Dreams, 1943 ) and Naguib Mahfouz ( Arabian Nights and Days, 1981 ).

The season proper ended in May, but cast members were asked to come back in May and June 1981 to film some additional scenes for the syndicated version of the show ( including re-writes or re-shoots of already-filmed sketches to filter out Ottawa-centric or Canada-centric content ).

Since 1981, some of those on the list have demonstrated their distance from P2 to the satisfaction of the Italian legal system.

A list of alleged adherents was found by the police in Gelli's house in Arezzo in March 1981, containing 962 names, among which were important state officials, some important politicians and a number of military officers, including the heads of the three Italian secret services.

Marjorie Kendig ( 1892 – 1981 ), probably Korzybski's closest co-worker, director of the Institute after his death, and editor of his posthumously published Collected Writings: 1920-1950, wrote in 1968: I would guess that I have known about 30 individuals who have in some degree adequately, by my standards, mastered this highly general, very simple, very difficult system of orientation and method of evaluating — reversing as it must all our cultural conditioning, neurological canalization, etc ....

In English criminal law, forgery is defined by the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 as " mak a false instrument, with the intention ... to induce somebody to accept it as genuine, and by reason of so accepting it to do or not to do some act to his own or any other person ’ s prejudice ".

" In chapter 1 of his book, Elvis ( 1981 ), the author describes Graceland as looking like a brothel: " it appears to have been lifted from some turn-of-the-century bordello down in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

In 1981, while singing in a local New York bar, Lauper met David Wolff, who took over as her manager ( and at some point became romantically involved with her ) and got her signed with Portrait Records, a subsidiary of Epic Records.

However, the channel did air Olivia Newton-John's 1981 video for the hit song " Physical ", which lavished camera time on male models working out in string bikinis who spurn her advances, ultimately pairing off to walk to the men's locker rooms holding hands, though the network ended the clip before the overt homosexual " reveal " ending in some airings.

While some claim " The Tune " was inspired by Bill Gaither and Gloria Gaither's 1969 song " God Gave the Song ", Norman claims in a 1981 article in Contemporary Christian Music magazine: " Bill Gaither's music first came to my attention in 1973 when a friend played me ' God Gave the Song '.

However, Word rejected Norman's wishes as they believed two separate albums would be more profitable, censored some of the songs, and delayed the album's release until 1981.

However, focusing exclusively on the failure of the meat target overlooks the important facts that in 1990 meat output was up some 30 % over that in 1981 ( 20 million vs. 15. 2 million tons ) and that 1990s per capita meat consumption ( 67 kg ) was up some 18 % over that of 1981.