Through the late 1940s and early 1950s, R & B music had been gaining a stronger beat and a wilder style, with artists such as Fats Domino and Johnny Otis speeding up the tempos and increasing the backbeat to great popularity on the juke joint circuit.

Johnny Otis released the R & B mambo " Mambo Boogie " in January 1951, featuring congas, maracas, claves, and mambo saxophone guajeos in a blues progression.

Listen: " Mambo Boogie " by Johnny Otis ( 1951 ).

" Mambo Boogie " by Johnny Otis ( 1951 ).

" Johnny Otis ' " Willie and the Hand Jive " ( 1958 ) is another example of this successful blend of 3-2 clave and R & B.

Watch: " Hand Jive " performed by Johnny Otis.

The Johnny Otis Show.

Turner has frequently been referred to as a ' great innovator ' of Rock and Roll by contemporaries such as Little Richard and Johnny Otis.

Some famous residents of Sebastopol include: The horticulturist Luther Burbank who established an Gold Ridge Environmental Farm in the township in the late 19th century ; Johnny Otis, Rhythm and Blues pioneer ; Willard Libby, inventor of carbon dating went to Analy High School ; the cartoonist Charles Schulz ; rapper Smoov-E ; actress Karen Valentine of the television show Room 222 ; actress Schuyler Grant of the 1985 adaptation of Anne of Green Gables ; and the musicians Les Claypool of Primus, singer / songwriters Nick Gravenites, and both Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead ; novelist Francine Rivers ; actor Peter Krause.

Harris ' band was assembled by Johnny Otis, and the group recorded the 78rpm record " Around the Clock ".

The El Monte Legion Stadium, outside the city limits, became the site of a series for rock and roll concerts by Johnny Otis and other performers.

( Johnny Otis along with Alan Freed and Dick Clark were the major powers in the growing rock and roll industry.

Mayall continued the experiment of formations without drummers on two more albums, although he took on a new electric blues-rock-R & B band in guitarist Harvey Mandel and bassist Larry Taylor, both plucked from Canned Heat, and wailing violinist Don " Sugarcane " Harris, lately of the Johnny Otis Show.

The pianist on the " Johnny B. Goode " session was Lafayette Leake, one of the two main session pianists for Chess ( the other being Otis Spann ).

In the late 1940s, the eldest children, including Willie, formed a gospel singing group, and Willie also performed in talent shows, which brought him to the notice of Johnny Otis and, later, musician and producer Henry Glover.

The 14-year-old girl met musician Johnny Otis.

Her death came three days after that of Johnny Otis, the man who discovered her in the 1950s.

In 1953, Ballard joined doo-wop group The Royals, which had previously been discovered by Johnny Otis and signed to Federal Records, ( a division of King Records ), in Cincinnati.

The Pips scored their first hit in 1961 with " Every Beat of My Heart ", a cover of a Hank Ballard & The Midnighters song written by Johnny Otis.

King, Freddie King, Albert Collins, Johnny " Guitar " Watson, Buddy Guy, Howlin ' Wolf, Otis Rush, Guitar Slim, Chuck Berry, and Muddy Waters.

These singer-songwriters included Bob Dylan, Jackie DeShannon, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Tom Rush, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, John Denver, Jackson Browne, John Prine, Grace Slick, Dave Mason, Jim Croce, Fred Neil, Roger McGuinn, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, David Crosby, Donovan, Stephen Stills, Randy Newman, Steve Goodman, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Brady, Jesse Winchester, Johnny Tillotson, Sylvia Tyson, Ian Tyson, Nick Drake, Tim Hardin, Laura Nyro, Carly Simon, John Fogerty, Eric Andersen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Armatrading, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Cat Stevens, Bruce Cockburn, Harry Chapin, James Taylor, Jerry Jeff Walker, Lou Reed, Gram Parsons, Nick Gravenites, Rick Nelson, Richard Fariña, Tuli Kupferberg Mark Spoelstra, Don Mclean, Patrick Sky, Jimmy Buffett, Mickey Newbury, Janis Ian, Dan Fogelberg, Dave Van Ronk, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, and Frank Zappa.

Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes ( December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012 ), better known as Johnny Otis, was an American singer, musician, composer, and record producer.

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Johnny Rebs from the deep South who were plagued with diarrhoea after transfer to the Virginia front often informed their families that they were suffering from the `` the Virginia quickstep ''.

Johnny Cash recorded it on his 1975 album Sings Precious Memories, dedicating it to his older brother Jack, who had been killed in a mill accident when they were boys in Dyess, Arkansas.

* Johnny Appleseed John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

*" When Johnny Comes Marching Home " ( sometimes " When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again ") is a popular song of the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war.

It was at the Opry that she first met Johnny Cash, who encouraged her to go where her heart took her and not to care what others thought.

MicMac Records, who as one of the pioneer record labels in freestyle brought artists such as Johnny O, Cynthia, Nyasia, Tiana, Soave and Clear Touch to the scene, relaunched in 2004 and released new freestyle music on the successful Then and Now CDs.

Performers include French harmonicist Nikki Gadout, Germans Steve Baker and the late Johnny Müller ( who played the title melody of the Winnetou-movies ) and German-Italian Willi Burger.

Most notable and vocal among them was Johnny Unitas, who recognized himself solely as a player for the Baltimore Colts until the day he died, with his estate defending that stand to this day.

The film, starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld, about a Tennessee sheriff who falls in love with a moonshiner's daughter, was set to songs by Johnny Cash.

* The judge who puts Johnny away for ninety-nine years in Bruce Springsteen's " Johnny 99 "

Johnny Lee Bench ( born December 7, 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) is a former professional baseball catcher who played in the Major Leagues for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983 and is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

In a September interview with Heidi Watney of the New England Sports Network, Johnny Bench, who was watching a Cleveland Indians / Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, did an impression of late Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray after Red Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis, a native of Cincinnati, made a tough play.

Other lesser known MCs and DJs included Johnny Rock, DJ Candido, DJ Muscle and DJ Shiz ( today known as B. Boy Omega ) who were all Puerto Ricans from The Bronx, while Mr. L of the TDR crew was half Puerto Rican and half Dominican.

Johnny J was a multi-platinum songwriter, music producer & rapper who was perhaps best known for his production on Tupac Shakur's albums All Eyez on Me and Me Against the World.

Charlie ( Harvey Keitel ) is a young Italian-American man who is trying to move up in the local New York Mafia but is hampered by his feeling of responsibility towards his reckless friend, Johnny Boy ( Robert De Niro ), a small-time gambler who owes money to many loan sharks.

He is also having a hidden affair with Johnny Boy's cousin, Teresa ( Amy Robinson ), who has epilepsy and is ostracized because of her condition — especially by Charlie's uncle.

Michael lunges at Johnny who retaliates by pulling a gun on him.

Scorsese himself plays the gunman who shoots at Charlie and Johnny Boy from Michael's car.

For example, the Marauders chapter in The Book of Madness is narrated by a Corax named Johnny Gore, who relates his experiences running with the Butcher Street Regulars.

Others who worked on production with Nirvana include Muff Winwood ( formerly of the Spencer Davis Group ; arranger / producer Mike Hurst who worked with Jimmy Page, Cat Stevens, Manfred Mann, Spencer Davis Group and Colin Blunstone ; arranger Johnny Scott who arranged for the Hollies and subsequently scored films such as The Shooting Party and Greystoke.