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Kaye and was
One example was recorded in 1948, by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, Sidney Lippman, and later Perry Como, called A, You're Adorable:
Danny Kaye ( born David Daniel Kaminsky ; 18 January 1913 – 3 March 1987 ) was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian.
The hotel Kaye and his colleagues stayed in suffered heavy damage ; a piece of the hotel's cornice was hurled into Kaye's room by the strong wind, nearly killing him.
To keep everyone calm, Kaye went on stage, his face lit by a flashlight, and sang every song he could recall as loudly as he was able.
After the dancer dropped one of her fans while trying to chase away a fly, Kaye was hired to be in charge of the fans so they were always held in front of her.
Kaye was the first American actor to visit postwar Tokyo ; it was his first time there after touring there some ten years before with the vaudeville troupe.
Kaye was sufficiently popular that he inspired imitations:
* Satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer's 1953 song " Lobachevsky " was based on a number that Kaye had done, about the Russian director Constantin Stanislavski, again with the affected Russian accent.
While his wife wrote Kaye's material, there was much of it that was unwritten, springing from the mind of Danny Kaye, often while he was performing.
Kaye also later stated that he never returned to the venue because there was no way to re-create the magic of that time.
When the invitation arrived, Kaye was busy at work on The Inspector General ( which had a working title of Happy Times for a while ).
When his Decca co-workers The Andrews Sisters began their engagement at the London Palladium directly on the heels of Kaye's incredibly successful 1948 appearance there, the trio was so well received that David Lewin of the Daily Express declared, " The audience gave The Andrews Sisters the Danny Kaye roar!
The year later he was the character Marmaduke in another Rankin / Bass movie titled The enchanted waorld of Danny Kaye: The Emporer's New Clothes.
Kaye was enamored of music.
" Kaye was often invited to conduct symphonies as charity fundraisers and was the conductor of the all-city marching band at the season opener of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1984.
The specialized stove Kaye used for his Chinese dishes was fitted with special metal rings for the burners to allow the heat from them to be highly concentrated.
His work as a chef earned him the " Les Meilleurs Ouvriers de France " cuilinary award ; Kaye was the only non-professional to achieve this honor.
When Kaye went for his first written pilot's exam, he brought a liverwurst sandwich in case he was there for hours.
The first plane Kaye owned was a Piper Aztec.
Danny Kaye was very fond of the legendary arranger Vic Schoen.

Kaye and asked
When Kaye asked to be released from his radio contract in mid-1946, he agreed not to accept another regular radio show for one year and also to limit his guest appearances on the radio programs of others.
When his daughter asked about the bread, Kaye tried showing her by hitting the bread on the kitchen table.
Jobson has reported on his own website that he was first asked to replace Kaye and then ( as relations were mended between Yes and Kaye ) to share the keyboard duties.
Then, Sherwood and Gowdy were asked to come and jam with Chris Squire, Alan White, and Tony Kaye of Yes.
In the last line, Kaye asked, " Do you think we'll really win the pennant?

Kaye and USO
Danny Kaye on USO tour at Sasebo, Japan, 25 October 1945.
From 1941 to 1947, the USO presented more than 400, 000 performances, featuring entertainers such as Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Hattie McDaniel, Eubie Blake, Ann Sheridan, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Larry Adler, Ossy Renardy, Zero Mostel, James Cagney, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Doraine and Ellis, Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, The Rockettes, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Curly Joe DeRita, The Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Brown, Joe E. Lewis, Ray Bolger, Lucille Ball, Glenn Miller, Martha Raye, Mickey Rooney, Betty Hutton, Dinah Shore, and most famously, Bob Hope.
She later became a singer and dancer with the USO and joined big band orchestras such as those of Sammy Kaye, Johnny Dee, and Larry Fontaine.

Kaye and tour
The Secret Life of Danny Kaye combined his 50, 000-mile, ten-country tour as UNICEF ambassador with music and humor.
Danny Kaye on a promotion tour for UNICEF in the Netherlands, 1955
Kaye and Rabin opted to leave Yes following the tour to pursue other projects.
She appeared in the Broadway run with Kevin Kline and Madeline Kahn, continued with the national tour starring Rock Hudson and Judy Kaye and returned for a later tour revival in the mid ' 80s with Kaye and Frank Gorshin.
* Kaye Barlow, tour guide at Longhorn Cavern State Park near Burnet
* Longhorn Cavern State Park near Burnet, with tour guide Kaye Barlow, a former teacher
After a rugby union tour through Europe, Kaye enrolled in graduate school at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he earned his master's degree in theater and theater history.
actor Gorden Kaye received severe head injuries when part of a billboard blew through the windscreen of the car he was driving, delaying both the 1990 tour of Australia ( in which he and the cast of the show were to perform ) and also the start of the show's 7th series.
The station ’ s news chief Paul Kaye would go ashore, take the call in Harwich and tape the conversation before heading back to the ship where the recording was edited and music inserted to make a 30 minute programme, sponsored by Bassett's Jelly Babies, allegedly The Beatles ' favourite sweets ; the shows went out each evening at 7. 30pm for 40 days of the tour.

Kaye and following
Kaye died of a heart attack in March 1987, following a bout of hepatitis.
The following chronological ordering was proposed by John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln in the 19th C .:
The addition of Rick Wakeman after the departure of Tony Kaye for the following album, Fragile, created the classic Yes sound of Anderson-Howe-Squire-Bruford-Wakeman associated with the peak of the band's early achievements.
Around 1971, the band renamed themselves The Sidewinders, and the following year recorded and released their only album, produced by Lenny Kaye and featuring songs written and sung by Paley .< ref >

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