Noted entertainers who performed for detained aliens and for U. S. and allied servicemen at the island included Rudy Vallee, Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope, and Lionel Hampton and orchestra.

This version of the film follows the same plot but pays more attention to popular jazz music and includes such jazz legends as Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Benny Carter playing themselves.

The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.

The Southern University Marching Band was also featured during the halftime show, playing " Get Ready ", and several New Orleans jazz standards with Hirt, and Lionel Hampton.

* Lionel Hampton

* April 20 – Lionel Hampton, African-American musician and bandleader ( d. 2002 )

** Lionel Hampton, American musician ( b. 1908 )

He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, NY, where he would be joined by other jazz giants such as Coleman Hawkins, Lionel Hampton, W. C. Handy, Milt Jackson, Max Roach, and Miles Davis, among others, all of whom owe a great debt to " Papa Joe ".

The DVD Lionel Hampton: Jazz Legend King of the Vibes chronicles the 73-year career of Lionel Hampton, the original jazz vibraphonist.

However, the popularity of the vibraphone as a jazz instrument can primarily be credited to one man, Lionel Hampton.

Deagan struck endorsement deals with many of the leading players, including Lionel Hampton and Milt Jackson.

Although some early vibes players made use of four mallets, notably Red Norvo and sometimes Lionel Hampton, the fully pianistic four-mallet approach is almost entirely the creation of Gary Burton.

* Transition ( Buddy Rich Lionel Hampton album ), 1974

* Lionel Hampton — U. S. jazz musician

Many bands featured strong instrumentalists, whose sounds dominated, such as the clarinets of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and Woody Herman, the trombone of Jack Teagarden, the trumpet of Harry James, the drums of Gene Krupa, and the vibes of Lionel Hampton.

For a few years after the war, Dizzy Gillespie and Lionel Hampton led Bebop-oriented big bands.

Lionel Leo Hampton ( April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002 ) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor.

Lionel Hampton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1908, and was raised by his grandmother.

Lionel Hampton began his career playing drums for the Chicago Defender Newsboys ' Band ( led by Major N. Clark Smith ) while still a teenager in Chicago.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Lionel Hampton, jazz vibraphone master, dies.

She sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton before turning to acting.

He also recorded a series of group recordings for Granz with, among others, Ben Webster, Jo Jones, Buddy DeFranco, Benny Carter, Harry Sweets Edison, Roy Eldridge and Lionel Hampton.

Aston Martin was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford.

Monk Montgomery was the first bass player to tour with the Fender bass guitar, with Lionel Hampton's postwar big band.

Ingram, older than the rest of the members of the band, left to serve active duty in Vietnam, and was later replaced by Walter " Clyde " Orange, the second lead singer who wrote or co-wrote many of their hit tunes before Lionel Richie came on board.

The use of personal names as rhymes continued into the late 20th century, for example " Tony Blairs " meaning " flares ", as in trousers with a wide bottom ( previously this was " Lionel Blairs " and this change illustrates the ongoing mutation of the forms of expression ) and " Britney Spears ", meaning " beers ".

Its cast included Eve Arden, Lionel Stander, and Big Band leader Harry James, and it was scripted by radio notable Goodman Ace and respected playwright-director Abe Burrows.

In 1932, Hayek suggested that private investment in the public markets was a better road to wealth and economic coordination in Britain than government spending programs, as argued in a letter he co-signed with Lionel Robbins and others in an exchange of letters with John Maynard Keynes in The Times.

Jacques Chirac was reelected in 2002, mainly because his socialist rival Lionel Jospin was defeated by the extreme right wing candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer ( May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994 ) was an American serial killer and sex offender.

Dahmer was born in West Allis, Wisconsin, the son of Joyce Annette ( née Flint ) and Lionel Herbert Dahmer, an analytical chemist.

Lionel Dahmer is an advocate for creationism, and his wife was a member of the board of the Medina County Ohio Horseman's Council.

At the suggestion of fellow artist Stanhope Forbes, Birch adopted the soubriquet " Lamorna " to distinguish himself from Lionel Birch, an artist who was also working in the area at that time.

During his college years, he was strongly encouraged by faculty member Lionel Pries.

The Deputy Prime Minister, Lionel Bowen, retired at the 1990 election, and Keating was appointed Deputy to Hawke.

p53 was identified in 1979 by Lionel Crawford, David P. Lane, Arnold Levine, and Lloyd Old, working at Imperial Cancer Research Fund ( UK ) Princeton University / UMDNJ ( Cancer Institute of New Jersey ), and Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital, respectively.

He was granted a state funeral on 14 September, which was attended by over 1, 000 mourners including Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Premier Neville Wran, Mervyn Wood, Justice Lionel Murphy and former NSW Labor Premier and former Governor-General Sir William McKell.

On February 7, 2012, Lionel Richie's single " Endless Love " featuring Shania Twain was released to digital retailers.

Lionel Aldridge had replaced Quinlan, but Jordan and Davis still anchored the defensive line, linebacker Ray Nitschke excelled at run stopping and pass coverage, while the secondary was led by defensive backs Herb Adderley and Willie Wood.

The system was refined in 1912 by Herbert Allen Giles, a British diplomat in China and his son, Lionel Giles, a curator at the British Museum.

In the second decade of the century, the influences of operetta and the English followers of Sullivan such as Lionel Monckton made themselves felt, in works such as Molinos de viento and El asombro de Damasco ( both by Pablo Luna ), before the Spanish tradition was reasserted in Vives's Doña Francisquita ( 1923 ).

Through her maternal grandfather, she was the great-great granddaughter of King Edward III of England through Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence.

After his closing speech at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley on 31 October 1925, one which was an ordeal for both him and his listeners, he began to see Lionel Logue, an Australian-born speech therapist.