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.

* 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.

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.

In the United States, interest in, and appreciation for, Forster was spurred by Lionel Trilling's E. M. Forster: A Study, which began:

Crawford was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, one of the eleven children of Lionel and Phyllis Crawford, and began pursuing athletics at the age of 17.

Although R. K. Greville published his Algae Britannicae as early as 1830, it was not until 1902 with the publication of A Catalogue of the British Marine Algae by Edward Arthur Lionel Batters that the systematic correlation of records, extensive distribution mapping and the development of identification keys began in earnest.

For instance, in 1997, Lionel Jospin's government began using the feminine noun " la ministre " to refer to a female minister, following the official practice of Canada, Belgium and Switzerland and a common, though until then unofficial, practice in France.

Montoliu began playing professionally at pubs in Barcelona, where he was noticed by Lionel Hampton on 13 March 1956.

In 1986, while still married to Harvey, Lionel began a relationship with Diane Alexander.

The style began with Illinois Jacquet's lively solo on Lionel Hampton's smash 1942 hit " Flying Home.

This combined with increased literacy and print to allow the creation of new songs that initially built on, but began to differ from traditional music as composers like Lionel Monckton and Sidney Jones created music that reflected new social circumstances.

Although it was still defended and promoted up until the beginning of the 20th century, the French-Canadian liberal nationalism born out of the American and French revolutions began to decline in the 1840s, gradually being replaced by both a more moderate liberal nationalism and the ultramontanism of the powerful Catholic clergy as epitomized by Lionel Groulx.

In the 1950s HO began to challenge the market dominance of 0 gauge and, in the 1960s, as it began to overtake 0 scale in popularity, even the stalwarts of other sizes, including Gilbert ( makers of American Flyer ) and Lionel Corporation began manufacturing HO trains.

In 1925, American Flyer began offering Wide gauge electric trains at a premium price, attempting to compete with Lionel Corporation at the high end of the market.

In late 2006, Lionel began delivering an updated remake of its largest steam locomotive, the famous 4-8-4 Northern, as well as a gray Union Pacific Northern with smoke deflectors ( elephant ears ); both new versions have digital sounds.

In the 1970s, Williams Electric Trains began producing and marketing reproductions of Lionel trains of the 1920s and 1930s.

By 1985, K-Line was producing O27 locomotives, cars, and figures from former Marx and Kusan tooling, and, with minor changes, began marketing them under the K-Line brand, competing with Lionel at the low end of the market.

Lionel began selling them for high dollars in 2010, before its license for K-Line products expired.

Born in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, Morris began his career as a jazz trumpeter, working and recording with Earl Bostic, Milt Buckner, Arnett Cobb, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Griffin, Buddy Rich, Dinah Washington, Big Joe Turner, and Lionel Hampton.

In 1906, Lionel began offering a three-rail track that simplified wiring of reverse loops and accessories.

Lionel began making a variety of scientifically oriented, hands-on educational toys, designated " Lionel-Porter.

She could not bring herself to do so until she met rich bachelor Lionel ( Rip Torn ), but just as their affair began, Stan was released from jail.

Lionel also began to invest in railways as his uncle James had been doing in France.

Current France internationals Imanol Harinordoquy, Damien Traille, and Lionel Beauxis all began their professional club careers with Section Paloise.