The truth is, however, that when Mel Chandler first reported to the regiment the only steed he had ever ridden was a swivel chair and the only weapon he had ever wielded was a pencil.

But still Mel Chandler was not completely convinced that men would really die for a four-syllable word, `` Garryowen ''.

So filled was Mel Chandler with the spirit of Garryowen that after Korea was over, he took on the job of writing the complete history of the regiment.

However, the team was wracked with dissension, with some players ( including Feller and Mel Harder ) going so far as to request that Bradley fire manager Ossie Vitt.

The early disco sound was largely an urban American phenomenon with producers and labels such as SalSoul Records ( Ken, Joe and Stanley Cayre ), West End Records ( Mel Cheren ), Casablanca ( Neil Bogart ), and Prelude ( Marvin Schlachter ) to name a few.

" Shearer said in an interview that one person who " took him under his wing " and was one of his best friends during his early days in show business was voice actor Mel Blanc, who voiced many animated characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Barney Rubble.

Del Rio was succeeded by defensive coordinator Mel Tucker on an interim basis.

On January 13, it was announced that interim head coach Mel Tucker would remain on the staff as defensive coordinator / assistant head coach and that former Falcons quarterbacks coach Bob Bratkowski would become offensive coordinator.

Returning to the stage in 2003, Alexander was cast in a successful run, opposite Martin Short, in the Los Angeles production of Mel Brooks ' The Producers.

The Captain was voiced by Billy Bletcher, and John Silver was voiced by Mel Blanc.

On 30 April 2004, Life of Brian was re-released on five North American screens to " cash in " ( as Terry Jones put it ) on the box office success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

Tim Mara and Mel Hein were a part of the original class of inductees in 1963, while linebacker Harry Carson, the most recent Giant inducted, was a part of the Class of 2006.

Old school rap ( 1979 – 1984 ) was " easily identified by its relatively simple raps " according to Allmusic, " the emphasis was not on lyrical technique, but simply on good times ", one notable exception being Melle Mel, who set the way for future rappers through his socio-political content and creative wordplay.

Old school rappers like Afrika Bambaataa and Melle Mel of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tended to dress in the flashy attire that was commonly attributed to rock and disco acts of the era: tight leather, chest-baring shirts, gloves and hats with rhinestones and spikes, leather boots, etc.

According to Dusted Magazine, Sakamoto's use of squelching bounce sounds and mechanical beats was later incorporated in early electro and hip hop music productions such as “ Message II ( Survival )” ( 1982 ) by Melle Mel and Duke Bootee, “ Magic ’ s Wand ” ( 1982 ) by Whodini and Thomas Dolby, Twilight 22 ’ s “ Electric Kingdom ” ( 1983 ), and Kurt Mantronik's Mantronix: The Album ( 1985 ).

The ball bounced off Hinton's hands, was tipped by Dallas defensive back Mel Renfro, and finally ended up in the arms of tight end John Mackey, who took the ball 75 yards for a touchdown, tying the score 6 – 6 after Jim O ' Brien's extra point attempt was blocked.

The Cowboys secondary was led by 2 future hall of fame cornerbacks Herb Adderley ( 6 interceptions for 182 return yards ) and Mel Renfro ( 4 interceptions for 11 yards ).

( That particular play, which was called late in the first quarter, was broken up by Mel Renfro.

After Canadian filmmaker Brigitte Berman interviewed Shaw, Hoagy Carmichael, Doc Cheatham and others for her documentary film Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet ( 1981 ) about Bix Beiderbecke, she went on to create an Academy Award-winning documentary, Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got ( 1985 ), featuring her interviews with Shaw, Buddy Rich, Mel Tormé, Helen Forrest and others.

Tomei appeared in the 2000 film What Women Want with Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt, which was a commercial success, and had a supporting role in the romantic comedy Someone Like You with Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd.

The ensemble also featured on a Triple J CD entitled Like a Version, featuring cover versions of songs performed by artists on Mel Bampton's show, Mel In The Morning.

Like Red Barber and Mel Allen in the 1940s, Scully retained his credentials in football even as his baseball career blossomed.

Like his fellow sports pioneer Mel Allen, Barber also gained a niche calling college and professional football in his primary market of New York City.

In Bend It Like Beckham ( 2002 ) she played Mel.

" Roger Ebert wrote that " Like Mel Brooks ' " The Producers ," it's about fringe players who strike out boldly for the big time.

On the 18 March 1983 episode of SCTV in the Mel's Rock Pile segment, Mel Slirrup ( Eugene Levy ) has a tribute to punk rock featuring a number by the band The Queenhaters — Martin Short ( lead singer ), Andrea Martin ( lead guitarist / back-up vocals ), Eugene Levy ( secondary guitarist ), Joe Flaherty ( bass ), and John Candy ( drummer )— performing " I Hate The Bloody Queen ", a sound-alike song that almost matches the original it is spoofing, with references to the Falklands War (" I'd like to drown the Queen / Off the coast of Argentine / Throw her off a battleship / With her Falkland war machine!

During post-production of the episode the error was discovered and a taped segment, in which Tomarken got a " phone call " from Looney Tunes voice actor Mel Blanc ( in the voice of Sylvester ), explained the mistake and that all three contestants would be invited back on future episodes.

In a scene in the segment, several celebrities, including actor Mel Gibson and former Major League Baseball player Mark McGwire, can be seen waiting in line for the first rocket.

Paul, Minnesota ; Mel Jass hosted Dialing for Dollars as a segment incorporated into his Mel's Matinee Movie program in the early 1970s.

The hearing range is segmented into 24 critical bands, each with a width of 1 Bark or 100 Mel.

As his reputation grew, he soon began working with bands led by Art Blakey, Tadd Dameron in 1969, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, and Max Roach, contributing both original compositions and arrangements.

Mel Lewis, co-leader, produced a drum style with the band that was unique for big bands.

In order to open up new opportunities for further developments, Coleman moved to New York in 1978 where he got, among other things, the experience of playing in big bands ( in Thad Jones / Mel Lewis big band, Slide Hampton's big band, Sam Rivers ’ Studio Rivbea Orchestra, briefly in Cecil Taylor's big band, and in several other big bands ).

Spacey earned a fan base following after playing the criminally insane arms dealer Mel Profitt on the television series Wiseguy.

The climax of Weir's early career was the $ 6 million multi-national production The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1983 ), again starring Mel Gibson, playing opposite top Hollywood female lead Sigourney Weaver in a story about journalistic loyalty, idealism, love and ambition in the turmoil of Sukarno's Indonesia of 1965.

The Flyers began the 1979 – 80 season with a somewhat controversial move by naming Clarke a playing assistant coach and giving the captaincy to Mel Bridgman.

Basie made a few more movie appearances, such as the Jerry Lewis film Cinderfella ( 1960 ) and the Mel Brooks movie Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), playing his arrangement of " April in Paris ".

In the closing credits of " The First and Last Supper " episode, Mel Stewart is incorrectly credited as playing George Jefferson.

Marceau also showed his versatility in motion pictures such as First Class, in which he played 17 roles, Shanks, where he combined his silent art, playing a deaf and mute puppeteer, and his speaking talent, as a mad scientist ; as Professor Ping in Barbarella, and a cameo as himself in Mel Brooks ' Silent Movie, in which, with purposeful irony, his character has the only audible speaking part, uttering the single word " No!

Also in 1979 Willcox appeared as Tallulah in Stephen Poliakoff's American Days at the ICA, playing alongside Mel Smith, Antony Sher and Phil Daniels and, the same year, opposite Katharine Hepburn in the made-for-television movie The Corn is Green, directed by George Cukor.

The sounds used for it used to be pre-recorded, but when a technical fault prevented the recording from playing, voice actor Mel Blanc improvised the sounds himself in a performance received well enough for him to continue the role permanently.

With these new additions playing superbly and aided by tremendous seasons of veterans Dick Thornton, Peter Martin, Dick Aldridge, Mel Profit, and Marv Luster among others, the Argos rolled to a record of 10-4 and a first place finish in the East.

* 1944 also saw animated gremlins playing a role in the romantic comedy starring Simone Simon called Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More, with an uncredited Mel Blanc providing the voice.

While playing in an Okeechobee, Florida, honky-tonk known as the Wagon Wheel, Stewart met country singer Mel Tillis, who advised Stewart to travel to Nashville to pitch his songs.

Charles would play football as a child, with younger brother Mel Charles who also went on to become a professional, later playing alongside each other for the Welsh national team.

They were also the musicians playing behind DJ Grandmaster Flash's 1982 hit " The Message " ( the vocal was by Melle Mel ) and another hit " White Lines ".

Speaking with Allen in the team's dugout, Gehrig told him " Mel, I never got a chance to listen to your games before, because I was playing every day.

* Braveheart featuring Triple H playing the role of Mel Gibson, with Ric Flair making a cameo appearance.

In 1987 Mel Powell joined other music greats for a jazz festival on the cruise ship SS Norway playing alongside Benny Carter, Howard Alden, Milt Hinton, and Louie Bellson and others.

His last cinematic movie role was alongside Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner in the 1994 film Maverick, playing a cheating cardplayer who jumps off a riverboat to keep his dignity.

Contemporaries from the alternative comedy scene who also appeared included Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Helen Lederer, Gareth Hale, Norman Pace, Arthur Smith ( the first milkman to be murdered ), Mel Smith playing the fictional head of light entertainment at the BBC ' Jumbo Whiffy ', Chris Barrie, Lee Cornes, Andy de la Tour, John Bird and Harry Enfield.

He followed this role by appearing in William Gibson's A Cry of Players, playing a young, highly fictionalized William Shakespeare, opposite Anne Bancroft at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1968, and won film fame in two 1970 films: Mel Brooks ' The Twelve Chairs and Frank Perry's Diary of a Mad Housewife, being nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for the latter.

Interestingly enough, Gray chose not to conduct the band in the early years, playing in the saxophone section while violinist Mel Jenssen acted as conductor.

Mel also was a significant threat on special teams, performing punt and kickoff return duties in addition to playing on defense, leading the league in punt and kickoff return yardage in 1964.

He made his film debut in 2000's The Patriot, playing William Martin, one of the children of Mel Gibson's character.

The same year, he appeared in another Mel Gibson film, What Women Want, playing Gibson's character as a child.

Three years later he played in the Mel Lewis Orchestra, playing the music of Thad Jones, and also the Dannie Richmond Quartet, focusing on Charles Mingus's music.