Chic's was formed by Nile Rodgers a self described " street hippie " from late 1960s New York and Martin Dow DJ at from Key West, Florida who pioneered the NYC sound across that state.

According to The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story by Stanley Green, " For three minutes, on the night of September first, the entire Times Square area in New York City was blacked out in honor of the man who had done so much to light up that particular part of the world.

Other artists who have claimed Roxy Music as an influence include Steve Jones and Paul Cook of The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cars, Grace Jones, Kate Bush, Adam Ant, The Human League, Japan, Duran Duran, Simple Minds, ABC, Spandau Ballet, The Fixx, Depeche Mode, Men Without Hats, Nile Rodgers, Annie Lennox, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon.

It was at the opening of South Pacific, the musical Hammerstein wrote with Richard Rodgers, that Sondheim met Harold Prince, who would later direct many of Sondheim's shows.

The Foo Fighters paid homage to the band in performing " Tie Your Mother Down " to open the ceremony before being joined on stage by May, Taylor, and Paul Rodgers, who played a selection of Queen hits.

Born into a prosperous ethnic German Jewish family in Arverne, Queens, New York City, Rodgers was the son of Mamie ( Levy ) and Dr. William Abrahams Rodgers, a prominent physician who had changed the family name from Abrahams.

The hardworking Rodgers later regretted these relatively fallow years, but he and Hart did write a number of classic songs and film scores while out west, including Love Me Tonight ( 1932 ) ( directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who would later direct Rodgers ' Oklahoma!

Featuring songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, it was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who, with the help of the songwriters, was able to put his ideas of the integrated musical ( a musical which blends songs and dialogue so the songs advance the plot ).

The twisting plot takes Hammer to the apartment of Lily Carver ( Gaby Rodgers ), a sexy, waif-like blond who is posing as Christina's ex-roommate.

Originally known as " Rodgersville ", it took its name from Andrew and Patience Rodgers of South Carolina who moved into the area and purchased at a public land sale in Huntsville on May 3, 1818.

The third season saw several new people who only stayed on for that season, Teresa Graves, Jeremy Lloyd, Pamela Rodgers, and Stu Gilliam.

Colonel John Rodgers ( 1728 – 1791 ), who operated the ferry and tavern in Perryville, raised the 5th Company of the Maryland Militia.

In 1943, American Decca ushered in the age of the original cast album in the United States, when they released an album set of nearly all the songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma !, performed by the same cast who appeared in the show on Broadway, and using the show's orchestra, conductor, chorus, and musical and vocal arrangements.

However, Sherman had trouble in getting permission to record for profit from some of the well-known composers and lyricists, who did not tolerate parodies or satires of their melodies and lyrics, including Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, and Frederick Loewe, as well as the estates of Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Kurt Weill, and Bertolt Brecht, which prevented him from releasing parodies or satires of their songs.

Lester, who had returned to Louisville and opened a nightclub, formed yet another Moonglows in 1970, with a Louisville-based group called the Aristocrats, including his cousin Gary Rodgers, Albert Workman, Robert Ford and Clyde McPhatter's son Billy.

* South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, directed by Trevor Nunn, with Philip Quast who won the 2002 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical ( 2001 )

Fearnley was so impressed that he ran across the street to fetch Richard Rodgers, who was rehearsing with an orchestra for an upcoming musical.

Rodgers approached the DJ who said he was playing a record he had just bought that day in Harlem.

Following the establishment of the SDP by the ' Gang of Four ' ( Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams ), who had left the Labour Party in March 1981, the new party entered into an informal alliance with the existing centre party, the Liberals, led by David Steel.

The Mad Dogs hired Pepper Rodgers as their head coach, who was familiar to Memphis pro football fans as he was the head coach of one of the city's previous pro football teams, the Memphis Showboats of the USFL ( the Mad Dogs had also hired Steve Erhart, the Showboats ' general manager, in the same capacity ).

Then Nicklaus ' short game, never a career strength, was further developed with the help of Phil Rodgers, a friend for more than 20 years, and earlier PGA Tour rival, who had become a fine coach.

Lani McIntyre was another musician who infused a Hawaiian guitar sound into mainstream American popular music through his recordings with Jimmie Rodgers and Bing Crosby.

The song " You'll Never Walk Alone ", originally from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel and later recorded by Liverpool musicians Gerry & The Pacemakers, is the club's anthem and has been sung by the Anfield crowd since the early 1960s.

( This has often been the case with American popular song and musicals in the 20th century, as with Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's collaboration, although with the later team of Rodgers and Hammerstein the lyrics were generally written first.

Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and Rodgers's later collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II all attended Columbia University.

* Review and analysis of Rodgers ' later plays

" Rodgers ' children's books include A Billion for Boris ( 1974, later republished under the title ESP TV ), Summer Switch ( 1982 ), and The Rotten Book ( 1985 ), and she contributed songs to the landmark children's album Free to Be ... You and Me.

Merman accepted, but in November Kern suffered a stroke while in New York City visiting Rodgers and Hammerstein ( the producers of the show ) and died a few days later.

" Two of the kids were twins named Simon and Gar Farkel ( played by cast members of different races ; originally Goldie Hawn and Chelsea Brown, later Pamela Rodgers and Teresa Graves ).

Bristol is probably best known for being the site of some of the first commercial recordings of country music, showcasing Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, and later a favorite venue of the mountain musician Uncle Charlie Osborne.

The team made its TV debut on the very first broadcast of CBS-TV network's Toast of the Town ( later called The Ed Sullivan Show ) with Ed Sullivan and Rodgers & Hammerstein appearing on this same inaugural telecast of June 20, 1948.

These included Roy Hattersley, Shirley Williams, Bill Rodgers and David Owen all of whom he was later to sit with in the Callaghan cabinet.

Fox also produced Broadway musicals, including the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, beginning with the musical version of State Fair in 1945, and continuing years later with Carousel in 1956, The King and I, and The Sound of Music.

She later starred in Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey on Broadway.

It would later be adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Oklahoma !.

#* This was later re-recorded for the Paul Rodgers 1982 solo studio album Cut Loose.

A few weeks later Rodgers was on the dance floor of New York club LaViticus and heard the DJ play a song which opened with Bernard Edwards ' bass line from Chic's " Good Times ".

Rodgers admitted that he was originally upset with the song, but would later declare it to be " one of favorite songs of all time " and his favorite of all the tracks that sampled Chic.

Many years later, when he and Oscar Hammerstein II appeared as mystery guests on What's My Line ?, Rodgers recalled Allen's act, sitting on the edge of the stage, his legs dangling down, playing a banjo while telling jokes.

Paul Rodgers played bass ( he later moved onto vocals ) in local band The Roadrunners, which just before leaving Middlesbrough for the London music scene changed its name to The Wildflowers.

The adaptation became the first Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration, entitled Oklahoma !, which opened on Broadway in 1943.

By the 20th century some librettists became recognized as part of famous collaborations, as with Gilbert and Sullivan or Rodgers and Hammerstein.

In 1926, he played the role of the criminal Ficsur in the original London production of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom ( The play was musicalized in 1945 by Rodgers and Hammerstein as Carousel, where Ficsur became Jigger Craigin, but Laughton never appeared in the musical version ).

In the 1969 / 1970 season, the chore was handled briefly by new cast members Teresa Graves and Pamela Rodgers, before the go-go dancing became the domain of uncredited extras.

While there he became a First Team Consensus All-American selection in 1958 ( Elgin Baylor, Bob Boozer, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Guy Rodgers and Don Hennon comprised the first team selections ) and a Second Team Consensus All-American in 1959, while being named to the United Press International and Helms Foundation first teams that season.

The biggest boost to the studio's fortunes came from the tremendous success of The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), an expensive and handsomely produced adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, which became one of the all-time greatest box office hits.

The title song, " With a Song in My Heart ", ( Rodgers and Hart, 1929 ) became famous in the UK as the theme to the long-running BBC radio show, Family Favourites.

Steve's younger sister, Jasmine Rodgers, was invited to sing the chorus part of one of their first songs called " Fran ", and she soon became the lead singer of the group.

By the early 1940s, Hart had sunk deeper into alcoholism and emotional turmoil, and he became unreliable, prompting Rodgers to approach Hammerstein to ask if he would consider working with him.

Following the temporary disbanding of Chic in 1983, Chic's former guitarist and bassist, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards became prolific producers, and Thompson's drumming was much in demand among their clients.

Rodgers became a Canadian citizen on 21 October 2011.

Ralphs ' composition " Can't Get Enough ", which Hunter was unable to record because of the vocal register in which it was written, became an immediate hit and pushed the group's 1974 debut album to number one in the U. S. Ralphs continued to record and tour with Bad Company until they folded in 1982, when Rodgers announced he was leaving the band.

Cerf attended Townsend Harris High School, the same public school as composer Richard Rodgers, publisher Richard Simon, and playwright Howard Dietz ; and he spent his teenage years at 790 Riverside Drive, an apartment building in Washington Heights that was home to two other friends who became prominent as adults, Howard Dietz and the Hearst newspapers financial editor Merryle Rukeyser.

Pal Joey is a 1940 epistolary novel by John O ' Hara, which became the basis of the 1940 stage musical comedy and 1957 motion picture of the same name, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart.

During the Wilkes Expedition, American explorer Charles Wilkes renamed the island Rodgers Island ; the Spanish name remained on British nautical charts and over time became the island's official name.

Originally controlled by officers of Tektronix and the founding engineers, in September 1977, Rodgers became part of CBS Musical Instruments along with Steinway & Sons pianos, Fender guitars, Rhodes electric pianos, Gemeinhardt flutes, and a number of other instrument brand names.

Green Grow the Lilacs became the basis of the libretto for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma !.

Like her mother, she became a chorus girl but then went on to star in a major role in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Pipe Dream.

Following in his footsteps, Rodgers ' son and several grandsons and great-grandsons also became Commodores and Admirals in the United States Navy.

His son, John Rodgers Jr., was born in Maryland in 1812, and entered the U. S. Navy as a Midshipman serving aboard the Constellation and the Concord in the Mediterranean and later became a rear Admiral during the Civil War.

Rodgers also had several grandsons and great-grandsons who all became officers in the U. S. Navy.

* Deborah Madison, who worked with Judy Rodgers at lunchtime, later opened Greens Restaurant and became a cookbook star.

When Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore left RCA Records for Morris Levy's company, Roulette Records, they became aware of Rodgers ' talent and signed him up.

Rodgers sold millions of records in the 1930s During this period, hillbilly music became big business, and musicians began endorsing products as well as adding new instruments, like fiddles, banjos, mandolins and Hawaiian steel guitar.