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" Bob " Smith, a prominent oilman and real estate magnate in Houston who was brought in for his financial resources ; and Judge Roy Hofheinz, a former Mayor of Houston and Harris County Judge who was recruited for his salesmanship and political style.
Jordan's cool music, along with that of Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Billy Wright, and Wynonie Harris, is now also referred to as jump blues.
Also in 1948, Wynonie Harris ' remake of Roy Brown's 1947 recording " Good Rockin ' Tonight " hit the charts in the # 2 spot, following band leader Sonny Thompson's " Long Gone " at # 1.
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in musical composition ; in the ensuing years he has frequently cited Roy Harris as the most influential of his teachers.
Cantatas were also composed by Mark Alburger, Erik Bergman, Carlos Chávez, Osvald Chlubna, Peter Maxwell Davies, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhaness, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Libby Larsen, Peter Mennin, Dimitri Nicolau, Krzysztof Penderecki, Daniel Pinkham, Earl Robinson, Ned Rorem, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, Siegfried Strohbach, Michael Tippett, and Kurt Weill.
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Roy Ellsworth Harris ( February 12, 1898 October 1, 1979 ) was an American composer.
The Canadian Encyclopedia states, " Johana and Roy Harris were a tour de force in American music.
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Jump was especially popular in the late 1940s and early 1950s, through artists such as Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Roy Brown, Charles Brown, T-Bone Walker, Roy Milton, Billy Wright and Wynonie Harris.
During their golden age ( 70 ’ s ) the team was guided by coaches like: Roy Rubbins, Art Loche, Lou Rossini, Fufi Santori, Tom Nissalke and Del Harris.
* The Pantomime Book by Paul Harris and Roy Hudd ( Paperback-Aug 1996 )

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Abersychan was the birthplace of the politicians Roy Jenkins, Don Touhig and Paul Murphy ( MP for Torfaen ), and of the rugby footballers Wilfred Hodder, Candy Evans and Bryn Meredith.
In 1981, defectors from the moderate wing of the Labour Party, led by former Cabinet ministers Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Shirley Williams, founded the Social Democratic Party.
It was founded by four senior Labour Party ' moderates ', dubbed the ' Gang of Four ': Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.
The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.
The founding members or ' Gang of Four ' were Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, all leading figures within the Labour Party, and all ' moderates '.
In the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in March 1982, another candidate named Roy Jenkins was nominated by Labour Party activists to contest the seat in order to confuse voters and split his potential vote.
In April 1968 he was proposed for a Minister of State position by Roy Jenkins but nothing came of it.
Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.
The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II.
Roy Jenkins died in 2003, aged 82.
Born in Abersychan, Monmouthshire, in south-eastern Wales, as an only child, Roy Jenkins was the son of a National Union of Mineworkers official, Arthur Jenkins.
Roy Jenkins is often seen as responsible for the most wide-ranging social reforms of the late 1960s, with popular historian Andrew Marr claiming ' the greatest changes of the Labour years ' were thanks to Jenkins.
This led to some former admirers, including Roy Hattersley, choosing to distance themselves from Jenkins.
Roy Jenkins is fondly remembered by Private Eye as having a passion for claret and a distinct inability to pronounce his ' r's.
This was clearly shown in their obituary cartoon with the caption: Roy Jenkins, 1920 2003.
Referring to the same, one of the entries in Douglas Adams & John Lloyd's The Meaning of Liff reads " WATH ( n .): The rage of Roy Jenkins.
Cardiff University honours the memory of Roy Jenkins by naming one of their halls of residence ' Roy Jenkins Hall ' in his memory.
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