She also provided a prominent, but uncredited, vocal on John Denver's " Fly Away " single which was succeeded by her own single, " Let It Shine "/" He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother ," at No. 1 on the AC chart.

She first appears in the season 4 finale, " Learning To Fly " when Eric is trying to convince her for a second opportunity at a college entrance interview.

* Fyfe Dangerfield-" Faster Than the Setting Sun " and " She Needs Me ", Fly Yellow Moon ( 2010 )

She has an online autobiography entitled Fly by Night, and writes for the religion section of the San Francisco Examiner on subjects related to Pagan religions.

She has also made many cameo appearances, including the music video for Missy Elliott's " The Rain ( Supa Dupa Fly )".

She appeared alongside husband Cassavetes on an episode (" Fly Baby, Fly ") of the 1959 – 60 NBC detective series Johnny Staccato.

She sang on the soundtrack for The Flying Nun in 1967, and she even sang The Flying Nun theme song " Who Needs Wings to Fly ".

She has also done performance art utilizing insects ( Madagascar hissing cockroaches, bees ) crawling across her body ( references to the Yoko Ono film Fly ).

She also contributed vocals to the " Weird Al " Yankovic song " Pretty Fly for a Rabbi ", alongside Tress MacNeille.

She appeared in Ben Bagley's revue The Littlest Revue ( and on its cast album ) in 1956, appearing alongside Joel Grey and Tammy Grimes, among others, and singing songs by Sheldon Harnick (" The Shape of Things "), Vernon Duke (" Summer is a-Comin ' In "), and Charles Strouse & Lee Adams (" Spring Doth Let Her Colours Fly "), a parody of opera singer Helen Traubel's Las Vegas night club act ), among others.

She was also a lead in the 1987 film Spaceballs, the 1988 film Last Rites, the 1989 films Gross Anatomy ( with Matthew Modine ), and The Fly II ( with Eric Stoltz ) and Staying Together ( with Sean Astin ).

She gained additional recognition for work with composer Yoko Kanno on songs for her solo album Song to Fly, and her Cowboy Bebop soundtracks.

She was the choreographer for the dancing group the Fly Girls who were featured on the Fox television comedy program In Living Color.

The Radio Times noted in its preview of the episode that " Tonight's story is an enjoyable synthesis of She, The Fly and The Quatermass Experiment — even down to the final battle in a London cathedral.

She followed this up with No Place That Far ( 1998 ), Born to Fly ( 2000 ), Restless ( 2003 ) and Real Fine Place ( 2005 ).

She received further recognition for her performances in the films Light Sleeper ( 1992 ), Tombstone ( 1993 ), Exit to Eden ( 1994 ), The Margaret Sanger Story ( 1995 ), Fly Away Home ( 1996 ), True Women ( 1997 ) and Wide Awake ( 1998 ).

) She is a devoted homemaker, wife and mother, and an excellent cook, but she has other talents as well: ten years prior to the events in the series, she won the village's airplane race, and proceeded to win a second time in the episode " Mommy Can Fly " ( despite not being an official entrant in the race and only taking the cockpit in order to rescue other contestants who were stranded following a crash ).

She also composed two songs in her Magic Cyndi and Fly!

* She has also written two children's books, I Don't Want to Sleep Tonight ( Golden Books, 1999 ) and I Can Fly ( Golden Books, 2001 ).

She also recorded a cover track entitled " One Day I'll Fly Away " but this was never released.

She is best known for co-writing with Carol Connors the lyrics for two Academy Award and Grammy nominated songs, " Gonna Fly Now " from Rocky ( 1976 ; music by Bill Conti ) and " Someone's Waiting for You " from The Rescuers ( 1977 ; music by Sammy Fain ).

She first became publicly known when she appeared in the children's BBC television programme Grange Hill in 1987 as Fiona Wilson, who was most notably part of a rap duo named Fresh ' n ' Fly.

**" From the Underworld " / " On My Way Home " / " I Can Fly " / " Goodbye Groovy " / " Mixed Up Minds "/ " Impressions of Oliver " / " Paradise Lost " / " Sad " / " Something Strange " / " On Your Own " / " She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not " / " Fare Thee Well "

She remembers that her father was such a fan of Bessie Smith, " he once rode 50 miles on horseback just to see her perform live.

" ( Wills is quoted as saying, " I rode horeseback from the place between the rivers to Childress to see Bessie Smith ... She was about the greatest thing I had ever heard.

She was returned to Britain when she was three to live with an aunt, a professional governess Bessie Nicholson, in Wimbledon, London, after her pregnant mother, Florence, committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree.

She, along with Bessie Duggena and Leona Poduška, taught Czech School ( Česká škola ) at Wilson Middle School.

She was given the piano part in her husband's big band radio performance series called Hot Five and then his next series called the Hot Seven It was not until the 1930s and 1940s that many women jazz singers, such as Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday were recognized as successful artists in the music world.

She became a member of the Langham Place Group, which set out to improve conditions for women, and was friends with feminists Bessie Rayner Parkes ( later Bessie Rayner Belloc ) and Barbara Leigh Smith, later Barbara Bodichon.

She died in 1922, and ten years later, on 29 August 1932, he married Elizabeth ( Bessie ) Marren, a strong-willed, intelligent and well-read Irishwoman who was social editor of the Catholic weekly newspaper, the Tribune.

She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson.

She was born at the family estate of Maer Hall, Maer, Staffordshire, the youngest of seven children of Josiah Wedgwood II and his wife Elizabeth " Bessie ".

She published fiction in Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and non-fiction in the New York Times Magazine and in American Heritage, including lengthy articles on Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, Irving Berlin and Mae West.

She established regular medical missions to benefit breast cancer patients through the Bessie Legarda Memorial Foundation, which was named for her own mother.

Maria Jeanette Tecson, Zoilo Velez ( promoted to Court of Appeals Justice ) and Victorino Fornier filed the disqualification case against Fernando Poe, Jr. She claimed Poe was born out of wedlock and that while Poe's birth certificate was dated 1939, his parents Allan Poe and American mother Bessie Kelly did not marry until 1940.

She later graduated to the Monty Sunshine jazz band, where she covered Bessie Smith (" Young Woman's Blues ", " Gimme a Pigfoot ( And a Bottle of Beer )") and long-term favourite " Coney Island Washboard Blues ", which demonstrated her washboard technique.

According to The Independent, " She was not the only significant Labour woman MP at that time – Edith Summerskill, the scourge of the boxing fraternity, Bessie Braddock, that larger-than-life Liverpudlian, such compassionate personalities as Peggy Herbison and Alice Bacon – but no one else quite spelt out the grievances of her people with Red Ellen's power and charisma.

She was prominently involved in the establishment and running of the Conservation Council of Western Australia, and was awarded the Bessie Rischbieth Conservation Award in 2003.

She is actively developing a feature film, on “ Bessie Coleman ,” for which she recorded the very last witness of the first African American aviatrix journey in France and, “ Filet Mignon ” an action comedy set in Los Angeles and Paris.

She was survived by her mother, Bessie Clayton, and her sisters, Penn Brumm and Pamela Larsen.

She should not be confused ( although often is in both biographies and discographies ) with her namesake, Bessie Brown, who recorded vaudeville and blues styled duets with George W. Williams, over a similar timespan.