A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

He later used slide extensively during his solo career on songs such as " My Sweet Lord ", " Cheer Down " and the Traveling Wilburys ' " Handle With Care ", as well as on The Beatles ' 1995 reunion single " Free as a Bird ".

* 1976: Lani Hall ( wife of Herb Alpert ) on her album Sweet Bird

Among the other Broadway plays he directed were " Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ", " Sweet Bird of Youth ", " The Dark at the Top of the Stairs " and " Tea and Sympathy ", This led some, such as theater critic Eric Bentley, to write that " the work of Elia Kazan means more to the American theater than that of any current writer.

* 1960: Best Direction of a Play — Sweet Bird of Youth

Between 1948 and 1959 seven of his plays were performed on Broadway: Summer and Smoke ( 1948 ), The Rose Tattoo ( 1951 ), Camino Real ( 1953 ), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 ), Orpheus Descending ( 1957 ), Garden District ( 1958 ), and Sweet Bird of Youth ( 1959 ).

Other works by Williams include Camino Real and Sweet Bird of Youth.

* Sweet Bird of Youth ( 1959 )

** Sweet Bird of Youth

In 1959, he was in the original Broadway production of Sweet Bird of Youth with Geraldine Page and three years later starred with Page in the film version.

In 1978, the narcissistic, manipulative actress Madeline Ashton ( Meryl Streep ) performs in " Songbird "— an ill-conceived musical version of Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams — on Broadway.

Fueled by a key early performance of the Allmans ' " Whipping Post " and later performing Skynyrd's " Free Bird " and, with Skynyrd on stage with him, " Sweet Home Alabama ", Bice demonstrated that Southern rock still had a place in the American music pantheon.

* Sweet Bird of Youth, starring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn

She continued her stage career in the Greek production of Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth ( 1960 ), under the direction of Karolos Koun.

Melina Mercouri concentrated on her stage career for the following years, playing in the Greek productions of The Threepenny Opera and, for a second time, Sweet Bird of Youth, in addition to the ancient Greek tragedies Medea and Oresteia.

She earned critical accolades for her performance in Tennessee Williams ' Sweet Bird of Youth opposite Paul Newman.

Her other notable screen roles included Academy Award-nominated performances in Tennessee Williams ' Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth, You're a Big Boy Now, Pete ' n ' Tillie, Woody Allen's Interiors, and The Pope of Greenwich Village.

Lane will return to her theater roots in September 2012, headlining a production of Sweet Bird of Youth, the Tennessee Williams play at the Goodman Theatre.

Torn then headed to New York where he studied at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg, becoming a prolific stage actor, appearing in the original cast of Tennessee Williams ' play Sweet Bird of Youth, and reprising the role in the film and television adaptations.

He made his feature Broadway debut in 1959, when he played Tom Junior in Sweet Bird of Youth, for which he won a Theater World Award, also receiving a Tony Award nomination.

Among their joint compositions was " Bird of the North " ( 1852 ); and " Mother, Sweet Mother, Why Linger Away?

In 1985, Lauren Bacall starred in Sweet Bird of Youth ( Tennessee Williams ), followed by Harold Pinter's Old Times.

" Going Down On Love ", " What You Got " and " Bless You " address his feelings toward Ono, while the first track written for the record, " Surprise Surprise ( Sweet Bird of Paradox )" was written for Pang.

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" Sweet Duck of Youth ", an episode of the later animated series Duck Tales, also features this plotline, revealing that the fountain's true power is actually to make one's reflection appear younger ( thus the ' youth ' is merely an illusion ).

He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Sweet Bird of Youth ( 1962 ).

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Other than Guys and Dolls, his most noted theatre productions are of Hamlet ( twice ), with Jonathan Pryce at the Royal Court in 1980 and Daniel Day-Lewis in 1989 ; Richard III with Ian McKellen ; King Lear with Ian Holm ; Tennessee Williams ' Night of the Iguana and Sweet Bird of Youth ; Eduardo De Filippo's Napoli Milionaria and Le Grande Magia ; John Gabriel Borkman with Paul Scofield, Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins ; Hedda Gabler with Eve Best, and numerous new plays by David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Griffiths, Howard Brenton, Alan Bennett, Christopher Hampton and Nicholas Wright.

* Sweet Death / Media Youth

Born in Seattle, Damon graduated from Tacoma, Washington's historic Stadium High School, moved to New York City at age 16 to pursue ballet and ultimately appeared in several Broadway productions, including Shinbone Alley, Foxy, Flora, The Red Menace, The Boys from Syracuse, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Sweet Bird of Youth, and The Cherry Orchard.

Karlen's performances on the dramatic stage began in 1959 with Sweet Bird of Youth.

The birthstone of April is the diamond, and the birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy or the Sweet Pea.

The Sweet William Dwarf plant is a biennial plantFrom a gardener's perspective, a plant's status as annual, biennial, or perennial often varies based on location or purpose.

* Laurel Sweet is an award-winning reporter who covers courts and crime.

A point of interest is that it is probably Daniel Jones ( and not as is often thought Henry Sweet ) who provided George Bernard Shaw with the basis for his fictional character Henry Higgins in " Pygmalion ".

Rumors have persisted that he appears somewhere on the legendary album, and while Richards concedes that it is very likely he is among the chorus of singers on " Sweet Virginia ", to this day nothing has been substantiated.

Michel Martelly also known by his stage name " Sweet Micky " is a former musician and businessman.

Alice, Sweet Alice ( 1977 ), is another Catholic-themed horror slasher about a little girl's murder and her sister being the prime suspect.

The Sweet Track in the Somerset Levels is the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe and among the oldest roads in the world, dated by dendrochronology to the winter of 3807-3806 BCE ; it too is thought to have been a primarily religious structure.

) It is assumed that the three-part song Sweet tyranness, I now resign was written by him as a child.

British ham is closely associated with the older Wiltshire cure process rather than the newer Sweet cure.

Ae Fond Kiss explored an inter-racial love affair, Sweet Sixteen a teenager's relationship with his mother, and My Name is Joe an alcoholic's struggle to stay sober.

Kit Carson is included in a number of 20th century novels and pulp magazine stories: Comanche Chaser by Dane Coolidge, On Sweet Water Trail by Sabra Conner, On to Oregon by H. W. Morrow, The Pioneers by C. R. Cooper, The Long Trail by J. Allan Dunn and Peltry by A. D. H. Smith.

Nicaraguans call the Lake Lago Cocibolca or Mar Dulce ( literally, Sweet Sea ; in Spanish, freshwater is agua dulce ).

* The timber trackway ; Sweet Track causeway in England, is one of the oldest engineered roads discovered and the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe.

Sweet tea, iced and flavored with spearmint, is a summer tradition in the Southern United States.

Sweet tea is a style of iced tea commonly consumed in the United States, especially the Southern United States.

Sweet tea is made by adding sugar to bags of black tea brewing in hot water while the mixture is still hot.

Sweet tea can also be made with a simple syrup and is sometimes tempered with baking soda to reduce the acidity of the tea's tannins.

Sweet tea is typically brewed with a lower carbohydrate and calorie content than most fruit juices and sugary sodas, but it is not unusual to occasionally find sweet tea with a sugar level as high as 22 brix ( percent weight sucrose in water ), twice that of Coca Cola.