Its origins were in African American vocal groups of the 1930s and 40s, like the Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers, who had enjoyed considerable commercial success with arrangements based on close harmonies.

Popular music stars in the early 1950s included Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Patti Page, Judy Garland, Johnnie Ray, Kay Starr, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Georgia Gibbs, Eddie Fisher, Teresa Brewer, Dinah Shore, Kitty Kallen, Joni James, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Toni Arden, June Valli, Doris Day, Arthur Godfrey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Guy Mitchell, Nat King Cole, and vocal groups like The Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots, The Four Lads, The Four Aces, The Chordettes, Fontane Sisters, The Hilltoppers and The Ames Brothers.

* Ink Spots

Now signed to the Decca label, she had several popular hits while recording with such artists as the Ink Spots, Louis Jordan, and the Delta Rhythm Boys.

* An irritated audience member in a box seat right above the stage shows his distaste for the performance by spraying ink from a pen into Poochini's face, leaving him looking like a blackface singer singing in the style of The Ink Spots.

When this does not shut him up, the audience member drops an anvil on Poochini's head, squashing him down and giving him a deeper voice reminiscent of the Ink Spots ' spoken interludes, or of Eddie ' Rochester ' Anderson.

* The Ink Spots

African-American vocal groups such as The Ink Spots and The Mills Brothers, both from Cincinnati, Ohio, had record hits during the years of the second world war that set important precedents for the genre.

* Huey Long ( singer )- Musician The Ink Spots

Artists signed to American Decca in the 1930s and 1940s included Louis Armstrong, Charlie Kunz, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Jane Froman, The Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, The Andrews Sisters, Ted Lewis, Judy Garland, The Mills Brothers, Billy Cotton, Guy Lombardo, Chick Webb, Louis Jordan ( the No. 1 R & B artist of the 1940s ), Bob Crosby, Bill Kenny & The Ink Spots, Dorsey Brothers ( and subsequently Jimmy Dorsey after the brothers split ), Connee Boswell and Jack Hylton, Victor Young, Earl Hines, Claude Hopkins, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the original ' soul sister ' of recorded music.

* October 18-Orville " Hoppy " Jones, bass singer of the Ink Spots, dies in New York City.

* February 17-Orville " Hoppy " Jones, The Ink Spots singer

# redirect The Ink Spots

The Ink Spots were a vocal group in the 1930s and 1940s that helped define the musical genre that led to rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and the subgenre doo-wop.

The Ink Spots formed in the early 1930s in Indianapolis.

At that point they changed their name to " The 4 Ink Spots " at the request of bandleader Paul Whiteman, to avoid confusion with his vocal group " The King's Jesters ".

Later that year, The Ink Spots achieved international success touring the UK with Jack Hylton's Orchestra, one review in the Melody Maker stating

In 1939, after a series of unsuccessful recordings for Victor Records and Decca Records, The Ink Spots had their first smash hit on Decca Records with " If I Didn't Care ", a song written by Jack Lawrence, that featured Bill Kenny.

The year 1939 also displayed The Ink Spots at the top of the Pop charts with such hits as " My Prayer ", " Bless You ", " Memories Of You ", and " I'm Gettin ' Sentimental Over You ".

From 1940 to 1949 The Ink Spots had totaled over 35 hits on the US Pop charts.

In addition to the success The Ink Spots had in regards to recordings in the 1940's, they also were very successful with live shows and broke many attendance records for the venues in which they performed.

The Ink Spots were featured in two major motion pictures in the 1940's.

He later formed a host of offshoot Ink Spots groups in the 1950s and 1960s.

Fuqua would lead a separate Ink Spots group in the future.

Deek Watson who had been forced out of the original Ink Spots in 1944 and briefly sang with Charlie Fuqua's Ink Spots in 1952-1953, started his own Ink Spots group in 1954.

As a result of the " Ink War ", traditional accounts of Steinitz's character depict him as ill-tempered and aggressive ; but more recent research shows that he had long and friendly relationships with some players and chess organizations.

" Ink " Williams had no official position with Paramount, but was given wide latitude to bring African-American talent to Paramount recording studios and to market Paramount records to African-American consumers.

The May 1967 " Colt's Ink " newsletter announced that he had won a national competition for his selection and treatment of materials in the design.

He had left the Ink Spots because of multiple clashes with Bill Kenny and Joe King had left the Brown Dots when he and Watson started fighting.

Kelly had read Cave's book of lyrics, King Ink ( 1988 ), and found " God's Hotel ".

A similar show of disrespect was carried out by Moore on the March 24 episode of Impact !, after Ink Inc. had been defeated by Crimson and Scott Steiner.

Following the 1988 reunion, Winley and Buddy Bailey had joined Jimmy Nabbie's Ink Spots ; Winley still performs in that group from time to time.

Wareheim was also the principal songwriter for The Science Of and had been a member of Elements of Need, I Am Heaven, and briefly with the Vampire-themed punk band Ink & Dagger.

The May 1967 " Colt's Ink " newsletter announced that he had won a national competition for his selection and treatment of materials in the design.

The William Carter Company, the forerunner of Carter's Ink, was founded in 1858 by Boston stationer William Carter who, in order to supplement his paper sales, had started repackaging other companies ' inks and selling them under his own name.

He has had roles in a series of other television series and feature films, among them Clockwise, The Ink Thief, Red Dwarf, Randall and Hopkirk ( Deceased ), Who Framed Roger Rabbit and as Silas in Highlander: The Series.

Spastic Ink was formed in 1993 by guitarist Ron Jarzombek of Watchtower after recovering from multiple hand surgeries that had sidelined him, unable to play, for a couple of years.

Waterman's production company even lifted the entire basic rhythm arrangement from " Pump Up the Volume " ( complete with the chorus ) in a remix for a Sybil record ( wisely titled the " Red Ink Remix ").

Ink Blot Magazine said that the album was " both of its time and timeless.

With the addition of George " Pepi " Grant in 1977, they began touring as both The Ink Spots and The Orioles ( as the Orioles, Lawson was billed as a special guest ).

" He later told Radio Ink magazine that he racked up 7 million frequent flyer miles over the course of his employment at both stations

* Digital Invisible Ink Toolkit An open-source image steganography suite that includes both steganography and steganalysis implementations.

Ink betrays Blindfold and knocks her out and delivers both of them to Donald Pierce.

On the May 3, 2010 edition of TNA Impact !, Kendrick turned face by having a confrontation with his partner Douglas Williams after their match against Ink Inc. ( Shannon Moore and Jesse Neal ), but then Samoa Joe came out and attacked both of them.

With both Carey Howe and Paul Carman out of the picture, bass was handled by San Antonio, TX native Pete Perez ( Riot, Spastic Ink ) while OC local Mark Smith and Houstonian Eric Halpern ( Destiny's End, Z-Lot-Z ) contributed additional lead guitars to the new album.

Eventually, Ron would re-focus on Spastic Ink, with both Dave Penna and Jeff Eber of Dysrhythmia contributing drum tracks and brother Bobby cutting the rest of the tracks in between work with Halford.