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.

The Ink Spots had a string of record successes in 1939-40, both in the USA and in Britain, with " My Prayer ", " Bless You " and " Whispering Grass " and The Mills Brothers followed suit in 1943-44 with " Paper Doll ", " You Always Hurt The One You Love " and " Till Then ".

* 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.

* Ink rollers on printing presses were originally cast using a mixture of molasses and glue.

Two other proper names for the town were sent to the US Postal Service for consideration: " Ink " and " Bird ".

Among his clients were the New York Times, American Hebrew, Underwear and Hosiery Review, Advertising Age, Cracker Baker, American Magazine, Printers ' Ink, Nation's Business, National Costumer, American Hatter, Fur Age, and Playthings.

It was also at this site were on January 14, 1924, Walt Disney met his future wife Lillian Bounds, an Ink and Paint girl whom he personally hired.

The Ink Spots were the subject of a 1998 book by Marv Goldberg: " More Than Words Can Say: The Ink Spots And Their Music ".

While also being included in " and Bioshock 2 " with the songs of " If I didn't care " and " The Best Things in Life are Free " while Bioshock 2 included " We Three ( My Echo, My Shadow and Me )"-Ink Spots and " I'm Making Believe "-The Ink Spots ; Ella Fitzgerald ," Memories of You "-The Ink Spots, " Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat "-The Ink Spots, while others were included in " LA Noire " on the radio stations.

Following the breakup of that Orioles group, Til joined George Holmes ' Ink Spots, who were Til, Holmes, Ann Lawson, and Larry Reed.

When the townsfolk were completing the government application to establish a post office, they interpreted the instruction " Write in ink " literally and entered the name " Ink " as the proposed town name.

The terms Deva, Exmachina and Kami were established in Voice of the Magnus, published online in the Ink Monkies blog on June 5th, 2010.

Two smaller bunkers, Le 6 and 7, in the Leipäsuo sector and Ink 6, in the Inkilä sector, were also built.

The Brown Dots were initially formed in late 1944, when second tenor Ivory " Deek " Watson ( b. 18 July 1909, Mounds, Illinois-d. 4 November 1969, Washington, DC ) left the Ink Spots.

In their first match back together, Williams and Magnus were defeated by Ink Inc. ( Jesse Neal and Shannon Moore ) on the 12 April episode of Xplosion.

On 17 April at Lockdown, Williams and Magnus were defeated again by Ink Inc. in a four tag team number one contenders ' steel cage match.

Ink Inc. asked for and were granted a shot at Beer Money's TNA World Tag Team Championship at Victory Road.

Although the group were strongly influenced by The Ink Spots, The Delta Rhythm Boys and The Mills Brothers, they used Ricks ' bass voice, rather than a more conventional tenor, as the lead on many of their recordings, and this became their trademark style.

For instance, a DirectDraw Surface file type plugin, ( originally by Dean Ashton ) and an Ink Sketch and Soften Portrait effect ( originally by David Issel ) were added to Paint. NET in version 3. 10.

Duncan, Isadora, Kit Snicket, Captain Widdershins, Fiona, Phil, Fernald, Hector, Ink and Quigley were all left stranded in the water, before the large question-mark shaped object, The Great Unknown, appeared below them.