By 1901, the San Joaquin Basin was the main oil-producing region of California, and it remains so in the 21st century, with huge oil fields including the Midway-Sunset, Kern River, and Belridge fields producing much of California's onshore oil.

Moon also played timpani on another track, the Jerome Kern classic, " Ol ' Man River " ( Moon was credited on the back of the album as " You Know Who ").

**** Kern River rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita var.

The discovery well of the Kern River Oil Field was dug by hand in 1899.

The county derives its name from the Kern River, which was named for Edward Kern, cartographer for General John C. Fremont's 1845 expedition, which crossed Walker Pass.

Shortly after abandoning an intricate Pet Sounds-style version of Kern and Hammerstein's " Ol ' Man River " at the behest of Mike Love, Wilson entered a psychiatric hospital for a brief period of time and " perhaps of his own volition "; biographer Peter Ames Carlin has speculated that Wilson may have been administered a number of treatments — ranging from talking therapies to " stiff doses of Lithium " and the more extreme electroconvulsive therapy — during this stay.

The Kern River, Kernville and the Kern Valley they occupy were named after artist and topographer Edward Kern, who accompanied John C. Fremont on his 1845 expedition.

Kernville has a large tourist industry centered on the white water rapids of the Kern River.

Lake Isabella is at the confluence of the North and South Forks of the Kern River.

Lake Isabella was created by a dam on the Kern River in 1953 forcing the town to move about south of the original site.

It is an unincorporated suburban town just north of Bakersfield across the Kern River, west of the Kern River Oilfield, and east of Highway 99.

The enormous Kern River Oil Field to the east and northeast has more active oil wells ( 9, 183 at the end of 2006 ) than any other field in California except for the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in southwestern Kern County ( which has 11, 145 ).

* River stage and discharge: South Fork Kern River near Onyx.

Some of the other employers in the area are Intermountain Community Hospital, Intermountain Power Project ( IPP ), Brush Wellman, Sunrise Engineering, and the Kern River Gas Transmission.

One telecast included African-American bass-baritone Andrew Frierson singing " Ol ' Man River " from Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat, a song that, at that time, was usually sung on television by white singers, although it was written for a black character in the musical.

Continuing in this vein, Tibbett made a recording of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's song, Ol ' Man River, from Show Boat.

Kern began reading a lot about the history and philosophy of Communism, but never felt there was anything he, as an individual, could do about it.

Kern & Co., founded in 1819, was an internationally known geodetic instrument manufacturer based in Aarau.

Jerome David Kern ( January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945 ) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.

Kern was born in New York City, on Sutton Place, in what was then the city's brewery district.

His parents were Henry Kern ( 1842 – 1908 ), a Jewish German immigrant, and Fannie Kern née Kakeles ( 1852 – 1907 ), who was an American Jew of Bohemian parentage.

Kernite was discovered in 1926 in western Kern County, in Southern California, and later named for the county.

The Kern County mine was the only known source of the mineral for many years.

Hammerstein collaborated with composers Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg ; but his most famous collaboration, by far, was with Richard Rodgers.

In 1877, the Russian chemist Serge Kern reported discovering the missing element in platinum ore. Kern named what he thought was the new element davyum ( after the noted English chemist Sir Humphry Davy ), but it was eventually determined to be a mixture of iridium, rhodium and iron.

When composer Jerome Kern proposed turning the very serious Show Boat into a musical, Ferber was shocked, thinking it would be transformed into a typical light entertainment of the 1920s.

It was not until Kern explained that he and Oscar Hammerstein II wanted to create a different type of musical that Ferber granted him the rights.

John Worth Kern ( December 20, 1849 – August 17, 1917 ) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana.

The first musical film to have a commercially issued soundtrack album was MGM ’ s 1946 film biography of Show Boat composer Jerome Kern, Till the Clouds Roll By.

Rodgers was influenced by composers such as Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern, as well as by the operettas his parents took him to see on Broadway when he was a child.

Gerould W. Kern was named the paper's editor in July 2008.

Kern suspected that scarcer light in winter was the cause and discussed the idea with scientists at the NIMH who were working on bodily rhythms.

The cropduster sequence, meant to take place in northern Indiana, was shot on location on Garces Highway ( 155 ) near the towns of Wasco and Delano, north of Bakersfield in Kern County, California ().

The film omitted " The Touch of Your Hand " ( sung by a minor character ), " Something Had To Happen ", and " You're Devastating " ( originally Middleton's big song in the show ), but added the Kern songs " I Won't Dance " and " Lovely to Look At ", which became so popular that they are now always included in revivals and recordings of Roberta.

He was originally interred on the Kern estate near Hollins, Virginia and then interred in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana twelve years later.

Helen Dowdy was a Broadway actress and singer who played the role of Queenie in the 1946 revival of Kern & Hammerstein's Show Boat ( a role originally played by Tess Gardella in 1927 ).

Kern County was nearly named Buena Vista County for the large, and now drained, Buena Vista Lake between Bakersfield and Taft.

According to a display at the West Kern Oil Museum, local residents asked the Southern Pacific Railroad if the station could be named Moro when the rails arrived about 1900.

Alexander Hall, named for former Murray State president Kern Alexander

The Korean War Veterans name honors the approximately 8, 120 veterans from Kern County, while the section named for Rosa Parks honors the civil rights activist.

The river was named by John C. Frémont in honor of Edward M. Kern in 1845 who, as the story goes, nearly drowned in the turbulent waters.

Before this, the Kern River was known as the " Rio de San Felipe " as named by Spanish missionary explorer Fr.

In November 2010, he and his ex-Creta Bourzia bandmate and drummer Dennis Kern joined friends Blunderbuss ( band ) guitarist and bassist Ben Matthews and James Nemeth to release an album as a group named Broughton's Rules on Relapse Records.

Previously named Mortice Kern Systems, MKS was founded in 1984 by four University of Waterloo students, Randall Howard, Alex White, Trevor Thompson and Steve Izma.

Keyesville is named for Richard M. Keyes, whose discovery of gold in 1853 started the Kern River Gold Rush.

* Kern River, California, once named Rio Bravo de San Felipe

Marshall was also named Fireman of the Year by TSN with three different teams: in the NL in 1973 with the Montreal Expos and 1974 with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and a third time in 1979 in the American League with the Minnesota Twins ( sharing the award with Jim Kern ).