* The Manhattans, an R & B group from the 1970s and 80s.

Otis Williams and the Charms, The Manhattans and Donnie Elbert were among artists who recorded major R & B hits for DeLuxe from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s.

There were also hits with Tracie Spencer, Joey Lawrence, Will Downing, a # 1 dance hit with Kathy Sledge, and over 50 cover recordings of his songs from artists as varied as Belinda Carlisle, Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, The Manhattans, Donny Osmond, José Feliciano, Fleetwood Mac, David Hasselhoff and Branford Marsalis.

Earth, Wind & Fire's songs have been covered by artists such as Point of Grace, D ' Angelo, CDB, Dionne Warwick, The 5th Dimension, Pomplamoose Lenny White, Patti LaBelle, The Manhattans, Wynonna Judd, Yolanda Adams, New York Voices, Donny Osmond, Chaka Khan, 112, the Vienna Boys ' Choir, Herb Alpert, Musiq Soulchild, and Tito Puente.

As bourbon gained popularity beyond the southern United States, bartenders increasingly substituted it for rye in cocktails like Whiskey Sours, Manhattans, and Old Fashioneds, which were initially made only with rye.

Its main success was with the Manhattans, who had a number of R & B chart and Hot 100 entries between 1965 and 1967.

For more about Carnival Records, The Manhattans and Joe Evans read Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues by Christopher Brooks and Joe Evans.

The Manhattans are an American popular R & B vocal group, with a string of hit records spanning four decades.

The Manhattans continued recording throughout the 1970s with Alston singing lead vocals.

For what would be their 30th reunion, former member Blue Lovett decided to return to the music scene with his own Manhattans in 1995, bringing back Gerald Alston as lead vocalist in his group.

He recently appeared in the touring play Girl He Ain't Worth It with The Manhattans, Meli ' sa Morgan and Tito Jackson.

* In the Simpsons episode Bart the Murderer, Bart Simpson makes Manhattans for Springfield's mobsters.

The " Manhattans " occupied the island known by that name today, as well as part of southern Westchester now covered by Yonkers.

The label's roster included The Manhattans, The Pretenders and Lee Williams & The Cymbals.

The group was then called The Music Machine and they were very successful as a back-up band for The Manhattans, Bunny Sigler and also the TNJs.

Radio Ceylon turned young Ceylonese talent into household names-among them the Ceylonese musicians of the 1950s and 1960s-Nimal Mendis, Bill Forbes, Cliff Foenander, Des Kelly, Adrian Ferdinands, Tissa Seneviratne, Harold Seneviratne, Douglas Meerwald and the Manhattans, to name a few.

They released the CD Manhattans Now in 1994, and in recent years the group has been featured in the play, Girl, He Ain't Worth It.

In 1996, they began recording under their own label, Manhattans Entertainment Inc.

Wheaton began to achieve major success as a songwriter in the 1990s and has composed songs for the Manhattans, Earth, Wind & Fire, Tevin Campbell, Will Downing, and Iyanla Vanzant.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

As the story goes, Mr. Gibbs, who originally came from the back counties of the Commonwealth of Virginia, saw an illustration in a magazine of the famous Howe sewing machine.

Joe naturally ruled that a ball be dropped from alongside the spot where it had originally entered the stream.

he tends to shy away from the hooting and hollering personalities that originally made Negro radio programs famous ''.

Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.

Alpha and beta in turn came from the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and originally meant ox and house respectively.

The name is derived from the type genus Apium, which was originally used by Pliny the Elder circa 50 AD for a celery-like plant.

Sources: Parts of an earlier version of this article were originally taken from Federal Standard 1037C in support of MIL-STD-188.

The adaptions are notable for changing the plots and characters of the original books ( e. g., incorporating lesbian affairs, changing killer identities, renaming or removing significant characters, and even using stories from other books in which Miss Marple did not originally feature ).

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

Achill Island lies in the Barony of Burrishoole, in the territory of ancient Umhall ( Umhall Uactarach and Umhall Ioctarach ), that originally encompassed an area extending from the Galway / Mayo border to Achill Head in Co. Mayo.

Although originally considered a subspecies of A. ramidus, in 2004 anthropologists Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Gen Suwa, and Tim D. White published an article elevating A. kadabba to species level on the basis of newly-discovered teeth from Ethiopia.

' American ' is derived from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World ( also called " the Americas ").

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

The word originally referred to a solid waxy substance derived from the sperm whale ( now called ambergris ).

The scent of amber was originally derived from emulating the scent of ambergris and / or labdanum but due to the endangered status of the sperm whale the scent of amber is now largely derived from labdanum.

Yet we may with better reason suppose that it came originally from a foreign mythology, and that the accident of its numerical value in Greek merely caused it to be singled out at Alexandria for religious use.

Acapulco ’ s most historic building is the San Diego Fort, located east of the main square and originally built in 1616 to protect the city from pirate attacks.

A logical conclusion to draw is that the Hermunduri extended over later Swabia and therefore the Alemanni originally derived from the Hermunduri!

This is due to the fact that the clan originally immigrated to Kamchatka from Kunashir in 1789.

Alphons is a male given name, originally from a Germanic Adalfuns, composed of the elements adal " noble " and funs " eager, brave, ready ".

The word acre is derived from Old English æcer originally meaning " open field ", cognate to west coast Norwegian ækre and Swedish åker, German Acker, Dutch akker, Latin ager, and Greek αγρός ( agros ).

The term originally came from antibody generator and was a molecule that binds specifically to an antibody, but the term now also refers to any molecule or molecular fragment that can be bound by a major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) and presented to a T-cell receptor.