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* 1950 – Bonnie Pointer, American singer ( The Pointer Sisters )
The track selection shows some of the band's funk, soul and disco influences, including tracks from The Pointer Sisters, The Commodores, Johnny " Hammond " Smith and Johnny " Guitar " Watson.
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* " Hot Together " by The Pointer Sisters
Betty Davis ' band included members of the Tower of Power horns and the Pointer Sisters, and she recorded three albums to critical acclaim but limited commercial success.
* Anita Pointer-Entertainer, ' The Pointer Sisters '.
* The Pointer Sisters " Fire " ( 1979 ) – Changed audio lyric to " I'm riding in your car / you turn on W-L-S ."
In 1995, a national tour starred the Pointer Sisters, Eugene Barry-Hill, and Michael-Leon Wooley.
An " all-star band " made up of Chuck Berry, Seals & Crofts, Gregg Allman, Junior Walker, Johnny Rivers, the Pointer Sisters, Charlie Daniels, Doc Severinsen, Les McCann, Donald Byrd, Chuck Mangione and three members of Booker T and the MGs perform " Roll Over Beethoven.
Until the advent of the Supremes, the sisters were the most imitated of all female singing groups and influenced many artists, including Mel Tormé, Les Paul and Mary Ford, The Four Freshmen, The McGuire Sisters, The Manhattan Dolls, The Lennon Sisters, The Pointer Sisters, The Manhattan Transfer, The Puppini Sisters, Barry Manilow, and Bette Midler who scored her first # 1 hit with her 1973 remake of " Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy ".
The crossover appeal of early contemporary R & B artists in mainstream popular music, including works by Prince, Michael and Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Anita Baker and The Pointer Sisters became a turning point for black artists in the industry, as their success " was perhaps the first hint that the greater cosmopolitanism of a world market might produce some changes in the complexion of popular music.
It featured a cover of the Motown classic " Little Darling ( I Need You )", " Echoes Of Love " ( written for, but not recorded by, Al Green by James Mitchell, then of the Memphis Horns, and Earl Randle, both of whom had worked with Green a good bit, to which Simmons added some music and lyrics co-writing the finished version with Mitchell and Randle ; the song was later covered by the Pointer Sisters and ex-New Seekers vocalist Lyn Paul ), and " You Belong To Me " ( co-written by McDonald and Carly Simon, who had a hit with her own version of the tune ).
** The Pointer Sisters for " Fairytale "
Entertainers performing for the troops included Jay Leno, Steve Martin, Delta Burke, Ann Jillian, Gerald McRaney, Marie Osmond, the Pointer Sisters, and Bob Hope on his final USO tour.
Hope's jokes were monitored by the State Department to avoid offending the Saudis ... and the media was restricted from covering the shows ... Because in Saudi Arabia national custom prescribes that women must be veiled in public, Ann Jillian, Marie Osmond, and the Pointer Sisters were left off Hope's Christmas Eve show.
** The Pointer Sisters ( arrangers ) for " Automatic "
** The Pointer Sisters for " Jump ( For My Love )"
* Black & White ( Pointer Sisters album ), 1981
** The Pointer Sisters for " Jump ( for My Love )"
*** The Pointer Sisters for " How Long ( Betcha ' Got a Chick on the Side )"

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The False Cross is diamond-shaped, somewhat dimmer on average, does not have a fifth star and lacks the two prominent nearby " Pointer Stars.
The original sire was Tell, an English Pointer belonging to Kaiser Frederick III and the original dam was a German hunting pudel named Molly who was owned by Hegewald, an author known for works on hunting dogs.
Officially a mixed-breed dog, Pluto is clearly modeled on the English Pointer breed, most evident in the film " The Pointer ".
Pointer ’ s musket is on permanent display at The North House Museum in Lewisburg.
Other artists featured on the album included Smokey Robinson and the late June Pointer.
* Pointer Methods in RDF, early work on how locations in and parts of online documents can be expressed in RDF.
Pointer later gathered a band dubbed ' Mick Pointer's Marillion ' with Brian Cummings ( CarpetCrawlers ) on vocals, Nick Barrett ( Pendragon ) on lead guitar, Mike Varty ( Credo ) on keyboards and Ian Salmon ( Arena ) on bass guitar to perform Marillion's debut album, Script for a Jester's Tear for its 25th anniversary.
This URI will be used for looking-up and fetching the NAPTR record obtaining the called party wishes about how the call should be forwarded or terminated ( either on IP or on PSTN terminations )the so-called access information – which the registrant ( the called party ) has specified by writing his / her choice at the NAPTR record (" Naming Authority Pointer Resource Records " as defined in RFC 3403 ), such as e-mail addresses, a fax number, a personal website, a VoIP number, mobile telephone numbers, voice mail systems, IP-telephony addresses, web pages, GPS coordinates, call diversions or instant messaging.
Mick Pointer, drummer and founding member of the progressive rock bands Marillion and Arena was born on 22 July 1956 in Brill.
The Pointer Sisters on the cover of their The Pointer Sisters ( album ) | self-titled debut album, which was released in 1973 and yielded the hit " Yes We Can Can ".
The Pointer Sisters on the cover of their landmark release, Break Out ( Pointer Sisters album ) | Break Out.
In 1994 the Pointer Sisters were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and began touring with a production of the Fats Waller-based musical Ain't Misbehavin '.
In 1995-96 the Pointer Sisters returned to their original jazzy incarnation touring nationally in Ain't Misbehavin ': during this tour issues with June Pointer came to the fore as June Pointer missed many performances-understudy Wendy Edmead replaced her on these occasions-and in 2002 Ruth Pointer's daughter Issa Pointer began performing with the Pointer Sisters in June Pointer's stead.

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Twitty was known to cover songs — most notably " Slow Hand " which was a major pop hit for the Pointer Sisters, " The Rose " which was a major pop hit for Bette Midler, and " Heartache Tonight " which was a major pop hit for The Eagles ; Twitty's songs have also been covered numerous times, including four notable covers, George Jones ' rendition of " Hello Darlin ", Blake Shelton's " Goodbye Time ", The Misfits and Glen Campbell versions of " It's Only Make Believe " and Elvis Presley's version of " There's a Honky Tonk Angel ( Who'll Take Me Back In )".
The Pointer Sisters also scored another R & B hit from the album with " Going Down Slowly ", another Allen Toussaint cover, and in 1976 appeared in the classic blaxploitation film Car Wash. Their song from the movie, " You Gotta Believe ", made the R & B top 20 in early 1977.
" ( In addition to " Heartache Tonight " ( a cover of a song by The Eagles ), Twitty had successfully covered " Slow Hand " and " The Rose ," previously pop hits for the Pointer Sisters and Bette Midler, respectively.

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Brill is also known for its windmill, last owned and used by the Pointer and Nixie family who also baked bread in their house in the village.
As children in West Oakland, California, the Pointer sisters and brothers were encouraged to listen to and sing gospel music by their parents Reverend Elton and Mrs Sarah Pointer.
In 1983, the Pointer Sisters released what became their biggest-selling album ever with Break Out.
The first studio recording by the Pointer Sisters to feature Issa Pointer was " Christmas in New York " recorded in the summer of 2005 for release for the multi-artist seasonal release Smooth & Soulful Christmas Collection on YMC Records: " Christmas in New York " afforded the Pointer Sisters their last appearance on a Billboard chart to date, the track reaching # 21 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
In recent years many Pointer Sisters songs have been covered by contemporary artists, such as " Jump ( for My Love )" by Girls Aloud, which reached number two at the UK singles chart in 2003, " Dare Me " was turned into the dance smash " Stupidisco " by Belgian DJ Junior Jack, indie band Le Tigre covered in 2004 " I'm So Excited " on their third album This Island, and French DJ Muttonheads sampled " Back In My Arms " on his 2005 club hit " I'll Be There ".
A good-sized, securely fenced yard is a must to keep a Pointer safe, since they are bred to hunt a good distance from their person.

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