As a youth he became one of Finney's band of evangelists and gave himself to winning young men.

It became more common to arrange sketchy jazz combo compositions for big band after the bop era.

In 1989 Jonathan Hellyer became lead singer, and the band extensively toured the U. S. and Europe with back-up vocalist Annie Conway and had one minor hit with the song " Cha Cha Heels ", a one-off collaboration sung by American actress and singer Eartha Kitt.

The ambitious Holly became increasingly interested in the New York music / recording / publishing scene, while his band mates wanted to go back home to Lubbock.

With its jazz sophistication, pop music and blues influence, plus improvised scats and wisecrack commentary by Wills, the band became the first superstars of the genre.

The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s.

In typically subversive, perverse style, the band became the talking point of the ceremony when after about 15 seconds into the song, Biafra said, " Hold it!

In addition to the obscenity lawsuit and being ignored by the mainstream media ( MTV and most radio stations gave such groups scant notice, not to mention airplay ), the band became increasingly disillusioned with the underground scene as well.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

Using their knowledge of audience participation, MC charisma, and " crowd-pleasing " repertory selection, the wedding music industry became almost all DJ while combining the class and elegance of the traditional band presentation.

Like his audience and his critics, Bowie himself became increasingly disaffected with his role as just one member of a band.

Invented in 1931, the electric guitar became a necessity as jazz musicians sought to amplify their sound in the big band format.

The need for the amplified guitar became apparent during the big band era as orchestras increased in size, particularly when guitars had to compete with large brass sections.

Work begun in 1991 to expand the GSM standard to the 1800 MHz frequency band and the first 1800 MHz network became operational in the UK by 1993.

In 2002 the first multimedia messaging services ( MMS ) were introduced and the first GSM network in the 800 MHz frequency band became operational.

In later seasons, harmonica player Charlie McCoy joined the cast and eventually formed the Hee Haw Band, which became the house band for the rest of the series ' run.

DJ Lethal became a member of nu metal band Limp Bizkit, who would cover " Jump Around " at live concerts, particularly in Limp Bizkit's early years during the Family Values Tour 1998.

The film became a cult hit and the band has since released several albums and played several concerts.

Using a full blues band, he became a popular act in the South with his daily broadcasts on the ' King Biscuit Time ', originating live from Helena, Arkansas.

In 1997, the British band Cornershop paid tribute to Asha Bhosle with their song Brimful of Asha, which became an international hit.

In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.

Brown's band recorded the instrumental hit, " Night Train ", which was among the first to credit Brown by himself, and became a Top 5 R & B hit and crossed over briefly to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.

Show, which became successful due to Brown's energetic dance moves and the more polished but sharp choreography of the Famous Flames and the timing of Brown's band which helped to upstage the closing act, The Rolling Stones.

In 1974, Jeffry Hyman co-founded the punk rock band the Ramones with friends John Cummings and Douglas Colvin, upon which point all three adopted stage names using " Ramone " as their surname: Cummings became Johnny Ramone, Colvin became Dee Dee Ramone, and Hyman became Joey Ramone.

The king of Attalid Pergamene employed their services in the increasingly devastating wars of Asia Minor ; another band deserted from their Egyptian overlord Ptolemy IV after a solar eclipse had broken their spirits.

They continued to perform live for a few months with new drummer Bob Turner, but Richman was increasingly unwilling to perform his old ( although still unreleased ) songs such as “ Roadrunner ”, and after a final disagreement between him and Harrison over musical style the band split up in February 1974.

During that time the group was falling increasingly under David Byrne's control, and after Naked the band went on " hiatus ".

Looming over the band at this period ( as throughout their entire career ) was the increasingly erratic behaviour of their vocalist and principal songwriter, Shane MacGowan.

The band was at the peak of its commercial success, with both albums making the top 5 in the UK ( numbers 3 and 5 respectively ), but MacGowan was increasingly unreliable.

In his autobiography, Cornwell stated that he felt the band was a spent force creatively, and cited various examples of his increasingly acrimonious relationship with his fellow band-members, particularly Burnel.

As well as Williams's friction with the management of the band, Jason Orange had problems with his increasingly belligerent behaviour, his lack of interest in performing, and his frequent habit of missing the band's rehearsals.

As musicians became less important in directing the movement of troops on the battlefield, the bands moved into increasingly ceremonial roles-an intermediate stage which provided some of the instrumentation and music for marching bands was the modern brass band, which also evolved out of the military tradition.

Regulatory authorities are squeezing band allocations closer and closer together, relying on increasingly sophisticated EMC control methods, especially in the digital communications arena, to keep cross-channel interference to acceptable levels.

Mercury was increasingly ill and could barely walk when the band recorded " The Show Must Go On " in 1990.

During the two-month American tour, the band became increasingly unhappy, often venting frustrations on each other, leading to several physical confrontations.

As Led Zeppelin's popularity soared throughout the 1970s, Peter Grant became increasingly notorious for being brutally protective of his band and their finances.

During this time, The Cure became a very popular band in Europe ( particularly in France, Germany and the Benelux countries ) and increasingly popular in the U. S.

Mushroom was reported to be unhappy with the degree of the post-punk direction in which Del Naja, increasingly filling the production vacuum, was taking the band.

Throughout the tour the band and their increasingly large entourage gained notoriety for their large narcotic intake.

Still psychologically overwhelmed by the cancellation of SMiLE and the imminent birth of his first child Carnie Wilson in 1968 amid the looming financial insolvency of The Beach Boys ( Friends, which was largely written and produced by Wilson and recorded with much involvement from the Wrecking Crew, peaked at # 126 on the American charts ), Wilson's creative directorship within the band became increasingly tenuous.

In each appearance, " Campbell " would have a different low-level job ( e. g., cue card holder, tambourine player for the band ), and would grow increasingly nervous as Letterman amiably asked Campbell innocuous questions about his job and his life.

During the two-month American tour, the band became increasingly unhappy and homesick homesick ; Albarn said, " I just started to miss really simple things ...

The band had also become increasingly interested in music other than punk rock, such as The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and some of the members ( particularly Ginn ) used cannabis.

By this time Danzig was growing increasingly dissatisfied with the Misfits and had begun writings songs for a new band project.

Lewis's clarinet playing barely evolved beyond his style of 1919 which in later years would sound increasingly corny, but Lewis certainly knew what good clarinet playing sounded like, for he hired musicians like Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, and Don Murray to play clarinet in his band.