He had ordered the ponies brought inside the fortified circle and had assigned Pierre and a band of picked engages the job of trying to keep them steady under fire.

All day long Mr. Podger, who was a straw-hat man in the summer, had worn the feather in the band of his broad-brimmed sunshield.

Carrying it to the living room, she imagined the picture she made: tall and roundly slim, a bit sophisticated in her yellow sheath, with a graceful swingy walk that she had learned as a twirler with the school band.

His eyes had the same dreadful rigid stare as Dr. Grimesby Roylott's when he was found before his open safe wearing the speckled band.

He had conducted the 20-piece band in a series of concerts at Blue Lake park during the summer months.

Divided almost equally into two parts, it consisted of `` The Evolution Of The Blues '', narrated by Jon Hendricks, who had presented it last year at the Monterey, Calif., Jazz Festival, and an hour-long session of Maynard Ferguson and his orchestra, a blasting big band.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

His voice is based on a band director Mike Judge had in 9th grade.

The band and their producer Mike Thorne had gone back into the studio in early 1985 to record a new single, " Run From Love ".

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.

From listening to their recordings, one had difficulty determining if the Crickets, the name of Buddy's band, were white or black singers.

Wills added a trumpet to the band inadvertently when he hired Everet Stover as an announcer, not knowing that he had played with the New Orleans symphony and had directed the governor's band in Austin.

Stover, thinking he had been hired as a trumpeter began playing with the band with no comment from Wills.

In late 1942 after several band members had left the group, and as World War II raged, Wills joined the Army, but received a medical discharge in 1943.

He commanded enormous fees playing dances there, and began to make more creative use of electric guitars to replace the big horn sections the Tulsa band had boasted.

However, with the exception of the Grammy Award-winning " Nightshift " (# 3 in the U. S., a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson ; in 2010 a new version was recorded dedicated to Michael Jackson ), the band never achieved the same level of success it had enjoyed with Richie.

The High School had rock band KISS visit for Homecoming on October 9 & 10, 1975 after the football team started playing their music in the locker room which led to the team winning more.

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

Neil Finn had decided to end the band to concentrate on his solo career and the Finn Brothers project with Tim.

Worried that their goodbye had been too low-key and had disregarded their home fans, the band performed the Farewell to the World concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on 24 November 1996, which raised funds for the Sydney Children's Hospital.

Evans had been the arranger for the Claude Thornhill orchestra, and it was the sound of this group, as well as Duke Ellington's example, that suggested the creation of an unusual line-up: a nonet including a French horn and a tuba ( this accounts for the " tuba band " moniker that was to be associated with the combo ).

Steve Huey in Allmusic describes the band as " one of the most unusual cult bands of the 1990s ... driven by frontman Mike Doughty's stream-of-consciousness poetry, Soul Coughing's sound was a willfully idiosyncratic mix of improvisational jazz grooves, oddball samples, hip-hop, electronics, and noisy experimentalism ( described by Doughty as ' deep slacker jazz ').

The most unusual migration is that of the Southern Carmine Bee-eater, which has a three stage migration ; after breeding in a band between Angola and Mozambique it moves south to Botswana, Namibia and South Africa before moving north to its main wintering grounds in northern Angola, Congo and Tanzania.

He was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with jazz arranger Gil Evans, who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs ( the CD was not released in the U. S .), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement of " Murder By Numbers ", set to the tune " Stolen Moments " by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and " dedicated " to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

The following year, the band would release one of their most unusual recordings to date, the almost entirely instrumental Island Dreams.

When asked about the unusual name, Heard replied " It's not supposed to be mysterious or anything ; I just put a band together and right now I happen to be the only one in it.

On the tours that followed each release, the band presented a full multimedia event complete with video screens synchronized to the music — something that was unusual in the early 1980s for any band.

This band, Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra, was notable for its unusual instrumentation — a front line consisting of just Noone and alto saxophonist / clarinetist Joe Poston, who had worked with Noone in Doc Cook's band.

The band contributed the song " East Hastings " from their first album F ♯ A ♯ ∞ to the UK film 28 Days Later, though the song was heavily edited ; this was an unusual step for the ensemble.

The unusual band Apocalyptica which comprises four classical cellists started out performing classical arrangements of Metallica songs.

With two female singers, the original lineup was unusual for the time, and indeed, never performed live, as the Woods departed the band shortly after the release of their debut album, Hark!

As a song progressed, multiple soloists would be expected to take over and individually improvise their own part ; however, it was not unusual to have two or three band members improvising at any one time.

Even more unusual for a band of the scene that spawned them, they were also informed by such new wavers as Elvis Costello, The Jam and Nick Lowe, as well as authors like Jack Kerouac.

Morphine combined blues and jazz elements with more traditional rock arrangements, giving the band an unusual sound.

Morphine's instrumentation was unusual for a rock band: Sandman's primary instrument was a two-string bass guitar ( with both strings usually tuned to a 5th or octave interval ) played with a slide ; however, on the group's records he added touches of guitar, piano, electronic organ, and other self invented guitar instruments such as the tritar, featuring two guitar strings and one bass string.

From the start, Weather Report took the unusual and innovative approach of abandoning the traditional " soloist / accompaniment " demarcation of straight-ahead jazz and instead featuring opportunities for continuous improvisation by every member of the band.

The tutti passages on “ Farewell Blues ”, with their echoes of railroad whistles, the carefully arranged interludes and fadeout ending on Schoebel ’ s unusual “ discontented blues ”, bespeak rehearsal and behind-the-scenes work aimed at achieving a polished and varied band sound.

He was an innovator in the big band idiom, using unusual instrumentation ; " Interlude in B-flat ", where he was backed with only a rhythm section and a string quartet, was one of the earliest examples of what would be later dubbed third stream.

With the unusual method of distribution of these tracks by a band with a relatively large fanbase formerly signed to a major label, many record companies were outraged with the releases.

" Whipping Post " became the standard for a long, epic jam that never lost interest ( opening in 11 / 4 time, unusual territory for a rock band ), while the ethereal-to-furious " In Memory of Elizabeth Reed ", with its harmonized melody, Latin feel, and burning drive invited comparisons with John Coltrane ( especially Duane's solo-ending pull-offs, a direct nod to the jazz saxophonist ).

They steered through an unusual wet band brake system through a differential gear system.

In particular, the song " Fat Man " showed an interest in unusual instrumentation, as Ian Anderson played mandolin, one of the first times the instrument had been used by a rock band.

An Albanian band of unusual strength under the command of Isa Boletini, now Minister for War in the Provisional Government, Xhamadan of Isa Boletinimade a successful attack on the Serbian frontier town of Debar and captured it from the small Serbian garison, which had to retire after suffering and inflicting severe losses.