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.

When asked during a 2007 phone-in interview on XETRA-FM if he ever had any notions of performing in an Oingo Boingo reunion, Elfman immediately rejected the idea and stated that in the last few years with the band he had begun to develop significant and irreversible hearing damage as a result of his continuous exposure to the high noise levels involved in performing in a rock band.

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.

When he returned to the Netherlands in October 1979, his band had begun to fall apart, and soon his popularity went downhill.

On 15 January 2008, the band confirmed that the recording process had begun.

Page had begun using heroin during the recording of Presence, which may have affected later live shows and studio recordings of the band, although this has been denied by Page.

In May 2011, it was reported that Crow and longtime acquaintance Doyle Bramhall II ( musician, Sheryl Crow touring band member, and " 100 Miles From Memphis " producer ) had begun dating.

By 1965, while attending Hilltop High School within the Sweetwater Union High School District, Chula Vista, Waits was playing in an R & B / soul band called The Systems and had begun his first job at Napoleone Pizza House in National City ( about which he would later sing on " I Can't Wait to Get Off Work ( And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue )" from Small Change and " The Ghosts of Saturday Night ( After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House )" on The Heart of Saturday Night ).

Recently, new providers Wind Mobile, Mobilicity and Videotron have begun operations in the 1700 MHz band.

Van Vliet had also begun assigning nicknames to his band members, so Harkleroad became " Zoot Horn Rollo ", and Boston became " Rockette Morton ", while John French assumed the name " Drumbo ", and Jeff Cotton became " Antennae Jimmy Semens ".

The band held together long enough to record one more LP, entitled Long John Silver, begun in April 1972 and released in July.

Smith had begun his solo career while still in Heatmiser, and the success of his first two releases created distance and tension with his band.

Phillips suggested changes to the lyrics (" Go, cat, go ") and the band changed the end of the song to a " boogie vamp ". On Ozark Jubilee Presley left Sun for a larger opportunity with RCA in November, and on December 19, 1955, Phillips, who had begun recording Perkins in late 1954, told Perkins, " Carl Perkins, you're my rockabilly cat now.

On April 16, 2009, it was officially announced that the band had reunited and begun work on a third studio album.

By this time the original ten-member lineup of Parliament-Funkadelic had begun to splinter, but many others joined for various album releases by either band, leading to a collective with a fluid and rapidly expanding membership.

The band members had begun spending eight to ten hours a day in the studio, regarding themselves as " musical workers ".

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

It acknowledges criticisms of his lyrics as overblown and insincere, which had begun to appear as the popularity of the band increased, but responds by stating that the lyrics are meant for personal interpretation.

Tong and Jones formed a new group called The Shining, which initially included former Stone Roses guitarist John Squire ; however Squire left the band before recording and touring had begun.

The band as a whole acknowledged Moon and Entwistle's innovation and talent on their instruments, and Pete Townshend had begun writing hit songs, but Daltrey struggled to find a voice to present their new music.

Around this time, Bricheno had begun focusing on his other band, XC-NN ( originally, CNN ).

Despite Poison's success, DeVille's cocaine addiction had begun to cause strife in the band.

The band had always worn make-up since their inception in the mid 1970s at the tail end of the glam rock era, many years before the New Romantic movement had begun.

By this time, the band's back catalogue had begun to sell steadily and both Hansa-Ariola and Virgin Records continued to release Japan singles into 1983, ultimately earning the band a total of nine Top 40 hits in the UK.