The present proceeding is concerned with the standard broadcast ( AM ) band, from 540 kc. to 1600 kc..

With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.

A band viscometer is shown in Figure 2.

When in place, a well-cemented band actually protects the part of the tooth that is covered.

Usually this is a thin band of wire attached to the molars and stretching across the teeth.

As a finale is appended a close-up of one of the band taking aim and firing his revolver straight at the audience.

Everywhere there are little touches of humor, and the leader of the on-stage band of musicians is an ebullient comedian who plays all sorts of odd instruments with winning warmth.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

But what is equally impressive is the delicacy and wonderful lyric quality of both the band and Mulligan's baritone sax in a fragile ballad like Bob Brookmeyer's arrangement of `` Django's Castle ''.

Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.

Aztlan Underground is a fusion band from Los Angeles.

The band is set to begin writing a new record this year.

Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

* The garage folk band David's Doldrums references Absalom in their song, " my name is Absalom.

* " Absalom " is an album by the Experimental / Progressive band " Stick Men " featuring Tony Levin, Markus Reuter and Pat Mastelotto.

Alexander's band, an optical phenomenon, is named after him.

Absolute magnitude ( also known as absolute visual magnitude when measured in the standard V photometric band ) is the measure of a celestial object's intrinsic brightness.

BrE: The Clash are a well-known band ; AmE: The Clash is a well-known band.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

With the help of Ziggy Elman, also in the band, he transformed a traditional Jewish melody into a popular song, `` And The Angels Sing ''.

Articolo 31 was a popular band from Milan, Italy, melding hip hop, funk, pop and traditional Italian musical forms.

The Afghan Hound features prominently in the avant-garde music video of popular French band M83's, " Set in Stone ( M83 Remix ).

Nonetheless, he and his band continued to be a popular touring act, enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1960s with the Rock and roll revival movement and the signing of a lucrative record deal with the European Sonet Records label.

The manager of a popular auditorium in the LA Basin town of Wilmington, California: " Although Monday night dancing is frankly an experiment it was the only night of the week on which this outstanding band could be secured.

In 1962 and 1963, with his next band, Harmoniler (" The Harmonies "), he recorded cover versions of some of popular American twist songs and rearrangements of Turkish folk songs in rock and roll form, marking the beginning of the Anatolian rock movement, a synthesis of Turkish folk music and rock.

Beginning in the 1930s, he wrote songs in the big band and swing genres that were popular at the time.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

* Cradle of Filth, a popular British extreme metal band, has produced an album called Dusk ... and Her Embrace inspired by " Carmilla ", and have also recorded an instrumental track titled " Carmilla's Masque ".

Rock musician David Bowie also made three popular concept albums ; The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, about the fictional character, Ziggy Stardust and his band ; Aladdin Sane ; and Diamond Dogs.

Within the realm of popular music and jazz, " drums " usually refers to a drum kit or a set of drums ( with some cymbals ) and " drummer " to the actual band member or person who plays them.

In Mexico, the popular mariachi band includes a range of guitars, from the tiny requinto to the guitarrón, a guitar larger than a cello, which is tuned in the bass register.

Sweetheart of the Rodeo was originally conceived by band leader Roger McGuinn as a sprawling, double album history of American popular music.

Their 1969 album The Gilded Palace of Sin was a modernized version of the Bakersfield style of country music made popular by Buck Owens, and the band appeared on the album cover wearing Nudie suits emblazoned with all sorts of hippie accoutrements.

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.

The members of the band Rin ' are popular jūshichi-gen players in the modern ( pop / rock ) music scene.

Throughout much of North America, live band karaoke is also popular.

But, it has been applied to all students that are in band or orchestra, even the ones with little involvement ( see School band # Stereotypes and popular culture ).

In Australia, two popular groups, skatecore band Frenzal Rhomb and pop punk act Bodyjar, also established followings in Japan.

He and his friends, it turns out, were just a decoy set up by VALIS to detour the government from stopping a much more popular A-List band from releasing a similar record with a better-established recording company.

Following the death of Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia in the summer of 1995 and the appearance of " Down With Disease " on Beavis and Butthead, the band experienced a surge in the growth of their fan base and an increased awareness in popular culture.

The web has been a popular medium for storing and sharing photos ever since the first photograph was published on the web by Tim Berners-Lee in 1992 ( an image of the CERN house band Les Horribles Cernettes ).

This is done via interviews with popular musicians, music industry professionals, and the band members themselves.

They soon established themselves as the second most popular UK band ( after The Beatles ) and led a second wave of the " British Invasion " of the US pop charts.