* 1953 – Tommy Shaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Styx, Damn Yankees and Shaw Blades )

Jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole, country singer Hank Williams, blues singer Big Mama Thornton, Melvin Franklin of The Temptations, and guitarist Tommy Shaw of Styx are among the many musicians to get their start in Montgomery.

In addition to being the launching point of Hank Williams Sr .’ s career, and the birthplace of Nat King Cole, Clarence Carter, and Tommy Shaw, Montgomery has also seen a few of its rock bands achieve national success in recent years.

The OAS is referenced in the Oliver Stone film JFK, as suspected conspirator Clay Shaw ( played by Tommy Lee Jones ) is alleged to have business connections with them.

Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Shep Fields and, later, Glenn Miller far eclipsed other bands in popularity from the middle of the decade.

The director was Roger Redfarn and de Mille's dances were rechoreographed by Tommy Shaw.

* Tommy West ( October 1975 – 1976 ) A former British Army soldier, West was already the Chief of Staff at the time UVF volunteer Noel " Nogi " Shaw was killed by Lenny Murphy in November 1975 as part of an internal feud.

Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy

After a frantic last-minute search, the band brought on guitarist Tommy Shaw as Curulewski's replacement.

In 1983, the band mounted an ambitious stage show in support of Kilroy featuring theatrical presentations of three songs utilizing instrumental backing tracks, including " Mr. Roboto ", which featured DeYoung singing live while disguised as a Roboto, " Heavy Metal Poisoning " with James Young as the evangelist Dr. Righteous singing while the Panozzo brothers acted as his henchmen on stage, and " Haven't We Been Here Before " with Tommy Shaw as Jonathan Chance and DeYoung ( as Kilroy in Roboto costume ) duetting.

Tommy Shaw departed the band for a solo career at the conclusion of the Kilroy tour.

Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw released a string of solo albums, beginning with DeYoung's Desert Moon and Shaw's Girls with Guns in 1984.

In 1989, Tommy Shaw formed Damn Yankees with Ted Nugent, Jack Blades, and Michael Cartellone.

The band reunited once again in 1995, with Tommy Shaw returning to the fold, to re-record " Lady " for Styx Greatest Hits.

While Tommy Shaw and James Young's material attempted to convey a hard rock vein, Dennis DeYoung's penchant for other styles resulted in dramatic differences in the material on Brave New World.

On March 3, 2010, Tommy Shaw and Styx played in the Auditorio Nacional of Mexico City in a double concert followed by REO Speedwagon.

Although words of reunion with DeYoung back to the fold were being suggested around the press and fan forums, on a July 7, 2011 interview by Rolling Stone Tommy Shaw states that he " think reunion is realistic " and stating that " what was true in 1983 was only more true in 1996 " in which their coming back together with DeYoung had " a very negative effect on each other ".

* Tommy Shaw – lead and rhythm guitar, lead and backing vocals, mandolin, autoharp, talk box

Styx band members, Tommy Shaw, James Young along with others put the benefit concert together in a short period of time.

Tommy Shaw appears on the Food Network show Cupcake Wars.

* Band leaders: Toshiko Akiyoshi, Count Basie, Charlie Barnet, Les Brown, Cab Calloway, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Gordon Goodwin, Glen Gray, Erskine Hawkins, Fletcher Henderson, Woody Herman, Tiny Hill, Earl Hines, Harry James, Louis Jordan, Hal Kemp, Gene Krupa, Kay Kyser, Jimmie Lunceford, Glenn Miller, Red Norvo, Gloria Parker, Louis Prima, Buddy Rich, Fred Rich, Artie Shaw, Charlie Spivak, Chick Webb

It was also the only album released by the Lawrence Gowan / Tommy Shaw / James Young / Glen Burtnik / Todd Sucherman lineup.

#* Lead Guitar: Tommy Shaw

Babe Ruth, as he always did in the Stadium, played right field to avoid having the sun in his eyes, and Tommy Thevenow, a rather mediocre hitter who played shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, knocked a ball with all his might into the sharp angle formed by the permanent stands and the wooden bleachers, where Ruth could not reach it.

Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass.

Tommy Reilly played the harmonica and mouth organ music for it, and for Tex Tucker when he played a mouth organ in the show.

* Daryl Mitchell as Tommy Webber, the actor who played Lt. Laredo on the TV show as a child.

Corbin Bleu played the 9-year-old Tommy in the film.

Voight played Captain Woodrow F. Call, the part played by Tommy Lee Jones in the original miniseries.

The bands from Southern University and Southeast Missouri State College performed before the game, while trumpeter Tommy Loy played the national anthem.

After the various band members discovered first-generation English punk bands like The Clash, The Jam, The Damned, and The Buzzcocks, Dogbreath changed their name to The Impediments and played a drunken performance without Tommy Stinson at a church hall gig in June 1980.

* Tommy ' Birdman ' Rowland ( played by Matt Dillon ) — Head snow plower and former high school hockey star.

* Sharon Cassidy ( played by Mira Sorvino ) — Tommy's current girlfriend, who tries her best to make Tommy happy.

In 1958, Marsden played the role of the Fairy Godmother, in the production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella at the London Coliseum with Tommy Steele, Kenneth Williams, Yana and Jimmy Edwards.

* 8 Tommy Maddox QB ( UCLA ) Maddox, a former first round draft pick, played five seasons in the NFL seeing playing time with the Denver Broncos, St. Louis Rams, New York Giants, and Atlanta Falcons.

On a March 21, 1928 Victor session Miller played alongside Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Joe Venuti in the All-Star Orchestra, directed by Nat Shilkret.

The other exceptions include a boy's choir " Christmas Medley " played while the characters drive through Los Angeles, the Molto allegro from Mozart's Jupiter Symphony ( heard as Annie and Alvy drive through the countryside ), Tommy Dorsey's performance of " Sleepy Lagoon ", and the muzak version of the Savoy Brown song " A Hard Way to Go ", playing over a party in the mansion of Paul Simon's character.

Several characters are based on real country music figures: Henry Gibson's Haven Hamilton is a composite of Roy Acuff, Hank Snow, and Porter Wagoner ; Ronee Blakely's Barbara Jean is based on Loretta Lynn ; the black country singer Tommy Brown ( played by Timothy Brown ) is based on Charley Pride ; and the feuding folk trio is based on Peter, Paul and Mary ; within the trio, the married couple of Bill and Mary were inspired by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, who later became Starland Vocal Band .< ref >

To help keep him out of trouble, his father bought him a large transoceanic radio, and Smith became an avid fan of R & B music and the disc jockeys who played it, such as " Jocko " Henderson of Philadelphia, New York's " Dr. Jive " ( Tommy Smalls ), the " Moon Dog " Alan Freed, and Nashville's " John R ." Richbourg, who later became his mentor.

In 1959 Sykes wrote and directed the one-off BBC special Gala Opening, with a cast that included ' Professor ' Stanley Unwin and Hattie Jacques, and played a small supporting role in the Tommy Steele film Tommy the Toreador.

The song is a staple of the Irish folk-music group The Dubliners, who have played it on many occasions and included it on several albums, and is especially well known to fans of The Clancy Brothers, who have performed and recorded it with Tommy Makem.

The band was unique, even in the 1960s, in that they ( at Tommy Hall's urging ) played most of their live shows and recorded their albums while under the influence of LSD, and built their lifestyle and music around the psychedelic experience.