In 1977, Shaffer left SNL for a few months to co-star with Greg Evigan in A Year at the Top, a short-lived CBS sitcom in which Shaffer and Evigan play two musicians from Idaho who relocate to Hollywood where they are regularly tempted by a famous promoter ( who is actually the devil's son ), played by Gabriel Dell, to sell their souls in exchange for a year of stardom.

As one of the first psychedelic bands, their contemporary influence has been acknowledged by 1960s musicians such as Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Peter Albin of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Chris Gerniottis of Zakary Thaks.

In a rare occurrence, both sides of the single separately reached the Billboard Top 20 in the U. S. During these sessions, Wings ( with guest musicians Chet Atkins and Floyd Cramer ) also recorded a single that was attributed to The Country Hams entitled " Walking in the Park with Eloise ," a song written years before by Paul's father James.

Harley's next appearance on BBC Television's Top of the Pops was supported by session musicians drafted in for the show.

Indeed, it was his work with the musicians who would, in a few years, become the hit-making group 10cc that brought him back to the U. S. as a major star with # 1 hits and a number of other major Top 40 singles.

The primary difference between his music and that of Bob Wills was that Thompson, who used the swing beat and instrumentation to enhance his vocals, discouraged the intense instrumental soloing from his musicians that Wills encouraged ; however, the " Hank Thompson sound " exceeded Bob Wills in Top 40 country hits.

In the Golf Digest rankings of Top 100 in Music, according to golf handicap indexes of major musicians, he was first in 2006 and second in 2008.

O ' Riley is the host of the weekly National Public Radio program From the Top, on which young musicians are heard and interviewed.

Initially designed as a media platform for all manner of young musicians, From The Top soon became exclusively dedicated to Classical music, and it was in this atmosphere that O ' Riley decided to augment the format by inserting, unannounced, his own arrangements, presumably Classical pieces, of Radiohead songs.

The Flower Pot Men were a British pop group created in 1967 as a result of the single " Let's Go to San Francisco ", recorded by session musicians, becoming a major UK Top 20 and Continental Europe hit in the autumn of 1967.

Initially known in Australia for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing New Wave and synthpop style music and attained Top Ten singles chart success in both Europe and the U. S. The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies ( singer-songwriter, record producer, guitar, bass, keyboards, oboe ) supplying additional musicians as required.

Although a few Canadian hip hop artists did break through to mainstream success around 1990, and a few Canadian acts such as Maestro Fresh-Wes, Main Source and Dream Warriors even gained cult-status recognition internationally from the underground hip hop scene, through much of the following decade, Canadian hip hop acts experienced a slowdown without any significant artists breaking through to the mainstream — although many hip hop musicians continued to record and tour, not one Canadian hip hop song reached even the Top 100 on a Canadian pop chart between 1992 and 1998.

A Top 40 success in Canada, the album featured several notable guest musicians including Jane Siberry, Duff McKagan of Guns ' N Roses, Terence Trent D ' Arby and the return of Ruby Turner.

The musicians produced by Brandes were banned from the German Top 100 for three months.

The shows, translated as Auditions and Top List of Surrealists featured early performances by many well known Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian actors and musicians.

Some of the musicians who appeared on the show included Stephan Grappelli, Harry Connick Jnr and his Big Band, George Benson, ZZ Top, Randy Crawford, Spinal Tap, Buddy Guy, Duran Duran, Cilla Black, Tom Jones, Barry Humphries, Lou Rawls, Cleo Lane, Kylie Minogue, Alice Cooper, Dionne Warwick, BB King, Phil Collins.

Top players were Claudio López ( 8 goals & 7 assists ) and Josh Wolff ( 11 goals ) who sparked the Wizards offense.

In 2000, she appeared in Woman on Top in the lead female role as Isabelle, a world-class chef who has suffered from motion sickness since birth, her first American lead role.

It caused an avalanche of requests to Top 40 radio by fans who had seen the movie to revive the 1965 Righteous Brothers chestnut.

This motivated Polygram ( who now owned the Verve / MGM label archives ) to re-release the song to Top 40 radio where it became a major hit for a second time ( their second UK # 1 ) and a greatest hits CD collection called The Very Best of The Righteous Brothers ... Unchained Melody.

According to al-Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda's documentary Top Secret: The Road to September 11, three weeks prior to the attacks Saeed is believed to have used the name ' Abdul Rahman ' to send a message to Ramzi bin al-Shibh ( who was posing as a girlfriend ) online, in which he wrote

The album debuted at # 5 on the Billboard 200, placing her in an elite group of women who have secured five or more US Top 10 album debuts.

Of the actors, Variety went on to say, " Burt Lancaster, whose presence adds measurably to the marquee weight of the strong cast names, wallops the character of Top Sergeant Milton Warden, the professional soldier who wet-nurses a weak, pompous commanding officer and the GIs under him.

Top glamour models like Lucy Pinder earn a £ 100, 000 a year in comparison to a top fashion model who can earn millions.

With help from Radio 1 breakfast show host Simon Mayo, who gave the song regular airplay and also used the chorus within a jingle, it became a hit, some 12 years after the song's original appearance in Life Of Brian, reaching number 3 in the UK charts and landing Idle a set on Top of the Pops in October 1991.

She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums.

According to figures given to the magazine Kit Car ( The UK's Top Selling Kit Car Magazine ) the most popular kit in the United Kingdom in 2005 was made by Robin Hood Sportscars who sell 700 kits a year.

In 1935 and 1936, she was listed in the annual " Quigley Poll of the Top Ten Money Making Stars ", which was compiled from the votes of movie exhibitors throughout the U. S. for the stars who had generated the most revenue in their theaters over the previous year.

Top Hat is a 1935 screwball comedy musical film in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick ( Edward Everett Horton ).

Carroll Clark, who worked under the general supervision of Van Nest Polglase, was the unit art director on all but one of the Astaire-Rogers films and he managed the team of designers responsible for the scenery and furnishings of Top Hat.

For " Top Hat, White Tie and Tails ", probably Astaire's most celebrated tap solo, the idea for the title song came from Astaire who described to Berlin a routine he had created for the 1930 Ziegfeld Broadway flop Smiles called " Say, Young Man of Manattan ," in which he gunned down a chorus of men – which included teenagers Bob Hope and Larry Adler – with his cane.

Top female athletes who were married were rare at the time, and it was considered inconceivable that a mother would be an athlete.

And in Werner Wejp-Olsen and Daniel Branca's comic book story " The Top Treasure In Town " Flintheart's grandfather, who in 1870 worked as a hansom cab driver in London, is introduced.

He informs Top 10 that Andy " Airbag " Soames, who five years ago contracted S. T. O. R. M. S.

A few months after the events of the Hell Ditch Pilgrim case, Hyperdog is Traynor's replacement as Captain of Precinct 10, Robyn Slinger is no longer Toybox, and the fascist Mayor Famaille and Major Cindercott are out of power, casualties of the reality warping by Andy Soames, who now peacefully overlooks Top 10 as they once again celebrate survival and hopeful perseverance in a crazy and confusing beautiful world.

* Montpellier Hérault RC, of the Top 14 who play rugby union formerly at the Stade Sabathé and now at the Stade Yves du Manoir.

Other subjects included game show producer Chuck Barris, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire ?, a " Top Ten " countdown of game show hosts, memorable game show moments, women who have featured prominently on game shows, celebrities and how they impacted game shows, and an insider's guide to winning on a TV game show.

The contrast between film's depiction of Martin " as a family man and hero who single-handedly defeats countless hostile Brits " and the real-life Marion was one of the " egregious oversights " that TIME magazine cited when listing " The Patriot " as number one of its " Top 10 historically misleading films " in 2011.

According to al-Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda's documentary Top Secret: The Road to September 11, three weeks prior to the attacks Saeed al-Ghamdi is believed to have used the name " Abdul Rahman " to message bin al-Shibh ( who was posing as a girlfriend ) online, where he messaged

The Top 40 format emerged, where popular songs are played repeatedly.

This is why " Top 40 " stations played only the biggest hits and why oldies and classic rock formats do the same for the eras they cover.

They have also played important parts in television series like Lost, The Amazing Race, America's Next Top Model, Cycle 10 which have significant parts of their story set within airports.

In 1974 he starred in the title role in The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs and in 1977 he played the main character of Peter Barnes in A Sharp Intake of Breath.

In 1974, Jason played the part of the inept spy Edgar Briggs in the television comedy series The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs ( ATV / ITV ).

His big break came when he received top billing in the comedy spoof of spy movies Top Secret !, where he played an American rock and roll star.

They played as a quintet from early 1975 and always as a quartet from mid-1976 ( Bill Hurd ( keyboardist ) became an out-of-staff member ; during his retirement years, he joined Suzi Quatro's band, touring and playing on a number of worldwide hits, which included the Top 20 hit " She's in Love with You " in 1979, before re-joining the Rubettes in 1982.

From 1959 to 1960 series Loopy De Loop and The Flintstones, softly orchestrated themes, some of them almost sounding concrete music and some played only by accordion, were used in other H-B cartons between 1961 and 1963 – like Top Cat, Snagglepuss, Touché Turtle, Wally Gator and the Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound 1961 seasons and all of its segments – and eventually between 1964 and 1967, and rarely then until the eighties.

Smith in 1985In 1984, The Cure released The Top, a generally psychedelic album on which Smith played all the instruments except the drums — played by Andy Anderson — and the saxophone — played by returnee Porl Thompson.

* In the 1935 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers classic ' Top Hat ', Jerry Travers ( played by Astaire ), sprinkles sand on the floor and dances a slow dance, helping Dale Tremont ( played by Rogers ) sleep.

Racing Club de Narbonne Méditerannée ( also known as RC Narbonne ) is a French rugby union club that played the 2007-08 season in the second-level Rugby Pro D2, after finishing at the bottom of the 2006-07 Top 14 table.

Maurice Gosfield, who played Private Duane Doberman on The Phil Silvers Show, also provided the voice for Benny the Ball in Top Cat ( Benny's rotund appearance was based on Gosfield too ).

He also played tambourine on a track by The Nomads ( who were working in the same studio as Donovan's Brain on 24 May 1999 ) called " Top Alcohol ", which was the " B-side " to their " The King of Night Train " single ( White Jazz Records ).

Throughout the 1960s, he performed on the Boston broadcast of Bozo's Big Top, where he played Mr. Lion, who created cartoons from the names of children participating in the show.

Top bands from the last 40 years have played there, both those of international origin ( Prince, Aimee Mann, Uriah Heep, King Crimson, Cradle of Filth, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues, MGMT, Nas ) and from Denmark ( D. A. D, Dodo and the Dodos, Johnny Deluxe, Big Fat Snake ).

" The group played on all their US and UK No. 1 hits (" I'm into Something Good ", " Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter " and " I'm Henry VIII, I Am "), on most of their Top Ten US singles, on a number of other singles and most album cuts.

" California Jam " hit the Canadian Top 40, peaking at No. 36, and Klaatu, though they played no live dates, promoted their music by making a television appearance in Canada on the Keith Hampshire-hosted show Music Machine.

The Vines played in the Big Top as part of the Homebake festival in December 2006.

Def Leppard toured 41 US cities plus Toronto, Canada, during mid-2009 with Poison and Cheap Trick and also played the Download Festival with Whitesnake and ZZ Top.

Snake played covers of ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Foghat, along with some original songs.