The New York Times reviewer wrote: " The show moves with the zing and sparkle of a Waller recording-filled with bright melodies and asides.

Frank Rich, in his review for The New York Times, wrote " In their scrupulous re-creation of the Fats Waller show that first electrified Broadway a decade ago, the original cast and creators have conjured the same between-the-wars dream world as before ...

As early as 2 July of that year, Sir William Waller discovered that his London-based units were refusing to campaign further afield, and wrote, " An army compounded of these men will never go through with your service, and till you have an army merely your own that you may command, it is in a manner impossible to do anything of importance.

A Cornish officer describing the battle wrote that Waller was "... the best shifter and chooser of ground when hee was not Master of the field that ever I saw " ( sic ).

Waller wrote:

The original suggestion of the celebrated " New Model Army " came from Waller, who wrote to the Committee of Both Kingdoms on 2 July 1644 that " an army compounded of these men will never go through with your service, and till you have an army merely your own that you may command, it is in a manner impossible to do anything of importance.

The king, Prince Charles, and the governing circle appreciated " their faithful lieutenant less than did his enemies Waller and Fairfax, the former of whom wrote, ' hostility itself cannot violate my friendship to your person ,' while the latter spoke of him as ' One whom we honour and esteem above any other of your party.

Butler's commanding officer, Major Littleton W. T. Waller, personally commended him and wrote that " for such reward as you may deem proper the following officers: Lieutenant Smedley D. Butler, for the admirable control of his men in all the fights of the week, for saving a wounded man at the risk of his own life, and under a very severe fire.

Lord Preston, the English ambassador at Paris, called him " the governor " and wrote that " They style Waller, by way of commendation, a second Cromwell ".

He always wrote with a remarkable smoothness, which marks him, with Edmund Waller and George Sandys, as one of the pioneers of the classic reformation of English verse.

In 1934, they wrote " You're Not the Only Oyster in the Stew " which was a novelty hit for Fats Waller, as was " My Very Good Friend, the Milkman ".

In 2007, Waller released a solo album Plays the Beatles, featuring a new recording of " Woman ", which Paul McCartney wrote under the pseudonym of Bernard Webb, and which had been a Peter and Gordon hit in the mid 1960s.

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze is a novel by Robert James Waller, which was made into a film in 2004.

by Fats Waller, Harry Link, and Billy Rose ; " I Love My Baby ( My Baby Loves Me )" by Harry Warren and Bud Green ; " A Sailboat in the Moonlight " by Carmen Lombardo and John Jacob Loeb ; " Chicago ( That Toddlin ' Town )" by Fred Fisher ; and " Anchors Aweigh " by Charles A. Zimmerman and Alfred Hart Miles.

In 1916, Marshall Field & Company purchased the site from the Waller heirs and established Fieldcrest Mills, the town of Fieldale, and an company clubhouse, all completed in 1919.

Julius's wife, Alan's mother, was Ethel Sara ( née Stoney ; 1881 – 1976 ), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways.

In 1950, St. John Publications produced the digest-sized, adult-oriented " picture novel " It Rhymes with Lust, a 128-page digest by pseudonymous writer " Drake Waller " ( Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller ), penciler Matt Baker and inker Ray Osrin, touted as " an original full-length novel " on its cover.

They include Last House on Dead End Street ( 1977 ), Paul Schrader's film Hardcore ( 1979 ), Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline ( 1979 ), the Ruggero Deodato film Cannibal Holocaust ( 1980 ), David Cronenberg's Videodrome ( 1983 ), the Nine Inch Nails film The Broken Movie ( 1993 ), the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ( 1986 ), the Alejandro Amenábar film Tesis ( 1996 ), the film Strange Days ( 1995 ), the Anthony Waller film Mute Witness ( 1994 ), the Johnny Depp film The Brave ( 1997 ), the Joel Schumacher film 8mm ( 1999 ), the John Ottman film, Urban Legends: Final Cut ( 2000 ), and Fred Vogel's film August Underground ( 2001 ) and its sequels.

* Edmund Waller of England ( 1606 – 1687 ), Member of Parliament and poet

Based on the novel by Robert James Waller, the film relates the story of Robert Kincaid ( Eastwood ), a photographer working for National Geographic, who has an affair with a middle-aged Italian farm wife, Francesca ( Streep ).

He favors jazz ( especially bebop ), blues, classic rhythm-and-blues, classical, and country-and-western music ; his favorite musicians include saxophonists Charlie Parker and Lester Young, pianists Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, and Fats Waller, and Delta bluesman Robert Johnson.

Fats Waller ( May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943 ), born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.

After sessions with Ted Lewis ( 1930 ), Jack Teagarden ( 1931 ), and Billy Banks's Rhythmakers ( 1932 ), he began in May 1934 the voluminous series of recordings with a small band known as Fats Waller and his Rhythm.

* " Keepin ' Out Of Mischief Now " w. Andy Razaf m. Fats Waller

James P. Johnson, known as the " Father of Stride ", created this unique style of jazz piano along with fellow pianists Willie " The Lion " Smith, Fats Waller and Luckey Roberts.

William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith ( 23 November 1893 – 18 April 1973 ), a. k. a. " The Lion ", was an American jazz pianist and one of the masters of the stride style, usually grouped with James P. Johnson and Thomas " Fats " Waller as the three greatest practitioners of the genre from its Golden Age, c. 1920 – 1943.

Claude Thornhill's compositions included the standard " Snowfall ", " I Wish I Had You ", recorded by Billie Holiday and Fats Waller, " Let's Go ", " Shore Road ", " Portrait Of A Guinea Farm ", " Lodge Podge ", " Rustle Of Spring ", " It's Time For Us To Part ", " It Was A Lover And His Lass ", " The Little Red Man ", " Memory Of An Island ", and " Where Has My Little Dog Gone?

With the Suicide Squad on the verge of being disbanded by her superiors after Waller's lone wolf tactics during " The Janus Directive ", Waller gathers Ravan, Poison Ivy, and Deadshot in an assassination mission of the LOA, a group that are planning to create a zombie army.

", recorded by Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra, Gene Rodemich, Marion Harris, George Wettling, and Erroll Garner ; " The Lonesome Road ", written with Nat Shilkret, recorded by Bing Crosby, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, Mildred Bailey, Les Paul, Judy Garland, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dick Dale, The Fendermen, Frank Sinatra, Chet Atkins, Bobby Darin, Duane Eddy, Paul Robeson, Jerry Vale, Muggsy Spanier, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, Frankie Laine and Ted Lewis ; " Riding Around in the Rain ", written with Carmen Lombardo and " The Voice of the Southland ".

The original theme song for This Old House was " Louisiana Fairy Tale ", composed by Haven Gillespie, Mitchell Parish and J. Fred Coots and performed by early 20th-century jazz artist Fats Waller.

His compositions include " Trumbology " ( 1927 ), " Plantation Moods " with David Rose, " Red Hot ", " Wringin ' an ' Twistin '" with Fats Waller, " Barbed Wire Blues ", " Troubled ", " I Like That ", " Bass Drum Dan ", " Break it Down ", " I'm Glad ", " Choo Choo ", " Sun Spots ", " Eclipse ", " Meteor ", " Krazy Kat ", " G Blues ", " Tailspin " with Jimmy Dorsey, " Crying All Day ", " Loved One ", " Apple Blossoms " with Joe Venuti, Lennie Hayton, and Eddie Lang, " Three Blind Mice " with Chauncey Morehouse, " The Mayor of Alabam '", " Flight of a Haybag ", " Cinderella's Wedding Day ", " Runnin ' Ragged ", and " For No Reason at All in C " with Bix Beiderbecke in 1927, which was released as a single on Okeh, Columbia, and Parlophone.

* December 15 – Fats Waller, African-American jazz pianist ( Ain't Misbehavin ) ( b. 1904 )

Waller influenced many pre-bop jazz pianists ; Count Basie and Erroll Garner have both reanimated his hit songs ( notably, " Ain't Misbehavin '").

A Broadway musical revue showcasing Waller tunes entitled Ain't Misbehavin ' was produced in 1978.

It is named after the song by Fats Waller ( with Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf ), " Ain't Misbehavin '".

The musical is a tribute to the black musicians of the 1920s and ' 30s who were part of the Harlem Renaissance, an era of growing creativity, cultural awareness, and ethnic pride, and takes its title from the 1929 Waller song " Ain't Misbehavin '".

* " Ain't Misbehavin '" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas " Fats " Waller & Harry Brooks

* 1978: Ain't Misbehavin ' – Music by Thomas " Fats " Waller

The group released one single in 1975, Ain't Misbehavin ', which contained a cover of the Fats Waller song, as A-side.

* Ain't Misbehavin ' and Other Fats Waller Hits ( 1984 ) RCA

In addition to appearing on various television shows he has toured with Robin Givens in the comedy-drama Heaven I Need a Hug and in 2008 accepted the role of Fats Waller in a national tour of Ain't Misbehavin '.

Tiger Lily released a single on 14 March 1975 on Gull Records, the A-side of which was a cover of the Fats Waller track " Ain't Misbehavin '".

By the late 1970s, his involvement as pianist and conductor with the Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin ' ( based on the music of Fats Waller ) had informed a wider audience of his unique qualities as a musician.

He adapted the music of Thomas " Fats " Waller for the original Broadway production of Ain't Misbehavin ' and served as the musical director of the show.