When his drummer Sonny Greer was invited to join the Wilber Sweatman Orchestra in New York City, Ellington made the fateful decision to leave behind his successful career in Washington, D. C., and move to Harlem, becoming one of the figures of the Harlem Renaissance.

When the show moved to California, two new members joined the cast: Ed Marinaro as Sonny St. Jacques, a stunt man, landlord of the Burbank apartment building, and love interest for Laverne, as well as Leslie Easterbrook as Rhonda Lee, the girls ' neighbor and an aspiring actress.

a $ 100, 000 recording contract, but Sonny Sandoval spoke for them all when he politely but firmly told band manager Tim Cook to decline the offer because, “ God has a bigger plan for P. O. D .” When, in 1998, Atlantic Records A & R John Rubeli first came across P. O. D.

When Tommy informs Sonny of the ambush Sonny loses his temper and threatens Tommy with the consequences of attempting to cheat the Mafia.

When Sonny and his henchmen arrive at the Vercetti Estate, Tommy attempts to give them their tribute in counterfeit money.

When the series ' full production was taken over by Funimation in the U. S., Krillin would be voiced by Laurie Steele as a child in Dragon Ball and Sonny Strait as an adult in all media released to the US.

She fared better with the Sonny Bono-Jack Nitzsche song " Needles and Pins " and the self-penned " When You Walk in the Room " later in 1963.

When I think of the hours and hours of midnight oil that Sonny put in to the magnificent websites alone it frankly makes my blood boil.

When The Crows started out in 1951, practicing sidewalk harmonies, the original members were Daniel " Sonny " Norton ( lead ), William " Bill " Davis ( baritone ), Harold Major ( tenor ), Jerry Wittick ( tenor ), and Gerald Hamilton ( bass ).

When Calogero chooses to keep quiet when questioned by NYPD detectives, Sonny takes a liking to him and gives him the nickname " C ".

When his jockey Sonny Workman was asked if this was his greatest race, Workman replied: " My greatest race?

When Sonny barricaded himself in the penthouse after trying to kill Alcazar in front of several witnesses, Lucky tried to behave like a cop but ended up helping a wounded Sonny and a hysterical Carly out of the building.

" When the Grandfather was dropped from the ads, " Sonny " remained as the character's name.

When he was seventeen, Porcaro got his first professional gig playing in Sonny and Cher's touring band.

When Joseph Cotten read the names of the next week's cast, he supposedly said, with a mixture of shock and astonishment, that listeners would hear " that new, talented personality ... Sonny Tufts?!

When Vito asks Sonny why he did this, Sonny tells him that he saw his father kill the blackhander Don Fanucci years earlier.

When Sonny finds out that the Tattaglias also killed longtime Corleone enforcer Luca Brasi, he orders the death of Bruno Tattaglia, son and underboss of family boss Philip Tattaglia.

When Colonel Parker informed Elvis that Red West and Sonny West were writing a " tell all book " about Elvis, which included the disclosure of Elvis ' addiction to prescribed pain medications, Elvis was furious as well as " hurt ".

When Kristina is diagnosed with leukemia in 2004 and needs bone marrow, Alexis is forced to tell Sonny the truth.

When Alexis and Sonny discover this, she tearfully remarks that she is to blame for every bad thing that has happened to Kristina, citing the fact that she was the one who encouraged Kristina to date Kiefer in the first place as proof, while Sonny comforts her and tries to convince her otherwise.

When it was announced that the New York Giants would begin playing at the new Giants Stadium in 1976, a reporter ask Werblin about the New York Giants playing in New Jersey, he explained the geography in the New York City Metro area by saying " If you pave the Hudson River it becomes 13th Avenue.

When Werblin signed University of Alabama star quarterback Joe Namath after the 1964 season for a then-unheard of annual salary of $ 430, 000, the Jets, and the AFL, were made ; the Namath signing, and his subsequent stardom, along with a new, more lucrative television contract with NBC, led more than any other single factor to the AFL – NFL merger.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

When a customer bought a minicomputer, at that time the smallest computer on the market, the computer did not come with Pre-installed software, but needed to be installed by engineers employed by the OEM.

When Jerry Jones bought the team he inherited Schramm's Ring of Honor " power " and immediately inducted Jordan.

When Ball returned to weekly television, she and Arnaz worked out an agreement regarding Desilu, wherein she bought him out.

When the " Salvador Ibáñez " workshop was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War, the " Ibanez Salvador " guitars were no longer available, so Hoshino Gakki bought the " Ibanez Salvador " brand name rights and started making Spanish acoustic guitars in 1935, at first using the " Ibanez Salvador " brand name, and then later using the " Ibanez " brand name.

When Richard's second son Harry was born, Michael bought him a train set.

When Presley heard " Only the Lonely " for the first time, he bought a box of copies to pass to his friends.

When Apple Inc. bought NeXT, and used NeXTSTEP to construct Mac OS X, they replaced Display PostScript with Quartz.

When Williams bought the £ 8. 5 million mansion in early 2009, Vickers lived at the estate for some months but had recently moved back in with his mother who lives nearby.

When he was eight years old his father gave him a large chemistry set which was enhanced over the next few years with extra chemicals including a bottle of concentrated sulphuric acid, bought from a pharmacy, at a time when pharmacists were less regulated than now.

When he was about eight or nine years old, his father bought him a beautiful Victorian brass microscope, which he used to examine biological specimens, furthering his interest in biology.

When Numan was 15 years old, his father bought him a Gibson Les Paul guitar, which he regards as his most treasured possession.

When the confirmation came, he bought books ( for example, the complete works of Aristotle ).

When Mannie asks him why he bought it, the Professor relates the following parable, implying that self-government is an illusion caused by failure to understand reality:

After producing a film adaption of his 1968 novel Only When I Larf, Deighton and photographer Brian Duffy bought the film rights to Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop's stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War!

When the company gets bought out ( or taken private ) – at a dramatically lower price – the takeover artist gains a windfall from the former top executive's actions to surreptitiously

When the painting that was singled out for special condemnation, Matisse's Woman with a Hat, was bought by Gertrude and Leo Stein, the embattled artist's morale improved considerably.

When he married, he acquired Jesmond Dene House, a house to the west of Jesmond Dene, Newcastle and began to landscape and improve land that he bought within the Dene.

When Pierce bought the West Virginia property, he named it the " Cosmotheist Community Church " and applied for federal, state, and local tax exemptions.

For example, in the classic novel Journey to the West ( circa 1590 ), Sun Wukong tells a lion-monster in chapter 75: " When I passed through Guangzhou, I bought a pot for cooking za sui – so I'll savour your liver, entrails, and lungs.

When Hell's Hinges was released, the reception of the film among New York critics was so positive that the producer bought space in newspapers around the country to reprint the reviews.

When the Bourbon rule collapsed in 1860 ( see Francis II of the Two Sicilies ) a British man named James Stevenson bought the northern part of the island, built a villa, reopened the local mines and planted vineyards for grapes that would later be used to make Malmsey wine.

When WRIK-TV was bought by Tommy Muñiz, Mercado stayed for two years, then moved his show to WKBM-TV which later became WLII-TV, Tele Once ( Channel 11 ).

When Frederick Rogers bought of land from the Earl of Derby on 9 January 1923 it was for the purpose of developing Keston Park.

When this line was bought by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad the following decade, the L & N built train depots at Woodstock and other towns.