While in Fort Worth, Wills added the " rowdy city blues " of Bessie Smith and Emmett Miller to a repertoire of mainly waltzes and breakdowns he had learned from his father, and patterned his vocal style after that of Miller and other performers such as Al Bernard.

While performers and singers garnered the lion's share of public attention, producers working behind the scenes played an equal, if not more important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the " disco sound.

While the angle of the instrument may change as this motion follows the shape of the teeth and placement of the jaw, contrary to what many brass performers and teachers believe, the angle of the instrument does not actually constitute the motion Reinhardt advised as a pivot.

While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in English it shares the same name, and it often shares the same performers and venues as traditional folk music.

While the live performers recorded the master phonograph, up to ten tubes led to blank cylinders in other phonographs.

While performers who use concert sound subwoofers for onstage monitoring may like the powerful sub-bass sound that they get onstage, sound engineers may find the use of large subwoofers ( e. g., two 18 " drivers ) for onstage instrument monitoring to be problematic, because it may interfere with the " Front of House " sub-bass sound.

* Performers Playing Opposite Sex: While several performers have won Tonys for roles that have involved cross dressing, only two have won for playing a character of the opposite sex: Mary Martin in the title role of Peter Pan ( 1955 ) and Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray ( 2003 ).

While the flu was spreading among the rest of the performers, Holly's drummer, Carl Bunch, had to be hospitalized in Ironwood, Michigan, due to a severe case of frostbitten feet.

While they were good sports about it, many of the performers despised the musical games.

While QuadraJets have been occasionally derided as being poor performers, with proper understanding and tuning it can compete at most levels with other designs short of the full race inspired set-ups such as the Holley Double-Pumpers, which incorporated accelerator pumps on the primary and secondary carburetor circuits.

While the band was inspirational to some performers in the riot grrrl movement in the Pacific Northwest, Babes in Toyland never associated themselves with the movement.

While the term " drag king " was first cited in print in 1972, there is a longer history of female performers dressing in male attire.

While the Smothers themselves were at the forefront of these efforts, credit also goes to the roster of writers and regular performers they brought to the show, including Steve Martin, Don Novello (" Father Guido Sarducci "), Rob Reiner, Presidential candidate Pat Paulsen, Bob Einstein (" Super Dave Osborne ", " Marty Funkhouser ", and " Officer Judy "), Einstein's brother, Albert ( who works professionally as Albert Brooks ), and resident hippie Leigh French (" Share a Little Tea with Goldie ").

While the audiences in Happenings had been welcomed as the performers, it is only sometimes and often unwittingly that they become an active part in a Performance.

While presenting Aida in Rio de Janeiro, Leopoldo Miguez, the locally hired conductor, reached the summit of a two-month escalating conflict with the performers due to his rather poor command of the work, to the point that the singers went on strike and forced the company's general manager to seek a substitute conductor.

While replete with racist stereotypes, Barnum's shows satirized white racial attitudes, as in a stump speech in which a black phrenologist ( like all minstrel performers, a white man in blackface ) made a dialect speech parodying lectures given at the time to " prove " the superiority of the white race: " You see den, dat clebber man and dam rascal means de same in Dutch, when dey boph white ; but when one white and de udder's black, dat's a grey hoss ob anoder color.

While the Smothers themselves were at the forefront of these efforts, credit also goes to the roster of writers and regular performers they brought to the show, including Jim Stafford ( who served as their head writer and producer ), Steve Martin, Don Novello (" Father Guido Sarducci "), Rob Reiner (" Mike Stivic "), Presidential candidate Pat Paulsen, Bob Einstein (" Super Dave Osborne ", " Marty Funkhouser ", and " Officer Judy "), Einstein's brother, Albert ( who works professionally as Albert Brooks ), and resident hippie Leigh French (" Share a Little Tea with Goldie ").

While Muzak had initially produced tens of thousands of original artist recordings by the top performers of the 1930s and 1940s, their new strategy required a different sound.

" While soul jazz was most popular during the mid-to-late 1960s, many soul jazz performers, and elements of the music, remain popular.

While Covent Garden engaged international stars, Sadler's Wells focused on young British and Commonwealth performers.

While the club's management interferes with Sandman's romantic interest in Lila, a singer, its cruel treatment of the performers leads to an intervention by Harlem criminal " Bumpy " Rhodes on their behalf.

More recently it has produced some significant performers including guitarist Ken Nicol and mother and daughter singer songwriters Chris and Kellie While.

While the field of Noh performance is extremely codified, and regulated by the iemoto system, with an emphasis on tradition rather than innovation, some performers do compose new plays or revive historical ones that are not a part of the standard repertoire.

While in school, he worked at the Follies, a cinema showing " nudies " ( brief, plotless films featuring naked performers ), and observed that each night the theater was filled with " horn dick daddies " ( masturbators ) who arrived simply for the onscreen nudity.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

While his work on deciphering the Maya script gained some support from Alfred Tozzer at Harvard, the main authority on Ancient Maya culture, J. E. S.

While Axbridge grew in importance as a centre for cloth manufacturing in the Tudor period and gained a charter from King John, Cheddar remained a more dispersed mining and dairy-farming village.

While ceremonial, these offices no doubt gained Domitian valuable experience in the Roman Senate, and may have contributed to his later reservations about its relevance.

While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time.

While Captain Marvel did not recapture his old popularity, he later appeared in a Saturday morning live action TV adaptation and gained a prominent place in the mainstream continuity DC calls the DC Universe.

While the community was skeptical that this new method could possibly outperform hand-coding, it reduced the number of programming statements necessary to operate a machine by a factor of 20, and quickly gained acceptance.

While no compromise could ever be accepted by the dogmatic wing of the church, his sincere efforts at reconciliation gained him the approval of the major body of the church.

While it was a tactical defeat for the Americans and the small fleet led by Benedict Arnold was almost entirely destroyed, the Americans gained a strategic victory.

While the leaders of Congress languished in jail, the other parties supported the war and gained organizational strength.

While some recipes began making sparse use of the orange zest for flavor, the practice of muddling orange and other fruit gained prevalence as late as the 1990s.

While invented long before, the practice of including music with the entrance gained rapid popularity during the 1980s, largely as a result of the huge success of Hulk Hogan and the WWF, and their Rock ' n ' Wrestling Connection.

While Gould is celebrated for the color and energy of his prose, as well as his massive interdisciplinary knowledge, critics such as Scott have concerns that the theory has gained undeserved credence among non-scientists because of Gould's rhetorical skills.

While working there she gained her interest in Asia that would later affect her choice of fieldwork as a working anthropologist.

While the identification of Wilusa with Ilium ( that is, Troy ) is always controversial, in the 1990s it gained majority acceptance.

While other Electors had gained other titles, becoming either Kings or Grand Duke, the Elector of Hesse-Kassel alone retained the anachronistic dignity.

While in Rome Plotinus also gained the respect of the Emperor Gallienus and his wife Salonina.

While the United Provinces gained independence, the Southern Netherlands remained under the rule of Spain ( 1556 – 1713 ).

While Hokusai's work prior to this series is certainly important, it was not until this series that he gained broad recognition and left a lasting impact on the art world.

While she was attempting to raise further support for the Lancastrian cause in Scotland, her principal commander, Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, gained a major victory for her at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460 by defeating the combined armies of the Duke of York and the Earl of Salisbury.

While in some ways the odds of success were even less than in 1994, she rejoined the ALP and successfully gained pre-selection.

While it has gained a larger following among economists and public policy practitioners, the discipline has fallen out of favor among more radical and post-modernist geographers.

While it gained in stature by becoming the capital of the Dauphiné in the 11th century, Grenoble remained for most of its history a modest parliamentary and garrison city on the borders of the kingdom of France.

While garnering more substantial roles and prestige, he also gained a reputation as a ladies man, dating numerous women, some many years older, including Cher and Ellen Barkin.

While in college playing together at local Christian coffee houses, Jars gained quite a reputation for their very original arrangement of " Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer " which had been deftly adapted to the tune of Nirvana's " Smells Like Teen Spirit ".