The first special premiered om June 5, 1964 and starred Willson and his wife, Rini ; it featured guest stars Caterina Valente and Sergio Franchi, and featured a production number with Willson leading four military bands composed of 500 California high school band members.

Willson and Rini hosted the third special in July and it featured a Willson production number with 1, 000 Marine Corps volunteers from Camp Pendelton.

Willson himself became part of one of the show's very few running gags, beginning replies to Bankhead's comments or questions with, " Well, sir, Miss Bankhead ...." Willson wrote the song, " May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You " for the show.

Since Willson, however, the stability of James's government in Scotland and in the early part of his English reign, as well as his relatively enlightened views on religion and war, have earned him a re-evaluation from many historians, who have rescued his reputation from this tradition of criticism.

The music of Iowa includes such notable musicians as Slipknot, The Envy Corps, Radio Moscow, Modern Life Is War, Unknown Component, Bix Beiderbecke and Greg Brown, as well as Meredith Willson, composer of The Music Man, and Alice Ettinger who was renowned enough to perform in Europe in the 1890s.

Charles Willson Woodside ( 1905 — May 29, 1991 ) was a Canadian journalist well known for his World War II reporting, author, and a professor of political science at the University of Guelph.

MPL publishing owns a wide range of copyrighted material-covering nearly 100 years of music-by composers including McCartney, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, Jerry Herman, Frank Loesser, Meredith Willson, Harold Arlen and many others, with songs, such as “ Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody ” ( made famous by Al Jolson ), " I'm Glad There Is You ", " Blue Suede Shoes ", " That'll Be the Day ", as well as Lennon – McCartney's " Love Me Do " and " P. S.

* Laurel Rose Willson, later known as Lauren Stratford and Laura Grabowski – discredited author of books about satanic ritual abuse and Holocaust survival

Robert Meredith Willson ( May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984 ) was an American composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright, best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical The Music Man.

Through working on this production, Willson met writer Franklin Lacey who proved instrumental in developing the story line for a musical Willson had been working on, soon to be known as The Music Man.

Quentin Willson ( born 23 July 1957 ) is a British TV presenter and motoring expert, perhaps most widely known as a presenter of the motoring programmes Britain's Worst Driver, Fifth Gear, and the original incarnation of Top Gear.

Willson was widely known for his stable of good-looking, marginally talented actors with unusual names he bestowed upon them, and he immediately cast the rechristened Madison in a bit part in Selznick's Since You Went Away.

Shortly afterwards, the Ladds hosted a party attended by David O. Selznick employee Henry Willson, an agent known for his assortment of young, handsome and marginally talented actors to whom he gave new, unusual names.

It took Willson some eight years and thirty revisions to complete the musical, for which he wrote more than forty songs.

In 1959, Willson and his wife Rini recorded an album called "... and Then I Wrote The Music Man ", in which they review the history of, and sing songs from, the show ( album cover shown at right ).

Many distinguished personages such as Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and the great American artist Charles Willson Peale frequented the Town.

Shared stage with such worldknown bluesgiants Charlie Musselwhite, Kim Willson ( Fabulous Thunderbirds ), Sonny Landreth.

To achieve the greatest possible accuracy, Christy searched for portraits by the best artists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, such as Charles Willson Peale and Gilbert Stuart.

*" Till There Was You ", written by Meredith Willson, performed by Ellen Dow

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* The Quentin Willson Guide to Used Cars: Everything You Need to Know by Quentin Willson Virgin Books 2001

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" Till There Was You " is a song written by Meredith Willson for his 1957 musical play The Music Man, and which also appeared in the 1962 movie version.

* 05 " The Music Man Revival 2001 " (" Till There Was You ", Willson )

* Willson, D. H. ( 1971 ): King James VI & I Jonathan Cape Paperback ISBN 0-224-60572-0

* Willson, David Harris ( 1963 ed ) King James VI & I. London: Jonathan Cape ISBN 0-224-60572-0.

Willson wrote three autobiographies: And There I Stood With My Piccolo ( 1948 ), Eggs I Have Laid ( 1955 ) and But He Doesn't Know the Territory ( 1959 ).

Do I Hear a Waltz ?-- It was Meredith Willson who initially brought Sergio Franchi's name and talents to the attention of Richard Rodgers when he was casting the leading role of the romantic Venetian shopkeeper, Renato Di Rossi.

Hudson has been the subject of three plays: Hollywood Valhalla by Aidan Harney, starring Patrick Byrnes as Rock and Stewart Roche as his personal trainer, Toby, which was staged at Bewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, in 2011 ; " For Roy ", by Nambi E. Kelley, starring Richard Henzel as Roy and Hannah Gomez as Caregiver, which was staged at American Theatre Company in Chicago in 2010 and Rock, by Tim Fountain, starring Michael Xavier as Rock and Bette Bourne as his agent Henry Willson, which was staged at London's Oval House Theatre in 2008.

On hearing the crossing had been abandoned, James, in what Willson calls " the one romantic episode of his life ", sailed from Leith with a three-hundred-strong retinue to fetch Anne personally.

" In the Henry Willson date pool ", the author says, " Nick Adams was one client, among many, who glommed on to Natalie Wood to get his picture taken.

This collection, which Richard Saunders has termed " America's first art gallery ", provided much of the early artistic education for Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and John Trumbull.

The cartoon Johnny Bravo featured a similar take on the story in the episode, " The Man Who Cried Clown ", with Johnny in the role of Bob Willson ( though he sees a clown instead of a gremlin ).

The Halloween special, " Tiny Toons Night Ghoulery ", featured a segment parodying the story, with Plucky Duck in the role of Bob Willson.

* S. Brian Willson, " History of Palestine and Green Line Israel ", Most Dangerous of Rogue Nation, 1992, Revised May 2002

From 1949 to 1951, he was choral arranger-conductor on " The Big Show ", the last big radio variety show with Tallulah Bankhead and Meredith Willson.

* 04 " Trouble in New York City " (" Trouble ", Willson )

* 25 " 76 Hit Shows " (" 76 Trombones ", Willson )

According to Willson, the scene in which Chaplin shaves a customer to Brahms ' Hungarian Dance No. 5 had been filmed before he arrived, using a phonograph record for timing.

Charles Willson Peale painted a miniature of Washington — for which he charged his usual “ 56 Dollars ”— and presented it to Martha, along with painting other miniatures of Washington.

That same year, a design for the Sydney Town Hall by architect J. H. Willson was chosen which took its inspiration from the French style of the Hotel de Ville de Paris.

" In his biography of gay Hollywood agent Henry Willson, Robert Hofler deals with the rise of the studio star system, in which several actors spent time on the homosexual casting couch and dated girls or even entered into sham marriages in order to cover their homosexuality.

Wakata and Barry used a special Go set, which was named Go Space, designed by Wai-Cheung Willson Chow.

The song, " Chicken Fat ," which was written and composed by Meredith Willson and performed by Preston with full orchestral accompaniment, was distributed to schools across the nation and played for students in calisthenics every morning.

Barry and Wakata used a special Go set, which was named Go Space, designed by Wai-Cheung Willson Chow.

Henry Purcell's fantasias are the last Baroque representatives of the breed, although Walter Willson Cobbett, in the opening decades of the 20th century, attempted to resurrect something of this style via a competition, to which works like William Hurlstone's, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs's, John Ireland's, Herbert Howells's, and Frank Bridge's Phantasie trios and quartets owe their existence ( Howes and Bashford, 2001 ), as does Benjamin Britten's Phantasy in F minor for string quintet written in 1932, the same year in which he also composed a Phantasy Quartet for oboe and strings ( Brett et al.

Maurice Willson Disher's review in The Times Literary Supplement of 16 January 1943 concluded, " No crime enthusiast will object that the story of how the painter died has to be told many times, for this, even if it creates an interest which is more problem than plot, demonstrates the author's uncanny skill.

While at Five, Willson created the Britain's Worst Driver format, which was nominated for best reality show in the Montreux Golden Rose Awards.

Barnum and Charles Willson Peale and his sons introduced the so-called " Edutainement " which was a moralistic education realized through sensational freakshows, theater and circus performances, and many other means of entertainment.

Laurel Rose Willson ( August 18, 1941 – 8 April 2002 ) was an American woman born in Washington, whose allegations of satanic ritual abuse were published under the alias Lauren Stratford, which she would later adopt as her legal name.

As Stratford, Willson wrote three books, the most famous of which was Satan's Underground, purporting to tell a true story of her upbringing as a baby breeder ( for sacrifices ) in a Satanic cult.

During the first school year, Broadway composer and lyricist Meredith Willson visited the school to assist teacher Monica McMindes with her production of The Music Man, which was his creation.

When Willson asked Price to explain the increased use of corporal punishment, the commandant " defended his use of flogging, to which he professed great aversion, as necessary to enforce obedience to regulations, especially those controlling the use of tobacco ".

In 1892, Thomas Willson discovered an economically efficient process for creating calcium carbide, which is used in the production of acetylene gas.

In the field of musical theatre, the Guild has promoted works by Richard Rodgers, teamed with both Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, George and Ira Gershwin, Jule Styne, and Meredith Willson, all of which have become classics. Under President John F. Kennedy, the Guild was engaged to assemble a US theatre company, headed by Helen Hayes, to tour the capitals of Europe and South America with works by Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, and William Gibson.