Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

San Francisco Giants pitcher Brian Wilson chose " Jump Around " as his official theme song, played whenever he enters a game.

In February 2010, she played Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, which also featured Greta Scacchi and Lambert Wilson.

The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew, played by Richard Wilson, and his long-suffering wife, Margaret, played by Annette Crosbie, in their battle against the trials of modern life.

This was also played upon when Wilson made a guest appearance on the comedy TV quiz show Shooting Stars, in which Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer purposefully misquoted his catchphrase by referring to him as " Richard ' I don't believe you ' Wilson ".

Like Alan Wilson, Duane Allman played a key role in bringing slide guitar into rock music, through his work with The Allman Brothers Band, specifically on the 1971 live album At Fillmore East and with Derek and the Dominos ' Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs album.

Son House played with Alan Wilson live.

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson ordered that " The Star-Spangled Banner " be played at military and other appropriate occasions.

Unable to cycle around Washington, D. C. as President, Wilson took to playing golf, although he played with more enthusiasm than skill.

* Marshall was played by Scott Wilson in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor.

The album ( released on Gigitone Records ) was produced by Jeffrey Foskett, who has worked extensively with Brian Wilson and played on Wilson ’ s 2004 Grammy-winning version of SMiLE.

New characters Jim ' Kimo ' Carew ( played by William Smith ), Lori Wilson ( played by Sharon Farrell ), and Truck ( played by Moe Keale ) were introduced in season 12 alongside returning regular character Duke Lukela.

( 1963 ; a musical satire on World War I played in Pierrot costumes ); Wilson, Ronald Smith: Harlequin, Pierrot & Co. ( 1976 ).

* The Lavender List ( 2006 ), played by Kenneth Cranham – a BBC Four fictionalised account by Francis Wheen of the Wilson Government of 1974 – 76, with Gina McKee as Marcia Williams and Celia Imrie as Wilson's wife.

* The Plot Against Harold Wilson ( 2006 ), played by James Bolam – aired on BBC Two on Thursday 16 March.

During the casting process, they had envisioned Trey Wilson ( who played Nathan Arizona in their previous film Raising Arizona ) as gangster boss Leo O ' Bannon, but two days before the first day of principal photography he died from a brain hemorrhage.

Among its many recent initiatives, The Genome Center at Washington University ( directed by Richard K. Wilson ) played a leadership role in the Human Genome Project, having contributed 25 % of the finished sequence.

Matthau played the role of Mr. Wilson in the 1993 movie Dennis the Menace.

Scatman Crothers portrayed Louie Wilson, Ed's friend and garbage man ; Bonnie Boland played Mabel, the mail lady ; Isaac Ruiz portrayed Mando, Chico's friend ; and Ronny Graham played Rev.

The following highways travel through Wilson: I-95, I-795, U. S. 301, U. S. Route 264, U. S. 117, N. C. 42, and N. C. 58.

U. S. Route 117 is an north – south United States highway that runs for from Wilmington to Wilson, entirely in the U. S. state of North Carolina.

With a brief concurrency with US 70, US 117 splits from both US 13 and US 70 to continue north towards Wilson.

US 117 ends at US 301 in Wilson, near exits to both I-795 and US 264.

US 117, established in 1932, was a renumber of SR 40 between Wilmington and Wilson ; it also continued south of Wilmington into South Carolina.

In 2006, US 117 was moved onto a new freeway between Goldsboro and Wilson, its northern terminus ending at I-95.

AASHTO conditionally agreed to this on September 28, 2007 ; which gave birth to Interstate 795 and moved US 117 back to its original route ( briefly renumbered as US 117 Alternate ), ending at US 301 near Wilson.

In 1979, William Wolfe stood down as SNP leader, and in the resultant leadership election Gordon Wilson was elected leader with 530 votes to 79 Group member Stephen Maxwell's 117 votes, and Willie MacRae's 52 votes.

In the 2011 election, Wilson again stood against Gibson for the Cunninghame North seat, but this time lost more emphatically, with Gibson's majority increasing from 48 to 6, 117.

At a simultaneous match against five masters, Morphy won two games against Jules Arnous de Rivière and Henry Edward Bird, drew two games with Samuel Boden and Johann Jacob Löwenthal, and lost one to Thomas Wilson Barnes.

* C — Al Wilson — 1972 – 1986 — 233 games

Santo became the first player in major league history to wear a batting helmet with protective ear flaps, when in 1966, in the midst of trying to break the Cubs ' modern consecutive-game hitting streak record of 27 games ( set by Hack Wilson in 1929 ), Santo was sidelined for nearly two weeks following a pitch thrown by the Mets ' Jack Fisher ( beaning ) that fractured his cheekbone and ended his consecutive playing streak.

In November 1963, Wilson lobbied successfully to have AFL games postponed the Sunday after President John F. Kennedy's assassination ; NFL games were played as scheduled.

However, he was benched by head coach Ron Wilson following two indifferent games in which he did not register a point and never returned to the active lineup.

Wilson was selected by Tommy Docherty for his two games in charge, making his debut against Portugal on 13 October 1971.

The 2005 season managed by Mookie Wilson was hampered by inconsistent relief pitching that hampered games in the later innings despite a good offense.

* Ottawa Senators Hockey ( 20 regular-season games a year of the Canadian capital city's NHL team, which were usually, but not always, broadcast on Thursday evenings )-with Dean Brown as play-by-play announcer and Gord Wilson as commentator.

* NHL Winter Classic – Complimentary coverage of the outdoor games held on New Year's Day in 2008 ( at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, New York ), 2009 ( at Wrigley Field in Chicago ), and 2010 ( at Fenway Park in Boston ).

In a 12-year major league career, Wilson played in 1, 348 games and accumulated 1, 461 hits in 4, 760 at bats for a. 307 career batting average and a. 395 on-base percentage.

During the production of the show, the network bosses stated that they did not want Cervenka and Wilson to repeat games from episode to episode, but Cervenka and Wilson ignored this, knowing that fan-favorite games would keep fans interested in the series.

The Buffalo Bills currently play their home football games at Ralph Wilson Stadium, the largest sports stadium in the state.

Wilson HS baseball now uses the ball field for its ' home games.

Wilson is 6th on the all-time list of the number of games coached, and is ranked third amongst the active coaching list.

* High Score, a video games retrospective by Rusel DeMaria and Johnny Wilson

In 157 games, Pujols hit 43 home runs ( fourth in the league, behind Jim Thome, Richie Sexson, and Bonds ) and had 124 RBIs ( tied with Sexson for fourth and behind Preston Wilson, Gary Sheffield, and Thome ).

In Game 4 of the NLDS against the Dodgers, he hit a game-winning three-run home run against Wilson Álvarez and had four RBIs as the Cardinals defeated the Dodgers 3 – 2 and eliminated them three games to one.

He started his first games in 1990 in relief of an injured Wilson and would start many games in 1991.

Gannon would replace Wilson as starter for the last 11 games of 1991, and the Vikings went 6-5 with Gannon as starter for an overall 8-8 season.