* October 18-Orville " Hoppy " Jones, bass singer of the Ink Spots, dies in New York City.

* February 17-Orville " Hoppy " Jones, The Ink Spots singer

: Orville " Hoppy " Jones ( b. 17 February 1902, Chicago, Illinois – d. 18 October 1944, New York City ) ( bass ) ( Played cello in the manner of a stand up bass )

Legitimate members of the original group included Bill Kenny, Deek Watson, Charlie Fuqua, Hoppy Jones, Bernie Mackey, Huey Long, Cliff Givens, Billy Bowen, Herb Kenny, Adriel McDonald, Jimmy Cannady, Ernie Brown, Henry Braswell, Teddy Williams and Everett Barksdale.

The Ink Spots were even inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as influences, in 1989 ; this induction consisted of Bill Kenny, Charlie Fuqua, Deek Watson, and Hoppy Jones.

In one episode, " This Little TV Went to Market ", Officer " Jonesy " Jones ( Bernie Hamilton ) appears with Hoppy in place of Smitty.

* A spoken rendering of the second half of the song, by Red Ingle, with elaborations (" honey child, honey doll, honey lamb, honey pie ") in a style reminiscent of The Ink Spots's bass singer Orville " Hoppy " Jones.

It grew out of film screenings at the Better Books bookstore, part of the 1960s counter-culture in London, before moving to the original Arts Lab on Drury Lane, then sharing offices with John ' Hoppy ' Hopkins ' BIT information service and then, with the breakaway group that formed the New Arts Lab, to the Camden based Institute for Research in Art and Technology.

John " Hoppy " Hopkins ( born 1937 ) is a British photographer, journalist, researcher and political activist, and " one of the best-known underground figures of Swinging London " in the late 1960s.

In Bell Hoppy ( 1954 ), for example, in a twist on " belling the cat ", Sylvester must hang a bell around a mouse's neck in order to join the " Loyal Order of Alley Cats and Mousing and Chowder Club ".

Often, Hoppy incorrectly uses ' Jive ' slang, which Smitty corrects — e. g., " cold " instead of " cool " or " right up " instead of " right on.

Starting in 1950, the company decided to try increasing gum sales by packaging them together with trading cards featuring Western character Hopalong Cassidy ( William Boyd ); at the time Boyd, as one of the biggest stars of early television, was featured in newspaper articles and on magazine covers, along with a significant amount of " Hoppy " merchandising.

The machine ran basic games on cassette such as " Hoppy " Frogger, " Cosmic Rescue " Scramble, " VZ Invaders " Space Invaders and Moon Patrol.

A " Free Hoppy " movement sprang up and, as one particular consequence, Stephen Abrams began co-ordinating a campaign for the liberalisation of the law on cannabis.

The film opens as Bobby James with friends Phones, Hoppy, Gordo, and a myriad of extras skate to work on the Venice, California boardwalk.

Loosely based upon the novel, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, this was an adventure segment involving balloonist " Phinny Fogg " ( conceived as the great-great grandson from America of the main character Phileas Fogg in the novel and voiced by Bruce Watson ) and reporter teenagers Jenny ( voiced by Janet Waldo ) and Hoppy ( voiced by Don Messick ), who set out on a globetrotting adventure to sail around the world in 79 days and beat the original record set by Phinny's father.

In the story " Hoppy Meets the Wizard Bunny ", Hoppy is hit on the head and develops amnesia.

In the lead story of that issue, Hoppy faces Captain Black Bunny, who is based on Captain Marvel's foe Black Adam.

Captain Black Bunny wears a black costume similar to Black Adam's, though the bad bunny wears a cape like Hoppy and instead of a lightning bolt he has a yellow flame on his chest.

In later stories, the dimwitted and constantly soused but reliable American thug Hoppy Uniatz was at Templar's side.

* Officer " Smitty " Smith and Officer " Hoppy " Hopkins are a pair of police officers who occasionally show up at the Sanfords ' residence.

Despite Boyd's regular appearances as Hoppy at the park, it was not a success and shut down in 1954.

John Hopkins ( Hoppy ) a member of the editorial board of International Times for example, was trained as a physicist at Cambridge "

In ClayFighter 2, Hoppy had an Austrian accent, poking fun at Arnold Schwarzenegger ( Even though he didn't have his implants at the time ), and the T in his name refers to Arnold's role as The Terminator, but Adler chose to go with a generic drill sergeant-style voice to fit his new design.

Paul McCartney arranged the funding for this advertisement as a tribute to Hoppy, at the instigation of Barry Miles.

* Hoppy at The Photographers ' Gallery

Meanwhile, the Flintstones and Rubbles prepare for a camping vacation which includes trying to drop Dino and Hoppy off at the veterinarian.

* Hoppy the Marvel Bunny at Don Markstein's Toonopedia.

Since 1991, the Friends of Hoppy Fan Club has held the Hopalong Cassidy Festival in Cambridge, Ohio, near Boyd's birthplace.

Now retired, he lives in Dorset with his wife Porpentina and their pet Kneazles: Hoppy, Milly and Mauler.

Mr. Hoppy secretly returns all the tortoises in his living room back to their respective pet shops, and Mr. Hoppy and Mrs. Silver are married a few weeks later.

Other residents of the Wonderland Zoo who help the Hair Bear Bunch in their plots include Bananas the Gorilla ( voiced by Daws Butler ), Furface the Lion ( voiced by Paul Winchell ), Bumbo the Elephant ( voiced by Daws Butler ), Slicks the Fox ( voiced by John Stephenson ), Hippy the Hippopotamus ( voiced by John Stephenson ), Hercules the Hippopotamus ( voiced by Don Messick ), George the Giraffe, Beaks the Pelican, Tiptoes the Ostrich ( voiced by Paul Winchell ), Gabby the Parrot, Melvyn the Monkey, Hoppy the Kangaroo, Zeed the Zebra, Ollie the Octopus, Einstein the Owl, Arnie and Gloria the Gorillas, Specs the Mole ( voiced by Paul Winchell ), and Pipsqueak the Mouse ( voiced by Janet Waldo ).

In this story both Hoppy and Millie were depicted as white bunnies, instead of their usual pink.

Regardless of the members ' non-existing musical experience, their career started off quickly as they began touring and released their debut album within a year from creating the band, all safely under the wings of the famous producer / keyboardist Hoppy Kamiyama.

* The Princess Hoppy, or The Tale of Labrador.

* Roy McArthur " Hoppy " Hopkins ( born 1943 ) served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1988 until his death in office in 2006.

Hoppy Go Lucky ( 1952 ) was a parody of Of Mice and Men, with Sylvester accompanied by the giant, simple-minded cat " Bennie ," who wants a mouse " to hug and pet.

" Conversely, the ever-professional Hoppy delivers a speech filled with police jargon and big words, which confuses Fred and / or Lamont thus turning to Smitty, who would then translate Hoppy's speech into Jive.

Unlike Ah Chew and Julio, Hoppy remains free of Fred's usual insults.

In " The Reverend Sanford ", comic Freeman King appears as a police officer named Jim, presumably standing in for Smitty, but without Hoppy or any other partner.

Swanny is basically the same as Hoppy, but his demeanor is much more serious and humorless.

Like Hoppy, Swanny is never racially insulted by Fred.

Much like her son, Mrs. Hopkins incorrectly uses Jive slang, but the more experienced Hoppy corrects her.

Ōtomo has worked with Jon Rose, Yamatsuka Eye of Boredoms ( as MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse ), Butch Morris, Alfred Harth, Voice Crack, Keith Rowe, Peter Rehberg, Toshimaru Nakamura, Bill Laswell, David Sylvian, Fennesz, Derek Bailey, Sachiko M, Hoppy Kamiyama, Mats Gustafsson, The Thing, John Zorn, Hikashu, Philip Jeck, Martin Tétreault, Sabuhiro Toyozumi, Thermo and poire z.

The Hopalong Cassidy lunch kit, or " Hoppy ," quickly became Aladdin ’ s cash cow.