"movements of a chicken, using his outturned jacket to suggest the fowl's wings. He was the originator of the 'club chairman' character later popularised by Colin Crompton in the ITV series ""Wheeltappers and Shunters Club"". The 'soundbite' demands of television work never reflected the detailed and large-scale routines that have characterised Collier's club work and which brought him enormous success through the 1970s and 1980s. (He was never a participant, for example, in the 1970s ITV series ""The Comedians"".) In 1970 he won an BBC series called ""Ace of Clubs"", in which club entertainers were pitted against each other, performing"
"in ""Doctor Who"". The proceeds of the concert went to Russell's favourite charities. Russell Churney Russell Churney (10 September 1964 – 27 February 2007) was an English composer, pianist, arranger and musical director. He was also a member of the comedy/cabaret group, ""Fascinating Aïda"". His sister is Ooberman keyboardist and vocalist Sophia Churney. Born as Lindsay Russell Churney in Liverpool, Churney was educated at Merchant Taylors' School in Great Crosby and Trinity College, Cambridge. He spent seven years working with the comedian Julian Clary, touring extensively with Clary and singer Barb Jungr, and appearing with Jungr on Clary's Channel 4"
"for that book, Cole explained that ""he'd been a drug addict who needed the money"". Despite the bitterness felt by Plant, Page, and Jones to their former road manager, Cole was invited to the VIP section of the Led Zeppelin reunion in 2007. Cole can be seen in several scenes of Led Zeppelin's concert film, ""The Song Remains the Same"" (1976). Richard Cole Richard Cole (born January 2, 1946) is an English music manager, who was involved in the rock music business from the mid-1960s to 2003. He is most known for being the tour manager of English rock band"
"Victoria. He died in a nursing home in Mamaroneck, New York. He was 85. Harry Salter Harry Salter (1899 - 5 March 1984) was an American music director and an orchestra conductor for radio and television programs. One of Salter's radio orchestras in the late 1920s had as members Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa and Jack Teagarden. He was the orchestra leader for such radio shows as the ""Hit Parade"", ""Your Unseen Friend"", ""Philco Show"", ""Hobby Lobby"" and ""Mr. District Attorney"". He also conducted for performers such as Lanny Ross and Milton Berle. Salter was also the"
"full-time manager, a job he held until his death. Warden was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 2008. Warden had been in failing health and died on March 11, 2017, sixteen days before his 88th birthday. Don Warden Don Warden (March 27, 1929 – March 11, 2017) was an American country musician and manager best known for his years on ""The Porter Wagoner Show"" and as the manager of Wagoner and Dolly Parton. Born to Reverend and Mrs. Charles Warden in Mt. Grove, Missouri, Warden grew up singing in church. A self-taught player, he was influenced by"
"Miller and his wife Helen signed papers to officially declare themselves foster parents to serve as Hutton's chaperone in the nightclubs which allowed her access in these venues. Marion Hutton considered herself more an entertainer than a singer. Hutton remained an important part of the Miller band. She remained with Miller on and off, until the orchestra disbanded in 1942. Jeanine Basinger, a film historian and professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, refers to Hutton in her chapter on Marion's younger sister, actress and singer Betty Hutton in the 2007 book ""The Star Machine"". Basinger asserts that in the"
"the NAACP Theatre Awards. Harold was born in St Louis, Missouri. He attended Howard University where he met his future wife- television, Broadway, and movie performer Hattie Winston. With Bernard Purdie Harold Wheeler (musician) William Harold Wheeler, Jr. (born July 14, 1943), better known as Harold Wheeler, is an American orchestrator, composer, conductor, arranger, record producer, and music director. He has received numerous Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations for orchestration, and won the 2003 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations for ""Hairspray"". Wheeler first worked in the 1960s as the musical director for Burt Bacharach making him the"
"1979, the composer Jean Françaix took over the organization of the concert series. Winnaretta Singer Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac (8 January 186526 November 1943), was an American-born heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune. She used this to fund a wide range of causes, notably a musical salon where her protégés included Debussy and Ravel, and numerous public health projects in Paris, where she lived most of her life. Singer entered into two marriages that were unconsummated, and openly enjoyed many high-profile relationships with women. Winnaretta Singer was the twentieth of the 24 children of Isaac Singer. Her"
"as Mrs. Lovett, Philip Quast as Judge Turpin, Jeff Blumenkrantz as The Beadle, Christian Borle as Pirelli, Kyle Brenn as Tobias, Jay Armstrong Johnson as Anthony, Erin Mackey as Johanna and Audra McDonald and Bryonha Marie Parham sharing the role of The Beggar Woman. McDonald was not announced as the Beggar Woman: she was a surprise, her name only being revealed at the time of the first performance. On the Saturday performances, Bryonha Marie Parham played the role of the Beggar Woman, while McDonald played it at the other performances. The concert was again filmed for broadcast on PBS as"
"on piano (and thereby had prominent role in the show given the style of music being played), Arthur Watts on bass, and Kenny Clare on drums. Guests for the show included singers such as Annie Ross, Cleo Laine, Matt Monro, and Tommy Leonetti. During one show Bennett remembered having both Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine. Another singer, Sacha Distel, was scheduled to sing on the show but did not appear for the taping. During production of the show, a mobile sound control room was used with the goal of making recordings that were fit to use for the television broadcast,"
"staged concert series in March 2000, directed by Walter Bobbie and choreographed by Rob Ashford. The cast included David Ogden Stiers (Brock), Debbie Gravitte (Nita), Tom Alan Robbins (Joe), Patrick Wilson (Tommy), Sarah Uriarte Berry (Laura), Kevin Conway (Lt. Schmidt), and Jessica Stone (Margie). A concert cast recording was released by DRG Records. Reverend Brock, a single-minded 1890s social reformer works to sanitize the Tenderloin, a red-light neighborhood in western Manhattan. He is foiled by everyone associated with the district, including the corrupt politicians and police who are taking their cut from the earnings of the prostitutes who work the"
"became a fan of the Beatles after seeing them perform at the nearby Cavern Club, and soon became a devoted regular – by her own estimation, attending almost 200 of their shows, usually during her lunch break. The lunchtime shows were more casual than the evening performances, and in time Kelly struck up friendships with the members of the band. When Brian Epstein undertook the management of the group at the beginning of 1962, he asked Kelly – already a familiar face to Epstein and the band – if she wanted a job as his secretary. Kelly, who was seventeen"
"Lisa Knowles, the lead choir singer at the local church who had a history with the reverend; Phil Leeds as Happy Boyle, a very old judge who was obsessed with dental hygiene; Jesse L. Martin as Ally's date, Dr. Greg Butters; Harrison Page as the reverend at the local church, who had a history with lead choir singer Lisa Knowles; Tracey Ullman as Ally's unconventional therapist; and Vonda Shepard as a musical performer at the bar where the lawyers used to hang out every night after finishing their daily jobs. Shepard performed in every episode of the entire season, and"
"John Giddings John Giddings (born 1 May 1953 in St Albans, Hertfordshire) is a music agent and promotor who has been responsible for tours by the likes of The Rolling Stones, Madonna, Genesis, Celine Dion, Iggy Pop and David Bowie. In 2002 he revived the Isle of Wight Festival and continues to run the festival today. Giddings graduated from Exeter University with a Philosophy & Sociology degree. He had worked booking bands at the university as social secretary and later entertainments chairman for Exeter College. During his time at university he was responsible for booking acts such as Genesis, The"
"Eileen Wilson (1950–52), Sue Bennett (1951–52), June Valli (1952–53), Alan Copeland (1957–58), Jill Corey (1957–58), Johnny Desmond (1958–59), Virginia Gibson (1957–58), and Tommy Leonetti (1957–58). All were performers of standards, show tunes or big band numbers. Featured prominently were the Hit Parade dancers and the Hit Paraders, the program's choral singers, who sang the opening commercial jingle (composed by Raymond Scott): During the 1950-1951 season Bob Fosse appeared as a guest dancer on several episodes, with partner Mary Ann Niles. From 1950 until 1957, the orchestra was led by well-known bandleader and musician Raymond Scott (who married Dorothy Collins in"
"Neal Hefti Neal Paul Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He wrote music for ""The Odd Couple"" movie and TV series and for the ""Batman"" TV series. He began arranging professionally in his teens, when he wrote charts for Nat Towles. He became a prominent composer and arranger while playing trumpet for Woody Herman; while working for Herman he provided new arrangements for ""Woodchopper's Ball"" and ""Blowin' Up a Storm"" and composed ""The Good Earth"" and ""Wild Root"". After leaving Herman's band in 1946, Hefti concentrated on arranging and composing,"
"Anita Kerr Anita Jean Grilli (born October 13, 1927), known professionally as Anita Kerr, is an American singer, arranger, composer, conductor, pianist, and music producer. She recorded and performed successfully with her vocal harmony groups in Nashville, Los Angeles, and Europe. Anita was born in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1947, she married Al Kerr, and they moved to Nashville the following year so that he could take a job as a dee-jay on WKDA. The performances of a vocal quintet she organized attracted the attention of a WSM radio program director, who then hired her to lead and arrange an octet"
"to recruit Jacobs and former Spectrum members. Jacobs decided to continue with the Detroit Symphony, but Woodhams and Sims agreed to be part of the live band, which was completed with Doug Strawn and Bob Messenger. They rehearsed daily on the A&M soundstage in order to present a concert show that could compare with their records. As a result of their chart success, the group made several television appearances in 1970, including ""The Ed Sullivan Show"". The Carpenters also chose Sherwin Bash as their new manager around this time. On Thanksgiving Day, 1970, the Carpenter family moved into a new"
"the agency after the deaths of the founders, and became one of the world's best-known managers; she was nicknamed the ""Duchess of Wigmore Street"". Ibbs and Tillett Ibbs and Tillett was a London-based classical music artist and concert management agency that flourished between 1906 and 1990 in the United Kingdom. It was described as ""one of the legendary duos in classical music artist management"". Ibbs and Tillett was founded by Robert Leigh Ibbs and John Tillett, who trained under impresario Nathaniel Vert (Narciso Vertigliano). It was Vert who, as Edward Elgar's concert manager, sent Elgar's ""Enigma Variations"" to another of"
"as well as fatty meals. The hotel closed in 1998 and Buster moved back to London. He often appears as a guest on various television shows, as well as in the tabloid newspapers. In early 2001 he fell ill during a concert in Perugia. Buster Bloodvessel Douglas Trendle (born 6 September 1958), better known as Buster Bloodvessel, is an English singer and the frontman of the ska revival band Bad Manners. His stage name was taken from the bus conductor played by Ivor Cutler in the Beatles' 1967 film ""Magical Mystery Tour"". Born in Stoke Newington as Douglas Woods to"
"Smilin' Ed McConnell Smilin<nowiki>'</nowiki> Ed McConnell (born James McConnell; 1882 – July 23, 1954) was a radio personality, best known as the host of the children's radio and television series, ""Smilin<nowiki>'</nowiki> Ed's Gang"", closely identified with its sponsor, Buster Brown shoes, and also known as ""The Buster Brown Program"". For his work in radio, McConnell was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Born James McConnell in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of a minister, McConnell began to sing at age three and soon learned how to play drums and the piano. He was athletic as a teenager,"
"Colin Crompton George Colin Crompton (22 June 1931 – 24 August 1985) was an English stand-up comedian. Crompton, born in Manchester, Lancashire, found fame on the Granada Television programme ""The Comedians"" in the early 1970s. Before his big break into television, Crompton was half of a duo musical comedy act with musician and singer Edward (Eddie) Forrest (piano, ukulele and banjo), doing the rounds of the Working Men's Clubs of Manchester. From 1974 to 1977 he was also the ""club chairman"" in another Granada programme, ""The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club"". An attempt by producer Johnnie Hamp to reproduce the"
"The Delegates The Delegates were a novelty song group who scored a hit in the United States in 1972. The ""band"" was actually Bob DeCarlo, the morning disc jockey at KQV in Pittsburgh, Penn. Bob was approached by Nick Cenci and Nick Kousaleous, local Pittsburgh record moguls, to make a novelty record. Bob and the two record men assembled ""Convention '72,"" a ""break-in"" record which consisted of Bob ""imitating"" several popular television reporters of the day, including Walter Cronkite (""Walter Klondike""), Chet Huntley (""Sidney Bruntley"" as a flamboyantly gay reporter - for some reason), David Brinkley (""David Stinkley""), and Harry"
"concert film ""T.A.M.I. Show"" and worked for NBC on ""Hullabaloo"", as well as for the Petula Clark television special aired by the network. Finkel felt the addition of Binder would refresh Presley's image, and the director would be able to re-introduce him to the new audiences. Initially reluctant to direct the special, Binder was convinced by his associate, Bones Howe. Howe met Presley during the 1950s, while he worked at Radio Recorders as an audio engineer. He insisted on working with Presley, since he thought Binder had similar production methods. A meeting was arranged with Parker, during which Presley's manager"
"""Beat Sessions"". With circulation rising, the paper's offices were moved downstairs to a larger two-roomed office. The Cavern Club's doorman, Pat (Paddy) Delaney, was employed to deliver copies, a secretary, Pat Finn, was hired, as well as Raymond Caine to promote advertising space, Harry later said: ""The newspapers, television, theatres and radio were all run by people of a different generation who had no idea of what youngsters wanted. For decades they had manipulated and controlled them. Suddenly, there was an awareness of being young, and young people wanted their own styles and their own music, just at the time"
"his 65th birthday. On August 17 he was asked to travel to Liverpool, ostensibly to take part in a radio interview with BBC Radio Merseyside presenter Spencer Leigh. However, it transpired that his wife had secretly arranged for Magna Carta to perform at the famous Cavern Club on Mathew Street. When Chris arrived in Liverpool he was greeted by a busload of friends, musicians, and people from the Yorkshire Dales. After an emotional Beatles bustour (Chris is a huge Beatles fan) the concert at The Cavern was a celebration. The band was joined by Lee Abbott on bass and Iain"
"Sam Cutler Sam Cutler (born Brendan Lawrence Lyons in early 1943) is best known as the former tour manager for The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, and numerous other major acts. He is an Honours Graduate in Contemporary History (Open University) and a qualified teacher (University of Cambridge Institute of Education 1963-66).Cutler's O.U degree was gained at the end of the 1980's. Cutler worked for Blackhill Enterprises, stage manager and master of ceremonies on a series of 1960s gigs in the U.K. and Europe with different artists, including Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Alexis Korner, et al. In 1969,"
"was provided by Colin Sell, but when the show migrated to Channel 4, Richard Vranch took over the job. Richard Vranch did not move with the show to the United States; in fact, during the final series of the UK show which was filmed in America, Hall made her first appearance on the show. She appeared on six of the UK series' episodes. Hall continued as musician in the first season of the U.S. show on her own, but beginning in the second season, additional musicians were added to attempt to bolster that section of the show. Often joining Hall"
"Freda Kelly Freda Kelly (born 1945) was secretary to Brian Epstein and the British rock band The Beatles from 1962 through 1972, and president of the group’s official fan club. Kelly worked with the band as it rose from local popularity to world-wide fame, and through its dissolution. A 2013 documentary, ""Good Ol’ Freda"", chronicled Kelly’s ten-plus year association with the group and its members. Kelly was born in Dublin, Ireland to Irish parents. When she was 13, her family moved from Sandymount in Dublin to Liverpool, where by the early 1960s she had found work as a typist. She"
"the butt of many unkind jokes for several years, culminating in his appearance on both the 1975 and 1976 Christmas Specials to much acclaim. O'Connor did however have an excellent relationship with the pair, and delivered the tribute to Eric Morecambe at the 1984 Bring Me Sunshine tribute concert in aid of the British Heart Foundation which took place at the London Palladium after Eric's death. The veteran harmonica player Arthur Tolcher effectively replaced the Janet Webb role in later series, by appearing when least expected or needed and bursting into the first few bars of a harmonica tune fully"
"Harry Hemsley Harry May Hemsley (Swindon, 14 December 1877 - 5 April 1951) was an English music hall and radio comedian. He is best known as the host of the popular radio show ""Ovaltiney's Concert Party"" on Radio Luxembourg. Harry Hemsley was born in 1877 in Swindon, Wiltshire. He started acting at age eight, when his father, a scenic artist had him perform on stage. In the 1890s he was a cartoonist for the British comics magazine ""Ally Sloper's Half Holiday"". He performed as bass-baritone singer in the minstrel show ""White Coons"". In 1905 Hemsley started acting in the music"
"After using the pieces, Washington hostess Clover Adams complained that it was hard to eat soup calmly with a coyote springing from behind a pine tree in the bowl. Music was important to Lucy and, while famous musicians performed downstairs at White House events, informal ""sings"" occurred upstairs in the family quarters. Lucy sang and played the guitar, and was assisted by the talents of friends and family. At times, Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz played the piano while Vice President William A. Wheeler, Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman, and his brother, Gen. William T. Sherman, joined in"
"Harry Salter Harry Salter (1899 - 5 March 1984) was an American music director and an orchestra conductor for radio and television programs. One of Salter's radio orchestras in the late 1920s had as members Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa and Jack Teagarden. He was the orchestra leader for such radio shows as the ""Hit Parade"", ""Your Unseen Friend"", ""Philco Show"", ""Hobby Lobby"" and ""Mr. District Attorney"". He also conducted for performers such as Lanny Ross and Milton Berle. Salter was also the creator, the executive producer, as well orchestra conductor, for the TV show ""Name That"