The Famous Door was a jazz club on New York's 52nd Street. It opened in 1935 and was one of the major clubs on the street, hosting leading jazz musicians...
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organization, Flippable. Swing Left focuses on training volunteers to register voters, phone bank, fundraise, and engage in door-to-door campaigning for Democratic...
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replaced 133rd Street as "Swing Street" of the city. The blocks of 52nd Street between Fifth and Seventh Avenues became renowned for the abundance of jazz clubs...
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Louis Prima (category Swing trumpeters)
jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a seven-piece New Orleans–style jazz band in the late...
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interest in singing jazz and swing standards stems from his listening to old Mills Brothers recordings, as is evident on albums such as BaBalu, where...
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Howard Alden (category Swing guitarists)
1995, 1996) Guitar Player of the Year, American Guitar Museum (2003) Top 75 Guitarists, Down Beat (2008) Swing Street with Dan Barrett (Concord Jazz...
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portmanteau of twist, swing, and tango. The first-generation Twingo (two door, front engine) debuted at the Paris Motor Show on 5 October 1992, receiving its formal...
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Scott Hamilton (musician) (category Swing saxophonists)
Miles and Miles of Swing (Famous Door, 1978) Andrea Motis, Live at Jamboree Barcelona (Swit 2013) Red Norvo, Red in New York (Famous Door, 1977) Gerry Mulligan...
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Benny Goodman (redirect from Benny Goodman and the Giants of Swing)
as the "King of Swing". His orchestra did phenomenally well commercially. From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big...
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Charlie Barnet (category Swing saxophonists)
on September 4, 1991, aged 77. Charlie Barnet's compositions included "Skyliner", "Southland Shuffle", "Swing Street Strut", "The Right Idea", "The Wrong...
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£6,700 for Mood Swings Pointless Celebrities (30 November 2013) All Star Family Fortunes (28 December 2013) – on the Coronation Street team, won £30,000...
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Time (Concord Jazz, 1980) Street of Dreams (Famous Door, 1983) Symphony (Famous Door, 1984) In the Swing of Things (Famous Door, 1987) With others Howard...
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Knocking At The Famous Door The Gal From Joe's Where Can She Be Jump Session I Wouldn't Give That For Love A New Moon and an Old Serenade Swing Street Strut...
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Brown Derby (redirect from The Brown Derby)
Closes Doors Amid Confusion". Los Angeles Times. p. A1. ProQuest 162920250. The original, world famous Brown Derby restaurant has closed its doors abruptly...
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Fuzzy Door Productions, Inc. is an American film and television production company founded by Seth MacFarlane on July 31, 1998. The company's productions...
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Teeny Little Super Guy (category Sesame Street characters)
LiveJournal Community Details on the production, by Paul Fierlinger "Baseball game" and "Cooperation Swing" episodes on Sesame Street's YouTube channel...
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Morrison Hotel (redirect from The Spy (The Doors song))
Morrison Hotel is the fifth studio album by American rock band the Doors, released on February 9, 1970, by Elektra Records. After the use of brass and...
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Rogers in 42nd Street (1933) Flying Down to Rio (1933) With Fred Astaire in Follow the Fleet (1936) With Katharine Hepburn in Stage Door (1937) Kitty Foyle...
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Eleventh Avenue in the west. 23rd Street was created under the Commissioners' Plan of 1811. The street hosts several famous hotels, including the Fifth Avenue...
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the chorus melody) Well, you all join hands as you circle the ring Stop where you are, give your honey a swing Swing that little gal behind you Swing...
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Rick Bogart (musician) (category Swing clarinetists)
popular jazz club on Bourbon Street. He would lead a band called "The Basin Street Five" for a year and continued to perform at the Famous Door from 1976 to...
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Count Basie Orchestra (redirect from The Count Basie Orchestra)
The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935...
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This is a partial list of the more well known animated characters appearing on Sesame Street. Some are animated versions of Muppet characters, others appear...
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Ankh-Morpork City Watch (redirect from Cable Street Particulars)
Division, and the Cable Street Particulars had been replaced by a plain-clothes division. The recently added "the Specials", were based on the Watch's ancient...
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Toyota AE86 (section The AE86 in motorsports)
level is the highest level of the AE86, offered in both 2-door and 3-door body styles and coming in both Levin and Trueno versions. On the exterior,...
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2003, and was hospitalized before dying at the age of 78, on June 13 that year. Born to Swing: Introducing The Compulsive Tenor Saxophone of Harold Ashby...
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Frank Sinatra Jr. (category Musicians from the Las Vegas Valley)
his famous name had opened some doors, but "a famous father means that in order to prove yourself, you have to work three times harder than the guy off...
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Stanford White (category 1906 murders in the United States)
with a rear entrance on 24th Street in Manhattan. One room was painted green and outfitted with a red velvet swing, which hung from the ceiling suspended...
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Count Basie (category Swing bandleaders)
contribution to the development of swing music, and at one performance at the Pearl Theatre in Philadelphia in December 1932, the theatre opened its door to allow...
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Aragon Ballroom (Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California) (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
1969: Black Pearl Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band The Grateful Dead The Standells The Doors The Leaves Iron Butterfly Pink Floyd Alice...
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