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2 unusual facts about Big Country


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As such, it has appeared in the television adaptations of Agatha Christie's The Mystery of the Blue Train and Murder on the Orient Express, disguised to appear as a continental locomotive, and featured in the music video for Big Country's Fields of Fire.

Close Action

:For the song of the same name by Big Country, see here.


Adam Sieff

Sieff has worked with many bands and artists including Wasted Youth, The Bad Plus, Herbie Hancock, Alexis Korner, Hugh Masekela, Big Country, Angelique Kidjo, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Denys Baptiste, Jazz Jamaica, Albert Collins, Keb' Mo', Spitting Image, Edoardo Bennato, Matumbi, Peter White and Clare Teal.

Eildon Hill

This place was quoted in the lyric 'Eiledon', from Big Country's 'The Seer' album.

If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

The group Big Country reference the words "If I die in a combat zone Box me up and ship me home" in the song - Where The Rose Is Sown.


see also

Eric Marienthal

His music can be heard during The Weather Channel's "Local on the 8s" segments and his song "Big Country" is included in their 2008 compilation release, The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz II.

Texas Public Radio

Texas Public Radio, or TPR is the on-air name for a group of public radio stations serving south central Texas - including San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country - and the Big Country region of West Central Texas.

The group consists of four stations on the lower end of the FM dial: all-news station KSTX (89.1 MHz, San Antonio), all-classical music KPAC (88.3 MHz, San Antonio) news/classical KTXI (90.1 MHz, Ingram; serving the Hill Country), and all-news KTPR (89.9 MHz, Snyder; serving the Big Country).

The Big Country

A theme from Moross' score of The Big Country (as performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra) was sampled by MC Tunes versus 808 State in a top 10 UK chart hit, The Only Rhyme That Bites, in 1990.

WMKC

Initially the station was to be WIDG-FM and be automated and be called "Big Country-102 FM." TM Programming was hired to consult the station; they felt that the "Big Country" name was too "hickish" and insisted on something "slicker." General Manager Rick Stone held a "name the FM" contest in which the winner would win a Big Mac sandwich from McDonald's.

WYGL

WYGL-FM, the FM call sign of Big Country B98.3 licensed to serve Elizabethville, Pennsylvania on a frequency of 100.5 MHz.