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9 unusual facts about Bop


Be-Bop-A-Lula

Cliff Gallup (lead guitar), "Wee" Willie Williams (rhythm guitar), "Jumpin'" Jack Neal (string bass), and Dickie "Be Bop" Harrell (drums) comprised the band.

Davis claimed that he wrote the song with Gene Vincent after listening to the song "Don't Bring Lulu", and Vincent himself sometimes claimed that he wrote the words inspired by a comic strip, "Little Lulu".

Doo-Bop

The album won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance.

In early 1991, Davis called up his friend Russell Simmons and asked him to find some young producers who could help create this kind of music, leading to Davis' collaboration with Easy Mo Bee, his last, the result of which, Doo-Bop, was released by Warner Bros. Records on June 30, 1992, to mixed reviews.

Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop

The song's lead vocals were performed by Lionel Hampton himself and featured Herbie Fields on alto sax.

Jivin' in Be-Bop

The band plays off-camera while dancers perform during the remaining songs, which include "Shaw 'Nuff", "A Night in Tunisia", "Grosvenor Square", and "Ornithology".

Gillespie and his band are shown performing eight songs, including "Salt Peanuts", "One Bass Hit", "Oop Bop Sh'Bam", and "He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped".

Leo Mathisen

Mathisen also recorded popular hits of his time such as Lionel Hampton's Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop, Five Minutes More, Near Yo and Makin' Whoopee.

New Big Band

New Big Band is a term used to refer to the revivalist movement of 21st Century Jazz artists who are bringing a new form of Big Band music that fuses elements of traditional swing bands of leaders like Duke Ellington and Count Basie whose popularity peaked from the 1930s through the 1950s with the more intense sounds produced by smaller groups of the Bop era of the 1950s and beyond.


African-American neighborhood

Originally created in Chicago's predominately African American neighborhoods, the dance has morphed from its beginnings with the Jitterbug in the 1930s and 1940s, to the Offtime in the 1950s, to the Walk and the Chicago Bop in the 1960s and 1970s.

Amor Louco

It was released in 1989 by now-defunct independent record label Wop-Bop Records and re-released in CD form in 2001 by another independent label, RDS.

At the Hop

Initially called "Do the Bop", the song was heard by Dick Clark, who suggested they change its name.

At This Point in Time

While the bulk of the music is hard-bop jazz, Jan Hammer's electric piano brings in a distinct jazz fusion flavour, and the congas and percussions add an element of Latin and World jazz.

Barry Buckley

In the mid-1950s Buckley joined pianist David Martin, trumpeter Keith Hounslow, drummer Stewart Speer (later of Max Merritt fame) and saxophonist Brian Brown to form the first Brian Brown Quintet becoming Australia's foremost hard bop group, regularly playing at Horst Liepolt's Jazz Centre 44 in St Kilda.

Blowout preventer

Documents discussed during congressional hearings June 17, 2010, suggested that a battery in the device's control pod was flat and that the rig's owner, Transocean, may have "modified" Cameron's equipment for the Macondo site (including incorrectly routing hydraulic pressure to a stack test valve instead of a pipe ram BOP) which increased the risk of BOP failure, in spite of warnings from their contractor to that effect.

Blu Mar Ten

A series of remixes from the album were released in 2010, featuring versions by Seba, Klute, Bop, Stray, Badmammal & Kastle.

Box-O-Plenty Records

D. Boon and Friends (BOP CD 001), a collection of live and home recordings made in 1984-85, including six songs from a 1985 Minutemen show where Derrick was the substitute drummer.

Brew Keeper

as a Brew-On-Premise (BOP) brewery, later adding taps and a restaurant after it moved to North Ridgeville, Ohio in 2007.

Brown Opera Productions

In the past BOP has done scenes from many operas and operettas, including Porgy and Bess, The Magic Flute, Norma, The Threepenny Opera, Candide, and Monsieur Choufleuri.

In 2010, BOP performed a reduction of the Magic Flute for the Providence Athenaeum on Benefit Street.

Chris Raschka

Raschka is the author and illustrator of "Charlie Parker Played Be Bop", an introduction to the great saxophone player and composer Charlie Parker.

Con Alma

The song was recorded by Chaka Khan in 1982 as part of the "Be Bop Medley" from her album Chaka Khan.

Demon's Dance

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "The record retreats a bit from McLean's nearly free playing on New and Old Gospel and 'Bout Soul, instead concentrating on angular, modal avant bop with more structured chord progressions... While Demon's Dance didn't quite push McLean's sound the way its two predecessors had, there was no sign that the altoist was beginning to run out of creative steam".

Garfield Goes Hollywood

They perform as an Elvis style trio called "Johnny Bop and the Two-Steps" (rather reluctantly, because they did not want Jon involved in their act, as they think he's awful at music).

Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps

It was originally released in 1957, four months after its predecessor, Bluejean Bop.

Goodrick

Mick Goodrick (born 1945), American post bop jazz guitarist and educator most noteworthy for his work with vibraphonist Gary Burton's band

Jaspar

Bobby Jaspar (1926–1963), cool jazz and hard bop saxophonist, flautist and composer born in Liège, Belgium

K-Rob

Since the 1980s, however, aside from providing a verse for "Beat Bop Part 2" on 2004's Bi-Conicals of the Rammellzee, K-Rob has devoted himself more to his Muslim faith.

Kevin Figes

Quartet gigs in Abergavenny, Cardiff, London (606), Sherbourne, Stratford-upon-Avon, Swindon, Bristol (Be-Bop and The Old Duke) and Glastonbury Festival including a live radio 3 broadcast.

Metro FM

Playing a mix of urban contemporary and bubblegum pop Radio Bop was able to reach black audiences in parts of the Transvaal by broadcasting on the AM band from the "independent" bantustan of Bophuthatswana where it was licensed.

Mingus Moves

The other tunes include "Moves," a composition written and sung (along with Honi Gordon) by Doug Hammond, Richmond's predecessor; "Wee," the bop standard, arranged by Sy Johnson, who also worked with Mingus on Let My Children Hear Music (1971) and Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972); "Flowers," written by Adams; and "Newcomer" by Pullen, dedicated to his newborn daughter.

Moshi Monsters

The Moshi Monster TV show features music from: Sonic Boom, Beatie Wolfe, The Blackout (band), Portia Conn, Mop Top Tweeny Bop, Merry Twistmas.

Reformed methanol fuel cell

The balance of plant (BOP) consists of any fuel pumps, air compressors, and fans required to circulate the gas and liquid in the system.

Rusty Dedrick

Lyle "Rusty" Dedrick (12 July 1918 – 25 December 2009) was an American swing and bop jazz trumpeter and composer born in Delevan, New York, probably better known for his work with Bill Borden, Dick Stabile, Red Norvo, Ray McKinley or Claude Thornhill, among others.

Special Operations Response Team

Some of the lesser known operations that BOP SORTs have been involved in include the mass movement of inmates from FCI Miami, after the facility was damaged by Hurricane Andrew; and the resolution of inmate disturbances at FCI Oakdale, Louisiana, FCI Lawton, Oklahoma, and the USP Atlanta.

Sultan Records

2501 - Side B: "Red, the Be Bop Guy" (Red Saunders and his Band) which included an unannounced guest appearance by Buster Bennett - Musicians: Saunders (d, voc, ldr); George "Sonny" Cohn (tp); Joseph "Buster" Bennett (voc, as -1); Nat Jones (as); Leon Washington (ts); Porter Derrico (p); Mickey Sims (b).

The Venezuelan Zinga Son, Vol. 1

1 is an album released by Venezuelan band Los Amigos Invisibles in 2002 (Long Lost Brother Records) and 2004 (Luaka Bop).

Tina Brooks

David Rosenthal in his work Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965 dedicated a number of pages to Brooks.

Tom Bee

In 1979, one of his compositions "Red Hot" was a top Billboard dance hit by Taka Boom (Chaka Khan's sister), and in 1985, U.K. Rockabilly sensation Shakin' Stevens recorded Bee's "Don't Be Two Faced" on his highly successful album, "The Bop Won't Stop."

Turrentine

Tommy Turrentine (1928–1997), swing and hard bop trumpeter, brother of Stanley Turrentine

Ujala Shanker

2011: Finalist at 'BoP Narrative Competition' hosted by the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University sponsored by USAID and IFC

Umar Bin Hassan

In the mid-1990s, he recorded a solo album titled Be-Bop or be Dead on Bill Laswell's Axiom Records through Island/PolyGram Records

Unskinny Bop

"Unskinny Bop" is a song by American glam metal band Poison, which was released as the first single from their 1990 Flesh & Blood album.

In his book A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex, professional wrestler Chris Jericho states that he used Unskinny Bop as his entrance theme in his first professional match, and continued to use it as theme music while wrestling on the Canadian independent circuit in the early 1990s.

Walrath

Jack Walrath (born May 5, 1946 in Stuart, Florida) is an American post-bop jazz

Walter Bishop

Walter Bishop, Jr. (1927–1998), American bop and hard bop jazz pianist, son of the above

Welcome to Bop City

Welcome to Bop City is the first album from Kingpin, released in 1988.


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