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unusual facts about Hillman


Clyno

In an attempt to minimise costs, Clyno ended their agreement with their long term partner Rootes and stopped using Coventry Climax engines in favour of concentrating on the Hillman design and this hastened the demise of Clyno.


2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

Ward Burton returned to NASCAR for the first time after a five year absence, driving the season-opening Daytona race for Hillman Racing.

Annabelle Apsion

Apart from Shameless, Apsion is also well known for her portrayals of Joy Wilton in Soldier Soldier, Betty in My Good Friend, Beverly in The Lakes, Patricia Hillman in Coronation Street, and Mrs. Beech in Michelle Magorian's Goodnight Mister Tom.

Bakersfield sound

Love of the Bakersfield Sound has never died, carried on by artists such as the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers in the 1960s-70s, Highway 101, Hillman and The Desert Rose Band, and Marty Stuart in the 1980s and '90s, and Big House, Dwight Yoakam, Red Simpson, Ferlin Husky.

Bernard Unett

Unett was a last-minute stand in for a three-man private entry for the 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally, using a Hillman Hunter.

Boswell, Pennsylvania

Merchants Coal, and the related Orenda Coal, were subsidiaries of Hillman Coal and Coke Company of Pittsburgh, the same firm that built the neighboring town of Jerome, Pennsylvania.

Chris Hillman

Hillman released two solo albums, Slippin' Away and Clear Sailin, which included several songs co-written with Crawdaddy magazine editor Peter Knobler.

Parsons was out of the lineup by June 1970 (replaced by guitarist Rick Roberts) when the band toured Canada as part of the Festival Express tour, with Hillman reverting to bass guitar.

Daniel Fischlin

Fischlin has a BFA in Music Performance, an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Musicology/English Literature; Concordia University), and a PhD in English Literature (York University), with a dissertation on the English lute song directed by Richard Hillman.

David Mansfield

Since The Alpha Band broke up, Mansfield has continued to work as a musician in sessions for Dylan, Burnett, Johnny Cash, Nanci Griffith, Roger McGuinn, Sam Phillips, Mark Heard, The Roches, Edie Brickell, Spinal Tap, Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam, Victoria Williams, Loudon Wainwright III, Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen and others.

Desert rose

The Desert Rose Band, a country rock band founded by Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen, and John Jorgenson

Ellis Hillman

Hillman was born into a political family, related both to American labour leader Sidney Hillman and Chaim Herzog, sixth president of Israel.

Hanns Zischler

Known in Sweden for his role as Josef Hillman in the second season of the Martin Beck movies, though his voice is dubbed.

Harold Hillman

Hillman was Reader in Physiology at the University of Surrey from 1965 until 1989, when he took early retirement.

Have You Seen Her Face

The song was written following a recording session for trumpet player Hugh Masekela that Hillman had attended during 1966, a year that saw the bassist blossoming as a songwriter.

High Road Bridge

It is the world's first road bridge built using the hybrid composite beams (also known as Hillman-Composite Beam) (HCB’s) invented by John R. Hillman and developed by the HC Bridge Company LLC.

Hillman Periodicals

Hillman's most notable character, however, continuing in new stories by another publisher, Eclipse Comics, in the 1980s, was the Charles Biro, Dick Wood and Al Camy-created aviator-adventurer Airboy in Air Fighters Comics and its successor, Airboy Comics.

Honda Campus All-Star Challenge

An episode of A Different World entitled "Goodwill Games" revolves around the premise of Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert competing in Hillman College's Campus All-Star Challenge tournament.

Richard Hillman

However, Hillman drives off, with "You and Me Song" by The Wannadies playing on the CD player in a continuous loop, which he said was a favourite of Sarah-Lou's from a previous summer holiday.

The Benji Hillman Foundation

The foundation is named after the late Major Benji Hillman (1979–2006), a company commander in the elite Egoz Reconnaissance Unit, who was killed in Maroun al-Ras on 20 July leading his troops into battle.

The Gilded Palace of Sin

Most of the songs were written by Parsons and Hillman at a house in the San Fernando Valley dubbed "Burrito Manor."

"Sin City", co-written by Hillman and Parsons, called a "loping lament" and a "cautionary dirge", mentions The Byrds's manager Larry Spector ("a gold plated door") and Robert F. Kennedy ("tried to clean up this town").


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