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2 unusual facts about Lanigan's Ball


Kelligrews Soiree

It was patterned on Irish music-hall songs like "The Irish Jubilee" and "Lanigan's Ball", and makes reference to "Clara Nolan's Ball", an American vaudeville song of the nineteenth century.

Lanigan's Ball

Jump, Little Children performs another popular version of this song with most of the lyrics retained.


Donna Theodore

Theodore also created the role of Kitty Merritt on the daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow, appeared in the television movie Face of Fear, and acted in numerous other popular television series like B. J. and the Bear, Family Medical Center, Lanigan's Rabbi and Rosetti & Ryan.

Doreen Chanter

In 1981, Chanter was part of a chorus that sang at The Secret Policeman's Ball with other chorus members including Phil Collins, Donovan, Sheena Easton, Bob Geldof, Midge Ure and Tom Robinson.

Extreme Aggression

While the band had already gained a sizeable following in the US due to their 1987 tour with the crossover thrash band D.R.I., this album introduced many American fans to Kreator, primarily through heavy rotation of the "Betrayer" music video on MTV's Headbanger's Ball, which was partly shot at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

James Haven

He had minor roles in several films starring his sister, Angelina Jolie, namely Gia (1998), Hell's Kitchen (1998), and Original Sin (2001), as well as in Monster's Ball (2001), which starred his sister's then-husband, Billy Bob Thornton.

Jim Lanigan

Lanigan learned piano and violin as a child, and played piano and drums in the Austin High School Blue Friars before specializing on bass and tuba.

Lanigan's Rabbi

For the series, Bruce Solomon replaced Stuart Margolin, who had played Rabbi Small in the pilot; his unrelated namesake Janet Margolin played his wife.

After a successful pilot film based on Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, the first novel in the Rabbi David Small series, aired in 1976, Lanigan's Rabbi was produced as a series of 90-minute telefilms beginning in January 1977.

Mike Lanigan

Lanigan expanded his sponsorship into team ownership in 2001, joining forces with Eric Bachelart to co-own Conquest Racing which competed in the IndyCar Series in 2001 and 2002, then the Champ Car World Series from 2003 to 2006.

Lanigan also took over the promoter position of Champ Car's Grand Prix of Houston in 2006 and Grand Prix of Cleveland in 2007, neither of which survived the merger to appear on the IndyCar Series schedule.

Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time

It also features specially-written and recorded interstitial and linking material created by some of the Python members and Secret Policeman's Ball producer Martin Lewis.

Percy French

He became renowned for composing and singing comic songs and gained considerable distinction with such songs as "Phil the Fluther's Ball", "Slattery's Mounted Foot", and "The Mountains of Mourne".

Player's Ball

The single was released in November 19 1993, and is taken from the group's debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik.

The song peaked at #37 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the highest charting single from the group's debut album.

The title refers to a traditional gathering of pimps in Chicago.

Pumpkin Diamond

Halle Berry wore the ring to the 2002 Oscars where she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball.

Robin Hood's Ball

Richards, J, "The Stonehenge Environs Project" (English Heritage, 1990) ISBN 1-85074-269-3

Stormtroopers of Death

The song "March of the S.O.D.," from their 1985 debut album, Speak English or Die, was the Headbanger's Ball intro anthem for many years.

The Secret Policeman's Ball

The Secret Policeman's Ball 2006, the 2006 Amnesty benefit show (and the spin-off TV special and DVD)

The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008, the 2008 Amnesty benefit show (and the spin-off TV special)

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, the 1981 Amnesty benefit show (and the spin-off two films, two albums and book)

The Secret Policeman's Balls, the informal collective name used to describe the entire series of Amnesty benefit shows and spin-offs from 1976 onwards

Todd Strueby

Todd Kenneth Strueby (born June 15, 1963 in Lanigan, Saskatchewan and raised in Humboldt, Saskatchewan) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played most of his career in the minor leagues.

Tony Lanigan

In 2012, Lanigan was appointed as chairman of the Good Shepherd College Senate.

William Lanigan

Right Reverend William Lanigan (May 1820 – 13 June 1900), was a Roman Catholic Bishop of Goulburn, New South Wales.


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