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unusual facts about MCA


Ved Tiwari

He completed his BCA from DAV Century College in 2003 and later went on to complete his MCA(Masters in Computer Application) from DAV Institute of Management, Faridabad.


Adam Lerner

He was the founder and Executive Director of The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar until The Lab merged with the MCA Denver in March 2009.

Aref al-Dajani

In 1918, after serving for one year as mayor of Jerusalem, al-Dajani joined the Administrative Committee of the Muslim-Christian Association (MCA) and went on to become Jerusalem and then regional president of the organization.

Ashton Shepherd

Shepherd's third single, "Look It Up," was released to country radio on January 3, 2011 as the lead-off single to her second album for MCA Nashville, Where Country Grows.

Best O' Boingo

It features songs recorded during the band's MCA years, from 1984's So-Lo to 1990's Dark at the End of the Tunnel.

Bobby DeBarge

The group - which consisted of DeBarge, Williams, Jody Sims, Phillip Ingram and Eddie Fluellen - then recorded an album in 1976 under the name Hot Ice entitled Pall Mall Groove, which included DeBarge's incredible singing, piano performance and writing of "Please Don't Let Me Go," released in 1977 on Polydor/Germany and in 1979 in the USA/Canada as SMASH on Source Records/MCA.

Bruce Spencer

Spencer has also played the drums for artists including Wynona Judd, Charlie Peacock, Brent Bourgeois, Larry Tagg, Roger Smith, JGB, Agnes Stone (qwest), Zoppi (MCA), Chris Webster, Jackie Greene, and many others.

Burning Farm

The other CD bonus songs are either "Watchin' Girl" and "Twist Barbie" live (Oglio Records, USA), or "Ukkari Hachibei" and a cover of The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated" (MCA Victor, Japan).

Charisse

Charisse Arrington,Charisse Arrington is a R&B singer who was signed to MCA Records in the 1990s.

Chicago 19

#"Victorious" (Marc Jordan, John Capek; MCA Music/Warner Bros. Music) – 6:03

Country Gold

Released on March 11, 1997, Country Gold is a 10 track compilation CD featuring songs taken from the Nanci Griffith MCA albums Lone Star State of Mind, Little Love Affairs, One Fair Summer Evening and Storms.

Deadly Venoms

A legal dispute with A&M/PolyGram Records and the then-forthcoming merger between the MCA and PolyGram families of labels that formed the Universal Music Group forced its debut album, Deadly Venoms: The Antidote, to remain in its vaults, although the single “One More to Go” (featuring Inspectah Deck, Method Man, Cappadonna, Street Life, and GZA) b/w “Bomb Threat,” was released and the album was later leaked.

Derann

In the following years, the company managed to secure deals with MCA, EMI, United Artists, 20th Century Fox, and eventually Disney, giving them rights to the production and sale of Super 8 cutdowns and versions of their films.

Hammer and Tongs

Parlophone sold the band's record deal to Radioactive Records and MCA, who released Hammer and Tongs in the United Kingdom in early 1991 and encouraged the band to record a new song "Now We Are Married" to promote the release.

Hannah Yeoh

Yeoh, a former lawyer and event manager, won the N31 Subang Jaya state seat against Ong Chong Swen from MCA, a Barisan Nasional component party in the 2008 election.

Helidon Gjergji

Among many other exhibitions he has participated at the Venice Biennale 52 (curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Manifesta 8; Present Future, Artissima 10 (Turin), curated by Emma Dexter, the Tirana Biennale 1 (curated by Francesco Bonami); Venice Biennale of Architecture 12 (curated by Gjergj Bakallbashi), Madre, (MCA, Naples); Apexart (NYC); National Gallery (Tirana); Villa Arson; Centre d'Art Contemporain (Nice); Lothringer Dreizehn Kunsthalle (Munich); The Kosova Art Gallery.

Innermission

Innermission was the first major label release for the B.E. Taylor Group, released in 1982 on MCA Records (as MCA-5335).

Ismail Abdul Rahman

When the British High Commissioner Donald MacGillivray met with the Tunku, Ismail, and the MCA's representative of H. S. Lee, he accused them of playing into the hands of the Malayan Communist Party, which was waging an armed insurgency against the British.

Jarret Myer

Their business philosophy was based on mixing the strategy of punk rock music labels like SST and Victory with aggressive marketing using the financial support of first News Corp and then MCA.

Jules Stein Eye Institute

The Jules Stein Eye Institute, founded by MCA founder Jules Stein, functions as the department of ophthalmology for the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.

Lai Kew Chai

In 1986 Justice Lai sentenced Malaysian businessman and the then-MCA President Tan Koon Swan to a S$500,000 fine and two years' imprisonment in Singapore, for Criminal Breach of Trust (CBT) which led to the collapse of Singaporean company Pan-Electric Industries.

László Somogyi

Somogyi's recordings include Haydn symphonies (including the famous and disputed Toy Symphony), the Dvořák piano concerto with Firkusny on the Westminster label, and Beethoven's Chorale Fantasy with a very young Daniel Barenboim on MCA in 1960.

Machap by-election, 2007

Three days later, on April 2, 2007, the BN deputy chairman and incumbent Deputy Prime Minister Dato' Sri Najib Tun Razak named a local MCA politician, 56-year old Lai Meng Chong as the coalition's candidate for the by-election.

Mark Paul Deren

His visual style has attracted clients such as Nike, Inc., Target Corporation, Red Bull, Boost Mobile, Honda, Boosted, Volkswagen, MCA Records, Interscope Records, Stüssy, Evisu, Ben Sherman, Capita Snowboards, Armada Skis, Rusty, Salomon, Lemonade Magazine, Wallin Surfboards, ActivEmpire, ActionSports Group, So Sweet Records, 411VM, Palace 5ive, and Bl!

Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand

The song has been released in several different versions, sometimes under the title "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hands", also hyphenated (on the MCA LP) as "Mary-Anne with the Shaky Hands".

MCA Solutions

MCA Solutions customers have included: Bobst Group, Boeing, Bombardier Aerospace, Briggs & Stratton, Brocade Communications Systems, Cymer, KLA-Tencor Corporation, Lam Research, Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins, Sysmex Corporation, Tellabs, U.S. Navy and Varian Semiconductor

Mercedes-Benz Citan

The Citan, known internally as the W415, is a result of the partnership between Daimler and the Renault-Nissan Alliance and is assembled by Renault subsidiary MCA in the northern French town of Maubeuge, alongside its sister vehicle the Renault Kangoo.

Nanyang Siang Pau

On 28 May 2001, Huaren Holdings, the investment arm of the political party MCA, bought over Nanyang Press, in a controversial transaction that led to mass boycotts of the newspaper by the Chinese community.

Optical disc

In 1975, Philips and MCA began to work together, and in 1978, commercially much too late, they presented their long-awaited Laserdisc in Atlanta.

Peter Maag

Other labels he recorded for include Arts, Conifer, Deutsche Grammophon, MCA Records, Naxos Records, Nuova Era, RCA Red Seal Records, and Vox Records.

RAF Search and Rescue Force

While this contract is being renegotiated, a "Gap" contract was tendered for the existing Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) bases and in February 2012 it was announced that Bristow Helicopters would take over the running of Stornoway and Sumburgh using Sikorsky S-92s and that Portland and Lee on Solent would be retained by CHC Helicopter using AgustaWestland AW139s.

Ramarajapuram

The village has seen a lot of growth among the students leaving to complete higher education including BE, ME, CA, MBA, MCA etc.

Raub District

Raub is the Parliamentary Constituency for former Women and Community Development Minister, Dato' Dr. Ng Yen Yen from BN-MCA, by beating Abu Bakar Lebai Sudin from DAP.

Richard Batchens

His work includes many major releases on Festival's Infinity Records label (not affiliated with the U.S. based MCA Records subsidiary label also called Infinity Records.) He worked on all the early albums and singles for Sherbet, Australia's most successful pop band of the early-mid-1970s, and the first five LPs by renowned singer-songwriter Richard Clapton.

Share My World

Share My World is the third studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige, released by MCA on April 22, 1997.

Silas Records

It was eventually absorbed into MCA in 1999, after Silas left his post at UMG to take a position at LaFace Records.

Sold for a Smile

The 1998 MCA release includes a cover version of Cyndi Lauper's song "Time After Time" and a rerecorded version of The Gandharvas' 1994 hit "The First Day of Spring".

Son of a Son of a Sailor

It was initially released in March 1978 as ABC Dunhill AA-1046 and later rereleased on its successor label, MCA.

Songs in a Mellow Mood

The complete album was re-issued as part of the 1994 MCA Records CD, Pure Ella.

Stanton Miranda

Psycho III (Music From The Motion Picture) (LP) (MCA Records 1986)

Sue Mengers

Mengers entered the talent agency business in 1955 as a receptionist at MCA, at the time the dominant company of the trade, with a roster of clients that included Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift.

The MCA Years: A Retrospective

The MCA Years: A Retrospective was released on MCA Records in 1993, and contains songs from Nanci Griffith's five MCA albums recorded between 1987 and 1991 - Lone Star State of Mind (1987), Little Love Affairs (1988), One Fair Summer Evening (1988), Storms (1989) and Late Night Grande Hotel (1991).

The Men All Pause

"The Men All Pause" is a hit single recorded by Klymaxx for the MCA label.

Transvision Vamp

In June 1991 MCA refused to release Transvision Vamp's third album Little Magnets Versus the Bubble of Babble in the UK, reportedly disliking the mellower direction of the music and after two heavily promoted singles stalled early.

Twelve: Fifty One

Twelve: Fifty One is the second album released by pop-acoustic duo Krissy & Ericka under MCA Music.

UEP Subang Jaya

The State Assemblyman (Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri, ADUN) is Democratic Action Party (DAP)'s Hannah Yeoh Tseow Suan (Ms) who took over the seat from Barisan Nasional-MCA (BN)'s Datuk Lee Hwa Beng since 8 March 2008.

University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kanpur

With an initial strength of 240 students, it now has 1,700 students on its rolls in the six disciplines of Engineering and other career-oriented programs like MCA, BCA, M.Sc. (Electronics), M.Sc.

William Katt

In 1982, due to the success of the first season of The Greatest American Hero, Katt signed to MCA and released an album, Secret Smiles under the name Billy Katt.


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