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unusual facts about Rodgers



1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game

Getting to the Oklahoma 48, Husker quarterback Jerry Tagge threw to Rodgers, who broke tackles and ran all the way to the 15.

Andre Rodgers

A native of Nassau, Bahamas, Rodgers was the first Bahamian to play in the major leagues.

Bob Rodgers

Rodgers was fired by NESN in March 2004 after he left spring training without permission to coach the Whitman-Hanson Regional High School boys' basketball team.

Break Machine

Break Machine was the name of a 1980s American rap act, fronted by Keith Rodgers and produced by Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo; the team behind the Village People.

Championship belt

Originally used by Rodgers during his time on the Green Bay Packers practice squad as a way to keep his teammates loose, it became known more as Rodgers' touchdown celebration as the Packers 2010 season progressed, eventually culminating with a victory in Super Bowl XLV.

Christopher Glynn

He has subsequently performed as a piano accompanist with singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Claire Booth, Allan Clayton, Lucy Crowe, Sophie Daneman, Bernarda Fink, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jonas Kaufmann, Yvonne Kenny, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Joan Rodgers, Kate Royal, Toby Spence, Bryn Terfel, Ailish Tynan, Roderick Williams and Catherine Wyn Rogers.

Community Swing

The personnel on the session featured Glenn Miller, Jeffe Ralph, Harry Rodgers, and Jerry Jerome on trombone, George Siravo and Hal McIntyre on alto sax, Carl Biesecker on tenor sax, Charlie Spivak, Mannie Klein, and Sterling Bose on trumpets, Howard Smith on piano, Dick McDonough on guitar, Ted Kotsoftis on bass, and George T. Simon on drums.

Concept musical

There are three major contenders for the title of first concept (even though the term "concept musical" hadn't been coined when any of them played): Lady in the Dark (1941) by Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin, and Moss Hart; Allegro (1947) by Rodgers and Hammerstein; and Love Life (1948) by Weill and Alan Jay Lerner.

Electronic organ

The builders of both custom and factory organs include the firms of Allen, Ahlborn-Galanti, Johannus, Viscount, Makin, Rodgers and Wyvern.

European Documentation and Information Centre

Among the most prominent members of this British section were apart from Teeling, Corfield and Rodgers, Peter Agnew and Geoffrey Rippon who both were to become international presidents of the CEDI later on.

Frederick Rodgers

After Santee captured her second blockade runner – the hermaphrodite brig Delta carrying a cargo of salt from Liverpool, England – on 27 October 1861, Rodgers was placed aboard Delta in command of her prize crew.

Fun on Earth

It is the first album he has worked on since 2008's The Cosmos Rocks with Queen + Paul Rodgers, and his first solo album since 1998's Electric Fire.

Galaxian

The most famous Galaxian rivalry has been between British player Gary Whelan and American Perry Rodgers, who faced off at Apollo Amusements in Pompano Beach, Florida, USA, on April 6–9, 2006.

Gene Rodgers

Rodgers recorded sparingly as a leader; he did two sides for Vocalion in 1936, four in a session for Joe Davis in 1945, and albums as a trio leader for EmArcy (1958), Black & Blue Records (1972), and 88 Up Right (1980).

Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts

In 2005 the Academy was selected by the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization to be the first high school in the United States to perform the long-running Broadway Musical Cats.

Hey, Landlord

Other tenants in the building are Sandy Baron as comedian Chuck Hookstratten, Jack (Michael Constantine) who was a photographer, glamorous Theresa (Pamela Rodgers) and her roommate and best friend Kyoto (Miko Mayama), who frequently yells, "Hey, Landlord!" thus giving the show its title.

J.P. Viernes

The first professional theatre production that Viernes was a part of was a production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific at the Coastal Repertory Theater in Half Moon Bay, California.

Joe M. Rodgers

Having been given a ticket and a house share for the 1968 Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club, Rodgers ended up sharing a home with Thomas Frist, a doctor from Nashville, Tennessee who had just started a private hospital company called Hospital Corporation of America.

John Epperson

In Winter 2004, Epperson (in a different drag role) played the role of the Wicked Stepmother in the New York City Opera's revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella in a cast with Eartha Kitt, Dick van Patten and fellow Wigstock veteran Renée Taylor.

Jonathan Estabrooks

He made his Toronto Symphony Orchestra debut on October 9 and 10, 2012 with conductor Steven Reineke in a program entitled "Some Enchanted Evening: The Music of Rodgers & Hammerstein" with Broadway stars Ashley Brown and Aaron Lazar.

Kacy Rodgers

Rodgers had previously worked with Sparano in Dallas the previous five seasons while also serving under current Dolphins Vice President Bill Parcells during his tenure as Cowboys head coach from 2003 to 2006.

In 2008, Rodgers joined the Miami Dolphins as defensive line coach under first-year head coach Tony Sparano, replacing Travis Jones and Diron Reynolds from 2007.He would churn out three pro bowlers in Randy Starks DT, Paul Soliai DT and Cameron Wake DE while with the Dolphins.

Kids Cancer Tree

By 2002 The Kids Cancer Tree had been featured on the KSFO morning show hosted by Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan.

Kobuk River

Explored by Lt. G. M. Stoney, USN, in 1883-1886, who wrote the name "Ku-buck," but proposed that it be called "Putnam" in honor of Master Charles Putnam, USN, officer of the Rodgers, who was carried to sea on the ice and lost in 1880.

Lara Teeter

Teeter's recordings include On Your Toes (Broadway Revival Cast, 1983), Lady, Be Good! (Studio Cast, 1992 – first recording ever of the show), The Musicality of Rodgers & Hart (Compilation, 1997) and The Wizard of Oz (Original New York Cast, 1998 Grammy nomination).

Mary Rodgers

A revue of Rodgers' music titled Hey, Love, conceived and directed by Richard Maltby, Jr. ran in June 1993 at Eighty-Eight's in New York City.

Me and Juliet

After Rodgers and Hammerstein had another hit with The King and I, Rodgers proposed the backstage project to his partner.

The two discussed the matter at a meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, in early 1952, where Rodgers was vacationing as he worked on melodic sketches for the television program Victory at Sea.

Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again

The song was later adapted (around 1965) to advertise SpaghettiOs, and Rodgers sang the jingle in the original television ads.

Oscar Hammerstein

Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), Broadway lyricist, songwriting partner of Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers

Pepper Rodgers

Rodgers is the author of Fourth and Long Gone, a fictional book published in 1985 that is a bawdy roman à clef of his experiences as a college football coach and recruiter.

Peter Rodgers Organization

Stephen Rodgers personally holds the copyright to several films, including The Unearthly (1957) and Beginning of the End (1957) He also owns O’Kennedy’s Ireland, a documentary about President John F. Kennedy’s visit to his ancestral home of Dublin, Ireland, where the O'Kennedy dynasty began, only months prior to his assassination in 1963.

Philip H. Hilder

In the lobbying scandal surrounding Jack Abramoff, Hilder represented Tom Rodgers, a Washington lobbyist for Indian tribes who leaked documents to the media about Abramoff’s activities.

Raymond Spencer Rodgers

Louisiana should fight to preserve the French language," he noted. "But unless the fight starts now . . . all is lost.” Rodgers called for closer ties between south Louisiana and French Canada, and was appointed by Louisiana governor John McKeithen to map out the Quebec-Louisiana Cultural Agreement, which arranged for artistic, educational, and economic exchanges between the two regions.

Richwoods High School

RHS produces musicals in the spring time: in 2004, Damn Yankees, in 2005, Guys and Dolls, in 2006, Fiddler on the Roof, in 2007, The Boy Friend, in 2008 Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, in 2009, Little Women, and in 2010, Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Rodgers Forge, Maryland

In 2004, Rodgers Forge gained international attention as the home of Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps.

Smart Start, Inc.

Smart Start, Inc. was founded in 1993 by Jay and Bettye Rodgers and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

T. J. Rodgers

While pursuing his Ph.D. degree, Rodgers invented the VMOS process technology, which he later licensed to American Microsystems, Inc. He founded Cypress Semiconductor in 1982.

Ten Cents a Dance

Joan Morris and William Bolcom recorded it for their 1981 LP, "The Rodgers and Hart Album," and later included the track on "The Rodgers and Hart CD."

Texas State Highway Spur 366

In 2012 the Santiago Calatrava designed Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge was opened, extending the Woodall Rodgers west of Interstate 35E across the Trinity River, into West Dallas.

Spur 366, also named Woodall Rodgers Freeway, is a highway that connects Beckley Boulevard and Singleton Avenue in West Dallas to Interstate 345 and U.S. Highway 75 (North Central Expressway) in central Dallas, Texas.

The Affair at Grover Station

The next day, Rodgers went about the station and then up to Grover, Colorado.

The Codetalkers

Some notable on-stage guests of The Codetalkers have been Jimmy Herring, Derek Trucks, Bob Weir, Mike Gordon, Hubert Sumlin, Ron Holloway and Ike Stubblefield (about whom Rodgers has penned a song bearing his moniker).

Transcontinental flight across the United States

Rodgers persuaded J. Ogden Armour, of Armour and Company, to sponsor the flight, and in return he named the plane after Armour's grape soft drink "Vin Fiz".

Tyrone Rodgers

Rodgers played high school football at Banning High School in Wilmington, California, where he was teammates with Jamelle Holieway, Leroy Holt, Bob Whitfield, Courtney Hall, Mark Tucker, Ed Lalau, and Marvin Pollard.

United States Navy use of Hydrometer 1800s

Captain John Rodgers, Lieutenant Porter, and Dr. William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger, all of the United States Navy did this as did Dr. Raymond, in the American steamer Golden Age, and Captain Henry Toynbee, (F.R.A.S., F.R.A.G.S) of the English East Indiaman the Gloriana.

William Watts Sherman House

The house was built in 1875-1876 by William Watts Sherman, of the banking firm Duncan, Sherman, & Co. of New York, and his first wife Annie Derby Rodgers Wetmore (daughter of William Shepard Wetmore of the nearby Chateau-sur-Mer).


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