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36 unusual facts about Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins


A. G. Hopkins

Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell (eds.): Africa, Empire and Globalization.

His principal works include An Economic History of West Africa (1973), and, with Peter Cain, British Imperialism, 1688-2000 (2001), which won the Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association and is considered by many to be the most influential interpretation of British expansion offered in the last half century.

Albert Hopkins

Albert J. Hopkins (1846–1922), Congressman and U.S. Senator from Illinois

Albert L. Hopkins

worked at the US MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now known as the Draper Lab) during the development of the Apollo Guidance, Navigation, and Control System, or the GN&C.

The system was designed in two forms, one for the command module and one for the lunar module.

After leaving Draper Labs, Albert Hopkins, with his wife Lynne Zaccaria, opened a pottery and antiques shop in South Danbury, New Hampshire.

Brown Shoes Don't Make It

According to Zappa, the beginning background music was inspired by Lightnin' Slim's "Have Your Way".

Everybody in Love

The song was also performed on numerous TV shows throughout promotion of the single and the JLS album, including children's TV shows TMi and Blue Peter, daytime shows GMTV and This Morning, plus events such as BBC Switch Live, T4 Stars of 2009 and the annual BBC Children in Need telethon and that year's Christmas edition of Top of the Pops.

Francis A. Hopkins

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

George H. Hopkins

One of his brothers, Dan Hopkins who served in the same regiment was mortally wounded in the Battle of South Mountain on September 14, 1862.

Jackie Payne

The success of that single led to a 45-city tour with the Stax revue, which at the time featured headliners like Otis Redding (to whom Payne's voice has sometimes been compared), Sam & Dave, Rufus Thomas, and Carla Thomas.

Jaime Crespo

He is also the guitarist and front man of the musical group The Bottle Rockets which have been best described as loud, interpretive Americana (the Stooges meet Lightnin' Hopkins).

Larry Hopkins

Larry J. Hopkins (born 1933), American politician who served in the Kentucky House of Representatives

Larry J. Hopkins

He is the son of Glenn and Martha Hopkins and the father of actor Josh Hopkins.

Lightnin' Hopkins

In 1959, Hopkins was contacted by folklorist Mack McCormick who hoped to bring him to the attention of the broader musical audience which was caught up in the folk revival.

Musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins "is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".

Filmmaker Les Blank captured the Texas troubadour's informal lifestyle in his 1967 documentary The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins.

Lightnin' Slim

Slim has been cited as a major influence by several contemporary blues artists, including Captain Beefheart, who in a 1987 radio interview with Kristine McKenna, stated that Lightnin' Slim was the only artist he could recommend somebody listening to.

Lightnin' Strikes

It was a hit in 1966, making it first to No. 1 in Canada in January 1966 on the RPM Top Singles chart, then to No. 1 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February and No. 11 on the UK Record Retailer chart.

The song was also covered years later by the New York underground artist Klaus Nomi, appearing on his 1981 debut album Klaus Nomi, and was the A-side of a 1982 single accompanied by a video.

Morava K-theory

By a theorem of Devinatz–Hopkins–Smith, every thick subcategory of the category of finite p-local spectra is the subcategory of type-n spectra for some n.

Moses A. Hopkins

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Nathan T. Hopkins

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Fifty-seventh Congress in 1900.

Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins

The accounting firm failed to prove that the same decision to postpone Ann Hopkins' promotion to partnership would have still been made in the absence of sex discrimination, and therefore, the employment decision constituted sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Proto-globalization

First introduced by historians A. G. Hopkins and Christopher Bayly, the term describes the phase of increasing trade links and cultural exchange that characterized the period immediately preceding the advent of so-called 'modern globalization' in the 19th century.

Robert Hopkins

Robert E. Hopkins, Past President of the Optical Society of America

Samuel Hopkins

Samuel M. Hopkins (1772–1837), United States Representative from New York

Samuel I. Hopkins

Hopkins was elected as a candidate of the Labor Party to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889).

SCUMM

It allows anyone who's skilled enough to create completely new and original SCUMM games, with features on par with Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max Hit the Road.

Sergey Ryazansky

He was launched to the International Space Station on board the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft on September 25, 2013 alongside American astronaut Michael S. Hopkins and another Russian cosmonaut, Oleg Kotov.

The Ramong Sound

The Ramong Sound was a London based outfit, that featured two black lead singers doing Sam & Dave styled duets, one of them being former professional boxer Clem Curtis, and the other being Raymond Morrison aka Ramong Morrison.

The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins

As cover design the original Folkways LP's artwork by Ronald Clyne with a photograph taken by Samuel B. Charters was used.

The Schemers

The band's first live show was a support slot for Sam & Dave, and they also supported Jerry Lee Lewis, Ramones, Tom Verlaine and Dead Kennedys.

Topological modular forms

The original construction of tmf uses the obstruction theory of Hopkins, Miller, and Paul Goerss, and is based on ideas of Dwyer, Kan, and Stover.

William R. Hopkins

He pushed for the development of parks, improved welfare institutions, wider boulevards, more playgrounds, air pollution control, and the construction of both the Van Sweringen brothers' Terminal Tower and Cleveland Stadium.

An excellent speaker, he was nicknamed by Witt as "Chautauqua Bill." He won support of Cleveland's ethnic large population, receiving praise in Hebrew, German, Hungarian, Czech, Polish and other foreign-language papers (there were roughly a half-dozen in big circulation at the time).


Big Jay McNeely

The honking style was fading somewhat by the early 1950s, but the honkers themselves suddenly found themselves providing rousing solos for doo wop groups; an example was Sam "The Man" Taylor's eight-bar romp on The Chords' 1954 "Sh-Boom." Bill Haley also used honking sax men Joey D'Ambrosio and Rudy Pompilli on his rock and roll records, including "Rock Around the Clock."

Calvin Valentine

Calvin becomes a suspect with Warren, Sam "OB" O'Brien (Darren Jeffries), Max Cunningham (Matt Littler) and Louise for the attempted murder of Clare after his mobile phone is found at the scene of the crime.

Charles Shaar Murray

He has also sung and played guitar and harmonica as "Blast Furnace" with the band Blast Furnace and the Heatwaves and currently performs with London blues band Crosstown Lightnin'.

Dick Waterman

Within a few years, he was representing House, Hurt, White, Skip James, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins, Arthur Crudup, Junior Wells, J. B. Hutto and many others.

Edward Hogg

He was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2009 for his role in White Lightnin, and won Best Actor awards at the Monterrey and Mumbai Film Festivals for the same role.

Garbage Bowl

People like Johnny Newman, Sam "The Rifle" Etcheverry, Red O'Quinn, Tex Coulter, Moses Denson, Terry Evanshen, Red Storey, Brodie Snyder, George Dixon and someone known only as "The Shadow" have all been "on the field" on January 1 no matter how rotten their weather to make the Garage Bowl game a memorable start to the New Year.

Gold Lion

Karen O had contributed vocals to ad's song composed by Sam "Squeak E. Clean" Spiegel, brother of Karen's then-boyfriend Spike Jonze who had directed the ad.

Gold Star Records

The studio was important in launching the careers of such artists as Lightnin' Hopkins, Harry Choates, George Jones, Eddie Noack, The Sir Douglas Quintet, Roy Head, and Freddy Fender.

Jared Emerson-Johnson

More recently, Emerson-Johnson was the composer behind the video games produced by Telltale Games, such as Bone, Sam & Max, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, Poker Night at the Inventory, Back to the Future: The Game, Jurassic Park: The Game, and The Walking Dead (video game).

John Benson Brooks

This became part of a LP called "Avant Slant," which was a collage of new and already recorded sounds and songs from Milt Gabler, the poet Robert Graves, LeRoi Jones, Lightnin' Hopkins, and others.

Joseph M. Kendall

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1895, to February 18, 1897, when he was succeeded by Nathan T. Hopkins, who contested his election.

Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders

Undeterred, director Mark N. Hopkins and his team produced a 15-minute pilot about the organization's emergency response to the 2005–06 Niger food crisis and were consequently given permission.

Michael Stemmle

After 14 years at LucasArts, he left following the 2004 collapse of Sam & Max Freelance Police and after a period of freelancing, joined Perpetual Entertainment, working as Story Lead for Star Trek Online.

Peter Senge

An engineer by training, Peter was a protégé of John H. Hopkins and has followed closely the works of Michael Peters and Robert Fritz and based his books on pioneering works with the five disciplines in Ford, Chrysler, Shell, AT&T Corporation, Hanover Insurance, Harley-Davidson since the 70s and 80s through today.

Tomato Records

The label has released albums by influential artists such as Townes Van Zandt, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lead Belly, Chris Smither, Dave Brubeck, Nina Simone, Harry Partch, John Cage and Albert King.

When Something Is Wrong with My Baby

"When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" is a classic hit song, a soul ballad, written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter, sung by Sam & Dave, and first released in 1967 by Stax Records.

You Send Me

"You Send Me" has been covered by a number of artists, including Michael Bolton, Nat King Cole, The Drifters, The Everly Brothers, The Four Seasons, Bobby Vee, José Feliciano, Aretha Franklin, Steven Houghton, Nicolette Larson, Steve Miller Band, Van Morrison, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Percy Sledge, Roy Ayers, Paul & Paula, The Supremes, Chris FarrenRachelle Ferrell.