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unusual facts about The Swing


The Pleasure of Your Company

Kelly and Duffield were invited to sing backing vocals on the INXS album, The Swing.


Sailin' Shoes

First, it introduced the work of Neon Park to the group, with his design of a sailing shoe of a cake swinging on a tree swing that adorned the front cover, which seems to be an allusion to The Swing by painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard.


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Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter

The LCF conversion was partially designed by Boeing's Moscow bureau and Boeing Rocketdyne with the swing tail designed in partnership with Gamesa Aeronáutica of Spain.

Café des Artistes

Other Christy works on display include paintings such as The Parrot Girl, The Swing Girl, Ponce De Leon, Fall, Spring, and the Fountain of Youth.

Charlotte Grayson

They end their conversation with Emily holding Charlotte on the swing their father built ("Scandal").

Drene Time

An early audition show of July 31, 1946 featured a different cast: Don Ameche, guest Sylvia Sidney, announcer Truman Bradley, Joseph Lilley and His Orchestra, Pinky Lee, Jim Backus, the Swing Choir, Jonelle James, Earle Ross and announcer Marvin Miller.

Eckstine

Billy Eckstine, ballad singer and bandleader during the Swing era

Fulbright Hearings

Testimony by John W. Gardner (Chairman of Common Cause, Washington, D.C.) on the swing in public opinion regarding Vietnam war; support for announced withdrawal date and schedule whereby prisoner releases would be phased with stages of withdrawal; need for reassertion of congressional power and influence vis-a-vis the Executive Branch.

History of Montana

Though historically a swing state politically, since the 1988 election, the state tended toward Republican party domination until 2004, when the election of Democratic governor and a return of the legislature to divided party rule temporarily moved the state back into the swing status, solidified by the election of Senator Jon Tester in 2006.

Jacobson v. United States

Justice David Souter later provided the swing vote, and opinions that White and Sandra Day O'Connor had already begun drafting had to be rewritten to reflect the changed outcome of the case.

Nishkulanand Swami

The swing with the twelve doors in the Vadtal Temple and the carved wooden doors in the inner temple of the Dholera Temple are a few of his works of art.

Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Bridge No. 1

The American Bridge Company built the swing span on the fender in its open position, avoiding interference with river traffic.

Point Street Bridge

It is not currently known when the bridge last swung, but the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier, downstream of the Point Street Bridge and completed in 1966, rendered the swing feature of little value because the Barrier blocks large vessels from traveling upstream before the bridge would.

Rizal's 1st legislative district special election, 1994

Cainta and Taytay were expected to provide the swing votes as neither of the candidates are from those two municipalities, and that many residents there were immigrants from other parts of the country.

Siuslaw River

The Coos Bay branch of the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad crosses many bridges as it follows the narrow, winding valley of the Siuslaw River to the swing bridge at Cushman.

Sniffles and the Bookworm

Mother Goose characters come to life late at night in a bookshop, serenading Sniffles the mouse, and his bookworm friend (in his first appearance) with the swing song "Mutiny in the Nursery" by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren, until the Frankenstein monster intrudes.

Sonderzug nach Pankow

The melody is based on the swing classic "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by Glenn Miller from the year 1941; the text is loosely based on the lyrics for "Zug nach Kötzschenbroda" by Bully Buhlan from 1946, which uses the same melody.

Steering wheel

:Introduced on the 1961 Ford Thunderbird, and made available on other Ford products throughout the 1960s, the Swing-away steering wheel allowed the steering wheel to move nine inches to the right when the transmission selector was in Park, so as to make driver exit and entry easier.

Sukima Switch

Ōhashi covered the song "Katamari on the Swing" in the PlayStation 3 game Katamari Forever.

Superior gluteal nerve

The opposite, when the pelvis is elevated on the swing side, is known as Duchenne limp.

Swing Both Ways Tour

The Swing Both Ways Tour is the upcoming concert tour by British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams in promotion of his tenth studio album Swings Both Ways.

Swing Dance Hall of Fame

The Swing Dance Hall of Fame is sponsored by the World Swing Dance Council (WSDC) in the United States.

The Swing Kings

The Swing Kings: A Tribute to Benny Goodman is a jazz tribute album co-led by Bucky Pizzarelli and Ray Kennedy dedicated to Benny Goodman, released in 2005 by Victoria Records.

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers

Of all the members of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Al Minns, Leon James and Frankie Manning are amongst the most famous -- Minns and James in part for their role in the research of Jean and Marshall Stearns's influential book Jazz Dance, Minns for his work with The Rhythm Hot Shots during the 1980s' swing revival, and Manning for his role, starting in 1986, in contributing to the swing and Lindy Hop revival after Minns died in 1985.