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Buddy Pepper (born Jack Retherford Starkey, April 21, 1922 – February 7, 1993) was an American pianist, songwriter, arranger and actor, known as one of three writers of Billboard's top tune of 1953, [1] "Vaya Con Dios," which has been recorded over 500 times.
Brad Ellis is an American composer, musical director, singer, orchestrator, and jazz pianist. Ellis is perhaps most visible as Brad the mostly quiet pianist for the high school kids on Glee, the Fox television show for which he is part of creator Ryan Murphy's musical production team.
His songs have been used in film, television and theater. When the actor Robert Carlyle formed a theatre, he named it the Rain Dog Theatre after Waits's album. [392] Cabaret shows have been set to his songs, among them Robert Berdahl's Warm Beer, Cold Women and Stewart D'Arrietta's Belly of a Drunken Piano. [398]
His first award was for Best Actor for My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989), and then the same award for his role in There Will Be Blood (2007). His last Oscar was for his leading role ...
He has appeared over 200 times on the daytime TV quiz show, Countdown, and hosted quiz shows such as The Year in Question on Radio 4, Finders Keepers (1981–1985), and Scoop (1981–1982). [8] His 45-minute poem, "Who Pays the Piper?", outlined the history of music from Pan to the modern day, interspersing classical music with re-written lyrics.
Eric Idle was born on 29 March 1943 in Harton Hospital, in South Shields. [1] His mother, Norah Barron Sanderson, [2] was a nurse, [1] and his father, Ernest Idle, [2] [3] served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, only to be killed in a road accident while hitchhiking home for Christmas in December 1945.
In the videos, Merton sits at a piano and improvises songs about either his observations of the people he is meeting or story ideas suggested by them. Merton's first video garnered more 5 star ratings than any other YouTube video in history, making it the highest rated YouTube video ever. [1] Merton's actual identity is unknown. He lives in ...
He was later the music director for all four seasons of the Nick Jr. series The Backyardigans, which features a different musical genre in every episode. [5] In 2011, Lurie composed an unused song for Nickelodeon's Winx Club [ 6 ] (a show that many other Backyardigans crew members worked on, including creator Janice Burgess ).