Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Banjo the Woodpile Cat is a 1979 American animated short film directed by Don Bluth. [3] It follows the story of Banjo, an overly curious and rebellious kitten who, after getting into trouble for falling from a house to see if he could land on his feet, runs away from his woodpile home in his owners' farm in Payson, Utah by catching a truck to Salt Lake City.
The results of Campbell and Sharp's respective work were ultimately made publicly available in a groundbreaking 1917 publication "English Folk Songs from Southern Appalachia" [12] which exposed for the first time the persistence of such folk songs, of Scotch-Irish origin, in the repertoires of the residents of the remote Appalachian mountains ...
Barry Manilow agreed to compose the songs for three Don Bluth pictures. Thumbelina was the first, followed by The Pebble and the Penguin, and the third, a retelling of the story of Rapunzel, in which Manilow would also have a voice role, was canceled. The film's soundtrack was released for a limited time and has since gone out of print.
The Eagles' version of "Journey of the Sorcerer" was used as the theme tune to the original BBC Radio 4 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series in 1978. [5] [6] Creator Douglas Adams was looking for a particular piece of music that would distinctively represent the series, that sounded "spacey" but not serious, such as a banjo.
Banjo Hackett: Roamin’ Free (also known as just Banjo Hackett) is a 1976 American Western television film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, written by Ken Trevey, and starring Don Meredith, Ike Eisenmann and Chuck Connors. The film originally aired on May 3, 1976 on NBC and was a pilot for a possible series. [1]
Around 1967, he taught music lessons to Tom and Bill Gibson on banjo and guitar, respectively. In 1969, he joined the Glen Campbell Show as a replacement for John Hartford. [1] About five years later, he was working with Burl Ives and later with Smothers Brothers. [1] He formed the "Larry McNeely Trio" in 1975.
Though A Complete Unknown is about Bob Dylan, the film also dives deep into the life of Pete Seeger.. The folk singer was instrumental in discovering and mentoring Dylan, and the film follows how ...
He first picked up the banjo at the age of five and by age eight, he owned a guitar. Reno's musical approach was different than others in bluegrass at the time in that his was more innovative rather than traditional, injecting blues and jazz into his playing. As he wavered between guitar and banjo, he was a star on both.