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The music video which featured the band live in the studio with cameos of popular American reggae band members singing along. The video was dedicated to "all the fans, bands, and crew members, and everyone in the industry affected by the 2020 COVID shutdown who work tirelessly to make live music possible." [18]
The Expendables were a 1980s band based in Christchurch, New Zealand.Fronted by singer-songwriter/guitarist Jay Clarkson, the band grew out of her former bands, They Were Expendable and The Playthings, and released a single and album in 1984 on the Flying Nun label.
They Were Expendable is a 1945 American war film directed by John Ford, starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne, and featuring Donna Reed.The film is based on the 1942 novel of the same name by William Lindsay White, relating the story of the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three, a United States PT boat unit defending the Philippines against Japanese invasion during the Battle of ...
The American hard rock band Shinedown had recorded the song "Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)", specifically for the film, but was not included. The song was used in the theatrical trailer and the track in its entirety was released on June 15, 2010. [10] [11] Both songs were finally used for the Extended Director's Cut. [12]
They Were Expendable was a Book of the Month Club selection, as well. [1] He served for a time as an overseer of Harvard. [2] He was elected to the board of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1950. [6] He became an officer of a group formed to aid Russian refugees in 1951, the American Committee for Freedom for the Peoples of the U.S.S.R. [7]
Bulkeley's PT-boat heroics in defending the Philippines from Japanese invasion in 1941-1942 was the subject of the novel "They Were Expendable" by William Lindsay White in 1942, which was turned into the big screen epic They Were Expendable three years later by director John Ford, starring John Wayne, with Robert Montgomery playing a somewhat ...
Montgomery had started directing on 1945's They Were Expendable, substituting for John Ford when Ford was ill, and made his credited directorial debut in 1947 with Lady in the Lake. He had also produced for television before, but The Gallant Hours was the first feature film he both directed and produced. It turned out to be his last involvement ...
Herbert Pope Stothart (September 11, 1885 – February 1, 1949) was an American songwriter, arranger, conductor, and composer.He was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.