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Shanks & Bigfoot were a British duo of UK garage producers Steven Meade and Danny Langsman, known principally for their single "Sweet like Chocolate", which topped the UK Singles Chart in 1999.
The soldiers' name for the camp, "Doolally", became a slang term associated with mental illness. [1] [3] The term is a contraction of the original form "Doolally tap", where the latter part is derived from "tapa" ("fever" in Hindustani and "heat" or "torment" in Sanskrit). [3] The whole phrase is perhaps best translated as "camp fever". [3]
Doolally or Dolally may refer to: Deolali, India, the former site of a British Army transit camp Deolali transit camp. Doolally tap or simply "Doolally", meaning to 'lose one's mind', derived from the boredom felt at the camp; The former name of Shanks & Bigfoot, a British dance-music duo
James Titus Godbolt (October 2, 1927 – May 16, 2008), known professionally as Jimmy Slyde and also as the "King of Slides", was an American tap dancer known for his innovative tap style mixed with jazz. Slyde was a popular rhythm tap dancer in America in the mid-20th century, when he performed on the nightclub and burlesque circuits.
Dubuffett was at the time a great admirer of American Jazz, in particular of Louis Armstrong.He created three Jazz inspired paintings in December 1944. He felt particularly inspired by their improvisational style of music to create works that could be seen as their equivalent in painting, like he stated in a 1963 letter. [2]
The Two O'Clock Lab Band is the second highest level of nine big bands (see One O'Clock Lab Band) of the Jazz Studies Division at the University of North Texas College of Music, a comprehensive music school with the largest enrollment of any music institution accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, [1] and oldest (and first) in the world offering a degree in jazz studies.
Mable Lee (August 2, 1921 – February 7, 2019), sometimes spelled Mabel Lee, was an American jazz tap dancer, singer, and entertainer.Lee appeared on Broadway, at the Apollo Theater, and was known as "Queen of the Soundies" due to her numerous performances in the films.
Allmusic's Greg Prato scored the album 2.5 out of 5, commenting that the album was surely one of the most ferocious works to come from a fairly young band. However, he was more critical of the repetitive quality of the nonstop sonic onslaught, which he suggests begins to work against the band as many of the songs become increasingly predictable.