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Earle wrote the song "Fort Worth Blues" as a tribute to the singer in the late 1990s, and in 2009 released an album titled Townes, which featured all covers of Van Zandt songs. [ 52 ] His Texas-grounded impact stretched farther than country.
Noël Coward [ 45 ] (1899–1973) was a playwright, composer, director, actor and singer. Omar Sy [ 6 ] Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish poet and playwright known for his biting wit. Nora Ephron [ 46 ] P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. [ 47 ] Peg Bracken [ 5 ] Phyllis McGinley [ 5 ] Robert ...
Producer (s) Tommy Scott. " Whiskey in the Jar " (Roud 533) is an Irish traditional song set in the southern mountains of Ireland, often with specific mention of counties Cork and Kerry. The song, about a rapparee (highwayman) who is betrayed by his wife or lover, is one of the most widely performed traditional Irish songs and has been recorded ...
The word whisky (or whiskey) is an anglicisation of the Classical Gaelic word uisce (or uisge) meaning "water" (now written as uisce in Modern Irish, and uisge in Scottish Gaelic). This Gaelic word shares its ultimate origins with Germanic water and Slavic voda of the same meaning. Distilled alcohol was known in Latin as aqua vitae ("water of ...
The Ealing Studios logo as it appears in the opening credits of The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) The Ealing comedies is an informal name for a series of comedy films produced by the London-based Ealing Studios during a ten-year period from 1947 to 1957. Often considered to reflect Britain's post-war spirit, [ 1 ][ 2 ] the most celebrated films ...
Signature. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [ 1 ] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [ 2 ] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." [ 3 ]
Elijah Craig. Elijah Craig (November 15, 1738 – May 18, 1808) was an American Baptist preacher, who became an educator and capitalist entrepreneur in the area of Virginia that later became the state of Kentucky. He has sometimes, although rather dubiously, [1][2][3][4] been credited with the invention of bourbon whiskey.
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer. "What Can I Do?" " One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer " (originally " One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer ") is a blues song written by Rudy Toombs and recorded by Amos Milburn in 1953. It is one of several drinking songs recorded by Milburn in the early 1950s that placed in the top ten of the Billboard R&B chart ...