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Lazybones or "Lazy Bones" is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1933, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer (1909-1976), and music by Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981).. Mercer was from Savannah, Georgia, and resented the Tin Pan Alley attitude of rejecting Southern regional vernacular in favor of artificial Southern songs written by people who had never been to the South.
In 1950 Zenith came up with a remote control called the "Lazy Bones" which was connected with wires to the TV set. The next development was the "Flashmatic" (1955), designed by Eugene Polley, a wireless remote control that used a light beam to signal the TV (with a photosensitive pickup device) to change stations. One problem was that during ...
"Lazy Bones" Hoagy Carmichael: 1934 "P.S. I Love You" Gordon Jenkins: 1936 "Goody Goody" Matty Malneck: 1936 "I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande" Johnny Mercer: 1937 "Hooray for Hollywood" Richard A. Whiting: 1937 "Too Marvelous for Words" Richard A. Whiting: 1938 "Jeepers, Creepers!" Harry Warren: Film - Going Places. Nominated Best ...
Midge Williams came from a talented family. Her grandfather Joshua had been a music teacher, her mother Virginia Louise was an artist, and her uncle Henry played the violin. She also had a half-brother named Lester Williams who worked as a jazz musician. Midge and her three of her brothers formed a song and dance act called the Williams Quartette.
Lazy Bones was originally a comic strip in the British comic Whizzer and Chips. It made its first appearance in 1978. The strip was about a boy called Benny Bones, who would constantly fall asleep everywhere, much to the annoyance of his parents. Until 1986, the strip was drawn by Colin Whittock, [1] and moved to Buster in 1990 after Whizzer ...
The remote, called Lazy Bones, [15] was connected to the television by a wire. A wireless remote control, the Flash-Matic , [ 15 ] [ 16 ] was developed in 1955 by Eugene Polley . It worked by shining a beam of light onto one of four photoelectric cells , [ 17 ] but the cell did not distinguish between light from the remote and light from other ...
Lazy Bones: United States Traditional Animation Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing: United States Traditional Animation Let's Sing with Popeye: United States Traditional Animation Let's You and Him Fight: United States Traditional Animation The Lion Tamer: United States Traditional Animation A Little Bird Told Me: United States Live-action ...
The 33-year-old tailor and inventor leaped from the Eiffel Tower and fell to his death wearing a parachute made from cloth, his own invention. He was asked by friends and authorities to use a dummy for the feat, but declined, saying "I intend to prove the worth of my invention". [32] [33] [34] Mr. & Mrs. Emile Froment-Meurice: 25 April 1913