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A music video featuring scenes from the film was released on 9 November 2010. [24] "Big Jet Plane" was also used in the films Easy A and The Edge of Seventeen. The duo performed the song on French television show Taratata on 19 May 2010. [25] The song is heard in a Maybelline Fit Me commercial.
The Browns were an American country and folk music vocal trio best known for their 1959 Grammy-nominated hit, "The Three Bells".The group, composed of Jim Ed Brown and his sisters Maxine and Bonnie, had a close, smooth harmony characteristic of the Nashville sound, though their music also combined elements of folk and pop.
The song is an English adaptation of the French language song "Les Trois Cloches" written by Jean Villard (also known as Gilles).This French song narrates the life of someone named Jean-François Nicot who lived in a small village at the bottom of a valley, starting with his birth, then his marriage and ending with his death, events all accompanied by ringing of the bells.
In Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights, an actor in the role of Brown performs the song in a theater along Baltimore's Pennsylvania Avenue. A live version of the song appears in the film The Commitments. Brown and the Famous Flames also sang and performed "Please Please Please" on a 1964 telecast of Dick Clark's Where the Action Is on ABC. [13]
James Earl Brown (August 8, 1926 – December 18, 2006) [2] was an American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer. He was also credited or billed as Jimmy Earle , Jumpin' Jimmy Brown , and Rio Pardo . Biography
Live versions of "Make It Funky" appear on the albums Revolution of the Mind and Live at the Apollo 1995. Brown also remade the song for his 1992 album Universal James under the title "Make It Funky 2000". The full version, running 12:50, was released on the compilation Make It Funky – The Big Payback: 1971–1975 in 1996.
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy are working out in an attic equipped with 1930s vintage exercise equipment. Betty sings the song "Keep Your Girlish Figure" and Little Jimmy responds with a verse "If you're thin, don't worry over that. Just begin to laugh and you'll grow fat".
1958 - Little Jimmy Rushing and the Big Brass (Columbia, 1958) 1959- Rushing Lullabies (Columbia, 1959) 1960 - Bessie - Clara - Mamie & Trixie (The Songs They Made Famous) (Columbia, 1961) 1963 - Five Feet of Soul (Colpix, 1963) 1962-66 - Mr. Five By Flve "Live" (Montage, ) 1964 - Big Boy Blues (Grand Prix Series, 1964) with Al Hibbler