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Ants'hillvania
''Ants'hillvania'' is a Sparrow Records production that was written by Jimmy and Carol Owens with Cherry Boone O'Neil and produced by Dan Collins. It is well known for being full of "Ant" puns. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for '' Best Album for Children'' for the Grammy Awards of 1981. It uses the '' Bible's'' " Parable of the Sower" and " Parable of the Prodigal Son" to tell the story of a colony of ants and the misadventures of a particular ant named Antony. Antony's story was continued in the sequel titled '' Ants'hillvania II: The Honeydew Adventure''. Plot The track tells the story of an ant colony in a beautiful forest called Ants'hillvania (a pun on Pennsylvania). The colony is filled with kind, fun-loving, and virtuous ants, led by their village leader, the CommandAnt. The ants value work and each other, and live by "the Wisdom from Above", or in other words, the word of God, which keeps their colony together through hard times. However, the CommandAnt's young tee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy And Carol Owens
Jimmy and Carol Owens are an American husband and wife Songwriter, songwriting and author team. They are best known for the Christian music, Christian children's album, ''Ants'hillvania'', which was nominated for the 23rd Annual Grammy Awards, 23rd annual Grammy Award for Best Children's Album in 1981. Jimmy and Carol have been married since 1954. Both of their children are in ministry: Jamie Owens Collins is a musician, songwriter and Public speaking, speaker. Buddy Owens is an author and a teaching pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. Jimmy and Carol received the Christian Artists Music Achievement Award in 1986. Jimmy was inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame in 2001. ''Their God Songs: How to Write and Select Songs for Worship'', co-authored by Paul Baloche, was given the WorshipMusic.com Book of the Year Award in 2005. The Owens have worked with many singers and songwriters, either individually or together, including: Randy Stonehill, Pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agapeland Albums
Candle is a Christian kids' band that is best known for their Agapeland-related children's albums ''Music Machine'' and ''Bullfrogs and Butterflies''. They recorded children's albums for Sparrow Records' Birdwing branch. The band won the 1988 Dove Award "Children's Music Album of the Year" for their album ''Bullfrogs and Butterflies III''. They have also been nominated for a Grammy Award multiple times. List of Candle albums * ''Agapeland'' * ''Animals and Other Things'' - nominated for the 1982 Grammy Award "Best Recording for Children" * ''Music Machine'' * ''Music Machine II'' - Dove Winner, nominated for 1983 Grammy Award "Best Recording for Children" * ''Music Machine III'' * ''Music Machine Fun Club Album'' * ''Bullfrogs and Butterflies'' * ''Bullfrogs and Butterflies II'' - nominated for the 1985 Grammy Award "Best Recording for Children" * ''Bullfrogs and Butterflies III'' - winner of the 1988 Dove Award "Children's Music Album of the Year", nominated for the 1987 Grammy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Honeydew Adventure
Candle is a Christian kids' band that is best known for their Agapeland-related children's albums ''Music Machine'' and ''Bullfrogs and Butterflies''. They recorded children's albums for Sparrow Records' Birdwing branch. The band won the 1988 Dove Award "Children's Music Album of the Year" for their album ''Bullfrogs and Butterflies III''. They have also been nominated for a Grammy Award multiple times. List of Candle albums * ''Agapeland'' * ''Animals and Other Things'' - nominated for the 1982 Grammy Award "Best Recording for Children" * ''Music Machine'' * ''Music Machine II'' - Dove Winner, nominated for 1983 Grammy Award "Best Recording for Children" * ''Music Machine III'' * ''Music Machine Fun Club Album'' * ''Bullfrogs and Butterflies'' * ''Bullfrogs and Butterflies II'' - nominated for the 1985 Grammy Award "Best Recording for Children" * ''Bullfrogs and Butterflies III'' - winner of the 1988 Dove Award "Children's Music Album of the Year", nominated for the 1987 Grammy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammy Award For Best Album For Children
The Grammy Award for Best Children's Album (from 2020: Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album) is an honor presented since 2012 at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in various categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences The Recording Academy (formally the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; abbreviated NARAS) is an American Learned society, learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other musical professionals. It is famous f ... of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position." History The Best Children's Album award is given to recording artists for works containing quality performances aimed at children. The award has had several minor name changes: *From 1959 to 1960 the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ant Colony
An ant colony is a population of a single ant species capable to maintain its complete lifecycle. Ant colonies are eusocial, communal, and efficiently organized and are very much like those found in other social Hymenoptera, though the various groups of these developed sociality independently through convergent evolution. The typical colony consists of one or more egg-laying queens, numerous sterile females (workers, soldiers) and, seasonally, many winged sexual males and females. In order to establish new colonies, ants undertake flights that occur at species-characteristic times of the day. Swarms of the winged sexuals (known as alates) depart the nest in search of other nests. The males die shortly thereafter, along with most of the females. A small percentage of the females survive to initiate new nests. Names The term "ant colony" refers to a population of workers, reproductive individuals, and brood that live together, cooperate, and treat one another non-aggressively. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Albums
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James Hampton (actor)
James Wade Hampton (July 9, 1936 – April 7, 2021) was an American actor, television director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his TV roles such as Private Hannibal Shirley Dobbs on ''F Troop'' (1965–1967), and Leroy B. Simpson on ''The Doris Day Show'' (1968–1969), ''Love, American Style'' (1969–1974), and his movie roles such as Caretaker in '' The Longest Yard'' (1974), Howard Clemmons in ''Hawmps!'' (1976), Harold Howard in ''Teen Wolf'' (1985), and Jerry Woolridge in ''Sling Blade'' (1996). Early life Hampton was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the son of Edna (Gately), who worked at a millinery, and Ivan Hampton, who ran a dry cleaning business. He was raised in Dallas, Texas, and majored in theatre arts at the University of North Texas in Denton. While attending UNT, he was a member of the Gamma Lambda chapter of Kappa Alpha Order. After a series of failed jobs including bodyguard, bartender, and photojournalist, he was inducted into the United States Arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Owens-Collins
Jamie Owens-Collins (born 1955), born Jamie Sue Owens, is an American Contemporary Christian music composer, singer and songwriter. She is the child of Jimmy and Carol Owens and was born and raised in Oakland, California, where her parents wrote and staged Christian musicals. As a teenager she performed on several of her parents' albums, which made her a star in the Jesus music movement and led to her releasing her first album, titled ''Laughter in Your Soul'', in 1973. This album was the best-selling Christian music album in Britain in 1975.Mark Allan Powell, ''Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music''. Hendrickson Publishers, 2002, pp. 662-663. A second release, ''Growing Pains'', followed in 1975, and in 1976 she married Christian music executive Dan Collins, becoming Jamie Owens-Collins. In 1976 she co-wrote a musical, ''Firewind'', with The Talbot Brothers, and released another album in 1978 titled ''Love Eyes'' for Light Records, followed by ''Straight Ahead'' for Spar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Boone
Patrick Charles Eugene Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer and actor. He was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold more than 45 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films. According to ''Billboard'', Boone was the second-biggest charting artist of the late 1950s, behind only Elvis Presley, and was ranked at No. 9 in its listing of the Top 100 Top 40 Artists 1955–1995. Until the 2010s, Boone held the ''Billboard'' record for spending 220 consecutive weeks on the charts with one or more songs each week. At the age of 23, Boone began hosting a half-hour ABC variety television series, ''The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom'', which aired for 115 episodes (1957–1960). Many musical performers, including Edie Adams, Andy Williams, Pearl Bailey, and Johnny Mathis, made appearances on the show. His cover versions of rhythm and blues hits had a noticeable effect on the development of the broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendell Burton
Wendell Ray Burton (July 21, 1947 – May 30, 2017) was an American television executive and actor. He is best known for his co-starring role with Liza Minnelli in the 1969 movie ''The Sterile Cuckoo'' (1969). Biography Burton was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of an Air Force sergeant who died when he was five. He became involved in college theatricals while a student at Sonoma State College (later known as Sonoma State University). His acting career began when he won the title role in the San Francisco stage production of ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown''. During the run of that successful musical, he continued his education and transferred to San Francisco State University, where he took classes in acting and directing. While performing in ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'', Burton was seen by director Alan J. Pakula and was chosen over hundreds of more experienced movie actors to star opposite Liza Minnelli in the role as Jerry Payne, the young college student ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inheritance
Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, Title (property), titles, debts, entitlements, Privilege (law), privileges, rights, and Law of obligations, obligations upon the death of an individual. The rules of inheritance differ among societies and have changed over time. Officially bequest, bequeathing private property and/or debts can be performed by a testator via will (law), will, as attested by a notary or by other lawful means. Terminology In law, an ''heir'' is a person who is entitled to receive a share of the decedent, deceased's (the person who died) property, subject to the rules of inheritance in the jurisdiction of which the deceased was a citizen or where the deceased (decedent) died or owned property at the time of death. The inheritance may be either under the terms of a will or by intestate laws if the deceased had no will. However, the will must comply with the laws of the jurisdiction at the time it was created or it will be declared invalid ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
