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Bill Porter (other)
Bill Porter may refer to: * Bill Porter (sound engineer) (1931–2010), American sound engineer and famous music pioneer * Bill Porter (salesman) (1932–2013), American salesman with cerebral palsy * Bill Porter (author) (born 1943), American author who writes under the name Red Pine * Bill Porter (golfer) (born 1959), American golfer * ''Bill Porter'' (play), a 1925 play by Upton Sinclair See also *Billy Porter (other) Billy Porter (born 1969), is an American actor, Broadway performer, singer. Billy Porter may also refer to: * Billy Porter (criminal) (1850–?), American burglar and underworld figure in New York City * Billy Porter (Australian footballer) (1875 ... * William Porter (other) {{hndis, Porter, Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Porter (sound Engineer)
Bill Porter (June 15, 1931 – July 7, 2010) was an American audio engineer who helped shape the Nashville sound and recorded stars such as Chet Atkins, Louis Armstrong, the Everly Brothers, Elvis Presley, Gladys Knight, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Skeeter Davis, Ike & Tina Turner, Sammy Davis Jr., and Roy Orbison from the late 1950s through the 1980s. In one week of 1960, his recordings accounted for 15 of ''Billboard'' magazine's Top 100, a feat none have matched. Porter's engineering career included over 7,000 recording sessions, 300 chart records, 49 Top 10, 11 Number Ones, and 37 gold records. Porter mixed concert sound for Elvis Presley from 1970 until the singer's death in 1977. As a University of Miami music professor, Porter helped create the first college program in audio engineering, and went on to teach similar courses at the University of Colorado Denver, and Webster University in St. Louis. Porter was inducted into the TEC Awards Hall of Fame in 1992. Early life Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Porter (salesman)
William Douglas Porter (September 9, 1932 – December 3, 2013) was an American salesman, who worked for Watkins Incorporated based out of Winona, Minnesota. Born with cerebral palsy, Porter's background and work was brought to the public's attention in 1995 when an Oregon-based newspaper published a series of feature stories about him. Porter was born in San Francisco, California, and at a young age moved to Portland, Oregon along with his mother. He was unable to gain employment due to his cerebral palsy, but refused to go on disability. Porter eventually convinced Watkins Incorporated to give him a door-to-door salesman job, selling its products on a seven-mile route in the Portland area. He eventually became Watkins' top seller, and worked for the company for over forty years.Hollman, Jr., Tom"Bill Porter Quietly Works for 40 Years as Door-to-Door Salesman with Disability." The Oregonian, December 26, 1997. ''www.characterqualitystories.com.'' Retrieved March 12, 2016. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Porter (author)
Bill Porter (born October 3, 1943) is an American author who translates under the pen-name Red Pine (). He is a translator of Chinese texts, primarily Taoist and Buddhist, including poetry and sūtras. In 2018, he won the American Academy of Arts & Letters Thornton Wilder Prize for translation. Early life In an interview with Andy Ferguson for Tricycle Magazine in 2000, Red Pine revealed some of the details of his early life. His father, Arnold Porter, grew up on a cotton farm in Arkansas. At an early age, he became part of a notorious bank robbing gang that robbed banks from the south northwards to Michigan. In a shoot out with the police, all the gang members were killed except Porter who was wounded and subsequently sent to prison. Nevertheless, after six years he was pardoned by the governor of Michigan and released; an inheritance from the sale of the family farm allowed him to enter the hotel business and to become a multimillionaire. Porter moved to Los Angeles, where Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Porter (golfer)
Bill G. Porter (born September 18, 1959) is an American professional golfer. Porter was born in Moses Lake, Washington. He played one year of college golf at the University of Oregon before turning professional in 1980. Porter worked as a club pro and played on mini-tours until earning his Ben Hogan Tour card (now Nationwide Tour) in the 1991 Q School. He played on the Nationwide Tour and PGA Tour from 1992 to 1996. On the Nationwide Tour (1992–94, 1996), he won once at the 1994 Nike Louisiana Open. On the PGA Tour (1995), his best finish was T-11 at the Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic. He also won several events in the Pacific Northwest. Porter has been the head golf professional at The Links at Moses Pointe in Moses Lake since 2003. Professional wins (9) Nike Tour wins (1) Other wins (8) *1997 Oregon Open, Northwest Open *1998 Oregon Open, Northwest Open *2000 Oregon Open, Northwest Open *2001 Pacific Northwest PGA Championship *2002 Washington Open Results i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Porter (play)
Bill Porter may refer to: * Bill Porter (sound engineer) (1931–2010), American sound engineer and famous music pioneer * Bill Porter (salesman) (1932–2013), American salesman with cerebral palsy * Bill Porter (author) (born 1943), American author who writes under the name Red Pine * Bill Porter (golfer) (born 1959), American golfer * ''Bill Porter'' (play), a 1925 play by Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in seve ... See also * Billy Porter (other) * William Porter (other) {{hndis, Porter, Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel, ''The Jungle'', which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published ''The Brass Check'', a muck-raking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the "free press" in the United States. Four years after publication of ''The Brass Check'', the first code of ethics for journ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Porter (other)
Billy Porter (born 1969), is an American actor, Broadway performer, singer. Billy Porter may also refer to: * Billy Porter (criminal) (1850–?), American burglar and underworld figure in New York City * Billy Porter (Australian footballer) (1875–1910), Australian rules footballer * Billy Porter (footballer, born 1905) (1905–1946), English footballer *"Billy Porter", a song by Mick Ronson from ''Play Don't Worry'' See also *Bill Porter (other) Bill Porter may refer to: * Bill Porter (sound engineer) (1931–2010), American sound engineer and famous music pioneer * Bill Porter (salesman) (1932–2013), American salesman with cerebral palsy * Bill Porter (author) (born 1943), American autho ... * William Porter (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Porter, Billy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
