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Rosie
Rosie may refer to: Places * Rosie, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Rosie River, Northern Territory, Australia People and fictional characters * Rosie (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Evan Mackie (1917–1986), New Zealand Second World War fighter ace nicknamed "Rosie" * Rosie Thomas (writer), pen name of British journalist and romance novelist Janey King (born 1947) * Rosie the Riveter, a World War II character used to encourage women to work on the home front * Rosie the Rocketeer (aka "Rosie"), a Boeing spaceflight test dummy Film * ''Rosie'' (1965 film), an Indian Malayalam film starring Prem Nazir * '' Rosie!'', a 1967 film starring Rosalind Russell * ''Rosie'' (1998 film), a Belgian film * ''Rosie'' (2013 film), a Swiss film * ''Rosie'' (2018 film), an Irish film * ''Rosie'' (2022 film), a Canadian film Television * ''Rosie'' (TV series), a 1970s BBC TV police series * Rosie Awards, the Alberta Film and Television A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie The Riveter
Rosie the Riveter is an allegorical cultural icon in the United States who represents the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who joined the military. She is widely recognized in the Women's empowerment, women's economic advantage. Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring, Similar images of women war workers appeared in other countries such as Britain and Australia. The idea of Rosie the Riveter originated in a song written in 1942 by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb. Images of women workers were widespread in the media in formats such as government posters, and commercial advertising was heavily used by the government to encourage women to volunteer for wartime service in factories. ''Rosie the Riveter'' became the subject of Rosie the Riveter (film), a Hollywood film in 1944. History Women in the wartime workforce Because the world wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie And The Originals
Rosie and the Originals were an American 1960s musical group best known for their single " Angel Baby". Fronted by lead singer Rosie Hamlin, the group produced two singles (including "Angel Baby") for Highland Records and, like many other musicians of the era, ended up in protracted legal battles with their record label over royalties and credits. Career Establishment Rosalie "Rosie" Méndez Hamlin was raised in Anchorage, Alaska, before moving to California; she was of Mexican and English descent. She was trained on piano in her youth and started singing with a band at 13. She wrote the lyrics for "Angel Baby" as a poem for " ervery first boyfriend" when she was 14 years old, attending Sweetwater High School in National City, California. When she was 15, she and some friends rented the only recording studio they could find within 100 miles of San Diego located in San Marcos, California, to record the song. The studio was owned by an airplane mechanic who had taken part of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie, Arkansas
Rosie is an unincorporated community in Independence County, Arkansas, United States. Rosie is located on Arkansas Highway 14, southeast of Batesville. Rosie has a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ... with ZIP code 72571. References Unincorporated communities in Independence County, Arkansas Unincorporated communities in Arkansas {{IndependenceCountyAR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Parish
John Parish (born 11 April 1959) is an English musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. Parish is best known for his work with singer-songwriter PJ Harvey. He has also worked with such artists as Eels, Aldous Harding, Tracy Chapman, Giant Sand, and Sparklehorse. His sister is the actress Sarah Parish. Parish was born in Yeovil, Somerset and lives in Bristol. In the 1980s, his girlfriend was Maria Mochnacz. Career His first record release was a single "Mind Made" by the British new wave bandThieves Like Us(1980). In 1982, he formed the band Automatic Dlamini, with Rob Ellis. The changing line-up of Automatic Dlamini included Polly Harvey from 1988 until 1991. Automatic Dlamini recorded three albums: ''The D Is for Drum'' (1987), ''Here Catch Shouted His Father'' (1990 – unreleased but available as a bootleg), and ''From a Diva to a Diver'' (1992). By the time ''From a Diva to a Diver'' was released, Harvey had left to form the PJ Harvey trio with ex-Dlamini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kooks
The Kooks () are an English indie rock band formed in 2004 in Brighton. The current lineup consists of Luke Pritchard on vocals and guitar, and Hugh Harris on bass, guitar, and synthesiser. Their music is primarily influenced by the 1960s British Invasion movement and post-punk revival of the new millennium. The Kooks have experimented in several genres including rock, Britpop, pop, reggae, ska, and more recently, funk and hip-hop, being described once as a "more energetic Thrills or a looser Sam Roberts Band, maybe even a less severe Arctic Monkeys at times". After securing a deal with Virgin Records merely three months after forming, The Kooks achieved instant mainstream success following the release of their critically acclaimed debut album '' Inside In/Inside Out ''(2006). The album is certified five-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), platinum certified by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), and two times platinum b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How Cruel
''How Cruel'' is a 12-inch one-sided EP by British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading, which was released in November 1979 on A&M. The title track had previously appeared on Armatrading's live album '' Steppin' Out'', which was not released in the US. The EP was released in the US and elsewhere, but not in the UK. It made it to number 10 on the Dutch Album Top 100 and peaked at #19 on the Norwegian Albums Chart. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the 23rd Annual Grammy Awards in 1981. The single from this EP was "Rosie"/"How Cruel" (1979/1980), which reached #49 in the UK and #52 in Australia. "Rosie" was included on Armatrading's first compilation album, 1983's '' Track Record'', as well as her 2004 live album '' Live: All the Way from America''. All four tracks from this EP were placed at the start of the second CD of Armatrading's 2003 compilation album ''Love and Affection: Joan Armatrading Classics (1975–1983)''. Track listin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are an English British folk rock, folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson (musician), Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater (with Frater replaced by Martin Lamble after their first gig). They started out influenced by American folk rock, with a set list dominated by Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell songs and a sound that earned them the nickname "the British Jefferson Airplane". Vocalists Judy Dyble and Iain Matthews joined them before the recording of Fairport Convention (album), their self-titled debut in 1968; afterwards, Dyble was replaced by Sandy Denny, and Matthews later left during the recording of their third album. Denny began steering the group towards British folk music, traditional British music for their next two albums, ''What We Did on Our Holidays'' and ''Unhalfbricking'' (both 1969); the latter featured fiddler Dave Swarbrick, Dave "Swarb" Swarbrick, most notably on the song "A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Partridge
Donald Eric Partridge (27 October 1941 – 21 September 2010)Report of death '''', 23 September 2010. was an English singer-songwriter, known as the "king of the buskers".Longman Records article dated March 2005 , accessed 5 January 2010. He performed from the early 1960s first as a folk singer and later as a busker and |
Daisy Dares You
Daisy May Keeley Coburn (born 27 October 1993), is a British singer and songwriter. She previously performed under the stage name Daisy Dares You, a reference to the character of the same name from the 1990s British television show '' ZZZap!''. After performing under this name between 2009 and 2010 and recording an album which was never released, she was dropped by her record label. As of 2013 she is in a Brighton-based band called Pink Lizards, where she plays guitar and is the lead singer. From 2015 she has been performing and releasing music in her Brighton-based band Clever Thing alongside Rich Fownes (Bad For Lazarus, UNKLE, Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster, Nine Inch Nails) Early life Coburn was born in Great Dunmow, Essex. Coming from a musical family, with her mother once working as a backing singer for bands Duran Duran and the The, Coburn learned to play the guitar and piano when she was six years old. On Boxing Day 2007, Coburn played a song she had been writing cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claw Boys Claw
Claw Boys Claw are a Dutch band, formed in Amsterdam. The core members of the band are Peter te Bos (vocals) and John Cameron (guitar). After some years of inactivity, the band started playing live again in 2007. Claw Boys Claw never attained much commercial success, and a venture into the American market was unsuccessful. Beginnings Claw Boys Claw was founded in 1983 by guitarist Allard Jolles, at the time guitarist and singer of L'Attentat, though he played drums in his newly founded band. The original four members were Jolles, Peter Te Bos, John Cameron, and bassist Bobbie Rossini. Their "garage rock," as the Dutch termed it (a lo-fi mixture of rock and roll and punk), quickly gained popularity, and in 1984 the band releases their first album, ''Shocking Shades Of Claw Boys Claw'', containing among others a cover of the song "Venus" by Shocking Blue. The album was recorded in three hours and cost 500 guilders (some $250 at the time), money the band had won in a talent show. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Morrissey
Bill Morrissey (November 25, 1951 – July 23, 2011) was a Grammy-nominated American folk singer-songwriter based in New Hampshire. Early life Morrissey was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Growing up in Connecticut and Massachusetts, he started playing guitar at age 13 and formed a jug band in high school. He graduated from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in 1969 and studied literature for a short time at Plymouth State University before beginning his musical career. Morrissey hitch-hiked to Alaska, worked on a fishing boat, then down to California doing odd jobs and trying to get gigs. His travels eventually brought him back to New England, where he found work in a mill in Newmarket, New Hampshire. He was influenced by the American country blues of Mississippi John Hurt and Robert Johnson, the pure country of Hank Williams, the Kansas City jazz of Count Basie and Lester Young, the folk revival of the 1960s, and his own working-class experiences. Career His eponymous fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" is a 1973 song by Bruce Springsteen, from his '' The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle'' album, and is especially famed as a concert number for Springsteen and The E Street Band. The song, which clocks in at just over seven minutes, is a story of forbidden love between the singer and the eponymous Rosalita, whose parents disapprove of his life in a rock and roll band. It is included on the compilation albums '' The Essential Bruce Springsteen'' and '' Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Greatest Hits''. In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked it the 446th greatest song of all time on their updated 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. Reception Never released as a single in U.S. and generally unknown upon its initial album release, "Rosalita" began to get FM radio airplay when an advance version of " Born to Run" was distributed to rock radio stations. As Springsteen gained commercial success, "Rosalita" became one of his most popular airplay tracks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
