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Desirée Goyette
Desirée Goyette-Bogas (''née'' Goyette) is an American singer, composer, lyricist and voice-over artist. She has been nominated for two Grammy Awards and has voiced such characters as Betty Boop, Barbie, Nermal, Petunia Pig, Honey Bunny and numerous others for radio, television and toys. Biography Desiree Goyette graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and also studied at San Jose State University in the music department. She lived in Los Angeles for numerous years and wed her second husband, producer of Peanuts and Garfield TV specials, Lee Mendelson. After many years together they then separated and divorced. Around 1993, Goyette married fellow ''Peanuts'' and ''Garfield'' music contributor Ed Bogas, to whom she is still married to and whom she had twins named Benjamin and Lily (born 2001). On the first three seasons of '' Garfield and Friends'', Goyette co-wrote all of her songs for the Garfield segments with future husband Ed Bogas. She also contrib ...
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Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ...
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Lee Mendelson
Leland Maurice Mendelson (March 24, 1933 – December 25, 2019) was an American animation producer and executive producer of many ''Peanuts'' animated specials. Biography Mendelson was born in San Francisco and grew up in San Mateo graduating from San Mateo High School. He graduated from Stanford University in 1954 with a degree in English. He was a lieutenant in the Air Force for three years. He then worked several years for his father, a vegetable grower and shipper. Career Mendelson's career in television began in 1961, when he started working at San Francisco's KPIX-TV, where he created public service announcements. A fortunate find of some antique film footage of the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair led to Mendelson's first production, a documentary entitled ''The Innocent Fair''. The documentary was the first in a series on the history of the city, ''San Francisco Pageant'', for which Mendelson won a Peabody Award. Mendelson left KPIX in 1963 to form his own production ...
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Here Comes Garfield
''Here Comes Garfield'' is a 1982 animated television special based on the comic strip ''Garfield'' by Jim Davis. It was the first half-hour ''Garfield'' TV special. It is directed by Phil Roman and features Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield the house cat, as well as the voices of Sandy Kenyon, Henry Corden and Gregg Berger. The special was first broadcast on October 25, 1982, on CBS. It was a Nielsen ratings success and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. It was accompanied by a soundtrack album and a children's book adaptation and has been released on VHS and DVD. This is the first of twelve Garfield television specials made between 1982 and 1991. Plot Garfield harasses Jon Arbuckle for breakfast, then Odie comes and barks putting Garfield's head in his food bowl, then Garfield puts Odie's head in the food bowl, then they start to fight. Jon tells them to go outside to fight. Garfield and Odie harass a neighbor's dog when the owner, Hubert, angrily calls the pound to ...
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No Man's Valley
''No Man's Valley'' is an animated TV special written by Christopher Brough and Frank Buxton. It was originally aired on the CBS network November 23, 1981. It was executive produced by Lee Mendelson and Phil Howort, produced and directed by Bill Melendez, and co-directed by Phil Roman. Synopsis Elliot, a rare California condor, must find a hideaway for endangered animals before humans drive them over the brink into extinction. Voice cast *Henry Corden as Chief *Frank Buxton as Elliot *Art Metrano as Abe * Hal Smith as George * Chanin Hale as Nipponia *Arnold Stang as Fred Firmwing *Barney Phillips as Pere David * Joe E. Ross as Daniel *Desirée Goyette as Pat * Richard Deacon as Panda * John Stephenson as Herman Uncredited * Hal Smith as Louis * John Stephenson as Protester Credits * Executive Producers: Lee Mendelson, Phil Howort * Written by: Christopher Brough and Frank Buxton * Creative Consultant: David Hooper * Original Music by: Desirée Goyette * Music Arranged and Cond ...
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Lou Rawls Parade Of Stars
Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 – January 6, 2006) was an American baritone singer. He released 61 albums, sold more than 40 million records, and had numerous charting singles, most notably the song " You'll Never Find Another Love like Mine". He also worked as a film, television, and voice actor. He was a three-time winner of the Best Male R&B Vocal Performance Grammy Award. Early life Rawls was born in Chicago on December 1, 1933, and raised by his grandmother in the Ida B. Wells projects on the city's South Side. He began singing in the Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church choir at the age of seven and later sang with local groups through which he met Sam Cooke, who was nearly three years older, and Curtis Mayfield. Career After graduating from Dunbar Vocational High School, he sang briefly with Cooke in the Teenage Kings of Harmony, a gospel group, and then with the Holy Wonders. In 1951, he replaced Cooke in the Highway QC's after Cooke departed to join The Soul Stirr ...
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Siyahamba
''Siyahamba'' (written down by Andries Van Tonder, and possibly composed by him, or possibly a Zulu folk song) is a South African hymn that became popular in North American churches in the 1990s. The title means "We Are Marching" or "We are Walking" in the Zulu language. History "Siyahamba" is a Zulu chorus that emerged in a rural Protestant congregation, possibly in the former Natal province of South Africa. The chorus may have existed in an oral form before 1952, when Andries van Tonder of Dundee, Natal, first transcribed it. Van Tonder is also credited as the author of the earliest known Afrikaans version of the lyrics, while the authors of the melody and of the Zulu lyrics are unknown. The lyrics, with their biblical imagery of walking in the divine light, could be inspired by Methodist or Pentecostalist hymnody. The melody has more similarities with African or Afro-American patterns than with conventional European church music. In 1978, the Swedish choral group Fjedur tou ...
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Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy (née Baker; July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was an American religious leader and author, who in 1879 founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, the ''Mother Church'' of the Christian Science movement. She also founded ''The Christian Science Monitor'' in 1908, and three religious magazines: the ''Christian Science Sentinel'', ''The Christian Science Journal'', and ''The Herald of Christian Science''. Eddy wrote numerous books and articles, most notably the 1875 book ''Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures'', selected as one of the "75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World" by the Women's National Book Association. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1995. Other works Eddy authored include ''Manual of The Mother Church'', and a collection of varied writings that were consolidated posthumously into a book called ''Prose Works Other than Science and Health, Prose Works''. Early life Bow, New Hampshire Family Edd ...
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It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown
''It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown'' is the 27th prime-time animated musical television special based upon the comic strip ''Peanuts'' by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on CBS on April 16, 1984. Background The special is presented as an original musical which features parodies of the early-1980s breakdancing craze, MTV, the films ''Saturday Night Fever'', ''Flashdance'', and ''Footloose'', and a number of popular top 40 hit songs of the early 1980s. The program takes the form of a musical, presenting a series of different vignettes instead of a strong unifying plot. Plot After Snoopy defeats Peppermint Patty at football, he celebrates with a dance party ("Flashbeagle"). At school, Peppermint Patty leads her gym class in a workout ("Peppermint Patty's PE Program (I'm in Shape)") Charlie Brown and Sally host a party, where everyone begins a game of "Simon Says" until Lucy takes charge from 5 ("Lucy Says"). Afterwards, the kids dance to a song about Pig-Pen ("Pigpen Hoedo ...
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Joey Scarbury
Joey Scarbury (born June 7, 1955) is an American singer and songwriter known for his 1981 hit song, " Theme from ''The Greatest American Hero'' (Believe It or Not)". Childhood and early music career Scarbury was born in Ontario, California, United States. Growing up in Thousand Oaks, he was continually encouraged in his ambition to sing by his mother. At the age of 14, after being spotted by songwriter Jimmy Webb's father, he was signed to a recording contract with Dunhill Records. Scarbury's first single, "She Never Smiles Anymore," flopped, and he was soon without a record label. 1970s Citing Dan Seals of England Dan & John Ford Coley as an influence, he stayed around the music business throughout the 1970s, first as a backup for artists including country artist Loretta Lynn, and occasionally recording his own material. Although he had a minor chart single with "Mixed Up Guy" in 1971 (#52 CAN), real chart success eluded him for the rest of the decade. He also covered Th ...
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Nermal
This is a list of characters in the ''Garfield'' comic strip, created by Jim Davis, organized by category and date of first appearance. Main characters Garfield First Appearance: June 19, 1978 Garfield is Jon's orange tabby cat. Some of his personality traits include laziness, cynicism, sarcasm, a hatred of Mondays, a tendency to be annoyed by Jon's dog Odie, an active imagination, a love for lasagna, and a hatred for Nermal. He is very fat. In February 2017, a dispute arose on the talk section of the character's Wikipedia page regarding Garfield's gender. Although other characters have persistently referred to Garfield with male pronouns, owing to comments that the character's creator, Jim Davis, made in 2014 to Mental Floss, the matter of Garfield's gender remains ambiguous. He said, "Garfield is very universal. By virtue of being a cat, really, he's not really male or female or any particular race or nationality, young or old. It gives me a lot more latitude for the humo ...
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Garfield (character)
Garfield is an American List of fictional felines, fictional cat and the protagonist of the comic strip Garfield, of the same name, created by Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis. Garfield is portrayed as a lazy, fat, cynical and self-absorbed orange Tabby cat, tabby Persian cat. He is noted for his love of lasagna and pizza, coffee, and sleeping, and his hatred of Mondays, List of characters in the Garfield franchise#Nermal, Nermal, the vet, and exercise. Character Fictional biography Garfield is an Tabby cat, orange cat belonging to Jon Arbuckle. He was born on (the day the first ''Garfield'' strip was published), in the kitchen of Mamma Leoni's Italian Restaurant. Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis named Garfield after his grandfather, James Garfield Davis. As a kitten, he develops a taste for lasagna, which would become his favorite food. Because of his large appetite, the owner of Mamma Leoni's has to choose between giving away Garfield or closing down his restaurant; so G ...
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Garfield And Friends
''Garfield and Friends'' is an American animated television series based on the comic strip '' Garfield'' by Jim Davis. The show aired on CBS as part of its Saturday morning children's lineup from September 17, 1988, to December 10, 1994. The show features animated story lines adapted from the comic strip ''Garfield'' and Davis's other comic strip '' U.S. Acres''. Mark Evanier was the show's head writer. Lorenzo Music provided the voice of Garfield the cat, the strip's title character, as he had done since '' Here Comes Garfield'' in 1982. Other voices present on the show included Thom Huge as Jon Arbuckle, Garfield's human owner, and Gregg Berger as Odie the dog, also returning from prior ''Garfield'' animated media. Berger and Huge also respectively voiced Orson Pig and Roy Rooster in the ''U.S. Acres'' segments. 121 episodes were made, each consisting of two ''Garfield'' segments and one ''U.S. Acres'' segment and a "Garfield Quickie" at the end. All episodes have bee ...
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