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• Ella Elephant
  ...lla Elephant Scats Like That'' by Andy Blackman Hurwitz, who was head of A&R for Columbia Jazz, and managed the Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated A nod to real singer Ella Fitzgerald.
  631 bytes (89 words) - 07:34, 8 September 2017
• Ciji Dunne
  ...out. Then Lisa Hartman went on to play a lookalike character who was ALSO a singer, [[Cathy Geary]]!
  770 bytes (123 words) - 05:56, 17 July 2018
• Louis Lion
  ...'Louis Lion Sings Good Night'' by Andy Blackman Hurwitz, who was head of A&R for Columbia Jazz, and managed the Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated A nod to real singer Louis Armstrong.
  615 bytes (89 words) - 07:39, 8 September 2017
• Charlie Bird
  ...arlie Bird Count to the Beat'' by Andy Blackman Hurwitz, who was head of A&R for Columbia Jazz, and managed the Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated A nod to real jazzman Charlie Byrd.
  600 bytes (86 words) - 07:33, 8 September 2017
• Mingus Mouse
  ...use Plays Christmastime Jazz'' by Andy Blackman Hurwitz, who was head of A&R for Columbia Jazz, and managed the Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated A nod to real musician Charlie Mingus.
  644 bytes (90 words) - 07:37, 8 September 2017
• PFC Rhythm and Blues Jones
  R&B guitar picker from the song "PFC Rhythm and Blues Jones" by Ray Stevens f ...a nasty little bit of racism, portrays an African-American army soldier as a coward who only wants to get out of the jungle and go home and play his gui
  709 bytes (116 words) - 07:34, 18 July 2018
• Billy Baltimore
  .../tt0602203/combined The Legendary Billy B.]" episode (03/31/1987) of HBO's R-rated ''[[:Category:The Twilight Zone|Twilight Zone]]'' ripoff, ''The Hitch ...!''' Andy Summers of real band The Police composed the music, and also had a role as Hodie the photographer.
  745 bytes (111 words) - 04:58, 25 August 2017
• Fats Fidelio
  Trumpeter and one of the "old time jazz greats" from a [[Progress Hornsby]] sketch comedy television series ''[http://imdb.com/tit ...id he hit the C above high C, he hit an M, and when he tried to hit a high R above S he accidentally blew himself into orbit.
  681 bytes (112 words) - 08:34, 23 January 2019
• Duck Ellington (Baby Loves Jazz)
  ...ngton Swings Through the Zoo'' by Andy Blackman Hurwitz, who was head of A&R for Columbia Jazz, and managed the Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated A nod to real musician Duke Ellington.
  793 bytes (113 words) - 07:29, 11 September 2017
• Big Dan and the Sand Dollars
  ...set in 1963. Shag is a dance done to "beach music," a style of laid-back R&B popular with drunk white tourists for decades on the East Coast. Imagine
  722 bytes (116 words) - 08:18, 11 March 2019
• Philly Joe Giraffe
  ...ly Joe Giraffe's Jungle Jazz'' by Andy Blackman Hurwitz, who was head of A&R for Columbia Jazz, and managed the Knitting Factory jazz club. Illustrated A nod to real jazz drummer Philly Joe Jones.
  667 bytes (96 words) - 07:41, 8 September 2017
• Mark Cherry
  ...6 May 2013). Cherry first became famous as the star of teen sitcom ''Pop-a-R O.T.C.'' before recording the platinum single "Practice Kisses." After his
  737 bytes (120 words) - 17:37, 12 October 2017
• The Piano Player
  ...ar. From ''X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl'' #3.]]A deceased superhero who is a master guitarist. Ha! Nope. Actually, he has the superhuman power of conjuring up a piano keyboard in front of him. His only appearances have been in three iss
  732 bytes (108 words) - 05:21, 23 March 2018
• Cutie Patooties
  ...inerva), and Girl Number Three. They are hired to sing at The Meatgrinder, a casino in the basement the kids create, but end up breaking up on the cusp
  755 bytes (123 words) - 21:43, 14 June 2015
• "The Gish Sisters"
  ...2 novel ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/334_(novel) 334]'' ). The name is a reference to Dorothy and Lilian Gish’s starring roles in the 1921 silent ...t, its genre was contested. Novelist and critic Samuel R. Delany published a book-length essay, ''The American Shore'' in 1978 arguing for its categoriz
  1,017 bytes (155 words) - 10:42, 27 February 2019
• Mother Mary Brown
  ...imes'' (Vol. 122, No. 1656, February 1981). Mother Brown is the subject of a bawdy song "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knees_Up_Mother_Brown Knees Up M ...as a performer is questionable, and she would now be forgotten but for A. R. Lowse's identification of her as Shakespeare's
  2 KB (356 words) - 06:45, 13 March 2019
• Sashay
  Amy Hunter guest stars as this R & B diva in the "We Don't Need Another Hero" episode (4/21/1996) of the WB ...ia Peterson (Reagan Gomez-Preston) and her friends are picked to appear in a Sashay music video, but her dad, Robert (Robert Townsend, formerly of [[The
  855 bytes (142 words) - 08:08, 16 November 2017
• Snatch
  ...mance novel ''You Really Got Me'' by Erika Kelly. She helps them rise from a popular local band to opening for star [[Piper Lee]]. Emmie's brother Derek ...'s original opening act, [[Devil's Den]], "fell apart" before the start of a national tour.
  880 bytes (132 words) - 12:39, 23 August 2019
• Tenerence Love
  Bald, sweaty, overweight R&B singer in the Homestar Runner animated cartoon universe. He first appeare **"A Sweaty, Overweight Jam"
  820 bytes (116 words) - 08:55, 14 June 2018
• Ear-flute
  Wind instrument (a free aerophone), which is usually-sideblown, worn in the ear and audible o ...t is played mainly by solitary people in exposed locations, but it enjoyed a brief vogue in the 1960s among roller-skaters in America. The Faroese ''ør
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