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To Be Or Not To Be (other)
To Be or Not to Be may refer to: * ''To be, or not to be'', the soliloquy from ''Hamlet''. Films and TV, theatre and books * ''To Be or Not to Be'' (1942 film), directed by Ernst Lubitsch * ''To Be or Not to Be'' (1983 film), a remake produced by Mel Brooks * ''To Be or Not to Be'' (TV series), starring Maggie Cheung Ho-yee and Prudence Liew * ''To Be or Not to Be'' (play), by Nick Whitby * '' To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Adventure'', an adventure book by Ryan North * "To Be or Not to Be", television series episode, see List of seaQuest DSV episodes Music Albums * ''To Be or Not to Be'' (album), a 2013 album by Nightmare *''To Be or Not to Be'', album by Cliffhanger (band) *''To Be or Not to Be'', album by Crash (South Korean band) Songs *"To Be or Not to Be", 1980 song by BA Robertson *"To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap)", 1983 song by Mel Brooks *"To Be or Not to Be", Otis Leavill, composed by Billy Butler 1965 *"To Be or Not to Be", 1965 song by the Bee Gees, from ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Be, Or Not To Be
"To be, or not to be" is the opening phrase of a soliloquy given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play ''Hamlet'', Act 3, Scene 1. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, weighing the pain and unfairness of life against the alternative, which might be worse. The opening line is one of the most widely known and quoted lines in modern English literature, and the soliloquy has been referenced in many works of theatre, literature, and music. Hamlet is not alone as he speaks—Ophelia is present, and Claudius and Polonius have concealed themselves. Claudius and Polonius have placed Ophelia in Hamlet's way in order to overhear their conversation and find out if Hamlet is really mad or only pretending. Even so, Hamlet seems to consider himself alone, and there is no indication that the others hear him before he addresses Ophelia. Text This version preserves most of the First Folio text with updated spelling, punctuation, and fiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otis Leavill
Otis Leavill (February 8, 1937 Accessed 8 February 2010 Accessed 8 February 2010 – July 17, 2002) was an American R&B , and executive. Life and career Otis Leavill Cobb was born in Dewey Rose, |
To Be Or Not To Bop
''To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs of Dizzy Gillespie'' is a 1979 book written by jazz musician, composer and band leader Dizzy Gillespie. The book was released in July 1979 by Doubleday. The University of Minnesota Press re-released the book in 2009. Background He is known for being the father of bebop. This book tells about his life, and what he went through to make this music flourish. The book introduces Dizzy and his friends like Charlie "Bird" Parker as they struggled to make money by playing. Later on it tells of how Dizzy became a great trumpeter and even the origin of his signature bent trumpet. Various compositions and albums have been named after Gillespie's book title. See also ;Biographies of other famous trumpeters: *'' Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela'' (2004) by Hugh Masekela *'' Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper'' (1979) by Art Pepper Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American alto saxophonist and very ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2 B R 0 2 B
"2 B R 0 2 B" is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine ''Worlds of If Science Fiction'' for January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's ''Bagombo Snuff Box'' (1999). The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B" and references the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''. In the story, the title refers to the telephone number that one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination. Vonnegut's 1965 novel '' God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater'' describes a story by the name and attributes it to his recurring character Kilgore Trout, but the plot summary given is closer in nature to the eponymous tale from Vonnegut's short-story collection '' Welcome to the Monkey House''. Plot summary The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million, a nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; yi, ישראל ביילין; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was a Russian-American composer, songwriter and lyricist. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Born in Imperial Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. He published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907, receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights,Starr, Larry and Waterman, Christopher, American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Oxford University Press, 2009, pg. 64 and had his first major international hit, " Alexander's Ragtime Band", in 1911. He also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. For much of his career Berlin could not read sheet music, and was such a limited piano player that he could only play in the key of F-sharp; he used his custom piano equipped with a transposing lever when he needed to play in keys other than F-sharp. "Alexander's Ragtime Band" sparked an international dance c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Farnham
John Peter Farnham Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (born 1 July 1949) is a British born Australian singer. Farnham was a Teen idol, teen pop idol from 1967 until 1979, billed then as Johnny Farnham, but has since forged a career as an Adult contemporary music, adult contemporary singer.McFarlane (1999). Encyclopedia entry for ; retrieved 24 January 2010. His career has mostly been as a solo artist, although he replaced Glenn Shorrock as lead singer of Little River Band from 1982 to 1985. In September 1986, his solo single "You're the Voice" peaked at No. 1 on the Kent Music Report, Australian singles charts. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. The associated album, ''Whispering Jack'', held the No. 1 position for a total of 25 weeks and is the List of best-selling albums in Australia, second-highest-selling album in Australian history. Both the single and the album had top-ten success internationally, inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mindbenders
The Mindbenders were an English beat group from Manchester, England. Originally the backing group for Wayne Fontana, they were one of several acts that were successful in the mid-1960s British Invasion of the US charts, achieving major chart hits with " The Game of Love" (a number-one single with Fontana) in 1965 and " A Groovy Kind of Love" in 1966. Career Wayne Fontana founded the band in June 1963 with Bob Lang, Ric Rothwell, and Eric Stewart. The name of the group was inspired by the title of a 1963 UK feature film, starring the British actor Dirk Bogarde, called '' The Mind Benders''. Before that Fontana had a group called Wayne Fontana and the Jets (from July 1962). Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders released a number of singles before recording " Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" in 1964, which was to be their first major hit in Britain and led to a tour with Brenda Lee. They also had a No.1 hit in the United States with " The Game of Love" in 1965 (which also reached No.2 on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy Mitchell
Claude Moine (; born 3 July 1942), known professionally as Eddy Mitchell, is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires (The Black Socks). He took the name ''Eddy'' from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine (later the star of Jean-Luc Godard's '' Alphaville''), and chose ''Mitchell'' as his last name simply because it sounds American. The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Golf-Drouot before signing to Barclay Records and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records. Heavily influenced by American rock and roll, Mitchell (who went solo in 1963) has often recorded outside France, at first in London, but later in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. Guitarists Big Jim Sullivan and Jimmy Page and drummer Bobby Graham were among the British session musicians who regularly supported him in London. For his American recordings he employed session men such as Roger Hawkins, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Buckinghams
The Buckinghams are an American sunshine pop band from Chicago. They formed in 1966 and went on to become one of the top-selling acts of 1967, charting their only five top 40 hits in the U.S. that year. The band dissolved in 1970, but re-formed in 1980 and they continue to tour throughout the United States. History In 1965, guitarists Carl Giammarese and Nick Fortuna, along with bassist Curtis Bachman, were invited to join a band called the Centuries. Giammarese and Bachman, plus keyboardist Dennis Miccolis, later became members of another band, the Pulsations, whose members included drummer John Poulos and vocalists George LeGros and Dennis Tufano. After winning a local battle of the bands competition in late 1965, the Pulsations secured a job as the house band on WGN-TV's variety show called ''All-Time Hits''. The show's producers suggested they adopt a name reflective of the British invasion, which was popular at the time, and the band adopted the name ''The Buckinghams'', w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bee Gees Sing And Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs
''The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs'' is the debut studio album by the Bee Gees. Credited to Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees, it was released in November 1965 on the Australian Leedon label (1967's '' Bee Gees' 1st'' would be their ''international'' debut album). It is a compilation of most of the Gibb brothers' singles that had been released over the previous three years in Australia, which accounts for the many different styles of music on it. Recording Only five new songs were recorded for the album: " I Was a Lover, a Leader of Men", "And the Children Laughing", "I Don't Think It's Funny", "How Love Was True" and "To Be or Not to Be". Barry had more than enough unrecorded songs for an all-new LP, but the rest of the album was instead made up of nine lesser-known singles. Bill Shepherd set the order of the songs. Barry plays rhythm guitar, and Maurice probably plays the other guitars, like the leads in "I Was a Lover, a Leader of Men" and "How Love Was True"; whethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Be Or Not To Be (The Hitler Rap)
"To Be or Not to Be" (also known as "The Hitler Rap") is a song recorded by Mel Brooks in 1983 for Island Records. The song appeared on the soundtrack album for the movie of the same name. It was derived from the burlesque show within the film but did not appear within it. It also echoes Brooks' 1967 film '' The Producers'', with the lines "Don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the Nazi Party," taken from the song " Springtime for Hitler". In the accompanying music video, Mel Brooks is dressed like Adolf Hitler and raps about the key events in Hitler's life in Nazi Germany. The ending makes reference to Hitler's alleged escape to Argentina at the end of World War II. While having limited success in the United States, the song managed to chart high in Australia and the United Kingdom, peaking at number three in the former country and number 12 on the UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Be Or Not To Be (1942 Film)
To Be or Not to Be may refer to: * ''To be, or not to be'', the soliloquy from ''Hamlet''. Films and TV, theatre and books * ''To Be or Not to Be'' (1942 film), directed by Ernst Lubitsch * ''To Be or Not to Be'' (1983 film), a remake produced by Mel Brooks * ''To Be or Not to Be'' (TV series), starring Maggie Cheung Ho-yee and Prudence Liew * ''To Be or Not to Be'' (play), by Nick Whitby * '' To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Adventure'', an adventure book by Ryan North * "To Be or Not to Be", television series episode, see List of seaQuest DSV episodes Music Albums * ''To Be or Not to Be'' (album), a 2013 album by Nightmare *''To Be or Not to Be'', album by Cliffhanger (band) *''To Be or Not to Be'', album by Crash (South Korean band) Songs *"To Be or Not to Be", 1980 song by BA Robertson *" To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap)", 1983 song by Mel Brooks *"To Be or Not to Be", Otis Leavill, composed by Billy Butler 1965 *"To Be or Not to Be", 1965 song by the Bee Gees, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
