Article: THE Armadillo Walk; How a planeload of Scots were the first to copy crooner Tony Christie's hit video when he arrived at the airport and why he has returned to live in UK.(News)

Article: Quiz of the week.(Features)
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland);  October 9, 2005 ;     686 words ... ... beaten by world number one Roger Federer in which competition? 6. Tony Christie is releasing a big band version of Merry Christmas Everybody. Which group had the original hit? 7. Which Royal had a row with airport security staff after ...

Article: off the Record.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  October 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... MargaretBeckett, who after years in the Cabinet,knows all about playing Scrooge TONY CHRISTIE is releasing a big band version of Merry Christmas Everybody, which was a huge hit for Slade in the Seventies. If that gets to No. 1 - mama, we're all crazy ...

Article: THE RAZZ: Battle for the top spot.(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  October 20, 2005 ;     423 words ... ... favourites with odds of 9/4 for their track with Diana Ross When You Tell Me That You Love Me. Also in the running are Mariah Carey with Don't You Forget About Us and Tony Christie's big-band cover of the Slade classic Merry Christmas Everybody

Article: His heart pulses to a big band beat St. Charles DJ ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  March 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... really become synonymous with the world of big-band music. This self-taught personality started the radio show "Original Big Band Showcase" in 1970, when he was in his ... a whole audience who lived through the big-band era, who were keeping it alive. Radio ...

Article: NOTES AND TONES Big-band sounds going strong with ...
Columbia Daily Tribune;  December 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... have always been perplexed by the term "big band" - a term so potent in jazz history that ... other style or period does. We have a "big band era"; we don't have a "small-group ... to define what is or what qualifies as big band music remains somewhat of a debate. For ...

Article: Lamorinda, Walnut Creek support their Big Band jazz
Oakland Tribune;  September 17, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Foundation is no less than to help preserve big-band jazz. "The music will survive, but ... Levich, co-director of the Rossmoor Big Band. "There are so many other styles of ... the generations move on, the sound of big-band jazz moves on, too." Generations in ...

Article: A REALLY BIG SHOW: With a little help from England, 20-member ...
Charleston Gazette;  September 16, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Chuck Biel's 20-member Novo Tempo big band swings into action on Saturday at The ... very far away from the American roots of big-band jazz. Biel is picking up a couple of ... an indication of the range in influence big band music has attained in the late 20th century ...