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  Jimmy Cannon :: Vocalist, Saxophonist & Bandleader in London, UK.
Jimmy is best known for leading the Jimmy Cannon Big Band.
Jimmy is an extremely versatile Singer, as convincing when caressing a ballad as he is belting out a pop hit or Sinatra-style swinger.
Jimmy is proud to announce the opening of a new venue in the West End.
jimmycannon.com   (409 words)

  
  IBHOF / Jimmy Cannon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Regarded as an outstanding newspaper writer in boxing and show business, Cannon got his start in journalism as a 17-year old copy boy for the New York Daily News.
Known for the heading "Nobody asked me, but" Cannon was awarded with the "AJ Liebling Award" for outstanding boxing writing by the Boxing Writers Association.
Cannon, who was considered as one of America's foremost sportswriters, died at age 63 on December 5, 1973.
www.ibhof.com /cannon.htm   (97 words)

  
 Search Results for "Cannon"
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 TennWatch/Volitics: February 2004 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jesse Cannon (pictured at right) is a political unknown, but he has practiced medicine in district 81 for over two decades.
Jimmy Naifeh is rumored to have close to $800,000 in his campaign war chest and is going to spend every penny to keep his seat.
Cannon doesn't have a tenth of that in his campaign budget but that doesn't really bother him.
www.tennwatch.com /tennwatch/archives/2004_02.php   (487 words)

  
 Muhammad Ali
Cannon was born in 1910 in what he called "the unfreaky part of Greenwich Village." His father was a minor, if kindly, servant of Tammany Hall.
Without making excuses, Cannon's wised-up one-liners and the maudlin sentiment were of a time and a place, and, as Cannon aged, he gruffly resisted the new trends in sportswriting and athletic behavior.
Cannon had always said that his intention as a sportswriter was to bring the "world in over the bleacher wall," but he failed to see that this generation was trying to do much the same thing.
www.sportsjones.com /ali4-print.htm   (4464 words)

  
 Jimmy Cannon | BaseballLibrary.com
"Nobody asked me, but..." was Cannon's familiar lead.
A protege of Damon Runyon and Mark Hellinger, Cannon's prose was admired by Ernest Hemingway.
An early observer of the impact of fl athletes on both sports and society, he made the immortal comment that boxer Joe Louis was a credit to his race - the human race.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Cannon_Jimmy.stm   (133 words)

  
 The Jazz Cannons
The Jazz Cannons are a magnificent classic swing, jazz, soul and pop band led by the magnetic vocalist and saxophonist Jimmy Cannon.
The Jazz Cannons have played for clients all over the UK and Europe and are the perfect choice for wedding receptions, corporate functions and parties.
The Jazz Cannons have the ingredients to make your event the one all your guests will be talking about.
jazzcannons.co.uk   (191 words)

  
 eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Such is the case with All ToGetHer, the first recording for The Jimmy Cannon Big Band from London.
Singer/saxophonist and band leader Jimmy Cannon put together some pretty good charts and brought together some of the finest musicians in London to form his big band for this project.
Cannon’s band contains a reed section of no less than five saxes, a full set of horns, trombones and a four piece rhythm group comprising a swinging seventeen piece ensemble that can really cook a tune.
www.ejazznews.com /print.php?sid=5862   (272 words)

  
 James Cannon — Josef Cannon : ZoomInfo Business People Information
Cannon is an international trade attorney and a partner in the...
Jenny Cannon is a double Emory alumna, graduating from Emory College in 2001 and from Candler School of Theology in...
Cannon is the son of John Cannon of Lakeland and Shelly Vermillion of St. Louis, Mo....
www.zoominfo.com /people/level2page5953.aspx   (1881 words)

  
 Ringsidereport.com
Jimmy Cannon once scribed an eloquent piece on Tony Zale years back in which he expounded, “The reporter who covers games appoints himself an authority on courage as soon as the assistant sports editor puts his name down on the assignment sheet.
We demand that the athlete be perfect in competition and proceed on the theory that he should be exempt from fear.
I chose to preface this simple composition with this nod to Cannon's astute observations of the sometimes harsh realities of writing of sport, particularly when the topic is boxing and its participants.
ringsidereport.com /Jason080204.htm   (965 words)

  
 APSE | Associated Press Sports Editors
Smith and Cannon, colleagues and friends, were the heavy hitters in a Murderer's Row lineup of yesteryear's New York sports columnists.
Cannon's was the quintessential resume for a New York sports columnist.
On trips to New York, the Miami Herald's Pope would often lunch with Cannon at the show-biz friendly Friars Club, where Cannon was as big a star as anyone in the room.
apse.dallasnews.com /jun2004/10-25horn.html   (620 words)

  
 Obituaries
Wife of Jimmy Cannon Sr., she was born in Gaffney, a daughter of the late Dever and Rehobirth Faucett Littlejohn.
Cannon was a member of Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, where she served as a member of the Musical Choir, advisor and co-chairlady of Teens Against Pregnancy, Bible School teacher and assistant Sunday School teacher of the Junior Class.
Surviving in addition to her husband are two sons, Jimmy Cannon Jr.
www.gaffneyledger.com /news/2005/0112/Obits   (889 words)

  
 Great scribes and scribbles that sing Sporting News, The - Find Articles
Callahan gets in here today because Jimmy Cannon's name is in the news, and that's a good thing.
They were climbing onto a Super Bowl press bus, Cannon exhausted by the effort, soon to suffer a stroke that put the great man in a wheelchair.
Cannon's columns were shadows, light playing over darkness.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_21_228/ai_n6126732   (867 words)

  
 Take A Joy Read, Canada!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He takes it home and listens to it and discovers he was an impersonator of President Cannon, a much-beloved president who was assassinated in New Orleans in 1963.
Cannon is linked to a Brat Pack—type circle of entertainers and the Mafia (like Kennedy), as well as to his former imitator, Jimmy Wynn.
Italicized sections told from a third-person point of view of Jimmy Wynn are randomly placed and would be more dramatic if they were actually narrated by Wynn in the first person.
www.lpg.ca /JoyRead/novdec05/titles/showbiz.htm   (792 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Don Freeman -- Everyone, get in the clown car; we're going to the greatest show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
One of my favorite newspaper columnists, Jimmy Cannon, who made his reputation in an era of top sportswriters in New York, had no patience with the circus.
As you may know, Jimmy was a lifelong bachelor who lived in a newspaper-strewn apartment in the Edison Hotel in Manhattan around the corner from Times Square.
I suspect that both Jimmy Cannon and Mike Wallace would have been fulfilled as journalists by interviewing the one man most associated with the circus and its history.
signonsandiego.com /news/metro/freeman/20060520-9999-1c20freeman.html   (676 words)

  
 Music For London - Jimmy Cannon Trio - jazz trio performs for any type of functions.
Music For London - Jimmy Cannon Trio - jazz trio performs for any type of functions.
Jimmy studied jazz at Trinity college of music, sings in the style of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Kurt Elling and plays saxophone but not at the same time.
The trio features two of the most sought after musicians in London: Sean Hargreaves piano and Andy Hamill bass.
www.musicforlondon.com /jimmy_cannon_trio.htm   (175 words)

  
 CNN.com - 'Nobody asked me, but ...' - Aug 16, 2004
WASHINGTON (Creators Syndicate) -- Jimmy Cannon, the wonderful New York sportswriter, once offered this memorable line about the heavyweight boxing champion known as the Dark Destroyer: "Joe Louis is a credit to his race...
Regularly, Cannon wrote a column he called "Nobody asked me, but..." chock full of irreverent and sentimental one-liners on his times.
Jimmy Tingle, the Will Rogers of the 21st century, thinks the citizens' movement to buy drugs, more cheaply, from Canada is only hemispherically fair, after Americans have given so much of their drug business to Colombia and Mexico.
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/16/cannon/index.html   (691 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Don Freeman -- Hop in the cab; it's old New York time
Jimmy died at 63 on Dec. 3, 1973, but the people who admired his prose, the readers and his fellow writers, retain their memories.
Ten minutes later I was in the back seat of a cab with Jimmy Cannon.
And then silence overtook the room and Jimmy nodded at me. I interpreted that to mean I should step in with a question.
signonsandiego.com /news/metro/freeman/20031018-9999_1c18freeman.html   (563 words)

  
 If Words Could Talk | TheSweetScience.com Boxing
When I landed my first newspaper job, at The Miami Herald shortly after the Korean War, my heroes, at least the ones that coaxed poetry from the keys of something called a typewriter, were Red Smith, Jimmy Cannon and Jim Murray, three fellows who knew their way around a saloon and the English language.
Their words read in the dead of night were the batteries I used to jump-start the cold engine in my head.
Another was Jimmy Cannon, a nasty ex-drunk with the feathery touch of a talented if jaded poet.
www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/1877/words-talk   (2320 words)

  
 Jimmy Cannon Big Band, 17 piece swing with vocals playing Jazz Dance-Party Function playing at Melodybay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jimmy Cannon Big Band, 17 piece swing with vocals playing Jazz Dance-Party Function playing at Melodybay
Jimmy Cannon the saxophonist singer who leads the band The band consists of top musicians from west end shows the Buddy Rich Big Band and Perrier Award winning jazz artists
Jimmy uses only the finest ingredients to produce an authentic traditional big band sound with a twist: 17 tablespoons of well seasoned musicians 700g of tasty charts 60g of fresh tunes 1 good handful of original songs A pinch of fairy dust and Swing Swing Swing is the dish of the day
www.melodybay.com /jimmycannonbigband.html   (106 words)

  
 JIM MURRAY The Last Of The Best
One of my favorite books is Jimmy Cannon's "Nobody Asked Me, But...".
Although less then half the book is devoted to my three sports, the 90 or so pages that were are to me, priceless.
They didn't make writers like Jimmy Cannon any more, or so I thought.
insideboxing.com /Columnist/amato/jim_murray_the_last_of_the_best.htm   (282 words)

  
 Obsessed With Wrestling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
October 21, 2004--IWA Mid South: Arik Cannon defeated Austin Aries to retain the IWA Heavyweight title..
September 23, 2005--IWA Mid South: Arik Cannon defeated Joey Ryan in the 1st round of the Ted Petty Invitational..
September 24, 2005--IWA Mid South: Arik Cannon defeated Delirious in the 2nd round of the Ted Petty Invitational..
www.obsessedwithwrestling.com /profiles/a/arik-cannon.html   (1553 words)

  
 Obsessed With Wrestling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Cannon suffered a broken collarbone from a hard clothesline and will be out of action for several months.
Promoter Ian Rotten, when realizing the severity of the injury, announced the next match, the main event with A.J. Styles vs. Petey Williams vs. Christopher Daniels vs. Chris Sabin would be for the vacant title.
Tyler Black won Battle Royal, Tyler Black b Jimmy Jacobs-DQ, Arik Cannon won four-way over Jaysin Strife, Chandler McClure and Ryan Cruz, Matt Sydal b Trik Davis, Billy Gunn b Ryan Boz, Delirious b Claudio Castagnoli, Brandon Thomaselli b Marek Brave, Chris Hero b Josh Abercrombie, Eddie Kingston b Ian Rotten in a Death match..
www.obsessedwithwrestling.com /results/iwamidsouth.html   (1458 words)

  
 Nobody Asked « WordPress.com
To borrow from that great columnist Jimmy Cannon, nobody asked me, but… WAS THERE A FULL MOON this week?
: With my customary nod to Jimmy Cannon (who after all, invented the phrase), nobody asked me, but….
: With another nod to the incomparable Jimmy Cannon, nobody asked me, but… THERE IS A WAY to avoid the ceremonial … more »
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 Quote Details: Jimmy Cannon: Fishing, with me, has... - The Quotations Page
Quote Details: Jimmy Cannon: Fishing, with me, has...
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.
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 Nobody Asked Me, But. - 7/26/1999 - TWICE - CA41582   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jimmy Cannon was a well-loved and renowned New York sportswriter, whose heyday spanned the 1930s to the '60s.
Once every month or so he would come up with a column of one-liners, which started with the phrase "Nobody Asked Me, But.'' They were observations about sports, current events and life in general.
Maybe companies in the hardware and software sides of the audio business could learn something from this final line from Jimmy Cannon:
www.twice.com /article/CA41582.html   (728 words)

  
 Jimmy Cannon — Infoplease.com
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STATE OF THE UNION SQUARE; MACY'S WEST CELEBRATES END OF THREE-YEAR RENOVATION WITH CANNONS, CELEBRITIES AND CHINESE DANCERS.
Facts, fiction, and the fourth estate: the Washington Post and "Jimmy's World".
www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0109063.html   (130 words)

  
 Jimmy Cannon Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Nobody Asked Me, But...: The World of Jimmy Cannon
by Jack Cannon (Editor), Jimmy Cannon, Tom Cannon (Editor)
We guarantee the condition of every book, new or used.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Jimmy_Cannon   (87 words)

  
 Boxing - Dan Rafael - Eurosport
"A sportswriter," Jimmy Cannon once wrote, "is entombed in a prolonged boyhood." If Cannon were alive today,...">
By Thomas Hauser"A sportswriter," Jimmy Cannon once wrote, "is entombed in a prolonged boyhood." If Cannon were alive today, he might cite Dan Rafael to prove his point.Rafael is the boxing writer for ESPN.com.
"A sportswriter," Jimmy Cannon once wrote, "is entombed in a prolonged boyhood." If Cannon were alive today, he might cite Dan Rafael to prove his point.
www.eurosport.com /boxing/sport_sto873692.shtml   (2022 words)

  
 Nouvelle page 6
Then at the end of the night, there was a battle royal with all the winners and the winner of that will receive a title shot against Jimmy Jacobs at night 2 of the TPI.
Jimmy Jacobs, BJ Whitmer and The Iron Saints vs. Brandon Thomaselli, James Gibson, Trik Davis and Josh Abercrombie
Other highlights include Jimmy Jacobs battling Josh Abercrombie....a wild all over the building texas tornado 3 way tag match and then the wild all over Midlothian tag match that followed including all 4 men outside brawling all over a playground...Matt Sydal vs the up and coming Tyler Black in a great match and much more.
www.wrestleholic2001.com /iwa_midsouth.html   (7281 words)

  
 LEGO® Skull Island - LEGO® Stories and Action - Pirates(Ages 4+)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Cannonball Jimmy is trying to find the missing half of his treasure map.
But Captain Kragg has hid it in a spider cave on Skull Island, guarded by a giant cannon!
Includes boom sail that can turn, cannon that can shoot, and spider web that opens and closes.
www.toys2wish4.com /leskis.html   (202 words)

  
 Jimmy Wynn Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
View Jimmy Wynn's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines
Name and misspellings: The James jim Toy jimmie jimmy Cannon winn Sherman sharman Jimmy jimmie jim james winn Wynn
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org.
www.baseball-reference.com /w/wynnji01.shtml   (785 words)

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