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  Tony Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jackson was born to a poor African American family in uptown New Orleans on June 5, 1876.
Jackson also wrote many original tunes, a number of which he sold rights to for a few dollars or were simply stolen from him; some of the old time New Orleans musicians said that some well known Tin Pan Alley pop tunes of the era were actually written by Jackson.
Jackson was resident performer at the De Luxe and Pekin Cafes in Chicago, although in his later years his voice and dexterity were impared by disease, probably Syphilis.
www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tony_Jackson   (623 words)

  
 Tony Jackson - Bill Harry - Mersey Beat
Tony was encouraged to re-form the Vibrations in 1991, but they were unsuccessful.
Tony had been making a telephone call, had an argument with the woman and threatened her with an imitation pistol.
As for Tony, I recall the excitement of hearing his voice on record when 'Sweets For My Sweet' was released and realized that it was one of the best examples of the Liverpool Sound.
www.triumphpc.com /mersey-beat/a-z/tonyjackson2.shtml   (589 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Tony Jackson
Tony Jackson, who died on Monday aged 63, was lead vocalist and bass guitarist with the Searchers, one of the successful groups to emerge from Liverpool in the city's musical heyday of the 1960s.
Meanwhile, Jackson's hands became so badly crippled with arthritis that in the last years of his life he could no longer play the guitar.
At a Searchers' Convention held at Nuneaton in October last year, Jackson was invited to join his former colleagues on stage in a rendition of Sugar and Spice.
www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/08/20/db2003.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2003/08/20/ixopright.html   (631 words)

  
 The Benton Courier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tony Jackson came home to his great-grandparents' house when he was told that he had some mail to open.
Jackson opened the manila envelope and found a picture of the president and a personal letter responding to his own.
Jackson sent the president a letter in the spring, and he received a response in August.
www.bentoncourier.com /articles/2005/01/30/news/36hnews.txt   (522 words)

  
 Casa Grande Valley Newspapers Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The show is as smooth and flawless as Jackson's voice to the point where Fat Tony's listeners would never guess he ran the show without full use of his arms and legs.
Jackson was born with his joints fused together, a condition called Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC).
In many ways Jackson was the perfect candidate; not only was he very well versed in the world of hard metal but he had been a quick learner as an assistant.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=10218517&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=222087&rfi=6   (697 words)

  
 Business: Tony Jackson
While Tony Jackson's territory has more or less tripled, his scenic commute each day between his Bradenton home and St. Petersburg office remains the same.
Jackson has been with Gevity for six years, hiring, training and coordinating sales representatives who work with small and medium-size businesses.
Jackson said his commute over the Sunshine Skyway is "the highlight of my day -- (driving) over the bridge in the morning and seeing the sunrise and driving across the bridge in the evening and seeing the sunset.
www.sptimes.com /2003/02/17/Business/Tony_Jackson.shtml   (485 words)

  
 Tony Jackson
It was left to Tony Hatch, then artist and repertoire chief of Pye Records, effectively the third biggest label, to sign the Searchers.
It was Jackson, who has died aged 63, who provided the high-pitched singing that helped propel "Sweets For My Sweet" to #1, on August 8 1963, the day of the great train robbery.
Born in the Liverpool suburb of Dingle, Jackson was one of many British teenagers who fell under the spell of Lonnie Donegan's 1956 skiffle hit "Rock Island Line".
www.spectropop.com /remembers/TJobit.htm   (664 words)

  
 BeatleLinks Fab Forum - Tony Jackson of the Searchers Dies at 63
Tony Jackson of the Searchers Dies at 63
Jackson died Monday in a hospital in Nottingham, central England, several newspapers and The Searchers' Web site reported.
Jackson sang and played bass for The Searchers, a Liverpool band that briefly rivaled The Beatles for popularity in the early 1960s.
www.beatlelinks.net /forums/printthread.php?t=9084   (426 words)

  
 Frank Allen's Tribute To Tony Jackson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tony himself had phoned John McNally barely a week before to let him know that there was not long to go.
Tony`s sharp edged vocals on Sweets For My Sweet, Sugar & Spice and Love Potion Number Nine (not to mention a host of other much loved album tracks) hit the spot perfectly.
When the change came and the vocals were distributed elsewhere it`s a shame that Tony should have resented it so much.
www.users.zetnet.co.uk /roseconway/tonytribute.htm   (858 words)

  
 Tony Jackson dies at 63 - theage.com.au
Tony Jackson, bass player for the 1960s Merseybeat band The Searchers at the peak of its fame, has died.
Jackson died last Monday in a hospital in Nottingham, central England, several newspapers and The Searchers' official Web site reported.
Jackson was lead singer on the band's first two British hits, Sweets for My Sweet and Sugar and Spice, but played bass only on the enduring Needles and Pins - which made the US Top 20 - and Don't Throw Your Love Away.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/08/21/1061434983410.html   (311 words)

  
 Tony Jackson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tony was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and lived several places around the country before coming to Tucson in 1983.
Tony is an avid sports fan whose favorite teams include the Boston Red Sox, Utah Jazz, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Bears, Denver Broncos, Chicago Blackhawks, and Colorado Avanlanche.
Jackson also enjoy spanish music, and didn't hesitate when saying his favorite stooge was Curly and his favorite high school teacher was one Joe Rustici.
home.flash.net /~sjain/group/bios/names/tony.html   (313 words)

  
 Tony Backhouse, Biography : Australian Music Centre
Tony performed as singer/musical director for Steve J. Spears' a cappella musical Namatjira Park (1992), and has written music for TV series GP ; and he researched and coordinated the 1993 TVNZ documentary on NZ vocal traditions, Strictly Acappella.
Tony has received awards from the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America and composer commissions from the Song Company, the ABC, Sydney Childrens' Choir, from the Australia Council to write music for the Café of the Gate of Salvation and and an Australia Council International Study Grant to research Black gospel traditions in the USA.
Tony has sung solo and with Black choirs in churches in the USA, and taught at the 1995 West Coast A cappella Summit, California.
www.amcoz.com.au /comp/b/tback.htm   (498 words)

  
 TONY JACKSON MAKES LATE MODEL DEBUT AT OSS - RacingWest
Tony Jackson crew chief for Nick Joanides decided to go to the Orange show this weekend and get some seat time in his Super Late Model at a track that he has never raced at, and that he did.
Tony will miss the rest of the season at Irwindale due to he will be with Nick at the Tour races he is hoping to be able to make the open race at Las Vegas though.
Tony would like to thank his sponsors and friends for all the help they have given him this year.
www.racingwest.com /news/story.php3/9658   (176 words)

  
 Tony Jackson & The Vibrations
Tony Jackson - bass guitar/vocals (born July 16th 1940, Liverpool, died August 18th 2003)
Tony Jackson, lead singer with top Liverpool group the Searchers, left them in July 1964 after he became disenchanted with the bands' move away from their rock 'n' roll roots to a softer, more melodic sound.
From the release of "Stage Door", during the summer of 1965, they were known as The Tony Jackson Group.
www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Villa/9500/jacksontony.htm   (196 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Tony Jackson of the Searchers dies at 63   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
LONDON (AP) — Tony Jackson, bass player for The Searchers, a Liverpool band best known for the 1964 song Needles and Pins, has died.
Like contemporaries including John Lennon and George Harrison, Jackson was inspired first by the uniquely British sound of "skiffle king" Lonnie Donegan, and then by Buddy Holly and other American rock imports.
Jackson was lead singer on the band's first two British hits, Sweets for My Sweet and Sugar and Spice, but played bass only on the enduring Needles and Pins and Don't Throw Your Love Away.
www.usatoday.com /life/music/news/2003-08-21-searchers_x.htm   (373 words)

  
 BeatleLinks Fab Forum - Tony Jackson of the Searchers Dies at 63
'Tony Jackson, lead vocalist on the Searchers' early singles 'Sweets For My Sweet' and 'Sugar and Spice' died in August, aged 63, after a long battle with chronic arthritis and liver cirrhosis.
He fronted the Tony Jackson Group, prior to all but washing his hands of showbusiness in 1968.
He resurfaced on the nostalgia circuit in 1991, earning ovations with versions of Searchers hits delivered in a voice darker and shorn of early ingenuity, but retaining the tidy harmonies and unique fretboard interaction that would influence later acts, notably the Byrds.
www.beatlelinks.net /forums/printthread.php?t=14575   (819 words)

  
 Tony Jackson - Equestrian Portrait Painter & Artist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tony Jackson has spent the last 30 years as a commercial artist, working out of London 's largest studio, providing art & design services to the advertising and publishing industries.
Despite four years of art college and a degree, this was where Tony Jackson truly learned his trade.
A demanding business, having to illustrate a wide range of subject matter, at short notice and on very tight deadlines, using a variety of styles, techniques and traditional studio skills.
www.commissionaportrait.com /artistsportfolio.asp?id=158   (330 words)

  
 Making Time- The Tony Jackson Group- Watch Your Step   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The third single was Love Potion Number 9, a Lieber and Stoller song that had recently been released by Jackson's former colleagues in the Searchers, giving the group its biggest US hit.
However, Tony Jackson had less success with his version despite its obvious quality.
Chart success eluded the Vibrations and the Tony Jackson Group and this is probably due to their reliance on covers at a time when bands were moving towards writing their own material.
www.makingtime.co.uk /cdrev102004.html   (616 words)

  
 Tony_Jackson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Tony and his company are dedicated to help Christians prepare for Y2K at a reasonable cost.
Should Y2K become the crisis we are all hoping and praying against, your relationship with Tony Jackson may be remembered as one of the most important of 1999.
www.ericbarger.com /Tony_Jackson_Promo_4-29-99_(1).htm   (276 words)

  
 Tony Jackson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As a past pupil of St Columb's College, and as one of the most successful people in his chosen career, Mr Anthony Jackson was the obvious choice of the school's Careers Department to give the keynote speech to the sixth form at the beginning of the school's Careers Fair.
Thus did Anthony Jackson begin his keynote speech to the sixth form at the beginning of the Careers Fair.
He is eminently suited to speaking about the 'big bad world', a label which he desribes as an increasingly suitable one for the cutthroat world of work.
www.iol.ie /~fraser/jack.htm   (612 words)

  
 the Tony Jackson Group - Watch Your Step
UK import, 24 track collection of Ex-Searcher Tony Jackson that has a handful unreleased trax and some rare songs from a 1966 EP.
When he left the Searchers at the height of their success in 1964, bassist Tony Jackson seemed destined for fame and fortune.
It didnt work out that way, but that was no fault of his music over the next three years, which ranged from superb UK soul to American-influenced folk-rock.
www.notlame.com /CDJACKS1.html   (197 words)

  
 Scout.com: Seahawks.NET Draft Report: Tony Jackson
With their sixth-round pick, the Seahawks selected Iowa TE Tony Jackson, a huge player for the position that they will try at fullback and special teams.
With the 22nd pick in the sixth round, the Seattle Seahawks have selected Iowa TE/FB Tony Jackson.
The reason Jackson isn’t a Day One prospect is because he is considered too short for tight end position.
seahawks.scout.com /2/373629.html   (392 words)

  
 Bassplaza.com/Basslinks.nl Forums - Famous - Tony Jackson Dies - Powered by BassPlaza-BB
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Tony Jackson bassplayer with The Searchers has died last Monday the 18th of August.
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 Tony Jackson Bye Bye Baby
Southerners all, they turned out to be organist Martin Raymond from the Westminster Four; ex-Hot Gang guitarist Ian Buisel (later Ian Leighton); and Paul Francis, who'd drummed for Rolf Harris and the Kangaroos.4th September 1964 marked he concert debut of Tony Jackson and the Vibrations.
Significantly no Searchers items were considered for their repertoire Tony was aware that "the Small Faces, the Who and all the Mod groups were coming in, so we took that path — a lot of crash, bang, wallop".
While Jackson wasn't exactly starting from scratch, its climb into he Top 40 was no mean feat.
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 Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Tony Jackson: MAIN
Anthony (or Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson (June 5, 1876 - April 20,...
In 1965 they changed their name to The Tony Jackson Group but the fourth single also...
In 1991, Tony Jackson and the Vibrations reformed and an album of...
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 Tony Jackson statistics - pro-football-reference.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tony Jackson never finished in the top 10 in any major category.
Tony Jackson is not in the all-time top 50 in any major category.
For the best fantasy football information on the web, visit footballguys.com.
www.pro-football-reference.com /players/JackTo00.htm   (68 words)

  
 Tony Jackson and The Vibrations
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 Tony Jackson (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Shock Records - TONY JACKSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Shock Records - WATCH YOUR STEP-ANTHOLOGY 1964-66 - TONY JACKSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The solo career of the former SEARCHERS lead singer antholigised on this 24 track disc.
Read Reviews of this record or add your own (currently 0)
Other Releases by TONY JACKSON available through Shock
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 Millennium Gallery p.XLI - Tony Jackson: Pegasus Art Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Millennium Gallery p.XLI - Tony Jackson: Pegasus Art Gallery
It is called "Calcutta 2000" and is about the huge gap that exists in our modern world between rich and poor, between new and old.
Let us try and do something about the 30% of humanity that are in extreme poverty." Tony Jackson
www.pegasus00.com /millenium40.html   (132 words)

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