Sentence examples for lonnie from inspiring English sources

They split up in 2001 and Lonnie, who retired from the US coastguard, has since remarried and moved to Pennsylvania.

His parents, Lonnie and Elizabeth Snowden, were teenage sweethearts who met at Northeastern high school and married in a "back garden" wedding in 1979, when they were 18.

The judge referred the jury back to those instructions; it later decided on the death penalty and the defendant, Lonnie Weeks, has since been executed.

After dumping her body, they used her car in a botched robbery of a corner shop, during which they killed Lonnie Coburn, a sheriff's deputy.

When singer-banjoist Lonnie Donegan stepped out of the rhythm section of Chris Barber's Dixieland (traditional jazz) band to record a hopped-up version of Leadbelly's "Rock Island Line" in 1954, he was unwittingly laying the foundation of the 1960s British music scene.

In England, from the moment Lonnie Donegan's "Rock Island Line" hit the charts in 1956, a would-be performer was more likely to play skiffle a simple-to-play idiom based on American folk and blues songs, performed on guitar, broomstick bass, and washboard which first emerged in jazz clubs.

August 8, 1932 Dover, Florida Mel Tillis, byname of Lonnie Melvin Tillis (born August 8, 1932, Dover, Florida, U.S ., American songwriter and entertainer who composed more than a thousand country music songs (music and lyrics), many of which became standards.

The only sign of life was in the late 1950s skiffle craze, spearheaded by Scotland's Lonnie Donegan.

Colyer had a fierce integrity, only being interested in early New Orleans music and loathing the band's banjo player, Lonnie Donegan, who deliberately provoked him.

Despite his admiration for his slide-slinging cousin Booker T Washington –"Bukka" – White, young Riley aspired to sophistication: his guitar style drew on jazzmen Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and the supremely urbane Lonnie Johnson; his bands featured horn sections rather than harmonicas and he always declared that his favourite singers were Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.

"He is assigned to Spring Valley High School as well as Lonnie B Nelson Elementary School, and has proven to be an exceptional role model to the students he serves and protects".