Bobby Watson (born August 23, 1953, in Lawrence, Kansas) is an American post-bop jazz alto saxophonist, composer, producer, and educator. Watson now has 26 recordings as a leader. He appears on nearly 100 other recordings as either co-leader or in a supporting role. Watson has recorded more than 100 original compositions and his long-time publisher.
Watson grew up in Bonner Springs, Kansas, and Kansas City, Kansas. He attended the University of Miami along with fellow students Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius and Bruce Hornsby. After graduating in 1975, he moved to New York City and joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. The Jazz Messengers, sometimes referred to as the "University of Blakey", served as the ultimate "postgraduate school" for ambitious young players. He performed with the Jazz Messengers from 1977 to 1981, eventually becoming the musical director for the group.
After completing his tenure as a Jazz Messenger, Watson became a sought after musician, working along the way with many notable musicians, including: drummers Max Roach and Louis Hayes, fellow saxophonists George Coleman and Branford Marsalis, multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. In addition to working with a variety of instrumentalists, Watson has served in a supporting role for a number of distinguished and stylistically varied vocalists, including: Joe Williams, Dianne Reeves, Lou Rawls, Betty Carter, and Carmen Lundy, and has performed as a sideman with Carlos Santana, George Coleman, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Bob Belden and John Hicks.
Bobby Watson (November 28, 1888 – May 22, 1965), born Robert Watson Knucher, was an American theater and film actor, playing a variety of character roles, including, after 1942, Adolf Hitler.
Born in Springfield, Illinois, Watson began his career at age 15 performing a vaudeville act at the Olympic Theatre in Springfield. As a teenager, he toured the U.S. midwest with the "Kickapoo Remedies Show", a traveling medicine show. He then appeared in Coney Island in a Gus Edwards show. In 1918, he first played on Broadway when he was a replacement in the role of Robert Street in Going Up and then created the role of the flamboyant dressmaker "Madame Lucy" in the hit musical Irene (1919), later repeating the role. He continued to play on Broadway through the 1920s.
Watson began to appear in films at the end of the silent film era, in 1925, playing various character roles, including an interior decorator, a radio announcer, a hotel manager, a dance director, a band leader, a dress maker and a detective. He was a diction coach (uncredited) in Singin' in the Rain (1952). In 1942, he appeared as Adolf Hitler in a Hal Roach Studio short subject called The Devil With Hitler. Watson would appear as Hitler in nine films all together, including Hitler – Dead or Alive (1942), Nazty Nuisance (1943), The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944), The Hitler Gang (1944), The Story of Mankind (1957), On the Double (1961) and Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962).
Bobby Watson is a former guard who played in the National Basketball Association. Watson was drafted by the Milwaukee Hawks in the 1952 NBA Draft. He first played in the NBA with the Minneapolis Lakers in 1954 before being traded back to the Milwaukee Hawks for Lew Hitch.
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Robert "Bobby" Watson (born 15 May 1946) is a Scottish former football player and manager. Watson played as a defender for Rangers and Motherwell. Watson was transferred from Rangers to Motherwell in a deal that also involved Peter McCloy and Brian Heron. Watson represented Scotland once, in a friendly match played against the Soviet Union in 1971. Watson was one of the players who had to wait many years to receive an official cap to mark this achievement, as caps were only given to players who played in British Home Championship matches before the mid-1970s.
Watson retired from playing in 1976 to run a steel business. He then managed Airdrie and Motherwell, but only lasted six months in charge of the latter as they were relegated from the Scottish Premier Division. Watson then helped to set up another business, Cairnhill Structures, in 1990. He was also known as a lay preacher.
In April 2015 Watson was inducted into the Airdrieonians Hall Of Fame, an awards ceremony to honour former Airdrieonians managers and players.
You got out on the wrong side of bed this morning
And you started right in on me
The first thing I heard was some angry words
And that’s the last thing that I need
You call at me work
Chewing me out
Telling me what I forgot to do
Now you come home, you’re itching for another round
But honey, I’m no match for you
‘Cause I’m a lover, not a fighter
And you’ve been picking on me all day
This could turn into an all-nighter
If you don’t put the gloves away
This fussing and fighting has got to cease
Honey, all I want is just a little peace
I’m a lover not a fighter
So let’s love the fight away
Well, you know that I don’t like confrontation
But I can take care of myself
So, if you’re looking for a sparring partner
You can just look somewhere else
I can go the distance when it comes to love
And I always finish what I start
So don’t waste my time going hand-to-hand
‘Cause I’m better at heart-to-heart
I’m a lover not a fighter
And you’ve been picking on me all day
This can turn into an all-nighter
If you don’t put the gloves away
This fussing and fighting has got to cease
Honey, all I want is just a little peace
I’m a lover not a fighter so let’s
Love the fight away
I’m a lover not a fighter
And you’ve been picking on me all day
This could turn into an all-nighter
If you don’t put the gloves away
This fussing and fighting has got to cease
Honey, all I want is just a little peace
I’m a lover not a fighter
So let’s love the fight away
I’m a lover not a fighter
A lover not a fighter
I’m a lo-lo-lo-lo lover
I’m a lo-lo-lo-lo lover