For individuals with the same name, see James Jacobs
Jim Jacobs
Born Jim Jacobs
(1942-10-07)October 7, 1942
Chicago, Illinois
Nationality United States American
Occupation Composer, Librettist, Lyricist, Actor
Partner Diane Rita Gomez (1965-1974)
Denise Nettleton (1978-)
Children Kristine
Parents Harold
Norma

Jim Jacobs (born October 7, 1942) is an American composer, lyricist, and writer for the theatre. He is known for writing the book, lyrics and music, with Warren Casey, for the stage and film musical Grease.

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Jacobs was born on October 7, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois to Harold, a factory foreman, and Norma (Mathison) Jacobs. Jacobs attended Taft High School, during which time he played guitar and sang with a band called DDT & the Dynamiters. When he was 11, his idol was Bill Haley, but when he was fourteen it was Elvis Presley. He also cites Buddy Holly, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis as influences.

When he was a teenager, he would imitate playing a guitar with a broomstick. He eventually convinced his parents to pay for guitar lessons. After four lessons, he quit and decided to buy a guitar book and teach himself. From this, his found a simple chord structure: C, A minor, F, G7—this would later be Those Magic Changes featured in Grease.

In 1963, he became involved with a local theatre group that included Warren Casey, The Chicago Playwrights Center (at that time it was called Hull House Playwrights Center).[1]

For the next five years he appeared in more than fifty theatrical productions in the Chicago area, working with such people as The Second City founder Paul Sills, while earning a living as an advertising copywriter. He also landed a small role in the 1969 film Medium Cool.

Jacobs' Broadway acting debut was in a 1970 revival of the play No Place to be Somebody, followed by the national tour.[2]

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At the same time, he and Casey were collaborating on a play about high school life during the golden age of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s. Entitled Grease, it premiered in 1971 at the Kingston Mines Theater in the Old Town section of Chicago. Jacobs remembered, in this interview: "When we went to New York... we were told it was necessary to make the characters lovable, instead of scaring everybody. The show went from about three-quarters book and one-quarter music to one-quarter book and three-quarters music."[3]

Producers Ken Waissman and Maxine Fox saw the show and suggested to the playwrights that it might work better as a musical, and told them if the creative partners were willing to rework it and they liked the end result, they would produce it off-Broadway. The team headed to New York City to collaborate on what would become Grease, which opened at the Eden Theatre in downtown Manhattan. The Best Plays of 1971-72 notes that "Though Grease opened geographically off Broadway, it did so under first class Broadway contracts." The show was deemed eligible for the 1972 Tony Awards, receiving seven Tony Award nominations. In June 1972 the production moved to the Broadhurst Theatre in the heart of Manhattan's Broadway theatre district. Six months later it moved to the Royale Theatre where it played until January 1980. For fine final weeks of the run the show moved to the much larger Majestic Theatre (Broadway).[4] Casey earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical. The show went on to become a West End hit and a hugely successful film.

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He would also write a two act musical Island of Lost Coeds with Warren Casey, a spoof on 1940s and 1950s B movies: a captain and crew crash on a deserted island inhabited by beautiful women with ratted hair, tiger-skin swimsuits and rubber spears.[5]

Jacobs served as a judge on the NBC reality series Grease: You're the One that I Want! in 2006, designed to cast the lead roles in an August 2007 Broadway revival of Grease via viewer votes.[6]

Awards [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ Biography greasethemusical.co.uk, retrieved January 26, 2010
  2. ^ Biography filmreference.com, retrieved January 26, 2010
  3. ^ Jones, Chris."Bring back our own, original R-rated 'Grease' "Chicago Tribune, January 08, 2009
  4. ^ Bloom, Ken. Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time (2008). Black Dog Publishing. ISBN 1-579aajfhjfjufehfefbufv uf12-313-9, pp.135-136
  5. ^ Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research. 2004. ISBN 978-0-7876-3995-2. 
  6. ^ "Grease: You're the One That I Want" listing imdb.com, retrieved January 26, 2010

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Jimmy Jacobs (handballer)

James Leslie 'Jimmy' Jacobs (February 18, 1930 – March 23, 1988) was an American handball player, boxing manager, Academy Award nominee and comic book and fight film collector.

Handball

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Jacobs grew up in a single-parent family in Los Angeles. He dropped out of high school before completing his education but excelled at numerous sports, including baseball, basketball, football and handball. He was credited with running 100 yards (91 m) in under ten seconds, winning a skeet shooting championship and shooting rounds of golf in the low 70s. Jacobs was offered the chance to try out for the US Olympic basketball team but declined in order to focus on handball. Jacobs was drafted into the army during the Korean War and was awarded a Purple Heart.

In four-wall handball, Jacobs won his first American singles championship in 1955, defeating Vic Hershkowitz in the final. In total, he won six American singles championships and six doubles championships (partnering Marty Decatur). He was additionally a three time national champion in three-wall handball. Between 1955 and 1969, he won every national handball competition match he played in. In 1966, Robert H. Boyle of Sports Illustrated wrote: "Jacobs is generally hailed as the finest player of all time. Indeed, there are those who say Jacobs is the best athlete, regardless of sport, in the country." In 1970, he was recognised by the US Handball Association as the "Greatest Handball Player of the Generation."

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Summer Nights

Summer Nights may refer to:

  • Les nuits d'été ("Summer Nights"), a song cycle by Hector Berlioz
  • Summer Nights (album), a 1989 album by Joe Pass
  • "Summer Nights" (Grease song), from the 1971 stage musical and 1978 film Grease
  • "Summer Nights" (Rascal Flatts song), 2009
  • Summer Nights, a 1998 album by Stevie B, or the title song
  • "Summer Nights", a song by Cassie Steele from Destructo Doll
  • "Summer Nights", a song by Lil Rob from Twelve Eighteen (Pt. I)
  • "Summer Nights", a song by Marianne Faithfull
  • "Summer Nights", a song by Survivor from Premonition
  • "Summer Nights", a song by Van Halen from 5150
  • "Summer Nights", a song by Vanessa Amorosi from Hazardous
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    Summer Nights (album)

    Summer Nights is an album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass, released in 1989.

    Reception

    Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow wrote of the album "Although Joe Pass' main influence was Charlie Christian and he really does not sound like Reinhardt, he manages to evoke the spirit of Django while swinging in his own fashion. It is particularly nice hearing such tunes as "Belleville," the haunting "Tears" and "For Django" in newer versions."

    Track listing

  • "Summer Night" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 4:20
  • "Anouman" (Django Reinhardt) – 4:40
  • "Douce Ambiance" (Reinhardt) – 4:52
  • "For Django" (Joe Pass) – 3:05
  • "D-Joe" (Pisano) – 3:09
  • "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:41
  • "E-Blue Eyes" (Pass) – 5:38
  • "Belleville" (Reinhardt) – 3:57
  • "(In My) Solitude" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange)3:26
  • "Tears (Razao le Viver)" (Eumir Deodato) – 4:48
  • "In a Sentimental Mood" (Ellington, Mills, Manny Kurtz) – 2:51
  • "Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) – 2:28
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    Summer Nights (Rascal Flatts song)

    "Summer Nights" is a song recorded by American country music group Rascal Flatts. It was written by the band's lead singer Gary LeVox, along with Brett James and Busbee. It was released in May 2009 as the second single from its sixth studio album Unstoppable.

    Content

    "Summer Nights" is an up-tempo country song celebrating summertime by inviting others to join in a party.

    Reception

    Matt Bjorke of Roughstock said that the song was "light hearted" and "feel-good" and would appeal to Rascal Flatts' fans, but said that he did not think that it would be well received by those who dislike the band's mainstream sound. Mandi Byerly of Entertainment Weekly said that the song sounded like it came from the High School Musical soundtrack.

    Chart performance

    "Summer Nights" debuted at number 57 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated for April 18, 2009, based on unsolicited airplay received while their then-current single "Here Comes Goodbye" was climbing the charts. "Summer Nights" held this position for two weeks before falling from the charts. It re-entered at number 53 on the same chart dated for May 16, 2009, and entered Top 40 at number 30 two weeks later. The song peaked at number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

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    ALBUMS

    Grease

    Released 2004

    Grease: The Musical: Live at the Musical Theater Basel

    Released 2004

    Grease

    Released 2001

    Vaselina (Grease) / El Show de Terror de Rocky

    Released 1998

    Grease

    Released 1998

    Grease (Toronto Musical Revue)

    Released 1996

    Grease: Das Musical

    Released 1994

    Grease

    Released 1994

    Grease: The Original Soundtrack From the Motion Picture

    Released 1992

    Grease

    Released 1972

    Grease (Deutsche Originalversion)

    Grease: The Musical

    Grease: The Musical

    Grease: The Musical

    Grease: Das Musical

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    Summer Nights

    by: Stevie B

    When you said you where leaving
    after all that we've been through
    and when you said it was over
    and there was nothing I could do
    to change your mind
    I can't stop looking at the door
    I'm sleeping by the phone
    I sit and watch the kids go by
    my happiness is gone
    Come back and see about me
    just come and see how I'm doing
    since you've been gone
    and left me here all alone
    since you've been gone
    come back and just see my face
    and tell me why I'm crying
    every night and day
    I only want to see you once again
    come back to me
    Don't you know its not easy
    not knowing not just where you are
    where you are
    and for the love you have gave me
    ohhhhh
    I hope you are safe and warm
    every night and day
    I can't stop starring at that door
    I can't stop sleeping alone
    I tell myself that I'll be fine
    how could you just leave me alone
    Come back and see about me
    just come and see how I'm doing
    since you've been gone
    and left me here all alone
    since you've been gone
    Come back and just touch my face
    and tell me I'm not dying
    and it's ok
    I wish that I could touch you
    I feel I'm stuck in the pouring rain
    I just can't weather the storm
    it's hard to live without you here
    I just don't know how to go on
    to go on
    Come back and see about me
    night and day
    every night and day
    since you've been gone
    Come back and just touch my face
    my heart is swollen from crying
    make it go away
    I only want to love you
    Come back and see about me
    just come and sit by your baby boo
    cause I miss you
    since you've been gone
    Come back and just touch my face
    my heart is swollen from crying
    every night and day
    I only want you to love you me
    Come back and see about me
    come back to me




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