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"The world's best collaborate with Bill Jolly to produce their projects, ideas, shows and talent." You can too! (Pictures are for illustration purposes only and do not signify direct endorsements of Bill Jolly.) Bill Jolly has worked with: Corporations: (Bill has endorsed, performed or written music for the following corporations:) McDonalds, Time-Life, Coca Cola, Verizon, AOL, Hyatt, Bose, Anheuser Busch, HBO, Comcast, Burrell Advertising, Melon Bank, Advanta Bank, MTV, ABC, CBS, NBC, Showtime, Columbia Tri- Star Pictures, Sony Music, BMG, Warner Brothers Music, Gamble-Huff Records, VH-1, BET, QVC, The Democratic National Convention, The Republican National Convention, The Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit, Rite Aid, Showtime, PBS, FOX Sports, Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Days of Our Lives, NARAS, Radio One, The Cezanne Exhibit, Melrose Place, The Rhythm and Blues Foundation Awards, Alex’s Lemonade, TV-One, The Emmy Awards, USAIR, Nu Image/Millenium Films, Dionne Warwick and Friends, The Pennsylvania Ballet, Barbados Tourism, Hershey Park, Sony/PBS/ Live Nation’s “Love Train”: The Sound of Philadelphia, The Tonight Show, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, Keyboard Magazine, Korg Keyboards, ProjectSam, Sonnivox Broadway Big Band, Chevrolet, Mitsubitsi, Suzuki, Ford, Lincoln, Delaware Race Track, Oak Tree Health Plan, Keystone Mercy, Helen Fuld Medical Center, The Linda Creed Foundation, National Alliance of Market Developers, The Miss Black America Pageant, West Chester University, Artreach, The Philadelphia Music Alliance Hall of Fame Awards, The International Association for African American Music, The Philadelphia Eagles, 76ers and Phillies, African Sunshine Soda, Philadelphia Job Corps, Philadelphia Tourism Board, Phila. Police and Firefighter Awards. Performance: (Bill has performed with, opened for, or recorded with the following:) Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, Usher, Bill Clinton, Jill Scott, Beyonce’, George W. Bush, Michael Jackson, Michael Buble’, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Ronald Reagan, Chaka Khan, Shania Twain, Eve, Maury, Oprah, Bill Cosby, Olivia Newton John, Mo’Nique, Wayne Brady, Laura Bush, Dionne Warwick, Bonnie Raitt, Chuck D, Patti LaBelle, Dwele’, Music SoulChild, Kenny Rodgers, Luther Vandross, Brian McKnight, Lynda Carter, Eric Benet, Hall and Oates, Teddy Pendergrass, Ciara, Vivian Green, The Philly Pops Orchestra, Bill Withers, Gerald Levert, George W. Bush, Tyrese, Natalie Cole, Paul Anka, Jaguar Wright, Lee Daniels, Robin Roberts, Anthony Hamilton, Kem, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Wynton Marsalis, The Roots, Delta Goodrem, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Earth Wind and Fire, Chicago, Diana Ross, Grover Washington Jr., Chubby Checker, Delta Goodrem, Kenny G, Ashford and Simpson, Angie Stone, Janet Jackson, Motown’s Funk Brothers, Yolanda Adams, The Goo Goo Dolls, Take 6, The Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, James Ingram, The Boys Choir of Harlem, Michael Bolton, LaBelle, The Dixie Hummingbirds, Director Barry Levinson, Kelly Price, Kool and the Gang, Sister Sledge, Edwin Hawkins, The Chieftons, Howard Hewett, Lyfe Jennings, Teena Marie, Gerald Alston, Sounds of Blackness, Vesta, Melba Moore, Clifton Davis, Clint Holmes, Norman Connors, Teena Marie, Jean Carne, Glen Jones, The Emotions, Freddie Jackson, Phil Perry, Gerald Albright, The Whispers,… Artist Tributes: (Award Show tributes that Bill has arranged and performed with the Artist or their surviving family in attendance.) Earth Wind and Fire, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder Jamie Fox, Herbie Hancock, Otis Redding, Kool and the Gang, Hall and Oates, Chaka Khan, In Living Colour, Queen Latifah, Clara Ward and the Ward Singers, Babyface, Billy Eckstein, Morris Day and the Time, Koko Taylor, Linda Creed, Third World, Berry Gordy, Gamble and Huff, Frankie Beverly and Maze, The Whispers, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Sean “Diddy Combs, Danny and the Juniors, Chuck D, Buddy Guy, Chuck Brown, Nina Simone, Jay-Z, Teena Marie, Gerald Levert, Donny Hathaway, Chubby Checker, Thom Bell, Buddy Grecco, Janet Jackson, Shirley Ceasar, Keith Sweat, The Isley Brothers, The Williams Brothers, Nancy Wilson, Gladys Knight, New Edition, Isaac Hayes, Motown’s Funk Brothers, Patti LaBelle, Salt and Peppa, Sugar Pie DiSanto, Jermaine Dupri, James Ingram, The Ojays, Al Bell, The Delphonics, Foster and McElroy, Phyllis Hyman, MC Lyte, The Dixie Hummingbirds, Teddy Riley, Bettye LaVette, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mtume, Little Jimmy Scott, Edwin Hawkins, Marly Marl, Grover Washington Jr., Andre Fischer, Lee Andrews and the Hearts, Barbara Mason, Teddy Pendergrass, International Sweethearts of Rhythm, DeFord Bailey. Humanitarian/Educational Projects: (Music projects that Bill has worked on with children, the elderly or the disadvantaged.) Susan. G. Komen Foundation’s Remember the Promise” Gala at the Kennedy Center, The Teddy Pendergrass Alliance for spinal cord injuries, Melon Bank’s “The End Of The Violence Begins With Me” appearance on the Maury show, NARAS’ Grammys in Our Schools seminar( speaker), Alex’s Lemonade Ball for cancer awareness, New Jersey Networks’ “Arts For Every Kid” Commercials, Special Olympics’ “Save The World” Music Video, Celine Dion Children’s Choir, “One Church One Child” Adoption Promotion, “My Place In This World” Latin Awareness play for Julia DeBurgos School, Jocko’s “Get Ready” Rap Educational Series, Conductor for the All Philadelphia All Star High School Jazz Band, Artreach performer for senior citizen centers, Judge for Gratersford Prison Talent Contest, Assistant Marching Band Director at Henderson High School in West Chester, PA, Guest speaker at West Chester University, Composer for Greenfield Elementary’s “Ventman” (about homelessness) and “Scream from the Heart” (about teenage social issues), Speaker at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, The Drudgeling Center’s “My Place in this World” CD project (homeless mothers), The Linda Creed Foundation for breast cancer awareness, Composer of “Story Porch” pre-school TV show music for BET, ”Join The Resistance” anti-drug commercial campaign, “Mothers in Charge” theme song producer for teen violence, the Phila. Police and Firefighter Awards, the Phila. Anti Drug and Violence Network, “Safe Sex” campaign for the Family Life Educational Foundation, Performances at Stetson Alternative H.S. for teens with social and behavioral problems. .
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