Crossword clues for bandwagon
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bandwagon \bandwagon\ n.
A popular trend that attracts growing support. ``when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon.''
A large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band. ``the bandwagon led the circus parade''
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also band-wagon, 1855, American English, from band (n.2) + wagon, originally a large wagon used to carry the band in a circus procession; as these also figured in celebrations of successful political campaigns, being on the bandwagon came to represent "attaching oneself to anything that looks likely to succeed," a usage first attested 1899 in writings of Theodore Roosevelt.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A large wagon used to carry a band of musicians in a parade. 2 (context figuratively English) A current movement that attracts wide support.
WordNet
n. a popular trend that attracts growing support; "when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon"
a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band; "the gaudy bandwagon led the circus parade"
Wikipedia
Bandwagon or band wagon may refer to:
- A wagon which carries a band of musicians in a parade or for promotional purposes. Other uses of the term derive from this one.
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Bandwagon effect, "copycat" behavior
- Argumentum ad numerum, or the bandwagon fallacy: "If many believe so, it is so"
- Bandwagon fan, supporter of a sports team only during a period of success
- Bandwagoning, a term in international relations
Bandwagon is a half-hour music program featuring traditional dance music, most notably polka, performed in front of a ballroom audience dancing along. The program is produced and broadcast by KEYC-TV in Mankato, Minnesota. The show is currently in its 56th year, making it possibly the longest-running televised music program in the world. The first music show on KEYC aired on November 21, 1960; the title Bandwagon was added on March 30, 1961.
In the past, the show was sponsored by John Deere, and aired as the John Deere Bandwagon; later it was sponsored Randall's, a defunct Midwestern supermarket chain, and similarly titled as Randall's Bandwagon. The show does not currently have a title sponsor.
Earl Lamont was the original host of the program. Chuck Pasek, began hosting the program in 1961. Dick Ginn, who worked for Randall's and was involved in their sponsorship of the show since the 1974, joined Pasek in hosting in the early 1990s. Following Chuck Pasek's retirement in 1995, Tom Goetzinger began co-hosting the program. Bandwagon's current host is Tania Cordes, owner of the Kato Balllroom.
The format of the show is simple: the host introduce the band for the week, who typically perform a number of music selections throughout the show. During each show, the second song is referenced as the roll-up selection, it features submitted birthday and anniversary announcements of viewers rolling-up over the screen.
The show, formerly originating from KEYC's studio in North Mankato, Minnesota, now is recorded at the Kato Ballroom in Mankato. In addition, in the past some episodes have been recorded on location, such as at Heritagefest, a former German heritage festival in New Ulm, Minnesota. Four half-hour episodes for the following month are usually recorded the first Monday of every month, where admission is only $5 for 3 hours of entertain.
Bandwagon is a 1996 film by writer/director John Schultz, starring Lee Holmes and Kevin Corrigan.
Bandwagon is the bimonthly journal of the Circus Historical Society. Originated in 1940 as SPEC, it is still in print today. The magazine was renamed as Bandwagon in 1941. The headquarters is in Colombus, Ohio. Contributing writers include Stuart Thayer and William L. Slout.
Bandwagon was an Australian television variety series which aired on Melbourne station HSV-7 from 1959 to 1960.
Produced by Joy Youlden, the series aired live on Tuesdays at 9:30PM.
Performers on the series included Michael Cole, Graeme Bent, Heather Horwood, Joy Grisold, Diana Bell, Judy Banks and Judd Laine.
The 3 September 1959 edition of The Age compared the series unfavourably to its main competition, the popular In Melbourne Tonight on GTV-9. The writer for the newspaper felt that although the cast of Bandwagon were "quite adaptable to the TV medium", they were let down by the scripts and music choices.
Usage examples of "bandwagon".
The processes used by some of the commercial cloners that had jumped on the bandwagon early for profit led to an epidemic of children with severe genetic disorders.
Party less than six months ago find themselves skulking around like old winos in the side alleys of presidential politics -- first stripped of their power to select and control delegations, then rejected as delegates themselves when Big Ed took his overcrowded bandwagon over the high side on the first lap.
Holly compressed her lips, and told him coolly that, far from jumping on any bandwagons, she considered it every adult's duty and responsibility to protect the environment for those generations yet to come.
A plaintiff's attorney, he took on the black clients who had missed various legal bandwagons lead paint, tobacco, asbestos.
He'd climbed aboard the Committee's political bandwagon not because of any belief in what Rob Pierre and Oscar Saint-Just had promised the Mob but because it had offered him the opportunity for personal power, and he'd played the political game with a skillfulness which somehow managed to elude him in the field of naval tactics.
While not actually holding a season ticket on the New Age Traveller bandwagon, she had always claimed to have a palpable connection with the mystic.
Jumping on her Lutheran bandwagon as well as on the rest of her, Henry imported the Protestant Reformation into England.
Non commercial entities jumped on the bandwagon and started sewing these networks together (an activity fully subsidized by government funds).
Since there is no theoretical upper limit to the explosive yield of a thermonuclear weapon, there seem to be those in the weapons laboratories who consider making bigger bombs not only as a stirring challenge, but also as a way to mute pesky environmentalists by securing a seat for nuclear weapons on the save-the-Earth bandwagon.
But they can't get a grip on him either -- and now, less than three weeks before the convention, he is so close to a first-ballot victory that the old hacks and ward-heelers who thought they had total control of the Party less than six months ago find themselves skulking around like old winos in the side alleys of presidential politics -- first stripped of their power to select and control delegations, then rejected as delegates themselves when Big Ed took his overcrowded bandwagon over the high side on the first lap.
The way he saw it, the handicapper had been suffering from semi-blindness and mental blocks to put Tiddely Pom into the weights at ten stone seven, and all punters who didn't jump on the bandwagon instantly needed to be wet nursed.