Questions about who has performed to what

[Lark]

Over on the "Confirmed programs for upcoming season?" Thread, Tony Wheeler and others have done a great job of letting us know who is performing to what this season.
Since I am not familiar with a vast majority of the music selections, I thought it would be really interesting if we could devote this thread to comparing what so-and-so is skating to and who has skated to it in the past.
For example, both Jeff Franklin and Fedor Andreev from Canada are skating to "Firebird" for their SP. Are there any, I hate to put it this way, bigger named skaters who have skated to it in the past?

[jcspkbfan]

Jill Watson and Peter Oppegard skated to Firebird during their 1987 World Championships program. Kurt Browning also used this music for his 1992 Olympics and Worlds long program.

I know tons of other skaters have used this music since then, but my mind's drawing a blank right now...

Actually, for a lot of the most overused pieces of skating music (Carmen, Maleguena, etc.), it would probably be easier to compile a list of skaters who have never used any of these selections! ;)

[Ellyn]

Oh boy. Answering this question is going rely on people's memories and people chipping in to add other memories or correct each other (I expect people will correct my partial information about Firebird programs), so you might do better to start a separate thread for each piece of music you want information about, or else this thread will probably become long and confused.

The Firebird program you're most likely to be able to find easily on tape, especially in the US, would be Tonia Kwiatkowski's SP from 1995 and '96.

I'm quite sure that Linda Fratianne and Midori Ito also skated to this music, but I can't remember the exact years.

There was also a disco version that was popular among skaters 20 years or so ago. I believe that Denise Biellmann and Robin Cousins and/or Brian Orser used it at some point.

I know I've seen other Firebird programs, but those are the ones that come to mind.

[A.H.Black]

The two I am excited about are -

Ryan Jahnke - Cinderella. This is a great piece of music and is seldom although not never, used. I remember someone dancing to it in '92.

Takeshi Honda - The Mummy. Yes this was used a lot; Stojko, Nicodinov, others, but I am excited to see what Takeshi will do with it. It will be easy to overdue the arms. I hope he doesn't fall into that trap.

[Ellyn]

Ryan Jahnke - Cinderella. This is a great piece of music and is seldom although not never, used. I remember someone dancing to it in '92.

Jacqueline Petr & Mark Janoszak, choroegraphy by Toller Cranston. :-)

Also long programs by Midori Ito in her return for the 1996 season, and by Angela Nikodinov in 1997 and 98.

[Bryan]

Midori Ito also used Firebird for her short program in her comeback during the 1995-96 season.

[purplecat]

Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao used it for their SP a couple seasons ago. And Kristi Yamaguchi and Rudy Galindo used a techno version of Firebird called Magic Bird of Fire for their SP back in 1990.

[Tony Wheeler]

Lark- Fedor's long, not short, is Firebird :)

[Aussie Willy]

OMG - that disco version is so 70's. Like those hooked on classics things that were really popular in the 80's.

I have loan of a video of Strawberry Ice (the Toller Cranston special) where he skates to it.