Beverly Hills Cop III

Nile Gregory Rodgers is an American musician, producer, composer, arranger, and guitarist. Rodgers began his career as a session guitarist in New... York, touring with the Sesame Street band in his teens, and then working in the house band at Harlem's world famous Apollo Theater, playing behind Screaming Jay Hawkins, Maxine Brown, Aretha Franklin, Ben E. King, Betty Wright, Earl Lewis and the Channels, Parliament Funkadelic, and many other legendary R&B artists. Nile met bassist Bernard Edwards in 1970. Together they formed The Big Apple Band that backed R&B act New York City . The band’s one hit allowed them to tour extensively, even opening for The Jackson 5 on the American leg of their first world tour in 1973. The band dissolved after their second album failed to yield a hit, but Nile and Bernard joined forces with drummer Tony Thompson, and worked and recorded as a Funk Rock band called The Boys, which played numerous gigs up and down the East Coast.
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Columbia Carousel is a pair of double-decked carousels at Six Flags Great America and at California's Great America . To this date they are the world's tallest carousels. The first Columbia opened in the Santa Clara park in 1976 and the Gurnee Columbia opened later that year. They opened as the... world's biggest carousel and continues to hold that title to this day. Each horse on the carousels was a replica of one of the world's most famous carousel horses. In front of the carousels was a large reflecting pond with historic replicas of American flags flying along the sides. Today the flags still fly. The Columbia is often associated with the Carousel Song, produced especially for the Marriott's Great America theme parks by Gene Patrick. A clip of the Carousel Song can be heard here. The Carousel Song still plays at the Gurnee park every evening when the park closes. In 1994, Santa Clara's Columbia received some minor renovations for its appearance in the movie Beverly Hills Cop III.
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