Alphabet Associations - II

[Lat-Literal]

- and the single had "Gently" on the "B"-side.

So - two sopranos (one factual, one fictional) gives us a pair of Jeans;
two versions by Handel gives us a pair of Pants;
and a pair of Trues from Spandau Ballet.

Three different names for Trousers - brilliantly solved, Lats. It's U (or V or W if you prefer) next!

Superb Lat .....

Great news. Thanks ever so much. My apologies for the delay but I was waylaid by a BBC4 documentary on British sitcoms.

I have set a question for the letter U before - many months ago - and perhaps two. Let me think about this a bit.

.........The T question was a brilliant question - I can't compete with it but I'm already working on something!

[Flay]

I have set a question for the letter U before - many months ago - and perhaps two. Let me think about this a bit.

So long as the answer isn't Underpants...

(Chuckling watching this from busy sidelines)

[Lat-Literal]

So long as the answer isn't Underpants...

(Chuckling watching this from busy sidelines)

This is more than a little cumbersome but here goes:

What U links the following:

- The winners of the first and fourth of twenty although there wasn't officially a song until the seventh when the competition was held on the west coast
- A quartet which sounded like it knew Liverpool but whose name could have suggested to some American Christians its historical roots were in Oldham
- Someone whose family may originally have come from the shore - he mistreated his very own jazz funeral so that it had a British rock music influence

[Lat-Literal]

This is more than a little cumbersome but here goes:

What U links the following:

- The winners of the first and fourth of twenty although there wasn't officially a song until the seventh when the competition was held on the west coast
- A quartet which sounded like it knew Liverpool but whose name could have suggested to some American Christians its historical roots were in Oldham
- Someone whose family may originally have come from the shore - he mistreated his very own jazz funeral so that it had a British rock music influence

........oh dear.

Here's a bit of "music" while we are thinking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgpnlLz7WR0

[antongould]

........oh dear.

Here's a bit of "music" while we are thinking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgpnlLz7WR0

I'll get there Lat ... but fair point men don't come much more Common than me ......

[Lat-Literal]

I'll get there Lat ... but fair point men don't come much more Common than me ......

I sense that you might be in the right area but not especially geographically.

Generally on the point I think you are making I would look to the north east of Ohio.

(Have double checked - my instinct was right)

[antongould]

I sense that you might be in the right area but not especially geographically.

Generally on the point I think you are making I would look to the north east of Ohio.

(Have double checked - my instinct was right)

Does NE of Ohio get me to the West Coast .... ???

[Lat-Literal]

Does NE of Ohio get me to the West Coast .... ???

They are your capitals rather than mine. I don't think you can necessarily make assumptions about which west coast.

On your question, I was reading what you were saying in relation to my second clue rather than the first which is the one that includes the west coast reference.

I will give you the year for that bit of the first clue about a song - 1962.

It wasn't in English.

[Lat-Literal]

Not my kind of thing but here is a bit more "music" while we wait:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnebZnysmI

........and this is nice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVp1FGWwA5Y

[antongould]

Well Uruguay which begins with a U won World Cup 1 and World 4

[Lat-Literal]

Well Uruguay which begins with a U won World Cup 1 and World 4

Yes indeed.

These are Uruguayans.

Uruguay won the first and the fourth World Cups in 1930 and 1950.

Here's a celebration tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQdUFhc1P8

Can you comment on the 20 figure, the reference to the seventh, the 1962 song reference and the west coast reference just to complete section one?

It might help a tad with the second section (though in fairness not a lot).

"Fanfare For The Common Man" - posted earlier - should also help with the second part.

The Deep Purple and Angelica de la Riva links are some sort of steer to the third part.

[Lat-Literal]

.......I will give you another music clue to the second part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stdkST-SL_Q

......and one more to the third part and then I start to run out of clues:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UegqnUU9I18

[Lat-Literal]

I apologise. With hindsight, I think I have made this all a bit too obscure. U isn't the easiest question to set. What I will do is complete the first part as in terms of Uruguayans the remaining bit of it is slightly a red herring.

There have been 20 World Cup competitions to date. The seventh was held in 1962 in Chile on the west coast of South America (as opposed to the east where Uruguay sits). While Uruguay won the first and the fourth Cups, there wasn't an official World Cup song until that seventh. And that was "El Rock del Mundial" ("The World Cup Rock"), by Los Ramblers.

(The Ennio Morricone clip related to the official "song" in 1978 to hint at this bit being about official World Cup songs).

Hence my first clue "The winners of the first and fourth (Uruguay - 1930 and 1950) of twenty (World Cup competitions to date) although there wasn't officially a song until the seventh (1962 - the seventh World Cup which had the first official song) when the competition was held on the west coast (that is, Chile rather than Uruguay which is to the east).

Los Ramblers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84jZDpJHP3Q

Now think of that sort of name - Los Ramblers - in connection with the second clue and also consider the links to "Fanfare For The Common Man" and the Beatles.

The third clue is more in the classical/jazz area - you are looking there for a composer.

[antongould]

If I am ploughing a lonely furrow .... the ploughing will have to wait a while .... double grandchildren days this week ...

[Lat-Literal]

If I am ploughing a lonely furrow .... the ploughing will have to wait a while .... double grandchildren days this week ...

Thank you anton for taking part and I'm feeling we might as well conclude this by giving you the V question.

You have got U for Uruguayans.

What do you think? Should I put this question out of its misery and immediately reveal the missing parts?