Alphabet associations - I

[cloughie]

Your'e looking for a word that occurs in the titles of a song in each of the first two cases, and in the third case for a surname adopted by a singer-songwriter.

D for Dee

1762 Miller of Dee
1946 Zip ah dee doo dah
1968 Dave Dee

[Norfolk Born]

The Cheshire folk song 'The Miller of Dee ' features in Arne's 1762 ballad opera 'Love In A Village', and the song 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' in the part-animated Oscar-winning 1946 film 'Song Of The South'. In 1968, 'The Legend of Xanadu' was a No. 1 hit for Dave Dee , Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich.

[amateur51]

My mother taught me to sing The Miller of the Dee when she used to bath me in the kitchen sink (so I'd be about 4) and I remember being fairly traumatised even then by its bleak world-view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJwtED5K6JQ

[other ways of traumatising your child are available ]

[cloughie]

The Cheshire folk song 'The Miller of Dee ' features in Arne's 1762 ballad opera 'Love In A Village', and the song 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' in the part-animated Oscar-winning 1946 film 'Song Of The South'. In 1968, 'The Legend of Xanadu' was a No. 1 hit for Dave Dee , Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich.

Please can somebody else take the E - I've things to do!

[Nick Armstrong]

Please can somebody else take the E - I've things to do!

Back in the loop and happy to oblige with an E...

... linking operas set in medieval Flanders and an apparently tumble-down house, with the Americas.

[mercia]

Puccini's Edgar ??

can't help you with the rest though

[amateur51]

Puccini's Edgar ??

can't help you with the rest though

Bravo mercs

following on, what about Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher?

[subcontrabass]

Puccini's Edgar ??

can't help you with the rest though

Fall of the House of Usher (Philip Glass, based on Edgar Allan Poe) ???

[amateur51]

And possibly Amériques by Edgard Varèse

[amateur51]

Fall of the House of Usher (Philip Glass, based on Edgar Allan Poe) ???

Or perhaps the uinfinished opera by Debussy La chute de la maison Usher?

[Nick Armstrong]

Ammy 2 Mercia 1

I know Varèse was sometimes Edgard, but equally sometimes Edgar

I was thinking of the Debussy (had no idea about Glass having essayed it - ammy, you probably guessed I wouldn't! )

So even though mercia scored first with the E, I think ammy goes into the next round

F us up, man!

[amateur51]

Ammy 2 Mercia 1

I know Varèse was sometimes Edgard, but equally sometimes Edgar

I was thinking of the Debussy (had no idea about Glass having essayed it - ammy, you probably guessed I wouldn't! )

So even though mercia scored first with the E, I think ammy goes into the next round

F us up, man!

I knew nothing of Mr Glass' effort but I did attend a performance of Debussy's at the South Bank aeons ago, when they used to have a summer festival there.

How exciting! ....


What F might link a stramash that starts in a Gitanes factory, a painter who should have kept away from razors, and a somnolent comely wench of good breeding?

[subcontrabass]

What F might link a stramash that starts in a Gitanes factory, a painter who should have kept away from razors, and a somnolent comely wench of good breeding?

Frasquita ???

[amateur51]

Frasquita ???

I had to look up frasquita scb - I can see what you mean but it's not what's on the card.

[Nick Armstrong]

A knotty poser, ammy. A bijou clue-ette to set us up for the evening, praps?