Alphabet associations - I

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

doesn't Don Petter want to answer the question?
or FHG ?

Nor me: I only got the keyword after the title of the film was suggested and after the diddy hints about Mr Dodd. Got nowhere near Magic Flute ... I was lost in the google forest looking for an obscure opera called "Magic Happiness" (sounds like something by Schrecker or Korngold?)!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Scriabin's right hand

Inactive?

[Flay]

is it me then ?

I connecting

Casella, Lyapunov and Scriabin's right hand

Gosh you slammed that one in quickly, mercs!

[Nick Armstrong]

Indeed, mercs. Poor Caliban must have missed out on that part of childhood

The song is "Happiness." The tax reference was to his evasion case (he was acquitted). His barrister quipped: "Some accountants are comedians, but comedians are never accountants."

Wiki goes on: When asked by the judge, "What does a hundred thousand pounds in a suitcase feel like?", Dodd made his now famous reply, "The notes are very light, M'Lord."



I'm going to have to confess to having set that clue after a couple of very nice glasses of Bowmore last night. The quote from the Magic Flute ("Tamino mein, o welch ein Glück!") is not an aria which I thought was the case last night.

Can't win em all, Mrs...

Bother indeed

I see it all now!

I was aware of KS's song but had tried to forget it ... that maudlin singing style!

But the gags... oh yes... "what a lovely day for sticking a cucumber through your neighbour's letterbox and shouting "The Incredible Hulk's here!!"

I was thrown by all Don's hints about Caliban ... and in fact found that the internet is awash with the lyrics of a song called "Happiness in Slavery" by a person or group called Caliban.. I was about to add that.

Time to move on. Well done mercs!

[mercia]

Gosh you slammed that one in quickly, mercs!

my maiden aunt says there's far too much sexual innuendo on this thread

[Flay]

OK then Islamey

[mercia]

OK then Islamey

ah, very good, I missed that completely
orchestrated by those two gentlemen and said to have injured Alexander's hand in the playing thereof
very good
your turn again

[Flay]

Islamey Op. 18, for piano by Balakirev. Arranged for orchestra by Casella and also by Lyapunov.
Scriabin apparently seriously damaged his right hand practising it. They don't say what he did, I wonder if he got tendinitis?

Now that's dedication for you!!

My piano teacher used to smack my hand when I made a mistake

[Flay]

This one takes the biscuit.

A J for an oratorio with a well-rung unearthly connection, a fruity passacaglia, and a fruit tree in flower

Two Js are the same, the third adds one letter

[cloughie]

I don't understand any of that, bar an oblique Beatles reference in the mentions of Liverpool & the tax man...

W-w-w-what's going on?!

I think I am off the pace today....

not needed now

[cloughie]

This one takes the biscuit.

A J for an oratorio with a well-rung unearthly connection, a fruity passacaglia, and a fruit tree in flower

Two Js are the same, the third adds one letter

Jacob?

[Nick Armstrong]

Jacob?

I've been hunting biblical things too... no joy so far.

What's your thinking behind Jacob, Cloughie?

[cloughie]

I've been hunting biblical things too... no joy so far.

What's your thinking behind Jacob, Cloughie?

Ladders, Gordon Jacob and err um!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Takes the biscuit"! He's crackers is our Flay!

(I've been investigating Jammy Dodgers! )

[cloughie]

The err um is Derek Jacobi.