Alphabet associations - I

[Norfolk Born]

I'm disappointed at your collective lack of progress, seeing as I took so much trouble with the wording of the question.
It occurred to me that I might have made too much of the difficulties posed by the 'C' question, so I simply adopted the same format for 'D', which I do not believe to be any more difficult, in order to see how you all got on with it.
There's a clue buried in an earlier posting. And, although the answer begins to all four parts begins with 'D', the species of farm animal doesn't.
Barcelona are well worth their half-time lead don't you think, Louis (whoops! Another clue).
See you at the end of the second half!

[Nick Armstrong]

... the unmentionable *mm*rd*al*, also on ITV1

Now now!! Some great storylines on Emmerdale. Perhaps not the same gallery of characters... but it's come of age in the last year or so...

.... (actually, I've just realized that two people may have been involved in two of them, seeing as they involve the human voice. Sorry about that )...

Aye aye ... more shifting targets... morphing clues... he said, stirring the pot (which from occasional glimpses at work I saw was simmering today...)

Only kidding!!!

Are you able to tell us to what extent the "D" and the titles of the 'oeuvres' in question are in English?

See you during half-time at the Emirates!

Also glued here...

[Nick Armstrong]

Down?

Down by the Salley Gardens - Britten

Down Ampney - RVW

Down by the Riverside - composed by I'm not sure who, but sung by Louis Armstrong

And a duck and a goose each have down....

And... van Persie scores.... but has Caliban????

[Norfolk Born]

Sung by Louis Armstrong

A giant leap forward...
(What a match, eh?)

[Norfolk Born]

A further clue:
"....., this is Louis, ....."

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes good stuff.

But I failed to get the ball in the net?

What about Dolly?

Hello Dolly (Louis A)

Dolly Suite - Fauré

errrrr... another piece involving Dolly...

And: Dolly the Sheep

[Nick Armstrong]

A further clue:
"....., this is Louis, ....."

Damn, didn't see that... cross posting... Doesn't help me anyway...

[Nick Armstrong]

... so I'm right...

"Hello, Dolly, this is Louis, Dolly
It's so nice to have you back where you belong"

Confirmatory googling by Caliban.

But what is the third "oeuvre".... ??

Googling "Dolly" just gives you pages and pages about Ms Parton...

[Norfolk Born]

It looks as though it did help you!
"Hello, Dolly, this is Louis, Dolly"
Dolly Suite is also correct.
The other song involves a farewell from a recruit
I'll give the remaining answer after the 10.00 News if you haven't got it by then - but clearly you have already done enough to set the next question, I would say.

[Nick Armstrong]

It looks as though it did help you!
"Hello, Dolly, this is Louis, Dolly"
Dolly Suite is also correct.
The other song involves a farewell from a recruit
I'll give the remaining answer after the 10.00 News if you haven't got it by then - but clearly you have already done enough to set the next question, I would say.

I posted my #1955 before I saw your #1954, honest Guv...

Is the remaining answer not a piece of 'classical' music?

[Nick Armstrong]

AH... "Goodbye Dolly Grey" by that world-beating duo W.D.Cobb and P. Barnes...

As used in WarHorse, which I haven't seen... Never heard of the song, but google again comes to the rescue...

[Anna]

Goodbye Dolly Gray featured in Noel Coward's Cavalcade and the movies Lawrence of Arabia, Alfie and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Just another piece of trivia. I'm sure there was a song written about Dolly the cloned sheep.

[Norfolk Born]

Correct! I seem to have known the song since - well, forever - but I didn't know that it was used in War Horse.
Incidentally, there's a very fine book, called 'Goodbye Dolly Gray', by Rayne Kruger. Its subject, as you might well guess, is the Boer War. It was first published in 1975, but probably resonates today, with its description of a mighty imperial power coming seriously unstuck against bands of 'uneducated', and understimated, guerilla fighters.
Over to you for 'E'.

[Anna]

Looking foward to an E from Caliban. I couldn't join in today, been away and then seeing The Kings Speech so missed all the puzzles. One of which was very puzzling!

[Norfolk Born]

Anna: I didn't realize that Dolly the sheep was named after Dolly Parton (Apparently they used a mammary gland).
Just seen your #1963. What did you think of 'The King's Speech'? Should the lady wife and I break the habit of half a lifetime and actually venture inside a cinema? (The last film we saw in a genuine bioscope building was 'Watership Down').