Alphabet associations - I

[subcontrabass]

Don - I was shellfishly having similar crustacean thoughts - and we remember:

"In Dublin's fair city...
... singing cockles and mussels alive alive o"

and the Ceylon Pearl Fishers

... didn't know abt Margate's Shell Grotto, but I felt sure there wd at least be a whelk stall there ...

- but sadly I don't think any of this is getting us anywhere!

Two out of three - missing the musical link to Margate (which is half the link to Dublin).

[Don Petter]

Well, I never knew that. Muschelsong (The Mussel of Margate) by Kurt Weill. (Googled. )


Or is it Mussels of Margate? Google is at odds here.

[subcontrabass]

Well, I never knew that. Muschelsong (The Mussel of Margate) by Kurt Weill. (Googled. )


Or is it Mussels of Margate? Google is at odds here.

That's it: the third shellfish link. It think it is now over to vinteuil for some T.

[vinteuil]

It think it is now over to vinteuil for some T.

Ta...

What T is the link between a daring Rameau Tragédie en Musique, Wagner's Die Walküre, and a Schubert Singspiel
?

[Norfolk Born]

Twins (a pair each in the Rameau and the Wagner, and Schubert's Singspiel 'The Twin Brothers') ?

[vinteuil]

Yes!

Castor & Pollux, 1737
Siegmund & Sieglinde in Die Walküre
Die Zwillingsbrüder, D647

so to Ofcachap for a U ...

[Norfolk Born]

GOG (Good Old Google!)
What U connects a Scottish singer/songwriter, a co-founder of a satirical magazine and a performer in a radio show that gained Royal approval?

[Norfolk Born]

Yes on both counts!

[Norfolk Born]

It's the connection that begins with U, not the names of those concerned or their more-or-less musical offerings.

[Norfolk Born]

You're looking for three entertainers (none of them, sadly, still with us), examples of whose contributions to popular culture, which do not begin with 'U', are connected by something that does begin with 'U'. Two of the three pieces are musical, and one has musical elements.
(I'm sure that, when you get the answer, you'll agree that it was a capital idea that I had).

[BetweenTheStaves]

Is it the entertainers who do not begin with 'U' or their contributions to popular culture do not begin with a 'U'?

Or is it three entertainers whose names all begin with a U and the connection between what they did is also a U

Or none of the above ?

[BetweenTheStaves]

Is the answer UNICEF? Bill Deede of Private Eye was involved as was Peter Ustinov...

[Norfolk Born]

Only the connection begins with 'U'. To help you find your way to the answer, try tfl.gov

[Norfolk Born]

try tfl.gov.uk (and ask for Boris! )

[rubbernecker]

Is the Scottish singer/songwriter the wonderful Ivor Cutler by any chance?