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  • rubbernecker

    Originally posted by Ofcachap View Post
    What T specifically links these composers in the given order?
    Richard Rodgers; Richard Rodgers; Wilfred Josephs; Carl Davis.
    Well, they all wrote music for Television, but I suspect it's more specific than that...

    Of course Josephs wrote the theme music for the First World War TV series, and Carl Davis for the World at War, about WW2...

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    • rubbernecker

      Originally posted by Ofcachap View Post
      A clue for T: Start your search in 1952.
      Well, that's another WW2 docco, Victory at Sea

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      • Anna

        There is The Valiant Years about Churchill by Rodgers. That's 1965 when Churchill died.

        King George died 1952 so that could be The King and I? (probably not!)

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        • Norfolk Born

          You've got them all between you - well done.
          Richard Rodgers: Victory At Sea (1952) followed by The Valiant Years (1960). Wilfred Josephs: The Great War (1964); and Carl Davis: The World At War (1973). All TV documentary series dealing with world wars ('tho I'd settle for TV themes or TV documentaries for archival purposes). Over to U, rubbernecker!

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          • rubbernecker

            Sorry for the delay. A nice, straightforward one, hopefully:

            What U connects a comic singer with a stiff legacy, a musician killed by the Nazis, and the schoolteacher in a musical rehash of a plane crash (which bombed)?

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            • Tapiola
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 1688

              Oooh...

              Ullmann?

              Tracey (sang under contract with Stiff Records)
              Victor (died at Auschwitz)
              Liv (her musical film "Lost Horizons" crashed and burned in 1973).

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26527

                Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                Oooh...

                Ullmann?

                Tracey (sang under contract with Stiff Records)
                Victor (died at Auschwitz)
                Liv (her musical film "Lost Horizons" crashed and burned in 1973).
                And Taps has scored! Route one! What a finish! The crowd are going wild
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • Anna

                  Oh Ratz! I was just about the post the very same answer but delayed whilst I sorted out a V !! Well done Taps, lightning speed yet again. Btw, I was lured into the Patisserie today and emerged with a dark Belgian chocolate French Fancy.

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                  • rubbernecker

                    Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                    Oooh...

                    Ullmann?

                    Tracey (sang under contract with Stiff Records)
                    Victor (died at Auschwitz)
                    Liv (her musical film "Lost Horizons" crashed and burned in 1973).
                    Oooh... You're good.

                    Full house, Taps.

                    V good.

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                    • rubbernecker

                      Originally posted by Anna View Post
                      Oh Ratz! I was just about the post the very same answer but delayed whilst I sorted out a V !!
                      Your presumptuousness has been your undoing, Anna

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                      • Anna

                        Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                        Your presumptuousness has been your undoing, Anna
                        Well, yes. Me presumptuousness always gets me in a bit of bovver!! Anyway, I have to go and do something complicated in the kitchen later on today involving pork and black pudding and apples.

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                        • Tapiola
                          Full Member
                          • Jan 2011
                          • 1688

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
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                          Don't mind if I do, Caliban. Cheers!

                          It'll have to be a quick one though. The solution to "U" was a bit of an opportunist's crime. I shall have to be offline again shortly possibly for the rest of the day. So an easy Veasy V:

                          This V connects works by Bellini, Rameau and Bernstein.

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                          • Tapiola
                            Full Member
                            • Jan 2011
                            • 1688

                            The V in question is a person.

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                            • rubbernecker

                              Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                              The V in question is a person.
                              Not sure we needed that clue...

                              Voltaire?

                              Bellini - Zaira
                              Rameau - a few operas
                              Bernstein - Candide

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26527

                                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                                I was lured into the Patisserie today and emerged with a dark Belgian chocolate French Fancy.
                                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                                I have to go and do something complicated in the kitchen later on today involving pork and black pudding and apples.
                                A whole range of possible comments occurs to me in response to the above, Anna - but none of them fit for publication. Where are Julian and Sandy when you need them!?

                                All I can say is that I hope you and others will enjoy!!!

                                EDIT: mention of the dark Belgian fancy has made me all restless....
                                Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 14-04-11, 15:45. Reason: Dark Belgian stirrings
                                "...the isle is full of noises,
                                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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