Alphabet associations - I

[amateur51]

(a) was a Northern songbird; (b) confidently predicted the arrival of a cargo vessel; and (c) was laid to rest in a famous London cemetery, to be joined by her husband barely 2 years later. Two of the three existed in real life. What J do they share?

Would a) be Jenny Lind perhaps?

[Norfolk Born]

It would indeed!

[amateur51]

It would indeed!

Yay!

Thanking you!

[mercia]

confidently predicted the arrival of a cargo vessel

Pirate Jenny?

[Anna]

And would the third be Jenny, wife of Karl Marx, buried in Highgate?

[amateur51]

Would b) be anything to do with the the Weill/Ira Gershwin musical Lady In The Dark and the song My Ship?

[Nick Armstrong]

Would b) be anything to do with the the Weill/Ira Gershwin musical Lady In The Dark and the song My Ship?

I suspect Pirate Jenny from mercia must be right, from Dreigroschenoper... "Und das Schiff...."

Was Karl Marx's wife really called Jenny?! Well I never!

[Anna]

Was Karl Marx's wife really called Jenny?! Well I never!

Indeed, Johanna Bertha Julie "Jenny" von Westphalen. And she and Marx had three daughters also called Jenny.

The things you learn! Well I never indeed.

Edit: Off now for a pizza accompanied by a robust Italian.

[mercia]

accompanied by a robust Italian.

lucky him

I'm bowing out for today too

have fun

sees ya'll

[Norfolk Born]

Looks like a three-way tie, folks! Jenny Lind ('The Swedish Nightingale'); Pirate Jenny and the black freighter; and Jenny von Westphalen who, like her husband Karl, lies in Highgate Cemetery. Who sets 'K', I wonder - amateur51 for so quickly spotting Jenny, I think?

[Anna]

Looks like a three-way tie, folks! Jenny Lind ('The Swedish Nightingale'); Pirate Jenny and the black freighter; and Jenny von Westphalen who, like her husband Karl, lies in Highgate Cemetery. Who sets 'K', I wonder - amateur51 for so quickly spotting Jenny, I think?

Yes, Ams definitely gets to set the K, no contest

[Nick Armstrong]

Looks like a three-way tie, folks! Jenny Lind ('The Swedish Nightingale'); Pirate Jenny and the black freighter; and Jenny von Westphalen who, like her husband Karl, lies in Highgate Cemetery. Who sets 'K', I wonder - amateur51 for so quickly spotting Jenny, I think?

[amateur51]

Yes, Ams definitely gets to set the K, no contest

Strewth, folks

I'll bestir myself after some shopping, with a K, ok?

Rest easy a while my next-door neighbours are playing what my ol' Dad used to call 'Loud Reggie music' in their patio garden

If it continues beyond midnight, I'm going to seach Spotify for the Willi Boskovsky/Florence Foster Jenkins/Cavan O'ConnorElectra and play it at full tilt

[amateur51]

Right then ....

a) A famous doctor who liked to 'keep things moving', a film of whose life offered an opportunity to view Matthew Broderick’s substantial rear portions;

b) A musician the title of one of whose works suggests a religious work by an 18th century master;

c) Another musician whose band title suggests an affinity with a famous sporting team in the North East

What K connects them?

[Anna]

Ooh, crunchy nuts and pop tarts?