Alphabet associations - I

[antongould]

Sorry been AWOL are we still on B?

[rubbernecker]

Which small British resident beginning with 'B' inspired an American songwriting team in the year of the General Strike, a British songwriting team in the year a Labour foreign secretary resigned, and Mr R C Waldron in the year a fox was convicted of spying? The linking word occurs in all three elements, all of which are musical.

Hello chaps and chapesses. I've had a fun packed weekend including a mega bike ride and a mega Meistersinger at Glyndebourne and am feeling refreshed energised and ready to tackle the challenges of the AA board once more

I'm thinking this might be a Blackbird, (or a 'merle noir' if we are toying with Messiaen which, knowing Ofca, is unlikely )

Bye Bye Blackbird by Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon (1926)
Blackbird by Lennon/McCartney - although the latter wrote it (1968) I think Michael Stewart may have resigned from the Wilson Government over Biafra?
I'm working on Waldron, but I'll stop if I'm barking up the wrong tree...

[antongould]

I think you are up the right tree - 3 could well be Ronnie Ronalde If I Were A Blackbird!?

[rubbernecker]

I think you are up the right tree - 3 could well be Ronnie Ronalde If I Were A Blackbird!?

I was just about to say that! Yes, real name Ronald Charles Waldron. He also wrote In a Monastery Garden

[Norfolk Born]

Well done, chaps! The blackbird, a small British resident, and the subject of:
Bye Bye Blackbird (Henderson and Dixon, 1926);
Blackbird Singing At The Dead of Night (McCartney, but Lennon co-credited, 1968, the year George Brown resigned as Foreign Secretary); and
If I Were A Blackbird, I'd Whistle and Sing (Ronnie Ronalde, born Ronald Charles Waldron), 1950.
Over to old Gummihals for 'C' please!

[rubbernecker]

What C connects India, mint and windmill?

[rubbernecker]

For the sake of completeness in the B answer one should add that the spy convicted in 1950 was Klaus Fuchs, which is German for fox

[mercia]

For the sake of completeness

...... R C Waldron did not write In a Monastery Garden

[rubbernecker]

...... R C Waldron did not write In a Monastery Garden

Quite right, Mercia. I thought that was wrong when I said it. Ketelby wrote it, Waldron sang it.

EDIT: My dear Mercia, if you were in my somewhat embarrassing position, would you re-edit the original post, or delete it entirely?

[rubbernecker]

is that what you chaps call a leading question?

Only if I knew the answer!

I'm not sure what 'chaps' you mean...

[Norfolk Born]

For the sake of completeness in the B answer one should add that the spy convicted in 1950 was Klaus Fuchs, which is German for fox

Sorry - I meant to make that clear!

[mercia]

What C connects India, mint and windmill?

I'm not too proud to ask (beg) for a clue

[rubbernecker]

I'm not too proud to ask (beg) for a clue

Ok, maybe it's a harder question than I thought...

All elements relate to pieces of music: one popular, two classical. And there's more than one windmill...

[mercia]

And there's more than one windmill...

ah, thank you, I shall stop thinking about Don Quixote

this is probably Windmills of My Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair

[doversoul1]

Good for you mercia to ask/demand/beg for a clue. And there’s Elgar…