Alphabet associations - I

[Anna]

mercia, there's a fair bit of Oswald von Wolkenstein on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P44_LIW2poI&feature=related

[doversoul1]

Mercia
Oswald von Wolkenstein is mentioned in the Early Travel thread on the Early Music board.

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?2545-Early-travel

You still have three hours left to hear it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0128m7j

It was also a subject of the EMS back in January http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s6rzd
In the CD, AS sings one of the songs in baritone!!

[mercia]

thanks for all the links. so much to listen to.

[antongould]

sorry to butt in but I think these may be Oswalds

James Oswald, Scottish composer (1711 - 1769) seems to have published works under the name David Rizzio
a trumpet player with the Skatalites is/was Oswald Baba Brooks
and Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376 - 1445) seems to have written some Geistliche und weltliche lieder, though I can't seem to find much info. about them


will Fenwicks be benefiting from your custom today?

One has to save if it's Saturday and it's Mercia it has to be correct


Geistliche und weltliche Lieder which Anna, Mercia and Google translate know means Sacred and Secular was written by Oswald von Wolkenstein
James Oswald did indeed publish his works in the name of David Rizzio
and Mercia the Ska student knew something I didn't about the trumpeting Oswald. My much more pathetic link was that one of their "hits" was Lee Harvey Oswald.

So a superb answer much better than the question deserved.

Sadly Fenwicks no longer has a record department or I would have been off for the Skatalites Greatest Hits.

.................and I may have a day off today as Lady Telfer and daughter are heading further north.

So no P jokes Mercia just many, many congrats.

[mercia]

Mercia the Ska student

yeah, right
sorry for getting the wrong connection



what P connects 600 florins, Bob and his uncle and Nellie & the toy dolls?

[Dave2002]

Prince.

[mercia]

Prince.

could you elaborate on that Dave?
it's not my answer but I'm sure it could fit

[Dave2002]

Mmmm

If not your answer we could carry on.

Prince Lichnowsky paid Beethoven an allowance of 600 florins p.a.

There's a song by Prince called Bob George, with some slightly dodgy words, which might be relevant.

There's a group called Pussycat Dolls - seem to have something to do with Prince ??? (which one) - not sure about the Nellie!

Worth a shot I thought.

[mercia]

Worth a shot I thought.

always worth a shot
actually Lichnowsky is the right man, have a look at what he had dedicated to him

[Dave2002]

Op 13 perhaps.

[Dave2002]

Uncle Bob might actually have been a nephew - I think - Vladimir L'vovich Davydov - known as "Bob".
The 6th Symphony is dedicated to him - Tchaikovsky's that is.

[Dave2002]

There's a genre of Punk, with a band called Toy Dolls, which had a number 4 with a version of Nellie the Elephant in 1984.

[mercia]

Beethoven opus 13
Vladimir Davydov that's why I said Bob and his uncle

so just Nellie and the toy dolls left

then it's your turn

[mercia]

There's a genre of Punk, with a band called Toy Dolls, which had a number 4 with a version of Nellie the Elephant in 1984.

oops, cross-posted, that's the one

so the P word is ..............?

[Dave2002]

I was hoping I could keep quiet about the P for a while, as have jobs to do, and Anna doesn't seem to like my clues!

Will check back in a couple of hours.