Alphabet associations - I

[Norfolk Born]

Sorry, lacking inspiration here - and it's time to settle down in front of t'telly for the England-Wales game.

[Nick Armstrong]

I can't get near this. Time for a clue of the "bleedin' obvious" variety, I think, ferney!

PS cross posting! Ferney: we're just SO on the same wavelength!!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well, we're almost there: The "Connection" is Bartolomeo/Bartholemew.
Eric Bartholomew (the birth name of Mr Morrey-Camby)
Bartolomeo Cristoferi, whose invention "Harp-Harpsichord with Soft and Strong" became widely known as the Piano, and has had a very very long life.

... so if somebody would care to google "Bartolomeo" and "practical Music" ... ?

[cloughie]

Well, we're almost there: The "Connection" is Bartolomeo/Bartholemew.
Eric Bartholomew (the birth name of Mr Morrey-Camby)
Bartolomeo Cristoferi, whose invention "Harp-Harpsichord with Soft and Strong" became widely known as the Piano, and has had a very very long life.

... so if somebody would care to google "Bartolomeo" and "practical Music" ... ?

I'll leave it someone else - I'm only on a teabreak from my greenhouse chores.

[Anna]

... so if somebody would care to google "Bartolomeo" and "practical Music" ... ?

That gives me. Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja (I am merely seeking refuge from the rugby which is seriously raising my blood pressure and threatening my fingernails)

[mercia]

if somebody would care to google "Bartolomeo" and "practical Music"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_Ramos_de_Pareja

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That gives me. Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja (I am merely seeking refuge from the rugby which is seriously raising my blood pressure and threatening my fingernails)

... and mercs, too!

(Perhaps I should have gone with David Copperfield?)

Three barts, none of them as bad a bart as al thart.
Norfs got the link and most of the clues: let's C what he comes up with!

[Norfolk Born]

Thank you.
A TfL station, a pilgrim and a character from Thunderbirds all follow which 'C'?

[cloughie]

Thank you.
A TfL station, a pilgrim and a character from Thunderbirds all follow which 'C'?

Shows my rusticity - had to Google TfL.

[mercia]

Charlie Parker ?

[Norfolk Born]

Please go on .......

[mercia]

Please go on .......

that's as far as this line goes I fear, like Chipping Ongar

[mercia]

Barnet ?

[Norfolk Born]

Charlie Parker
Charlie Barnet
So ...who's our third musical Charlie?

[Norfolk Born]

I think mercia's done enough to be asked to set the next question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtC2XDbE8Zo