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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5791

    But the What's My Line theme tune was Roller Coaster by Henri Rene & His Orchestra
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      Originally posted by Northender View Post
      Can't establish the link with 'What's My Line' theme tune....
      a piece of Russian music
      a practitioner of comedy being ......

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      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        Originally posted by Flay View Post
        But the What's My Line theme tune was Roller Coaster by Henri Rene & His Orchestra
        wiki has another suggestion for the US version of WML
        sorry

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        • Northender

          Well I never ....Kabalevsky's 'The Comedians'.

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            Originally posted by Northender View Post
            Well I never ....Kabalevsky's 'The Comedians'.
            wiki may well be wrong, however that completes the question

            Arnold Bax - Overture to a picaresque comedy
            Martinu - Comedy on the bridge
            Kabalevsky - The Comedians / Comedians Galop


            a Northie D to get me out of this hole?

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            • Northender

              OK, here's my 'D':
              First of all there was the fire. Then there was the murder (although that Italian did OK out of it). Then, much later, we lost out to those film studios. But we're still here!

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              • Northender

                A couple of clues....
                The murder (strictly speaking an assassination) led to a period of neglect for 'D', but provided a subject for a famous Italian composer.
                Much more recently, 'D' lost out when certain of its facilities were deemed too fragile to feature in a production of a work by an equally famous Austrian.

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26320

                  That whirring and clanking noise you can hear, by the way, and the faint whiff of burning rubber... That's me thinking furiously.

                  A most intriguing puzzle
                  "...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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                  • Northender

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    [COLOR="#0000FF"]That whirring and clanking[/COLOR] noise you can hear, by the way, and the faint whiff of burning rubber... That's me thinking furiously.

                    A most intriguing puzzle
                    ...what an interesting choice of words in the circumstances!

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                    • Anna

                      I'm only just now looking at D. It seems to suggest that D is a place, rather than a person? But, maybe my inklings are faulty (perhaps it's the film studios that are veering me in that direction)
                      Edit: Just seen Northender's reply to Cali ........ whirring and clinking? Still veers me in a filmic direction.

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                      • Northender

                        There's nothing wrong with your inklings, mi duck!

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                        • mercia
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8920

                          well I've been at the Royal Swedish Opera for the past half hour, but not a D in sight

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26320

                            Originally posted by Anna View Post
                            I'm only just now looking at D. It seems to suggest that D is a place, rather than a person? But, maybe my inklings are faulty (perhaps it's the film studios that are veering me in that direction)
                            Edit: Just seen Northender's reply to Cali ........ whirring and clinking? Still veers me in a filmic direction.
                            Clanking, not clinking. It must be yer inklings as is clinking...

                            Yes a place. Is it a real place or a fictional one, such as might turn up in the title of something?
                            "...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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                            • amateur51

                              Originally posted by mercia View Post
                              well I've been at the Royal Swedish Opera for the past half hour, but not a D in sight
                              Not Drottningholm then?

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                              • Northender

                                It's a real place.
                                Why NOT Drottningholm?

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