Oh, Hol[e]y [K]Night

Vivaciously elevated dead witch chimes

Are all of you busy making merry, or do you need a hint?

Think "Wizard of Oz" and see if that gets you anywhere.

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Vivaciously elevated dead witch chimes

Well, there's "Hi[gh], Ho, the Witch is dead," and "Ding, Dong, the Wicked Witch is dead," but where's the vivacity?

Well, I did think Oz. The dead witch would be east.

But I can't get anything out of joyously high east bells.

Or happy going up to the east gongs

HELP?

Oh....

Ding Dong, Merrily on High!

okie...

Here's one for you...

Dug craftily in the wood, KD's monniker was readily conveyed to the deaf.

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Dug craftily in the wood, / KD's monniker was / readily conveyed to the deaf.

Well, I know the answer, but I can only see the connection with the last two parts...

(And besides, aren't you a week early? )

Got it. Awled Lang Signed.

Back with next challenge shortly.

Or, more conventionally, Auld Lang Syne.


Back on the non-holiday track -

no tennis score for the citrus trio...(that's Prokoffiev agan)

That's Alfred Jockstrap's theme music! At least I seem to remember Hitchcock using music from Prokofiefff. A love for Three Oranges.

Here's one from Richard Rogers: Beneath Auster's "X" (Hint: From the Victory at Sea suite)

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That's Alfred Jockstrap's theme music! At least I seem to remember Hitchcock using music from Prokofiefff. A love for Three Oranges.

Here's one from Richard Rogers: Beneath Auster's "X" (Hint: From the Victory at Sea suite)

I'll pass on Richard Rodgers for now, but wasn't Hitchcock's theme the "Funeral March Of A Marionette"? That would make it Gounod.

Could we have some answers to these for those of us who didn't manage to actually solve the titles?

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Originally posted by Quiltin' Fool:
Could we have some answers to these for those of us who didn't manage to actually solve the titles?

Let's go back a few:

"no tennis score for the citrus trio" is Love for Three Oranges (by Prokovieff, as the white type hinted)

"Dug craftily in the wood, KD's monniker was readily conveyed to the deaf" was awled Lang signed, or Auld Lang Syne

"Vivaciously elevated dead witch chimes" was Hi, Ho the Witch is dead...Ding Dong merrily on high

Sir Rodney with an aperture" was Oh Hol[e]y [K]night

"Terpsichorean performance of the pink blooming tree, my limp-wristed friend" was Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairies, part of the Nutcrackler Suite (Pecan-fragmenter candy, and walnut walloping, and cashew crushing)

"Sugary avian conflagration" is Stravinsky's Firebird Suite

And what started off this little orgy was "Plow the fields, fossil fuel and catalogs,"
which was till, oil, 'n Spiegel's [catalog], phonetics for Til Eulenspiegel by Richard Strauss, more completely known as Til Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks...thus my "Merry Prankness" comment


I think that's where we started getting cryptic. So as not to spoil the game for others, of course.

Asa, is it

Beneath the Southern Cross?

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I'll pass on Richard Rodgers for now, but wasn't Hitchcock's theme the "Funeral March Of A Marionette"? That would make it Gounod.

Yes, Hab, you're right. Damn! Getting senile is a pain in the Gounods!

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Originally posted by Quiltin' Fool:
Asa, is it

Beneath the Southern Cross?

Yep!

When those beatified enter to a cadence

When the Saints Go Marchin' In.

This will be complex... (think "sounds like")

"Wolves yodel when I get pollster Harris into bed; yes?" asked the German girl. (Part the second): Remove the center; find another term for We.

That's another round of the Hallelujah Chorus, if I'm not mistaken...

(Edit: That'd be crossing from the Anagrams thread)

(Re-edit: correcting a typo in the first Edit)


And speaking of another round, let's all enjoy

"drink with tonic, seabirds and pretty Southern ladies"

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That would be Gin, Gull, Bells..

JINGLE BELLS

and your puzzle, KHC?

And why am I getting two copies of everything? Oh I know, because I was stooopid and signed back on as Jo, so now I am both JO and Quiltin' Fool. I think I like Jo better, but I don't know how to make Quiltin' Fool go away. Ah the joys of old timers' disease.

Sorry.. I don't have one! Your turn..

Much ciliary mealnin has my faithful enamorata

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Ah, yse. That's "Black, black, black is the color of my true love's hair..."

As long as we're doing Burl Ives, does anyone remember the "Whirlpool, petrified and low-calorie"?

Too esoteric, perhaps. Or maybe just too old.

"Whirlpool" is "eddy"...

ah yes, that old song

Whassa matter Eddy, scared it's tasteless?

Clue #2: "petrified" is "stone"...

I give up. I thought I knew most of Burl Ives' repertoire, but this one has me stumped. I know he never sang,

Eddy got Stoned and ate the last tasteless bagel.

eddy stone diet?
eddy stone tasteless?
eddy stone high carb?

You win, Hab.

Clue #3: "low-calorie" is "light" (sometimes Lite, but not this time)

Complete lyrics of the song are here...

If I had my guitar I could sing it to you, but as it is, we'll have to make do with this tabulature.

Burl Ives sang it on his album The Wayfaring Stranger, on 78s, but I do believe it was reissued on LP. Not so sure about CD.

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Burl Ives sang it on his album The Wayfaring Stranger, on 78s, but I do believe it was reissued on LP. Not so sure about CD.

But, but Burl Ives didn't write it! Someone named Weybridge or something similar did, I think. And there was a version done by one of the other 1960s folk groups - the Kingston Trio, perhaps?

Now here's another one: Hop towards the water closet.

Skip to my Lou (or loo)

Mus musculus, hiding in a duck hunting shelter, tres not uno nor dos.

Three Blind Mice

Actually, I was quite deliberate in _not_ saying that Burl Ives had written The Eddystone Light...I don't know that he wrote any of the songs he sang so beautifully, or indeed that he wrote any of the songs he recorded. If I'm not mistaken the Wayfaring Stranger, and two other Burl Ives albums I grew up with, were made in the Forties, maybe even the Thirties. (Not, of course that I _heard_ them in the Thirties...)


this satisfies the royal hunger after a good night's sleep (words by A. A. Milne, music by H. Frasier-Simpson usually)

Three blind rodents Oh, Rats, Hab, you just beat me!

The King's Breakfast!


Supposing the head guy had sheckels out his wazzoo!

If I Were a Rich Man.....

[jumping in, because human nature abhors a vacuum, too]

Sure is a lovely sunrise here in the panhandle!

Just to resolve the chord - that was

"Oh, What a Beautiful Morning," from Oklahoma!