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Flamingo" (1940) is a popular song and jazz standard written by Ted Grouya with lyrics by Edmund Anderson and first recorded by singer Herb Jeffries and the Duke Ellington Orchestra on December 28, 1940, for Victor Records (catalog No. 27326B). [1]
The de Havilland DH.95 Flamingo was a British twin-engined high-wing monoplane airliner first flown on 22 December 1938. During the Second World War some were used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a transport and general communications duties.
Cobbler HN1706 Orange Lady HN1953. This is a list of list of Royal Doulton figurines in ascending order by HN number. HN is named after Harry Nixon (1886–1955), head of the Royal Doulton painting department who joined Doulton in 1900. [1]
Ted Grouya (31 July 1910 – 14 April 2000) born Teodor Gruia in Bucharest, Romania, was a composer who studied composition with Nadia Boulanger.He wrote the jazz standard "Flamingo" (1940), first recorded by Herb Jeffries and Duke Ellington.
On 24 November 1940, Douglas DC-3 G-AGBI and Armstrong Whitworth Ensign II G-ADTC were destroyed on the ground at Whitchurch Airfield during a German daylight bombing raid. [65] [66] On 20 December 1940, de Havilland Albatross G-AFDI Frobisher was destroyed on the ground by a German air raid while parked at Whitchurch Airfield. [67]
The five passenger-carrying aircraft were used by Imperial Airways, (BOAC from September 1940) on Bristol–Lisbon and Bristol–Shannon routes from Bristol (Whitchurch) Airport. [ 3 ] Frobisher was destroyed during a German air raid on Whitchurch in 1940 , [ a ] , Fingal was destroyed in a crash landing, following a fuel-pipe failure in 1940 ...
USS Flamingo (AMc-22) was a coastal minesweeper of the United States Navy. The ship was laid down in 1940 as the fishing dragger Harriet N. Eldridge , acquired by the U.S. Navy on 4 November 1940, and placed in service as Flamingo on 6 June 1941.
Flamingo Boy, also known as The Day the World Stopped Turning, [1] is a British children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo. The book was first published in the United Kingdom as Flamingo Boy by HarperCollins in 2018. The book was inspired in part by Morpurgo's grandson, who is autistic.