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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 BOAC aircraft were named after English kings (Arthur, Alfred, Harold, Henry, Richard, James, Charles, William) and were named K-class by the airline. [5] The Flamingo was Winston Churchill's favourite short/medium range transport and he flew it to visit Reynaud and the French leadership as the Western front collapsed on May 16, 1940.
Ted Grouya (31 July 1910 – 14 April 2000) born Teodor Gruia in Bucharest, Romania, was a Romanian-American composer who studied composition with Nadia Boulanger.He wrote the jazz standard "Flamingo" (1940), first recorded by Herb Jeffries and Duke Ellington.
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.
The Yo-Yo Flamingo likes playing with a yo-yo, which irritates the other flamingos. Though they try to take away his yo-yo, he kept spares. He also appears in House of Mouse. The Snooty Flamingos pride themselves on uniformity and grace, wishing their other member to join the ranks and act the same.
Beginning on February 7, 1949, The Adventures of Superman episodes expanded to 30 minutes each. All were transcribed. Each episode was self-contained and had an individual story title. Only "The Mystery of the $10,000 Ghost", "The Mystery of the Flying Monster", and "The Case of the Double Trouble" are available in circulation.
This episode is a tribute to 1940s film noir, shot mostly in black and white on location at the Aquarius Theater, called "Flamingo Cove" in the show. Maddie and David learn of a murder committed at a 1940s night club.
HMS Flamingo was a Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She saw service as a convoy escort during the Second World War , seeing extensive service in the Mediterranean and Far East in 1945. She was sold to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959, where she was renamed Graf Spee and used as a cadet training ship.