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    Donald Ibrahim Swann (30 September 1923 – 23 March 1994) was a British composer, musician, singer and entertainer. He was one half of Flanders and Swann...
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    and Swann were a British comedy duo and musicians. Michael Flanders (1922–1975) was a lyricist, actor, and singer. He collaborated with Donald Swann (1923–1994)...
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    musical settings by Donald Swann of songs from Middle-earth, The Road Goes Ever On; the Gregorian plainsong-like melody was hummed to Swann by Tolkien. The...
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  • football player David Swann (born 1949), Canadian politician Donald Swann (1923–1994), British composer, musician and entertainer Edward Swann (1862–1945), New...
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  • book of sheet music and as an audio recording. The music was written by Donald Swann, and the words are taken from poems in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth...
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  • Galadriel; Tolkien's Quenya poem "Namárië" has been set to music by Donald Swann. Galadriel has appeared in both animated and live-action films and television...
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    Donald Swann Further performances— Moreland Hall, Hampstead, 28 August 1940 Rudolph Steiner Hall, London, 29 August 1940 The first Flanders and Swann...
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    Have Some Madeira M'Dear (category Flanders and Swann songs)
    Flanders and Swann, pp. 143–145 Flanders, Michael; Donald Swann; Claudia Flanders (1977). The Songs of Michael Flanders and Donald Swann. London: Elm...
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    The Gnu (category Flanders and Swann songs)
    two similar sung verses, each preceded by a verse spoken by Flanders. Donald Swann accompanies Flanders on the piano, but neither speaks nor sings during...
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  • picture-book in 1990. It was illustrated by Pauline Baynes, and set to music by Donald Swann and Stephen Oliver. The poem's copyright was owned by Tolkien's secretary...
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  • in the US, Switzerland, and on tour in Britain. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann had performed together as schoolboys, collaborating in 1940 on a revue...
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  • Marian hymn. Among the musical renderings of the poem, the earliest is Donald Swann's, published in his song cycle The Road Goes Ever On, while The Tolkien...
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  • Madeleine Swann is a character in the James Bond films Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021), played by actress Léa Seydoux. She is one of only two...
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  • Six are read by Tolkien; the seventh, "Errantry", is set to music by Donald Swann. The poems are all supposedly works that Hobbits enjoyed; all are in...
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  • general unbelief". He continued to work with Donald Swann, writing six songs for the 1964 Donald Swann EP, Songs of Faith and Doubt. In the 1960s he...
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  • Carmen Silvera also resided there. Obituary: The Independent "Rose Hill | Obituaries". 8 March 2004. Rose Hill at IMDb Donald Swann, Revues (1948–1956)...
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    Lynn Curtis Swann (born March 7, 1952) is an American former professional football player, broadcaster, politician, and athletic director, best known...
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  • Mukherjee, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006) 1923 – Donald Swann, Welsh-English pianist and composer (d. 1994) 1924 – Truman Capote, American...
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  • author J. R. R. Tolkien and art songs composed by the English musician Donald Swann. On the first half of the album, Tolkien recites seven poems from or...
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    of psychological individuation. The walking song gives its name to Donald Swann's 1967 song-cycle The Road Goes Ever On, where it is the first in the...
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  • Tolkien's 1962 collection of short poems, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Donald Swann set the poem to music in his 1967 song cycle, The Road Goes Ever On....
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  • were made into a song-cycle, The Road Goes Ever On, set to music by Donald Swann. All the poems in The Lord of the Rings were set to music and published...
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    and Other Verses from the Red Book 1967 The Road Goes Ever On, with Donald Swann, a song-cycle 1974 Bilbo's Last Song 1975 Guide to the Names in The Lord...
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    the 1951 revue Penny Plain she performed her "Joyful Noise" (music by Donald Swann), a parody of an amateur choir ("And some of us cannot sing much, And...
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  • Tolkien, J. R. R.; Swann, Donald (1967). The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle. Ballantine Books. Tolkien, J. R. R.; Swann, Donald (1967). Poems and Songs...
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    satirical song "Misalliance", written and sung by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann (but the lyrics confuse the direction of twining, describing honeysuckle...
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    illustrator of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Farmer Giles of Ham) and Donald Swann (who set the music to The Road Goes Ever On). Queen Margrethe II of Denmark...
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    Michael Flanders, half of the 1960s comedy duo Flanders and Swann, often made fun of Donald Swann for living in Battersea. Morrissey mentions Battersea in...
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    movement are very simple, they were a suitable choice for Ives's purpose. Donald Swann created a version of the Surprise Symphony 'with extra surprises' for...
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  • Donald A. Swan (28 March 1935 – June 1981) was an American anthropologist and advocate for eugenics and segregation. Donald A. Swan was born on 28 March...
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