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Nellie the Elephant

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"Nellie the Elephant" is a children's song written in 1956 by Ralph Butler and Peter Hart about a fictional intelligent elephant of that name. [1]

31 relations: Bee Gees, Bernard Wrigley, Black Lace (band), Brabantian dialect, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Children's Favourites, Children's song, Coventry University, Cover version, Desert Island Discs, Dig That Groove Baby, Elephant, George Martin, Intelligence, Jacqueline Wilson, London, Lulu (singer), Mandy Miller, Nellie the Elephant (TV series), Parlophone, Phonograph record, Punk rock, Ralph Butler, Refrain, Rhythm, Ron Goodwin, Sound recording and reproduction, Stayin' Alive, That's the Way (I Like It), Toy Dolls, UK Singles Chart.

Bee Gees

The Bee Gees --> were a pop music group formed in 1958.

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Bernard Wrigley

Bernard Wrigley (born 1948 in Bolton, Lancashire) is a singer, actor and comedian.

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Black Lace (band)

Black Lace are a British pop band, best known for novelty party records, including their biggest hit, "Agadoo".

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Brabantian dialect

Brabantian or Brabantish, also Brabantic (Brabants, Standard Dutch pronunciation:, Brabantian), is a dialect group of the Dutch language.

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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure that combines chest compressions often with artificial ventilation in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person who is in cardiac arrest.

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Children's Favourites

Children's Favourites was a BBC Radio programme broadcast from 1954 until 1984 and Christmas editions from 2007 until 2015.

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Children's song

A children's song may be a nursery rhyme set to music, a song that children invent and share among themselves or a modern creation intended for entertainment, use in the home or education.

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Coventry University

Coventry University is a public research university in Coventry, England, known as Lanchester Polytechnic until 1987, and Coventry Polytechnic until it was awarded university status in 1992.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Dig That Groove Baby

Dig That Groove Baby is the first full-length album by the Punk band Toy Dolls, released in 1983.

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Elephant

Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.

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George Martin

Sir George Henry Martin (3 January 19268 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician.

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Intelligence

Intelligence has been defined in many different ways to include the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving.

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Jacqueline Wilson

Dame Jacqueline Wilson (née Aitken; born 17 December 1945) is an English novelist who writes for children's literature.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lulu (singer)

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns OBE (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer-songwriter.

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Mandy Miller

Mandy Miller (born Carmen Isabella Miller, 23 July 1944) is an English child actress who made a number of films in the 1950s and is probably best remembered for her recording of the 1956 song "Nellie the Elephant".

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Nellie the Elephant (TV series)

Nellie the Elephant was a British children's cartoon series created by Terry Ward on behalf of FilmFair, Flicks Films and 101 Film Productions Limited in the United Kingdom that ran from 8 January 1990 to 21 January 1991.

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Parlophone

Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German-British major record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Ralph Butler

Ralph Thomas Butler (12 October 1886 – 8 April 1969) was a British songwriter, responsible for the lyrics of many popular songs of the 1930s and later, mostly with comic or novelty elements.

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Refrain

A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the "chorus" of a song.

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Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".

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Ron Goodwin

Ronald Alfred Goodwin (17 February 19258 January 2003) was an English composer and conductor known for his film music.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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Stayin' Alive

"Stayin' Alive" is a disco song written and performed by the Bee Gees from the ''Saturday Night Fever'' motion picture soundtrack.

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That's the Way (I Like It)

"That's the Way (I Like It)" is a song by the American group KC and the Sunshine Band from their second studio album.

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Toy Dolls

Toy Dolls are an English punk rock band formed in 1979.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_the_Elephant

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