Famous Ambulance Drivers of WWI

Walt Disney (notice the cartoon he has drawn)

1. E E Cummings (writer) - volunteer Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps

2. Jerome K Jerome (writer) - French Army ambulance driver

3. W Somerset Maugham (writer) - volunteer British Red Cross ambulance corps

4. Maurice Ravel (composer) - volunteer ambulance driver or truck driver

5. Ralph Vaughan Williams (composer) - Royal Army Medical Corps

6. Jean Cocteau (dramatist and filmmaker )

7. Stafford Cripps (politician)

8. Walt Disney (Animator and film producer) - volunteer American Red Cross, but served after the armistice ending WWI was signed.

9. Ernest Hemingway (writer)  - volunteer American Field Service

10. John Masefield (writer) - served as hospital orderly in British hospital for French soldiers in France

Benjamin Franklin Inventions

1. The lightning rod

2. Bifocals

3. The glass armonica

4. The Franklin stove

5. The library stepstool, a chair whose seat could be lifted and folded down to make a short ladder.
(Also a mechanical arm for reaching books on high shelves)
6. The rocking chair
7. The writing chair
8. The odometer
9. A pulley system that enabled him to lock and unlock his bedroom door from his bed
10. The flexible urinary catheter.

Albums of Bob Dylan Material

1. Any Day Now Joan Baez 1968
2. Dylanesque Bryan Ferry 2007
3. Hollies Sing Dylan The Hollies 1969
4. Masters of War Mountain 2007
5. Portraits of Bob Dylan Steve Howe 1999
6. Lo & Behold Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint 2007
7. Judy Collins Sings Dylan: Just Like a Woman Judy Collins 1993
8. A Tree With Roots - Fairport Convention & Friends And The Songs Of Bob Dylan Fairport Convention 2018
9. The Byrds Play Dylan The Byrds 1979 and 2002 (Compilations)
10. Postcards of the Hanging Grateful Dead 2002 (Live compilation)

Welsh People born outside Wales

1. David Lloyd-George politician (Manchester)
2. Dai Jones Llanilar TV presenter (London)
3. Robert Earnshaw footballer (Zambia)
4. Ashley Williams footballer (Germany)
5. Alexander Cordell [pen name of George Alexander Graber] author (Sri Lanka)
6. Saunders Lewis playwright and campaigner (Wallasey)
7. George North rugby player (King's Lynn)
8. Jonathan "Fox" Davies rugny player (Solihull)
9. Windsor Davies actor (London)
10. Helen Morgan model (Walsall)

Same Title Different Song

These are examples where the same title appears but with reference to quite different tracks. These are from my own collection. For an alternative list see here.

1. Alone Gabrielle Wishbone Ash
2. Babylon Aphrodite's Child Don McClean David Gray
3. Crossroads Focus Tracy Chapman
4. Do it again The Beach Boys The Kinks
5. Hold on Forcefield Wilson Phillips*
6. How Long Focus Vampire Weekend
7. Promenade ELP U2
8. The Promise Enya Tracy Chapman
9. Sunshine Gabrielle, Keane Joachim Kuhn Rick van der Linden
10. Thank You Gabrielle Leigh Nash

*I notice Hold on appears on both lists but different artists are listed

Songs About Rain

Looks like a rainy day today so we move on to rainy songs. Nothing by Wet Wet Wet.

1. Rain by The Beatles
2. Rain Happens by Jan Akkerman
3. Rain and Tears by Aphrodite's Child
4. Raining In My Heart by Buddy Holly
5. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head by B J Thomas
6. Flowers In The Rain by The Move
7. Walking In The Rain by David Cassidy
8. Who'll Stop The Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival
9. Storms in Africa by Enya

10. Quiet Storm by Jan Akkerman

Beatles Songs that mention Food and Drink

1. Honey in A taste of honey, etc

2. Bacon in Piggies (Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon)

3. Wine in A taste of honey (A taste of honey... tasting much sweeter than wine.) and Norwegian Wood (I sat on a rug biding my time Drinking her wine) etc

4. Strawberry in Strawberry fields

5. Tangerines in Lucy in the Sky (With tangerine trees and marmalade skies)

6. Marmalade in Lucy in the Sky (With tangerine trees and marmalade skies)

7. Marshmallow pies in Lucy in the Sky (Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies)

8. Fish in Penny Lane (A four of fish and finger pies)

9. Birthday cake in It's all too much (All the world's a birthday cake So take a piece but not too much)

10. Chocolate cake in Ballad of John and Yoko (Made a lightning trip to Vienna Eating chocolate cake in a bag)

[Bonus Tea in Cry baby cry (The duchess of Kircaldy always smiling And arriving late for tea) and rice in Eleanor Rigby. I am the Walrus also had several - cornflake, custard, semolina, pilchard]