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2 unusual facts about Sylvia's Mother


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It was Dr. Hook's joint second-best UK chart placing, matching "Sylvia's Mother" and surpassed only by "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman".

Sylvia's Mother

Bare's version became a hit, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that October.


Alfred Weidler

Among their six children, two were child actors: Sylvia (1921–2003), who appeared in the 1930 film, What a Widow!, and Virginia (1927–1968), who flourished as a child actor.

Allen Shearer

He has received many awards in music, including the Rome Prize Fellowship, the Aaron Copland Award, the Sylvia Goldstein Award, a Charles Ives Scholarship, residencies at the MacDowell Colony, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Amy Wallace

She was the daughter of writers Irving Wallace and Sylvia Wallace and the sister of writer and populist historian David Wallechinsky.

Armin Jordan

Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, with Christoph Pregardien, Robert Gambill, Edith Wiens, Anne Gjevang, Sylvia Herman, & Hans-Peter Scheidegger; Romand Chamber Choir, Pro Arte Chorus of Lausanne; l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

Christine Jeffs

Christine Jeffs (born 1963) is a New Zealand-born film director known for directing the British motion picture Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, and the American independent film Sunshine Cleaning (2009), with Amy Adams and Emily Blunt.

David Brudenell-Bruce, Earl of Cardigan

David Brudenell-Bruce is the son of Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury and Edwina Sylvia de Winton Wills of W.D. & H.O. Wills.

David's Mother

In the UK it can often be seen on television movie channels True Movies 1 and True Movies 2.

Focus 3

British guitarist Hank Marvin covered the track "Sylvia" on his 1992 album Into The Light.

Frobisher Bay Air Base

When the station relief and base construction expedition arrived next July, both the Crowell and Roosevelt sites were rejected in favor of a level meadow discovered along the Sylvia Grinnell River on mainland Baffin Island.

Henllan

Like all ghost stories, however, there are inaccuracies, and local legend has it that only females are able to see the ghost, known as Sylvia.

Hickory Wind

In 2002, an article on the website www.folklinks.com controversially claimed that "Hickory Wind" wasn't, in fact, written by Gram Parsons, but by Sylvia Sammons—a blind folksinger from Greenville, South Carolina—with Bob Buchanan later contributing an additional verse.

James K. Johnson

In 1979, Johnson married his wife Sylvia, with Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater as his best man.

Kuzma's mother

Viktor Sukhodrev (Виктор Суходрев), a personal interpreter of Khrushchev and later Alexei Kosygin, in his interview says that Khrushchev first used this expression in public when addressing Richard Nixon in 1959, who was attending the opening of the American National Exhibition in Sokolniki Park exposition centre, Moscow.

Le Rayon U

Like the dark-haired Dale Arden, the dark-haired Sylvia Hollis is coveted by almost every male character she meets, be it man or beast!

Lewis Richard Farnell

In 1893, Farnell married Sylvia (born 1872), youngest daughter of Captain Christopher Baldock Cardew of East Liss, Hampshire, and granddaughter of the Lord Chancellor Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury.

Louise Germaine

Louise Germaine (born Tina Louise Germaine (however, known to be born as Tina Reid) in 1971 in Margate, Kent) is an English actress and model best known for her appearance as usherette Sylvia Berry in the 1993 Dennis Potter serial Lipstick on Your Collar.

Miss Colombia 2008

The former panel of judges was composed by Olga Sinclair (Panama), Pablo Jiménez Burillo (Spain), Sylvia Loria (Costa Rica), Thomas P. Murray (United States), Giovanni Scutaro (Venezuela).

Monsieur Alfonse

Alfonse also has a small fortune in a Swiss bank account; therefore, Edith's mother agrees with the match, as Alfonse would make a better husband financially.

Muzzy in Gondoland

The first part of the film simply introduces Muzzy (Jack May), Bob (Derek Griffiths), the King (Willie Rushton), the Queen (Miriam Margolyes), Princess Sylvia (Susan Sheridan) and Corvax (Derek Griffiths) and their personalities.

Norma Fisher

She performs frequently with the International Chamber Ensemble of Rome, Carmina Quartet and Reykjavik Wind Quintet and has partnered such well known soloists as Stephanie Gonley, Alan Hacker, Maurice Hasson, Emanuel Hurwitz, Ralph Kirshbaum, Steven Isserlis, Peter Lukas Graf, Gyorgy Pauk, Hu Kun, Sylvia Rosenberg, Grigori Zhislin, Yossi Zivoni and singers Benjamin Luxon, Sherrill Milnes and Nelly Miricioiu.

Peter Gowland

The son of Gibson Gowland and Sylvia Andrew, both actors, he acted in at least 12 films, mostly uncredited.

Plath

Otto Plath (1885–1940), father of Sylvia Plath and entomologist

Platypleura sylvia

 sylvia is confined to the valley of the Groot Dwars River (24°55′ S, 30°05′ E), a tributary of the Steelpoort River, and occurs on the farms Helena, Der Brochen, Mareesburg and also the Didingwe River Lodge property, with a slight spill-over to neighbouring areas.

Rod Beattie

Other productions include The Loveliest and Sylvia in Victoria, The Crucible and Blessings in Disguise in Manitoba, Oleanna at the National Arts Centre opposite Sandra Oh, and Love Letters opposite wife Martha Henry in an Ontario tour.

Rowland George

Sylvia Beatrice Norton, daughter of Cecil Norton, 1st Baron Rathcreedan and Marguerite Cecil Huntington, at St Mary's Henley on 22 April 1933 and had three sons and a daughter.

Rupert Byron, 11th Baron Byron

Byron was the elder son of Colonel Wilfrid Byron, of Perth, Western Australia, and of Sylvia Mary Byron née Moore, of Winchester, England, the only daughter of the Reverend C. T. Moore.

Sammy Lowe

From the late '50's until his semi-retirement in 1990, he arranged music for Nina Simone (1967), Al Hirt, Benny Goodman, Connie Francis, Sam Cooke, The Softones, The Tokens, The Platters, Brook Benton, Sylvia, Ray, Goodman & Brown, Cameo, Little Peggy March, Della Reese, Panama Francis and Pat Thomas among others.

Sandra Dickinson

Her father, Harold S. Searles, was a psychoanalyst and her mother, Sylvia, was a nurse.

Saucy Sylvia

Saucy was born Sylvia Cadesky in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, and grew up in the small village of Mount Forest.

Sin Takes a Holiday

As a plain, poor secretary, sharing an apartment with her friend, Anne (Zasu Pitts), Sylvia Brenner (Constance Bennett) accepts her boss's marriage proposal, even though it's only so he can avoid being dragged into court, with another woman's divorce.

St John-at-Hampstead

George du Maurier, author and cartoonist, father of Gerald du Maurier and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies

Sylvia Chang

Sylvia Chang was born in Chiayi, Taiwan and went off to school, until she was 16, where upon she dropped out and started her career as a radio DJ.

Sylvia Heal

Born as Sylvia Lloyd Fox in Hawarden, north-east Wales, the daughter of Shotton steelworker John Lloyd-Fox and Ruby Hughes, she was educated at the Elfed Secondary Modern School (now Elfed High School) on Mill Lane in Buckley, the Coleg Harlech, and at Swansea University, where she was awarded a BSc in Economics in 1968.

Sylvia Hollamby

Sylvia's worst fears become reality as Shell is found alive and heavily pregnant in Amsterdam, and extradited back to G-Wing.

Sylvia Jukes Morris

In 1981 Sylvia Jukes Morris became the authorized biographer of Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), the playwright, Congresswoman, and diplomat.

Sylvia Kierkegaard

Sylvia Kierkegaard is Professor at the Communications University of China, Professor-Research Fellow at ILaws (UK), University of Southampton, Visiting Professor at University of Southampton (UK), Adjunct professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University among others.

Sylvia Millecam

In 1994 she had her own show, The Sylvia Millecam Show, and several years later Miss Millecam, both on RTL 4.

Sylvia Perez

Sylvia's interest in medical reporting came when she worked at KPRC-TV in Houston.

Sylvia Romo

Sylvia S. Romo, (born December 27, 1942 in San Antonio, Texas) is the current Tax Assessor-Collector for Bexar County, Texas.

Sylvia Shaw Judson

She authored The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures and For Gardens and Other Places, The Sculpture of Sylvia Shaw Judson and taught sculpture at the American University in Cairo in 1963.

Tawan W. Davis

Davis was born in 1979 Tacoma, Washington, but he grew up in Portland, Oregon, where he was raised by his single mother, Sylvia.

The Cain Tradition

In the epic poem Beowulf, the antagonists Grendel and Grendel's mother are described as descendants of Cain, which some scholars argue, links them to the Cain Tradition.

The Center for Work-Life Policy

Studies conducted by the CWLP have been published in the Harvard Business Review and are available in a book authored by Sylvia Ann Hewlett titled Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success (Harvard Business Review Press, 2007).

Throwaway Kids

Burnes and Lichtenstein were part of a team of reporters who collaborated on the investigation, which included ABC's Sylvia Chase, Pulitzer Prize-winners John Hanchette and Carlton Sherwood of Gannett News Service, and the investigative team from local TV station KOCO, which was an ABC afiiliate and was owned by Gannett.

Tim Westoll

In 1946, Westoll married Sylvia Jane, the youngest daughter of Sir Fairfax Luxmoore (1876–1944), a Lord Justice of Appeal, and they had four children.

Tommy Eytle

Eytle appeared in films such as Naked Fury (1959), The Criminal (1960) and The Hi-Jackers (1963) and on television in programmes such as The Big Pride (ITV, 1961), a psychological drama about a prison breakout in Guyana written by Jan Carew and Sylvia Wynter.

UCL Academy

In March 2010 Sylvia Jones, headteacher at Valentines High School in Ilford, Essex, was appointed as the first Principal of the Academy, and Professor David Price, Vice-Provost (Research) of UCL, as Chair of the Academy Governing Body.

Van Gogh's family in his art

At the height of his career in Arles he made Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Memory of the Garden at Etten of his mother and sister and Novel Reader, which is thought to be of his sister, Wil.


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