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From: jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (Richard Jeffreys)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: JT? (digression to Englebert Humperdinck)
Message-ID: <468@ihlpg.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-May-85 13:15:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  8 13:15:31 1985
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> "Englebert Humperdinck" is another second-hand name.  Many people do not
> seem to know that he was a semi-famous composer who worked around 1910.  
> His most well-known work is the opera "Hansel & Gretel".  Whether the pop 
> singer is related and/or was named after the first guy by his parents or
> just decided that it was a good name and should be used again I have no
> idea. 
> It seems too great a coincidence that there should be two of them by chance.
> --------------------------------
> Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A

The singer is not related at all to the composer, he was not born
with the name either. He changed it legally by deed poll, because
being new to his singing carreer, he thought people would better
remember the name Englebert Humperdinck than the one he was born with.
(It's true.... I can't remember what his origninal name was !!)

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