Eddie Thomas
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Nickname(s) The Merthyr Marvel
Rated at Welterweight
Nationality United KingdomBritish
Born (1926-07-27)27 July 1926
Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Died 2 June 1997(1997-06-02) (aged 70)
Boxing record
Total fights 48
Wins 40
Wins by KO 13
Losses 6
Draws 2
No contests 0

Eddie Thomas MBE (27 July 1926 – 2 June 1997), was a Welsh boxing champion and boxing manager.

Thomas was born in Merthyr Tydfil. After a highly successful amateur boxing career, he turned professional in 1946. He won the Welsh welterweight title in 1948, the British welterweight title in 1949, and the European welterweight title in 1951, retaining it for only four months. He held the British Empire title for a period in the same year.

Retiring in 1954, he became the manager of two of Britain's most successful boxing champions, Howard Winstone and Ken Buchanan.

Thomas had a successful business career for a time, but in 1994 he was forced to resign as Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil.

A BBC TV programme, Champ from Colliers Row, was made about him in 1997, shortly after his death.

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List of Coronation Street characters (1964)

Coronation Street is a British soap opera, initially produced by Granada Television. Created by writer Tony Warren, Coronation Street first broadcast on ITV on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters introduced in the show's fifth year, by order of first appearance.

In what remains one of the serial's most dramatic and influential years to date, 1964 saw no less than four producers take the helm of the show. Apart from a short month-long break in which original producer Stuart Latham took over for one last stint, Margaret Morris presided over Coronation Street until May, in which she introduced Irma Ogden (Sandra Gough) in late January. Radical young producer Tim Aspinall took the reins in May and quickly made his mark by writing out several characters including Frank Barlow, Harry and Concepta Hewitt, Jerry and Myra Booth and most controversially, Martha Longhurst, a favourite with viewers who Aspinall chose to kill off in his very first episode. A week later, Aspinall introduced a new regular in the form of Charlie Moffitt (Gordon Rollings).

Eddie Thomas (footballer, born 1931)

Edwin Henry Charles "Eddie" Thomas (born 9 November 1931) is a retired English footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for Southampton in the early 1950s.

Football career

Thomas was born in Swindon, Wiltshire where he became an apprentice engineer with British Rail at the Swindon Works. Whilst playing for the works team, he caught the eye of a scout from Southampton of the Football League Second Division, joining them as an amateur in 1949.

He made his reserve team debut on 17 December 1949, displacing Len Stansbridge, and over the next year, he and Stansbridge vied for the role of second choice 'keeper behind Scottish international Ian Black. Black moved to Fulham in July 1950, with Northern Irish international Hugh Kelly joining the Saints in exchange. On 7 October 1950, Kelly was called into the Northern Irish team for a match against England and manager Sid Cann promoted Thomas to the first-team for a match against Birmingham City. At a month before his 18th birthday, Thomas thus became Southampton's youngest-ever first-team goalkeeper, until the debut of Bob Charles in 1959. Although the match was lost 2–0, Thomas was not deemed to be at fault for either of the goals.

By the Sleepy Lagoon

"By the Sleepy Lagoon" is a light orchestral valse serenade by British composer Eric Coates composed in 1930. In 1940, lyrics were added with Coates's approval by Jack Lawrence, and the resultant song "Sleepy Lagoon" became a popular music standard of the 1940s.

Coates had originally been inspired to write the piece in 1930 while overlooking a beach in West Sussex. His son, Austin Coates, remembers:

The resultant piece is a slow waltz for full orchestra lasting roughly four minutes in duration. Michael Jameson suggests that the piece is "elegantly orchestrated" with "a shapely theme for violins presented in the salon-esque genre entirely characteristic of British light music in the 1920s and '30s". In 1942, Coates's original orchestral version was chosen (with added seagulls) to introduce the BBC Home Service radio series Desert Island Discs, which it still does to this day on BBC Radio 4.

"Sleepy Lagoon"

In early 1940, songwriter Jack Lawrence came across the piano solo version of "By the Sleepy Lagoon" and wrote a song lyric, then took it to Chappell, the publisher of Coates's original melody. The head of Chappell's New York office, Max Dreyfus, was concerned that this lyric had been added without consulting its famous British classical composer. Dreyfus warned Lawrence that Coates "may resent your tampering with his melody." Dreyfus also didn't think the melody belonged in the popular genre and that it was better suited to its original treatment as a light classical piece.

Eddie Thomas (Australian footballer)

Eddie Thomas (24 June 1891 – 16 January 1953) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).


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External links

  • Eddie Thomas's statistics from AFL Tables
  • Eddie Thomas's profile at Collingwood Forever
  • Eddie Thomas (footballer, born 1933)

    Edward "Eddie" Thomas (23 October 1933 – 12 November 2003) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Blackburn Rovers, Derby County, Everton, Leyton Orient and Swansea Town.

    Thomas was signed for Derby by manager Tim Ward, and equalled a club record by scoring in each of his first six games for Derby in 1964.

    External links

  • Sourced from The English National Football Archive (Subscription required)

  • Edward Thomas

    Edward Thomas may refer to:

    Sport

  • Edward Thomas (gridiron football) (born 1974), American gridiron football player
  • Edward Thomas (rower), Australian rower at the 1924 Olympics
  • Edward Thomas (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1910s and '20s for Wales, Oldham, and Wakefield Trinity
  • Eddie Thomas (footballer, born 1933) (1933–2003), English footballer with Everton, Blackburn Rovers, Swansea Town and Derby County
  • Eddie Thomas (footballer, born 1931), English footballer with Southampton
  • Eddie Thomas (Australian footballer) (1891–1953), Australian rules footballer with Collingwood
  • Eddie Thomas (1926–1997), Welsh boxer
  • Ed Thomas (1950–2009), American football coach
  • Writers

  • Edward Thomas (poet) (1878–1917), Anglo-Welsh poet and journalist
  • Edward J. Thomas (1869–1958), librarian and author of several books on the history of Buddhism
  • Military

  • Edward Thomas (British Army officer) (1915–1999), World War II Military Cross recipient and temporary brigadier
  • Edward Lloyd Thomas (1825–1898), Confederate American Civil War general
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    Sleepy Lagoon

    by: Platters

    A sleepy lagoon
    A tropical moon and two on an island
    A sleepy lagoon
    And two hearts in tune
    In some lullaby land
    The fireflies gleam
    Reflect in the stream
    They sparkle and shimmer
    A star from on high
    Falls out of the sky
    And slowly grows dimmer
    The leaves from the trees
    All dance in the breeze
    And float on the ripples
    I'm lost in the spell
    That nightingales tell of roses and dew
    The memory of this moment of love
    Will haunt me forever
    A tropical moon
    A sleepy lagoon, and you
    Stand still
    Oh heaven and earth and river
    Atand still
    Oh time in your endless flight
    If love can but command
    The moon will stand
    The sun won't wake
    The day won't break and it will always be tonight
    The leaves from the trees
    All dance in the breeze
    And float on the ripples
    I'm lost in the spell
    That nightingales tell of roses and dew
    The memory of this moment of love
    Will haunt me forever
    A tropical moon




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