Elvira (song)

"Elvira" is a song written by Dallas Frazier which became a famous country and pop hit by The Oak Ridge Boys in 1981, now considered one of their signature songs.

Song history

Songwriter Dallas Frazier penned "Elvira" in 1966 and included it as the title track of an album he released that year. A number of recording artists, most notably Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, recorded the song through the years, to varying degrees of success. Frazier's own version peaked at #72 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. The title of the song was inspired not by the name of a woman, but by the name of a street in East Nashville, Tennessee. Rogers' version appeared on the album Something's Burning, which reached the top 30 of the Billboard 200.

In 1978, alternative country recording artist Rodney Crowell recorded his cover of "Elvira" (with "Ashes by Now" on the B-side) which became a very minor hit that year. However, Crowell's version did have its fans — most notably The Oak Ridge Boys. In 1980, when the band began planning for their upcoming album Fancy Free, they decided to cover the song as well.

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Elvira (disambiguation)

Elvira is a female given name.

Elvira may also refer to:

Places

Elvira, an ancient administrative area/province in Visigothic and early Moorish times, now known as the Province of Granada

Elvira, an ancient city in Spain, now called Granada

Elvira, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a district of Lobos Partido

Elvira, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community

Elvira, Iowa, United States, a town

Elvira Island, also known as Kilian Island, in Nunavut, Canada

277 Elvira, an asteroid

Other uses

Elvira (genus), a genus of emerald hummingbirds

Elvira, a genus of flowering plants now transferred to Delilia

"Elvira" (song), a country song recorded by many artists, most notably by the Oak Ridge Boys in 1981

Elvira: The Arcade Game, a 1991 video game based on the character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a survival horror video game developed by Horror Soft and released by Accolade in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and MS-DOS computers. It was Horror Soft's second published game after 1989's Personal Nightmare and stars the actress Cassandra Peterson as her character Elvira the witch.

In Mistress of the Dark, Elvira is held captive by dark forces in the castle of her ancestor Queen Emelda. The player's character in the castle to rescue Elvira and prevent the imminent return of the evil long-dead evil sorceress. The well-received game was followed by Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus in 1991 and the spiritual successor Waxworks in 1992.

Gameplay

Elvira is a first-person perspective mix of a role-playing game and point-and-click adventure game.

Plot

The game begins following events of the 1988 film Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. After the death of her evil Uncle, Vincent, Elvira has inherited Killbragant Castle and has restored it to its former glory, planning to turn it into a tourist attraction for horror fans. However, while doing this, Elvira has inadvertently awakened a horde of monstrous followers of her distant ancestor, the powerful wicked witch Queen Emelda. The monsters imprisoned Elvira in the castle and began preparations to use her for the return of their mistress. The player's character has been called upon to help by Elvira to help her prevent Emelda's resurrection. The evil sorceress died centuries ago before she could take over and rule the world, but has made a pact with the devil to be brought back to life in the future. In the beginning of the game, the player is captured by the queen's undead minions. He is then rescued by Elvira and asked to help get her powers back, and to find a way to send Emelda back to hell before it is too late.

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277 Elvira

277 Elvira is a typical main belt asteroid and is a member of the Koronis asteroid family. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on May 3, 1888 in Nice. (277) Elvira is possibly named for a character in Alphonse de Lamartine’s Méditations poétiques (1820) and Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (1830).

A group of astronomers, including Lucy D’Escoffier Crespo da Silva and Richard P. Binzel, used observations made between 1998 through 2000 to determine the spin-vector alignment of the Koronis family of asteroids, including 277 Elvira. The collaborative work resulted in the creation of 61 new individual rotation lightcurves to augment previous published observations.

Measurements of the thermal inertia of 277 Elvira give a value of around 190 m⁻² K⁻¹ s^−1/2, compared to 50 for lunar regolith and 400 for coarse sand in an atmosphere.

References

External links

277 Elvira at the JPL Small-Body Database

Discovery · Orbit diagram · Orbital elements · Physical parameters

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Song

A song is a single (and often standalone) work of music intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections. Written words created specifically for music or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in classical music it is an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs in a simple style that are learned informally are often referred to as folk songs. Songs that are composed for professional singers are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are often composed by professional songwriters, composers and lyricists. Art songs are composed by trained classical composers for concert performances. Songs are performed live and recorded. Songs may also appear in plays, musical theatre, stage shows of any form, and within operas.

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Ming (typefaces)

Ming or Song is a category of typefaces used to display Chinese characters, which are used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. They are currently the most common style of type in print for Chinese and Japanese.

Name

The names Song (or Sung) and Ming correspond to the Song Dynasty when a distinctive printed style of regular script was developed, and the Ming Dynasty during which that style developed into the Ming typeface style. In Mainland China, the most common name is Song (the Mainland Chinese standardized Ming typeface in Microsoft Windows being named SimSun). In Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea, Ming is prevalent. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, “Song typeface” (宋體) has been used but “Ming typeface” (明體) has increased currency since the advent of desktop publishing. Some type foundries use "Song" to refer to this style of typeface that follows a standard such as the Standard Form of National Characters, and “Ming” to refer to typefaces that resemble forms found in the Kangxi dictionary.