Eddie Thomas
Statistics
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.

You Never Can Tell

You Never Can Tell may refer to:

  • You Never Can Tell (play), an 1899 play by G. Bernard Shaw
  • "You Never Can Tell" (song), a 1964 song by Chuck Berry
  • You Never Can Tell (1920 film), a romantic comedy starring Jack Mulhall and Bebe Daniels
  • You Never Can Tell (1951 film), a comedy starring Dick Powell
  • You Never Can Tell (song)

    "You Never Can Tell", also known as "C'est La Vie" or "Teenage Wedding", is a song written by Chuck Berry. It was composed in the early 1960s while Berry was in federal prison for violating the Mann Act. Released in 1964 on the album St. Louis to Liverpool and the follow-up single to Berry's final Top Ten hit of the 1960s: "No Particular Place to Go", "You Never Can Tell" reached #14 becoming Berry's final Top 40 hit until "My Ding-a-Ling" in 1971. A 1978 Top Ten C&W hit for Emmylou Harris, the song has also been recorded or performed by Chely Wright, John Prine, New Riders of the Purple Sage, the Jerry Garcia Band,Bruce Springsteen, and Bob Seger.

    Description

    The song tells of the wedding of two teenagers and their lifestyle afterward. Living in a modest apartment, the young man finds work and they begin to enjoy relative prosperity. Eventually they purchase a "souped-up jitney" (an automobile modified for high performance) and travel to New Orleans, where their wedding had taken place, to celebrate their anniversary. Each verse ends with the refrain, "'C'est la vie,' say the old folks, 'it goes to show you never can tell.'" The melody was influenced by Mitchell Torok's 1953 hit "Caribbean".

    You Never Can Tell (1920 film)

    You Never Can Tell is a 1920 American romantic comedy film produced by the Realart company, an affiliate of Paramount Pictures, and distributed by Realart. Chester M. Franklin directed and Bebe Daniels starred in the film. The film is based on several short stories You Never Can Tell and Class by Grace Lovell Bryan. A surviving print of the film is housed in the Library of Congress.

    Cast

  • Bebe Daniels - Rowena Patricia Jones
  • Jack Mulhall - Prince
  • Edward Martindel - William Vaughn
  • Helen Dunbar - Mrs. Vaughn
  • Harold Goodwin - Jimmy Flannery
  • Neely Edwards - Mysterious Sport
  • Leo White - Mr. Renan
  • Milla Davenport - Mrs. Jones
  • Graham Pettie - Wilberforce Jones
  • Gertrude Short - Vera
  • References

    External links

  • You Never Can Tell at the Internet Movie Database
  • You Never Can Tell at AllMovie

  • 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).


    Notes

    External links

  • Eddie Thomas's statistics from AFL Tables
  • Eddie Thomas's profile at Collingwood Forever
  • Podcasts:

    Eddie Thomas

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    You Never Can Tell

    by: Chuck Berry

    It was a teenage wedding and the old folks wished them well
    You could see that Pierre did truly love the Madamoiselle
    And now the young Monsieur and Madame have rung the chapel bell
    "C'est la vie" say the old folks
    It goes to show you never can tell
    They furnished off an apartment with a two room roebuck sale
    The coolerator was crammed with TV dinners and ginger ale
    But when Pierre found work, the little money comin' worked out well
    "C'est la vie" say the old folks
    It goes to show you never can tell
    They had a hi-fi phono boy did they let it blast?
    Seven hundred little records all rock, rhythm and jazz
    But when the sun went down the rapid tempo of the music fell
    "C'est la vie" say the old folks
    It goes to show you never can tell
    They bought a souped-up jitney was a cherry red '53
    And drove it down New Orleans to celebrate their anniversary
    It was there where Pierre was wedded to the lovely Madamoiselle
    "C'est la vie" say the old folks
    It goes to show you never can tell
    They had a teenage wedding and the old folks wished them well
    You could see that Pierre did truly love the Madamoiselle
    And now the young Monsieur and Madame have rung the chapel bell
    "C'est la vie" say the old folks




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