The Sound Of Music

[granny grump]

Please can you help me with these questions - CLUES only please

Answer can be anything connected to music.

6. Melody for after dinner (3 6 4)
21 Keep off! (5)
26. Much closer than 14! (5 5 2 6) The answer to 14 was halfway to paradise
27. Fray? (5)
31. Major road ahead of father? (4)
35. Arctic drama! (8)
38. Stronghold to the east? (5)
42. Bags of singular person! (9)
44. Shake! (6)
47. Potato (4) Could this be MASH - can't see the connection to music
47. Burden with country space (10 3)

[mallyh]

6 another name for pudding minus an s should lead you to this song

[mallyh]

26 so many paces the sky

[boxtops]

26 - The Monster Mash was a song, and there's a dance called the Mash

[boxtops]

26 look at Eddie Cochrane

[boxtops]

47 the space bit could be what is all around you

[Sharingan]

Plus a mixture of songs can be described as a 'mash'

[mallyh]

27 bolero composer

[boxtops]

True shari, that's modern teminology for you, I'd not thought of that

[mallyh]

31 opera by verdi

[mallyh]

38 pianos not 39

[mallyh]

35 gywneth paltrows husbands band

[The Builder]

27 They played in the Casbah???

[The Builder]

38 LOUD

[The Builder]

Sorry Mallyh ............ overlooked yours :o(

[dannyk13]

Showaddywaddy went as far as Eddie Cochran

[mallyh]

no problem the builder x im trying to work your casbclue out lol

[dannyk13]

38.Half of a piano

[dannyk13]

47.There is a Mashed potato dance

[carrust]

26. Opposite of the road to hell, you'd do it on a ladder

[granny grump]

Thank you all for your help - brilliant clues

Just left with
21 Keep off (5)
42 Bags of singular person (9)
44 Shake (6)
48 Burden country with space (10 3) I thought of Londonderry air following boxtops suggestion but of course it doesn't fit