Saveen
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Albert Saveen (known as "Saveen") (1915 - 1994) was a British ventriloquist who was the first to have a national radio series ("Midday with Daisy May") on the BBC Light Programme after World War II. Among his many puppet characters were the tiny schoolgirl dummy Daisy May, a cockney boy dummy Andy the Spiv and two dogs (one dummy and one real!). He also made frequent appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s.
His character Daisy May is identified as the origin of Royal Navy slang "Daisy" for a sailor named May.[1]
Saveen is a word of Sanskrit origin which translates to "pleasing" "type of music" or harmony. It is a combination of two sounds SA meaning with and VEEN as in the Indian musical instrument Veena. In this context it can also be translated to mean the one with the Veena pointing to the Hindu goddess Saraswati.
[edit] See also
- Peter Brough British radio ventriloquist
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- Whirligig TV: 1950's British Television Nostalgia - includes sound/video clips
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