Sandy
Encyclopedia
Sandy may refer to:
- Characteristic of sandSandSand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.The composition of sand is highly variable, depending on the local rock sources and conditions, but the most common constituent of sand in inland continental settings and non-tropical coastal...
- Sandy (name)Sandy (name)Sandy is a popular unisex name; the male version can be a diminutive of Sanford or the diminutive for "Alexander" or "Alasdair" or "Sandipan", while the female version is a diminutive for "Sandra" or less commonly "Alexandra"...
, including a list of people with the name - Sandy brownSandy BrownSandy Brown may refer to:*Sandy Brown *Sandy Brown *Sandy Brown , Scottish clarinettist*Sandy brown, a colour and shade of brown-See also:...
, a shade of brown
Places
- Sandy, BedfordshireSandy, BedfordshireSandy is a small market town and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. It is between Cambridge and Bedford, and on the A1 road from London to Edinburgh. The area is dominated by a range of hills known as the Sand Hills. The River Ivel runs through Sandy. The dedication of the Anglican church is to...
, England - Sandy, CarmarthenshireSandy, CarmarthenshireSandy is an area in the county of Carmarthenshire in south-west Wales, on the western border of Llanelli town, about 5 miles east of Burry Port....
, Wales - Sandy, OregonSandy, OregonSandy is a city located in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, and named after the nearby Sandy River. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 5,385, however the 2006 estimate shows 7,070 people....
, United States - Sandy, PennsylvaniaSandy, PennsylvaniaSandy is a census-designated place in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,687 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Sandy is located at ....
, United States - Sandy, UtahSandy, UtahSandy is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is a suburb of Salt Lake City. The population was 87,461 at the 2010 census, making it the sixth-largest city in Utah....
, United States
Music
- Sandy (Sandy Denny album)Sandy (Sandy Denny album)Sandy is the second solo album by Sandy Denny, and is generally considered to be her best. The album was released in 1972 and begun just a fortnight after her UK tour promoting her debut solo album The North Star Grassman and the Ravens ended in early November 1971.The first song recorded for the...
, 1972 - Sandy (Sandy Lam album), 1987
- Sandy (Sandy Salisbury album), 2001
- "Sandy", a song by Larry HallLarry HallLarry Hall recorded a one-hit wonder song called "Sandy" in 1959. The disc reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart...
from 1959 - "Sandy", a song by Dion DiMucciDion DiMucciDion Francis DiMucci , better known as Dion, is an American singer-songwriter whose work has incorporated elements of doo-wop, pop oldies music, rock and R&B styles....
from 1963 - "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)"4th of July, Asbury Park ", often known just as "Sandy", is a 1973 song by Bruce Springsteen, originally appearing as the second song on his album The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle....
", a 1973 song by Bruce Springsteen from The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle, covered by The Hollies in 1975 as "Sandy" - "Sandy", a song by the Carpenters on A Kind Of Hush (album)A Kind of Hush (album)A Kind of Hush is the seventh studio album by American popular music duo The Carpenters. It was released in May 1976.Of its three excerpted singles only the title track, "There's a Kind of Hush ," a cover of a 1960s song by Herman's Hermits, gave the pair a hit single - both the US Top Ten, and UK...
, 1976 - "Sandy", a song sung by John Travolta in Grease (film)Grease (film)Grease is a 1978 American musical film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Warren Casey's and Jim Jacobs's 1971 musical of the same name about two lovers in a 1950s high school. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway...
- Sandy Leah Lima, a Brazilian singer-songwriter with the stage name "Sandy"
Other
- "Sandy", the nickname for search and rescue (SAR) escort duty typically flown by the A-1 SkyraiderA-1 SkyraiderThe Douglas A-1 Skyraider was an American single-seat attack aircraft that saw service between the late 1940s and early 1980s. It became a piston-powered, propeller-driven anachronism in the jet age, and was nicknamed "Spad", after a French World War I fighter...
- Operation Sandy, a test launch of a V-2 rocket in 1947 from the aircraft carrier USS Midway
See also
- Sandy IslandSandy IslandSandy Island may refer to:* Sandy Island * Sandy Island Beach State Park, New York, USA* Sandy Island , Western Australia* Sandy Island Marine Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada...
(disambiguation) - Sandie (disambiguation)
- Sandi (disambiguation)
- SandhiSandhiSandhi is a cover term for a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries . Examples include the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words...
, a variety of phonological processes