What is "big d"

n. A nickname for the city of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas,%20Texas, Texas, U.S.A.

Big D may refer to:

• Don Drysdale, former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Bigg D, record producer from Miami, Florida
• Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
• Daeseung "Teddy" Son, PhD Candidate at Claremont Theological Seminary

• Dudley Dursley, fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels
• Damn (spelled damme), referred to euphemistically in Gilbert and Sullivan's ''H.M.S. Pinafor'

• Big D and the Kids Table, third wave ska band established in 1995.
• "Big D" (song), song in Frank Loesser's 1956 Broadway musical, The Most Happy Fella.

• Big D Jamboree, a country music radio show on KRLD
• Big D and Bubba, a radio show nationally syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks

• Dallas, Texas, eighth-largest city in the United States

• Big D (peanuts), British brand of snack foods, popular in the 1970s and 1980s, still produced

• D (disambiguation)

"Big D" is a song about Dallas, Texas written by Frank Loesser in 1956 for the musical The Most Happy Fella. It repeatedly spells out the name of Dallas with the refrain: Big D, little A, double L, A, S.

Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews performed "Big D" in 1961, while Burnett was a regular and Andrews a guest star on The Garry Moore Show. The success of this appearance led to the development of a 1962 CBS television special, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, where the pair reprised the song.

Category:1956 songs Category:Songs about Texas Category:Songs from musicals Category:Songs written by Frank Loesser

Big D is a British brand of peanuts and snack food, introduced in 1967.