Wendy & Bonnie

Wendy is a Welsh feminine given name. In Britain during the English Civil War in the mid-1600s, a male Captain Wendy Oxford was identified by the Leveller John Lilburne as a spy reporting on his activities. It was also used as a surname in Britain from at least the 17th century. Its popularity in Britain as a feminine name is owed to the character Wendy Darling from the 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelisation Peter and Wendy, both written by J. M. Barrie. Its popularity reached a peak in the 1960s, and subsequently declined. The name was inspired by young Margaret Henley, daughter of Barrie's poet friend W. E. Henley. Margaret reportedly used to call Barrie "my friendy", with the common childhood difficulty pronouncing Rs this came out as "my fwendy" and "my fwendy-wendy".

Similar Artists

Donovan

Melanie

The Zombies

Love

Jefferson Airplane

The Byrds

Buffalo Springfield

Bob Dylan

The Beau Brummels

Crosby, Stills & Nash

The Kinks

Moby Grape

The 13th Floor Elevators

It's a Beautiful Day

The United States Of America

The Beach Boys

The Monkees

Tim Buckley

The Mamas & The Papas

Traffic

Margo Guryan

The Cyrkle

The Millennium

Harumi

The Electric Prunes

Norma Tanega

John Cale

Slapp Happy

Kevin Ayers

The Free Design

The Rising Storm

Labi Siffre

Emitt Rhodes

Sagittarius

Jim Sullivan

Female Species

Lee Hazlewood

Pete Drake

Robert Lester Folsom