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The traditional gestures for the "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" song demonstrated at a festival in Japan (2014) "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" is a children's song. The song was documented as early as 1912 [ 1] and in 1961. [ 2] It is often sung to the tune of "There Is a Tavern in the Town", although it is sometimes sung to the tune of ...
Text and music. The original Kindertodtenlieder were a group of 428 poems written by Rückert in 1833–34 [1] in an outpouring of grief following the illness ( scarlet fever) and death of two of his children. Karen Painter describes the poems thus: "Rückert's 428 poems on the death of children became singular, almost manic documents of the ...
Porpoise Song. " Porpoise Song " is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and performed by the Monkees as the theme song for their 1968 film Head and its accompanying soundtrack album. [4] The single version contains an extended instrumental outro not included on the album version or in either of the song's appearances in Head.
Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films (and later, music videos) which aired during the Saturday morning children's programming block on the U.S. television network ABC. The themes covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics.
The song was first introduced live on New York Radio (WOR) by crooner Harry Brannon in November 1949. [6] [7] Gene Autry recorded the song on June 27, 1949, [8] and it was released as a children's record by Columbia Records in September 1949. [9] By November, Columbia had begun pushing the record to the pop music market.
Connelly began rewriting popular songs to help students learn multiplication in March. His first video, a reinterpretation of " I Want It That Way " by the Backstreet Boys, taught kids how to ...
Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me. Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me or Shew! fly, don't bother me is a minstrel show song from the 1860s that has remained popular since that time. It was sung by soldiers during the Spanish–American War of 1898, when flies and the yellow fever mosquito were a serious enemy. Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his ...
The earliest known audio recording of the song was made in 1939 in New York by anthropologist and folklorist Herbert Halpert and is held in the Library of Congress. [4] Charles Ives added musical notes 1939, [citation needed] and a version of it was copyrighted in 1944 by Freda Selicoff. [5] [6] The lyrics of the poem (song) goes as follows: [7]