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"Three Little Fishies", also known as "Three Little Fishes", is a 1939 song with words by Josephine Carringer and Bernice Idins and music by Saxie Dowell. The song tells the story of three fishes, who defy their mother's command of swimming only in a meadow, by swimming over a dam and on out to sea, where they encounter a shark , which the fish ...
He wrote and sang the novelty song "Three Little Fishies" [1] [2] and recorded for Brunswick, Sonora, and Victor. [1] Around 1946 he led a naval air station band with 14-year-old Keely Smith as a singer. After the war he reunited his orchestra, performing mostly in Chicago. In 1949 he became a disc jockey for WGN radio in Chicago.
The popularity of the song is lampooned in a 1940s film short. [4] In the film, The King's Men (who also performed on Fibber McGee and Molly) play young men living in a boarding house who are endlessly singing the song while getting dressed, eating dinner, playing cards, etc., until an exasperated fellow boarder (William Irving) finally has them removed to an insane asylum.
His group had a major hit with the novelty tune, "Three Little Fishes". It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. [8] During the Swing Era, Kyser, Hal Kemp and Tal Henry often performed in or near New York City, making possible a reunion of North Carolina musicians. Later, after retirement, Kyser and Henry got ...
I'll Walk Beside You (song) I'm a Little Teapot; I've Got My Eyes on You (1939 song) If I Didn't Care; If I Had My Life to Live Over; If I Knew Then (Dick Jurgens and Eddy Howard song) If I Only Had a Brain; If I Were King of the Forest; Imagine Me in the Maginot Line; In a Mellow Tone; In the Middle of a Dream; In the Mood; It's a Big Wide ...
A nonsense song is a type of song ... "Three Little Fishies ... The closing theme song of the 1970s-80s sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati by Jim Ellis features gibberish lyrics.
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Kay Kyser's Greatest Hits is a 1962 compilation album featuring music made famous by American bandleader Kay Kyser released by Capitol Records.While Kyser himself was not present at the recording session, former members of his orchestra Harry Babbitt, Mike Douglas, Trudy Erwin, Ish Kabibble, Jack Martin, Sully Mason, Ginny Simms, and Gloria Wood reunited to make re-recordings of their original ...