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Narcissus is a piece of music composed for the piano in 1891 by Ethelbert Nevin.It is fourth of the five pieces in the suite Water Scenes.The composer recalled the Greek myth of Narcissus and, upon rereading the story, the music came quickly.
The Four Bucketeers' best-known number (and also their highest-charting single) was "The Bucket Of Water Song", which reached No. 26 in the UK Singles Chart in 1980. [ 1 ] Originally the song was composed and performed as a sketch within the Tiswas programme.
It is not known whether the name Nereus was known to Homer or not, but the name of the Nereids is attested before it, and can be found in the Iliad. [3] Since Nereus only has relevance as the father of the Nereids, it has been suggested that his name could actually be derived from that of his daughters; [4] while the derivation of the Nereids from Nereus, as a patronymic, has also been ...
In L. Frank Baum's "Mother Goose in Prose", the rhyme was written by a farm boy named Bobby who had just seen the cat running around with his fiddle clung to her tail, the cow jumping over the moon's reflection in the waters of a brook, the dog running around and barking with excitement, and the dish and the spoon from his supper sliding into ...
Early in The Lord of the Rings, at The Prancing Pony inn at Bree, the protagonist Frodo Baggins jumps on a table and recites "a ridiculous song" supposedly invented by his cousin Bilbo. "Here it is in full", said Tolkien, alluding to the shortness of the nursery rhyme. "Only a few words of it are now, as a rule, remembered." [T 2]
Video captured the moment 17-year-old Brady Procon became an unexpected hero over the weekend after he leaped from his personal watercraft to get control of a runaway boat.
It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13902. Lyrics. The most common version of the rhyme is: Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick. [1 ...
The album yielded the popular Top 30 hits, "Still Water (Love)" (#11), which was co-written by Smokey Robinson and their cover of "It's All in the Game" (#24), which featured rare co-leads by Four Tops members Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton singing alongside prominent lead Levi Stubbs.