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"The ABC Song" was first copyrighted in 1835 by Boston music publisher Charles Bradlee. The melody is from a 1761 French music book and is also used in other nursery rhymes like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", while the author of the lyrics is unknown. Songs set to the same melody are also used to teach the alphabets of other languages.
The letter P in ℗ stands for phonogram, [2] [3] the legal term used in most English-speaking countries to refer to works known in U.S. copyright law as "sound recordings". [4] A sound recording has a separate copyright that is distinct from that of the underlying work (usually a musical work, expressible in musical notation and written lyrics ...
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
The lyrics of Septimus Winner's "Spelling Bee" (a.k.a. "Ba Be Bi Bo Bu") were slightly different. [3] A number of schools like Harvard University used this as one of their traditional songs, which itself may have originated centuries earlier in typesetting, as a very similar song or chant was used to help train apprentice printers in the structure of language, a tradition being described as ...
This song resulted in a $5.5 million copyright lawsuit from Northern Songs, the owner of the Beatles' catalog; the suit was settled for $50 after Michael Jackson acquired the Beatles' catalog from Northern Songs. [4] "The Letter N", sung by Nick Normal (Jerry Nelson) and the Nickmatics, written by Stephen Lawrence (music) and Mark Saltzman ...
Anxious airline flyers may well remember 2024 as the year their worst fears about the safety of air travel felt confirmed, as a series of unprecedented, and in some cases fatal, airplane incidents ...
Following the song becoming an MTV success, many people had wondered who "P" was in the song. Finally, in 1998 Matt Sharp revealed who "P" was and the inspiration for the song, "That was one of the first songs I ever wrote, in the infancy of the Rentals", going on to say the song is about Paulina Porizkova, the wife of Ric Ocasek, who was the front man of American-new wave band The Cars [3] [4 ...
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