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help. " I Am the Walrus " is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 television film Magical Mystery Tour. Written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was released as the B-side to the single " Hello, Goodbye " and on the Magical Mystery Tour EP and album. In the film, the song underscores a segment in ...
[2] The singers departed from their usual commercial style when they provided backing vocals for the Beatles' song "I Am the Walrus", which required them to do "all sorts of swoops and phonetic noises" and chant the phrases "ho ho ho, he he he, ha ha ha", "oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper" and "everybody's got one". [6]
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.
When We Was Fab. " When We Was Fab " is a song by English musician George Harrison, which he released on his 1987 album Cloud Nine. It was also issued as the second single from the album, in January 1988. The lyrics serve as a nostalgic reflection by Harrison on the days of Beatlemania during the 1960s, when the Beatles were first referred to ...
Robert Lamm. Producer (s) James William Guercio. " South California Purples " (originally titled "Southern California Purples") is a song written and sung by Robert Lamm for the rock band Chicago and recorded for their debut album Chicago Transit Authority (1969). [1][2][3] The song quotes the opening line from The Beatles ' " I Am the Walrus:"
The Walrus and the Carpenter speaking to the Oysters, as portrayed by illustrator John Tenniel. " The Walrus and the Carpenter " is a narrative poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in his book Through the Looking-Glass, published in December 1871. The poem is recited in chapter four, by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice.
The "walrus" in the cryptic song "I Am the Walrus" by the Beatles is a reference to the Lewis Carroll poem. [ 108 ] Another appearance of the walrus in literature is in the story "The White Seal" in Rudyard Kipling 's The Jungle Book , where it is the "old Sea Vitch—the big, ugly, bloated, pimpled, fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North ...
Hello, Goodbye. " Hello, Goodbye " (sometimes titled " Hello Goodbye ") is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Backed by John Lennon 's "I Am the Walrus", it was issued as a non-album single in November 1967, the group's first release since the death of their manager, Brian ...