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In 1960 American engineer Jim Fassett put together an album of slowed-down and re-arranged bird songs called Symphony of the Birds. [15] Novelty songs pieced together from the sounds of dogs (The Singing Dogs) or cats (Jingle Cats) enjoyed brief popularity in the 1950s and 1960s.
Rose Bonne and Alan Mills. Official audio. "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" on YouTube. " There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly " is a cumulative (repetitive, connected poetic lines or song lyrics) children's nursery rhyme or nonsensical song. Other titles for the rhyme include " There Was an Old Lady ", " I Know an Old Lady Who ...
Blackbird song. Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, songs (relatively complex vocalizations) are distinguished by function from calls (relatively simple vocalizations).
Capitol. Songwriter (s) Alan Livingston, Billy May, Warren Foster. Alternative cover. Sleeve of the 1970 UK single. " I Taut I Taw A Puddy-Tat " is a novelty song composed and written by Alan Livingston, Billy May and Warren Foster. [1] It was sung by Mel Blanc, who provided the voice of the bird, Tweety and of his nemesis Sylvester. [2]
Musicologists such as Matthew Head and Suzannah Clark believe that birdsong has had a large though admittedly unquantifiable influence on the development of music. [2] [3] Birdsong has influenced composers in several ways: they can be inspired by birdsong; [4] they can intentionally imitate bird song in a composition; [4] they can incorporate recordings of birds into their works; [5] or they ...
Indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea) vocalizing. Animal song is not a well-defined term in scientific literature, and the use of the more broadly defined term vocalizations is in more common use. Song generally consists of several successive vocal sounds incorporating multiple syllables. [1] Some sources distinguish between simpler vocalizations ...
Cats is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.It is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the "Jellicle choice" by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.
xeno-canto is a citizen science project and repository in which volunteers record, upload and annotate recordings of bird calls and sounds of orthoptera and bats. [2] Since it began in 2005, it has collected over 575,000 sound recordings from more than 10,000 species worldwide, and has become one of the biggest collections of bird sounds in the world. [1]