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Children's song. A children's song may be a nursery rhyme set to music, a song that children invent and share among themselves or a modern creation intended for entertainment, use in the home or education. Although children's songs have been recorded and studied in some cultures more than others, they appear to be universal in human society.
The public domain melody of the song was borrowed for "I Love You", a song used as the theme for the children's television program Barney and Friends.New lyrics were written for the melody in 1982 by Indiana homemaker Lee Bernstein for a children's book titled "Piggyback Songs" (1983), and these lyrics were adapted by the television series in the early 1990s, without knowing they had been ...
The Muffin Man. Sheet music for Harry King's setting of the song performed by Dan Leno (1889) " The Muffin Man " is a traditional nursery rhyme, children's song, or children's game of English origin. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7922.
Children's music or kids' music is music composed and performed for children. In European-influenced contexts this means music, usually songs, written specifically for a juvenile audience. The composers are usually adults. Children's music has historically held both entertainment and educational functions. Children's music is often designed to ...
Øystein Sunde in a Norwegian variant called Hvis dine ører henger ned ("If your ears hang down") on Det året det var så bratt 1971. A hip-hop version of the melody is used in the Jibbs song "Chain Hang Low". The vocal melody of this song is used in verses of "Minna ga Minna Eiyū" (みんながみんな英雄) by Japanese-American singer Ai.
Jimmy Crack Corn. " Jimmy Crack Corn " or " Blue-Tail Fly " is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular ...
Nursery rhyme. Illustration of "Hey Diddle Diddle", a well-known nursery rhyme. A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes.
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" shares many characteristics with "My Name Is Jan Jansen", a song that can trace its origin to Swedish vaudeville in the late 19th century. The song appears to have already become widely known by the mid-twentieth century. It received a major boost when it was circulated throughout the country during scout troop ...