Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Rudyard Kipling's "Fuzzy Wuzzy", composed between 1922 and 1923, was revised at the same time, but remains unpublished. [3] Britten's biographer, David Matthews, wrote of "Beware" and "O that I had ne'er been Married" that it was "a little disconcerting to find the texts of both of these songs are warnings against women". [4]
The term "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels" was used by Australian soldiers during World War II to describe Papua New Guinean stretcher bearers.The term was not widely deemed to be problematic when it was used by Kipling and by British soldiers during the Sudan Campaign or by Australian soldiers in the 20th century; however, more recently some have deemed it to be a racial slur.
It seems like Fuzzy Wuzzy was used to describe a bear who was Fuzzy or Wuz he. The song has an intro about a Private Elmer Johnson who went to Alaska and saw a strange animal. He took out a pen and wrote to the folks back home of what he saw. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Wuz Fuzzy Wuzzy Fuzzy? It continues of how the bear ...
Wareham read the phrase "Fuzzy Wuzzy" in a Don DeLillo book. [7] ... All lyrics by Dean Wareham, music by Luna. "IHOP" – 5:44 "Beautiful View" – 3:43
Fuzzy-Wuzzy can refer to: The nickname of the Hadendoa tribe of East Africa, so named for their elaborate hairstyles. Fuzzy-Wuzzy", a poem by Rudyard Kipling * The fictional bear in a tongue-twister nursery rhyme; Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, the name given to Papua New Guineans who assisted injured Australian troops during World War II
In Eliot's view, this makes Kipling a 'ballad-writer', and that was already, he thought, more difficult in 1941 than in Kipling's time, as people no longer had the music hall to inspire them. [4] Eliot thought Kipling's ballads unusual, also, in that Kipling had been careful to make it possible to absorb each ballad's message on a single hearing.
Tammy Wynette had recently broken through as a country music artist with the top five single, "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad", and a number one duet with David Houston, "My Elusive Dreams". Epic issued two studio albums of her material up to this point. Both were released in 1967 and her previous albums most contained covers of songs. [3]
Luna is an American rock band formed in 1991 by singer and guitarist Dean Wareham after the breakup of Galaxie 500.Described by Rolling Stone as "the best band you’ve never heard of," Luna combine intricate guitar work, traditional rock rhythms, and poetic lyrics.