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The cuckoo has traditionally been associated with sexual incontinence and infidelity. [9] An old name for the cuckoo was "cuckold's chorister", [10] and old broadsides played on the idea that the cuckoo's call was a reproach to husbands whose wives were unfaithful: The smith that on his anvill the iron hard doth ding:
has been a popular song on the Dr. Demento Show, appearing 54 times between the show's premiere and 2006 [8] and selected for the Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection double CD. [ 9 ] In Ken Kesey 's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , the character Randle Patrick McMurphy also sings a few lines of this song when he realizes the Chief is ...
Morris On is a folk/rock album released in 1972 under the joint names of Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick and Barry Dransfield.Like the subsequent "Descendant Of" Morris On albums (see below), it features English Morris dance tunes and songs, played with a combination of traditional instruments (button accordion, concertina, fiddle, etc.) and modern ones ...
"The Cuckoo's Nest" – by John Sheils "The Curracloe Boat Crew" – a song from Wexford "Easter Snow" – an aisling set in a town in Roscommon "Flower of Gortade" "The Limerick Rake" – a popular song, from a broadside [16] "Lough Erne Shore" "Old Arboe" – a song in praise of a spot near Lough Neagh in Co Tyrone"
In the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) the tune is constantly played as background music in the mental institution. The same 1951/1958 arrangement by Mantovani is used for "institutional" effect in Frank Darabont's 1999 film The Green Mile, in which it is heard as background music in the retirement home.
Nitzsche had also worked on film scores throughout his career, such as his contributions to the Monkees movie Head, the theme music from Village of the Giants (recycling an earlier single, "The Last Race") and the soundtracks for Performance (1970), The Exorcist (1973), [8] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), [8] [14] Hardcore (1979), The ...
William Sampson Jr. (September 27, 1933 – June 3, 1987) was a Muscogee Nation painter, actor, and rodeo performer. He is best known for his performance as the apparently mute Chief Bromden in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as Crazy Horse in the 1977 western The White Buffalo, as well as his roles as Taylor in Poltergeist II: The Other Side and Ten Bears in 1976's The ...
In the 1940 animated film Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket bounced on the saw for the song, "Give a Little Whistle", the saw is whistling like the musical saw, whistling effects by Marion Darlington. (1940) The Theme song of the movie One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is played on a musical saw.