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The song was inspired by the life and exploits of Martin Luther King Jr., with the lyrics recounting a man battling and overcoming the odds. [5] In the 2011 BBC documentary, Queen: Days of Our Lives , Taylor stated his lyrics were "sort of half nicked off Martin Luther King's famous speech ". [ 6 ]
"The Chicken Song" is a novelty song by the British satirical comedy television programme Spitting Image (series 3, episode 6). The nonsensical lyrics were written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor ; the music was written by Philip Pope , who also produced the song, with Michael Fenton Stevens & Kate Robbins as vocalists.
He wrote the lyrics in one day. The band first rehearsed the song at the Whisky a Go Go. [2] Lamm said the song is about trying to write a song in the middle of the night. The song's title is the time at which the song is set: 25 or 26 minutes before 4 a.m., phrased as, "twenty-five or [twenty-]six [minutes] to four [o’clock]," (i.e. 03:35 or ...
Rocky Mountain Holiday is a television special and a soundtrack album of songs from the special, performed by American singer-songwriter John Denver and The Muppets.The show has Denver playing host to the extended Muppet family; he takes them up into the scenic Rockies for an excursion that includes fishing, hiking, and camping.
In 1997, American singer song-writer Kim Fox recorded the song for her album, Moon Hut. In 2001, country singer John Anderson recorded the song for his album, Nobody's Got It All. In 2002, Hank Williams III covered the song on his album Lovesick, Broke and Driftin'. In 2009, The Hold Steady covered the song on the War Child soundtrack. [12]
"Then two of us know the muffin man, the muffin man,". No. 2 then turns to No. 3, repeating the same words, who replies in the same way, only saying, "Three of us know the muffin man,". No. 3 then turns to No. 4, and so on round the room, the same question and answer being repeated, the chorus only varied by the addition of one more number each ...
Chicken Man may refer to: "Chicken Man" (theme tune), the original theme tune of the British TV series Grange Hill from 1978 to 1990 and also the theme tune of Give Us a Clue; Chicken Man, the stage name of Fred Staten, nightclub performer, voodoo practitioner of New Orleans; Chickenman (radio series), a radio series from the 1960s
An entirely different arrangement of "Chicken Man" was also used as the theme to early series of the British quiz show Give Us a Clue, despite the fact that it was already being used on Grange Hill. It lasted as the theme tune from 1979 until 1981, when a new producer/director commissioned an entirely new theme tune.