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In 1964, the National Film Board of Canada released the award-winning 5-minute cartoon I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, directed by Derek Lamb. [12] Meredith Tax used this poetic form in her 1970 feminist poem There Was a Young Woman Who Swallowed a Lie, in which the woman finally "throws up" the lies she swallowed. [13]
Simms Taback (February 13, 1932 – December 25, 2011) was an American writer, graphic artist, and illustrator of more than 35 books.He won the 2000 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, and was a runner-up in 1998 for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly; I Bought Me a Cat, featured in the 1950 Aaron Copland song set Old American Songs; The Old Woman and the Pig; The Train to Glasgow by Wilma Horsbrugh , later set to music by The Singing Kettle; And The Green Grass Grew All Around and The Rattlin' Bog; Old MacDonald Had a Farm; A Fly Went By
"Some days it seems that may never happen, other days such a meeting feels imminent," the "Baby Beluga" singer wrote of his quest for love
2002 Grammy Award: Best Spoken Word Album For Children, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly [10] 2004 Grammy Award: Best Spoken Word Album For Children, The Train They Call the City of New Orleans [10] 2008 American Eagle Award (National Music Council of the United States) Magic Penny Award (The Children's Music Network)
There Was an Old Woman, 1943 mystery novel by Ellery Queen "There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly", 1950s children's song by Alan Mills "There Was an Old Woman" (The Twilight Zone), 1988 The Twilight Zone television episode
The song was first released as part of a suite of songs, including "Sinking of the Ruben James" and "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly", on Seeger and Sonny Terry's 1958 live album, Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry. [5] Another live version of the song was included on Seeger's 1967 compilation album, Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits. [6]
"There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" is a popular English language nursery rhyme, with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19132. Debates over its meaning and origin have largely centered on attempts to match the old woman with historical female figures who have had large families, although King George II (1683–1760) has also been proposed as the rhyme's subject.