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It was in this Piercebridge hotel that the author encountered a remarkable clock that inspired the song. The song, told from a grandchild's point of view, is about his grandfather's clock. The clock is purchased on the morning of the grandfather's birth and works perfectly for 90 years, requiring only that it be wound at the end of each week.
"Ninety Years Without Slumbering" is episode 132 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The title comes from the lyrics of the song "My Grandfather's Clock", which is sung or played throughout the episode as a recurring motif.
Some of this decade's hits were songs still seen today, including "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" [1] [2] "Good-bye, Liza Jane", and "My Grandfather's Clock". These songs involved more philosophical and emotional content than hits before the war like "Camptown Races". For this reason, many American folk songs from the 1870s are remembered well ...
Support The term "grandfather clock" is a colloquialism that came into use after "longcase", as described by Adrian. A few surfs around antique clock shops and you'll find there's something of a consensus that the correct name for a grandfather clock is a longcase clock (or, more specifically, a floor standing longcase clock). As Wikipedia ...
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Grandfather clock may also refer to: "Grandfather Clock" (This Will Destroy You song), a song by This Will Destroy You, from their EP Young Mountain; Grandfather's Clock, a card game based on solitaire "My Grandfather's Clock", a popular song first written in 1876; The grandfather clock engine (1885), an early petrol engine
The reference to an earlier use of the term "grandfather clock" in the "Storyline" section has some serious problems: First, the source text cited is actually Wee Macgreegor, a collection of humorous sketches by "J.J.B."--the copy of Wee Macgreegor digitized by Google was bound with a much earlier edition of translations of Ovid by various hands (including John Dryden, thus the strange "Ovid ...
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