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"Tubby the Tuba" is a 1945 song with lyrics written by Paul Tripp and music composed by George Kleinsinger.The original 1946 recording featured Victor Jory's narration. [1] A second recording, released on the Decca label in 1947, was played by Hollywood Musician Tuba Soloist, George F. Boujie and was narrated and sung by Danny Kaye and later featured on his Hans Christian Andersen album, along ...
The song contains the line Why forty thousand Cornish boys shall knawa the reason why. [1] According to Cornish historian Robert Morton Nance, it was possibly the inspiration for R. S. Hawker's "The Song of the Western Men" which was written in 1824 and contains a strikingly similar line: Here's twenty thousand Cornish men will know the reason why!
He collaborated with Paul Tripp on a number of orchestral/vocal works for a young audience, beginning with "Tubby the Tuba". In 1948 he wrote music for the original Max Fleischer/Jam Handy animated adaptation of the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer story. [5] This led to him being commissioned to set the song to music for the 1964 Rankin-Bass ...
Pierre Max Dubois, Histoires de tuba (1988) Vinko Globokar, Juriritubaïoka (1996) Sofia Gubaidulina, Lamento (1977) Jennifer Higdon, Tuba Songs (2016) Paul Hindemith, Tuba Sonata (1955) Vagn Holmboe, Tuba Sonata, Op. 162 (1985) Bertold Hummel, Sonatina op. 81a (1983) Bertold Hummel, 3 Bagatelles op. 95h (1993)
"Squeeze Me" is a 1925 jazz standard composed by Fats Waller.It was based on an old blues song called "The Boy in the Boat". The lyrics were credited to publisher Clarence Williams, although Andy Razaf has claimed to have actually written the lyrics.
On the cover of the sheet music, there is a photograph of American silent film actress, Gladys Leslie saluting, while dressed in uniform. [1] She also performed the song. [2] The song is told from the first-person point of view of a woman who is used to being surrounded by boys. But because they're all fighting overseas in the war, she is lonely.
The following is a list of works by P. D. Q. Bach, a fictitious Bach family member, the alter ego of composer Peter Schickele.The first section lists, in alphabetical order, those works which have been recorded, are listed in the annotated catalogue of P. D. Q. Bach music in The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, and/or are listed on the Theodore Presser website.
John Thomas Johnson (January 7, 1935 - October 16, 2006) was an American orchestral tuba player. He performed on more than 2,000 film soundtracks, most notably John Williams' Jaws score, in which he played a high-register tuba solo as the melodic theme for the shark.