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Ten Little Indians" is an American children's counting out rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 12976. In 1868, songwriter Septimus Winner adapted it as a song, then called " Ten Little Injuns ", [ 1 ] for a minstrel show .
"Baby Elephant Walk" is a song composed in 1961 by Henry Mancini for the 1962 film Hatari! [1] Lyrics by Hal David were not used in the film version. The instrumental earned Mancini a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement in 1963 .
Green had modelled his lyrics on an American comic song "Ten Little Indians" [or Injuns] [10] [11] by Septimus Winner that had been published the year before. [12] In later editions of the novel, the characters of the rhyme are replaced by "Ten Little Indians" or "Ten Little Soldiers". This is the rhyme as published in a British 2008 edition: [13]
"Ten Little Indians", a modern children's rhyme, a major variant of which is "Ten Little Niggers" And Then There Were None, a 1939 novel by Agatha Christie which was originally published as Ten Little Niggers and later as Ten Little Indians. And Then There Were None, a 1943 play by Agatha Christie adapting her novel, performed in the United ...
The 1897 version has the following lyrics: [2] I went to the animal fair, The birds and the beasts were there; The little baboon by the light of the moon Was combing his auburn hair. The monkey he got drunk, And sat on the elephant's trunk, The elephant sneezed and fell on his knees And that was the end of the monk.
Released as a single in November 1962, "Ten little Indians" charted at number 49 on the Billboard chart. The song was mainly successful in America's Midwest, reaching the top 30 in Chicago, Dallas and Pittsburgh, reaching as high as number nine in Minneapolis (KDWB) in a New Year 1963 chart still dominated by "Surfin' Safari".
The song "One Elephant, Deux Éléphants" became the opening theme to their popular children's television show, The Elephant Show, which ran for five seasons. This was also the first time that Sharon, Lois, and Bram covered " Skinnamarink ", which became the group's signature song and was performed at the end of every episode of The Elephant ...
In 1965 at age 50 he scored the biggest hit of his career with the comic "Ten Little Bottles", which spent four weeks at No. 2. Bond's other hits include "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed" (1947), "Oklahoma Waltz" (1948), "Love Song in 32 Bars" (1950), "Sick Sober and Sorry" (1951), and a cover of Charlie Ryan's "Hot Rod Lincoln" (1960).