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The earliest recorded version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published in London in May 1744, which uses the opening line: 'Hickere, Dickere Dock'. [1] The next recorded version in Mother Goose's Melody (c. 1765), uses 'Dickery, Dickery Dock'.
Although Tommy Thumb's Song Book is an older collection, no copies of its first printing have survived. The only other printed copies of nursery rhymes that predate the Pretty Song-Book are in the form of quotations and allusions, such as the half-dozen or so that appear in Henry Carey's 1725 satire on Ambrose Philips, Namby Pamby. [5]
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
The more recent campaign is more likely, but the first record is very late. The song may be based on a song about the king of France. [28] "Hickory Dickory Dock" Exeter Cathedral astronomical clock: 1744 (Britain) In the 17th century, the clock had a small hole in the door below the face for the resident cat to hunt mice. [29] "Humpty Dumpty"
Her Majesty (song) Here We Come A-wassailing; Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush; Here's a Health unto His Majesty; The Herring Song; Richard Oliver Heslop; Hey Diddle Diddle; Hi, canny man; Hickory Dickory Dock; Hide and Seek (Imogen Heap song) Holmfirth Anthem; Honest Labourer; Hot Cross Buns (song) Humpty Dumpty; Hydrophobie (song)
Then came the Hickory Dickory Clock which made its debut in 2001 featured clockwork resembling the "Hickory Dickory" nursery rhyme with a cat and the mouse running around the clock and then the mouse re-appearances as the little red doors under the clock opens.
The clock struck one, and down it come, Hickory, dickory, dock New meaning: The mouse in this version represents the computer input device and the clock represents time. Mindy Scott is currently writing The New Babel as a free e-book called “Suddenly in Sanity” on the MINDOLOGY LIVE web site (WWW.MINDOLOGY.US).
Kid Stuff Records, also known originally as The Kid Stuff Repertory Company, was a record label founded in 1975 by Bob McAllister, Artie Kaplin, and Dick Mullen, as a children's music label.