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The Carpenters attempted to repopularize the song in 1976, when it was released as a single from their album A Kind of Hush.However, as a sign of the duo's declining popularity at the time, it was the first Carpenters A-side single since "Ticket to Ride" in 1970 to fail to make the top 40 portion of the Billboard Hot 100, or to reach either #1 or #2 on the Easy Listening chart.
Goofus may refer to: Couesnophone, saxophone-like musical instrument also known as Goofus "Goofus" (song), 1930 song later recorded by The Carpenters; Goofus, character in Goofus and Gallant American comic strip; Goofus glass, type of early 20th-century glass; Goofus bird, mythical American backward-flying bird
Goofus and Gallant was created by Garry Cleveland Myers and was first featured in the magazine Children's Activities in 1940. According to family legend, the grandchildren of Myers and his wife Caroline, Kent Brown and Garry Cleveland Myers III, inspired the characters Goofus and Gallant respectively. [1]
The couesnophone, also known as the goofus or queenophone, is a free-reed musical instrument in a saxophone shape, patented by French instrument manufacturer Couesnon in 1924. Its reeds vibrate when the desired keys are activated and the player blows through a tube.
Adrian Francis Rollini (June 28, 1903 – May 15, 1956) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who primarily played the bass saxophone, piano, and vibraphone. [1] Rollini is also known for playing novel instruments such as the goofus, a free-reed instrument resembling a saxophone, and the "hot fountain pen", a sort of keyless miniature clarinet.
First appearing in Highlights in 1948, [10] Goofus and Gallant is what New Yorker Magazine calls a "brazenly didactic" cartoon strip [41] that features two contrasting boys, Goofus and Gallant. Created by Garry Cleveland Myers, the boys were originally drawn as elves and originated from an earlier version of the strip called “The G-Twins ...
Goofy is a cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company.He is a tall, anthropomorphic dog who typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora.
The Fillamaloo, or Goofus bird. The Goofus bird is a mythical, backwards-flying bird, originating in lumberjack folklore [1] in North America. [2] It is also known variously as the Filla-ma-loo bird or the Flu-fly bird. [3] The Goofus Bird flies backwards, as it does not care where it's going, only where it's been, and it builds its nest upside ...