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In this deliberate misinterpretation of "Sing a Song of Sixpence" and its lyrics, the "Sixpence" referred to a Sixpence coin (a decent amount of money in Blackbeard's time) and the "pocketful of rye" was a bag ("pocket") with whiskey ("rye", one of the ingredients of whiskey) that captain Blackbeard gave to each pirate in his crew as a salary ...
Sing a Song of Sixpence; Solomon Grundy (nursery rhyme) Stella Ella Ola; Sticks and Stones; T. Taffy was a Welshman; Teletubbies say "Eh-oh!" Ten German Bombers;
It succeeded the Screen Songs series because Paramount Pictures lost the rights to the series' name and the term "Bouncing Ball" couldn't be used any more. Even though the series ended in 1953, Famous produced Candy Cabaret and Hobo's Holiday, which are part of the Noveltoons series. The opening theme of each cartoon was "Sing a Song of Sixpence".
The title is a takeoff on "Sing a Song of Sixpence," the classic English nursery rhyme. The name of the tailor shop is "Pip Boys," a parody of the auto service chain Pep Boys originally opened in Philadelphia in 1921. [2] Sing a Song of Six Pants was remade in 1953 as Rip, Sew and Stitch, using ample recycled footage from the original. [2]
"Four and twenty blackbirds" is a line from the English nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" Four and Twenty Blackbirds may also refer to: Literature
Andrew William John McCrorie-Shand (born 14 May 1955) is a British composer. He is mostly known for having composed musical scores for children's television programmes, including the original theme tune for Teletubbies, and also the chart topping hit that followed it, Teletubbies say "Eh-oh!".
Tinky Winky, Dipsy and Laa-Laa runs up and down the hill to say "Eh-Oh!" to the viewers, just as Po pops up and says "Boo!" and says "Eh-Oh!", then the Magic Windmill starts to spin as they run off, Po receives a video of some children joining in the music with Debbie. Laa-Laa makes up a song which makes the other Teletubbies run away.
As an individual musician, apart from his ballads, his idiosyncratic arrangements included "Sing a Song of Sixpence," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary," "Little Boy Blue," "Old Mother Hubbard" and "Little Jack Horner", set in the style of George Frederick Handel.