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"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 short story collection The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about adventures of a valiant young Indian grey mongoose. [1] It has often been anthologized and published several times as a short book.
"Nagasaki" is an American jazz song by Harry Warren and Mort Dixon from 1928 and became a popular Tin Pan Alley hit. The silly, bawdy lyrics have only the vaguest relation to the Japanese port city of Nagasaki; part of the humor is realising that the speaker obviously knows very little about the place, and is just making it up.
The song's music and melody were composed by Elton John, with lyrics by Tim Rice.In the film the song is sung by Timon the Meerkat (voiced by Nathan Lane), Pumbaa the Warthog (voiced by Ernie Sabella), and Simba, a young lion voiced by Jason Weaver (singing voice as a cub) and Joseph Williams (singing voice as an adult).
From the MTV music video The Monkees Christmas Medley "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" - recorded live 8/31/2001 at the Sun Theater (Anaheim, CA) 2001 Carl Smith, Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner Peter Tork Not included on the 2003 CD "The Monkees: Live Summer Tour" but was included on the DVD of the concert "I Got a Woman"
The popularity of the song is lampooned in a 1940s film short. [4] In the film, The King's Men (who also performed on Fibber McGee and Molly) play young men living in a boarding house who are endlessly singing the song while getting dressed, eating dinner, playing cards, etc., until an exasperated fellow boarder (William Irving) finally has them removed to an insane asylum.
The song was recorded by Jamaican musician Sam Manning in the mid-1920s [1] and Lord Invader (of "Rum and Coca-Cola" fame) in 1946. [2] A different version with a similar name, "Slide Mongoose Slide" was recorded in the Bahamas in 1935, performed by the Nassau String Band.
"Porpoise Song" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and performed by the Monkees as the theme song for their 1968 film Head and its accompanying soundtrack album. [4] The single version contains an extended instrumental outro not included on the album version or in either of the song's appearances in Head .
"The Hearse Song" is a piece of folklore with an unusually large number of variants, created over several generations. Carl Sandburg, in his 1927 book American Songbag, printed two early variations, the first being: [7] The Old Grey Hearse goes rolling by, You don't know whether to laugh or cry; For you know some day it'll get you too,