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The traditional lullaby "Hush Little Baby" [59] has a line that goes "Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird". The song of the northern mockingbird inspired many American folk songs of the mid-19th century, such as "Listen to the Mocking Bird". [60] Thomas Jefferson had several pet mockingbirds, including a bird named "Dick". [61] [62]
"Listen to the Mocking Bird" was parodied in the television series, The Flintstones, as a swinging jazz tune called "Listen to the Rocking Bird", in the 1961 episode "The Girls' Night Out". "Listen to the Mockingbird" forms part of the "Merry-Go-Round Music" medley in Marvin Hamlisch's soundtrack for the 1973 motion picture The Sting, and is ...
The northern mockingbird is the state bird of five states in the United States, a trend that was started in 1920, when the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs proposed the idea. In January 1927, Governor Dan Moody approved this, and Texas became the first state ever to choose a state bird.
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther panned the film's "incredibly mawkish plot" and added: "Our old friend, the young musician who has a great concerto chasing through his mind but can't get it down on paper because—well, something's eating on him, is back again...and, so far as this reviewer sees things, neither he nor his concerto are improved.
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie; G.I. Joe: The Movie; The Great Land of Small; Harry and the Hendersons [1] The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones; Mio in the Land of Faraway; Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night; The Puppetoon Movie; Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers; The Secret Garden; Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats; Ultraman: The Adventure Begins
Since the premiere of NBC Saturday Night at the Movies in September 1961, post-1948 major studio feature films gained a dominant foothold in primetime American TV and, by the mid-1960s, feature films were being broadcast by all three networks in prime time on a nearly-daily basis. Although many of those films were in black-and-white, the ones ...
Shirley O'Garra was born to William H. and Petra (Smith) O'Garra. Her father was a native of Montserrat, and her mother was born in the Bahamas. [4] Shirley had three full siblings, Joyce, Bertram and William Jr., and four half siblings, Reginald, Suzanne, Joycelyn and Berbian.
Mockingbird Don't Sing is a 2001 American independent film based on the true story of Genie, a modern-day feral child. [1] The film is told from the point of view of Susan Curtiss (whose fictitious name is Sandra Tannen), a professor of linguistics at University of California, Los Angeles .