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The earliest known audio recording of the song was made in 1939 in New York by anthropologist and folklorist Herbert Halpert and is held in the Library of Congress. [4] Charles Ives added musical notes 1939, [citation needed] and a version of it was copyrighted in 1944 by Freda Selicoff. [5] [6] The lyrics of the poem (song) goes as follows: [7]
A recording of Danny Kaye singing it was used as the underscoring for a shadow puppet segment on the Captain Kangaroo television show. Was sung in part by Principal Skinner in The Simpsons episode S2:E14 "Principal Charming". Inchworm has been performed in skits on Jim Henson 's Sesame Street and The Muppet Show; the song was done twice by ...
A version for children appears on the 1984 Cabbage Patch Kids album "A Cabbage Patch Christmas". Woody Guthrie rewrote the lyrics to the song in 1949 and adapted the song to become “Come When I Call You.” Written about the ravages of war in the aftermath of World War II, the song would go unpublished until the late 90s.
From the 1913 sheet music. Performed by Steven M. Alper) " Low Bridge, Everybody Down " is a folk song credited to Thomas S. Allen (although its origin and authorship remain in question [1]), first recorded in 1912, [2] and published by F.B. Haviland Publishing Company in 1913. [3] It was written after the construction of the New York State ...
1894 ; 130 years ago(1894) Songwriter (s) Traditional. "I've Been Working on the Railroad" is an American folk song. The first published version appeared as "Levee Song" in Carmina Princetonia, a book of Princeton University songs published in 1894. [ 1 ] The earliest known recording is by The Shannon Quartet, released by Victor Records in 1923.
"Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is an English language nursery rhyme and a popular children's song, of American origin, often sung in a round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19236. Lyrics
This Little Light of Mine. " This Little Light of Mine " is an African-American song from the 1920s. It was often reported to be written for children in the 1920s by Harry Dixon Loes, but he never claimed credit for the original version of the song, and researchers at the Moody Bible Institute, where Loes worked, said they have found no ...
The title and lyrics of the Donegan version were changed in the UK because "Spearmint" is a registered trademark there, and the BBC would not play songs that mentioned trademarks. [ dubious – discuss ] Donegan's version of the song was recorded live at the New Theatre Oxford in December 1958, [ 4 ] and was released both as a single and as a ...