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The song was first played on radio station WOR, New York, by Al Trace and his Silly Symphonists. It made the pop charts several times, with a version by the Merry Macs reaching No. 1 in March 1944. The song was also a number-one sheet music seller, with sales of over 450,000 within the first three weeks of release. [ 1 ]
Poetry can be life-altering for children who struggle to read, establishing a lifelong habit, writes educator Timothy Rasinkski. Poetry from Daily Life: With rhythm and rhyme, poetry is a great ...
"School Days" is an American popular song written in 1907 by Will D. Cobb and Gus Edwards. Its subject is of a mature couple looking back sentimentally on their childhood together in primary school. [1] The song was featured in a Broadway show of the same name, the first in a series of
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The song's arrangement has been called "Beatlesque", [9] bearing similarities to Beatles songs "Martha My Dear" and "A Day in the Life" [10] while harmonically it shares its unusual first four chords and harmonic rhythm with "Yesterday". [11] The song's piano and drum intro is borrowed from the Kinks' 1968 song "Do You Remember Walter". [12]
"Connection" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, featured on their 1967 album Between the Buttons. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (but mostly Richards), features vocals by both and is said to be about the long hours the band spent in airports. The lyrics contain much rhyming based on the word connection. The ...
Versions in other languages may vary; for example, in the Czech version, sung by the country band Taxmeni, the song continues with an additional, joyful strophe, narrating further events in the grandson's life: the birth of his son and the purchase of a new clock on the same day, to maintain the family tradition. [4]
The first two lines at least appeared in dance books (1708, 1719, 1728), satires (1709, 1725), and a political broadside (1711). It appeared in the earliest extant collection of nursery rhymes, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published in London around 1744. The 1744 version included the first six lines. [3]