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"I'm a Little Teapot" is an American novelty song describing the heating and pouring of a teapot or a whistling tea kettle. The song was originally written by George Harry Sanders and Clarence Z. Kelley and published in 1939. [1] By 1941, a Newsweek article referred to the song as "the next inane novelty song to sweep the country". [2]
Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist . The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a " libretto " and their writer, as a " librettist ".
"Short Shorts" is a song written and performed by Tom Austin, Bill Crandell, Bill Dalton, and Bob Gaudio, members of The Royal Teens. It reached #2 on the U.S. R&B chart and #3 on the U.S. pop chart in 1958. [1] The group originally released the track on the small New York label Power Records in 1957.
Short quotes from famous songs “All you need is love.” — The Beatles, “All You Need Is Love” “The future is no place to place your better days.” — Dave Matthews Band, “Cry Freedom”
A mondegreen (/ ˈ m ɒ n d ɪ ˌ ɡ r iː n / ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. [1] Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense.
The 2017 short film Waltzing Tilda features various versions of the song, including one sung by the main character. [ 130 ] [ 131 ] The song is featured in the 2019 film Deadwood: The Movie [ 132 ] despite the film being set in 1889, six years before the song was written.
Sijo is, first and foremost, a song. This lyric pattern gained popularity in royal courts amongst the yangban as a vehicle for religious or philosophical expression, but a parallel tradition arose among the commoners. Sijo were sung or chanted with musical accompaniment, and this tradition survives. The word originally referred only to the ...
"The Ballad of Spiro Agnew" was originally written and performed by Tom Paxton.It was covered by John Denver on his 1969 album Rhymes & Reasons. [1]It is a very short song, clocking in at around eighteen seconds.