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Ten Little Indians" is an American children's counting out rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 12976. In 1868, songwriter Septimus Winner adapted it as a song, then called " Ten Little Injuns ", [ 1 ] for a minstrel show .
Lyrically, the song evokes a psychedelic fantasy landscape, in which pink elephants roam with dancing moons and mermaids. Upon its release, "Dear Jessie" received mixed reviews from critics, who felt that the fantasy imagery of the song was overdone, but complimented its composition. Other reviewers likened the song to the music of the Beatles ...
Released as a single in November 1962, "Ten little Indians" charted at number 49 on the Billboard chart. The song was mainly successful in America's Midwest, reaching the top 30 in Chicago, Dallas and Pittsburgh, reaching as high as number nine in Minneapolis (KDWB) in a New Year 1963 chart still dominated by "Surfin' Safari".
"Ten Little Indians", a modern children's rhyme, a major variant of which is "Ten Little Niggers" And Then There Were None, a 1939 novel by Agatha Christie which was originally published as Ten Little Niggers and later as Ten Little Indians. And Then There Were None, a 1943 play by Agatha Christie adapting her novel, performed in the United ...
"Baby Elephant Walk" is a song composed in 1961 by Henry Mancini for the 1962 film Hatari! [1] Lyrics by Hal David were not used in the film version. The instrumental earned Mancini a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement in 1963 .
The song took off near the end of 2023, after people started posting idyllic videos of everyday moments in their lives over the line from the song playing in the background.
The 1897 version has the following lyrics: [2] I went to the animal fair, The birds and the beasts were there; The little baboon by the light of the moon Was combing his auburn hair. The monkey he got drunk, And sat on the elephant's trunk, The elephant sneezed and fell on his knees And that was the end of the monk.
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.