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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]
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.
"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 ...
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.
The song was covered by Dusty Springfield for her album A Girl Called Dusty (1964); Springfield sang both parts of the track. "Mockingbird" was also recorded by Aretha Franklin for her album Runnin' Out of Fools (1965); Franklin performed the song (with Ray Johnson providing the counter-vocal) on the March 10, 1965, episode of the TV program ...
The first version, made April 16, 1952, was released on Columbia's Okeh label in 1952 (reaching number 23 on the Billboard chart that year) and re-released four years later on Columbia (number 67 on the 1956 chart.) [citation needed] A new recording was made in 1958, entering the Billboard Hot 100 list on November 24, 1958, eventually reaching number 32 on that chart. [2]
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Claudia Durst Johnson is a literary scholar best known for her work on the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, introducing the idea of the novel's gothicism and gothic satire.In the process of her research she befriended the author, Harper Lee.