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"Old MacDonald Had a Farm" (sometimes shortened to Old MacDonald) is a traditional children's song and nursery rhyme about a farmer and the various animals he keeps. Each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise. For example, if the verse uses a cow as the animal, then "moo" would be used as the animal's sound.
Tim takes the lead on most songs. "Old MacDonald" and "Bobby Shaftoe" are given country-and-western treatments. John Kirkpatrick takes the lead vocals on "Little Bo Peep". Melanie Harold leads on "Bobby Shaftoe". The album was released on the Music for Pleasure label. Another similar album was released in 1983, called "The Drunken Sailor".
"A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm" was one of those first four and has sold over 4 million copies [6] and won the Vira Award. [7] Each half-hour video featured around 10 songs in a music video style production starring a group of children known as the "Kidsongs Kids".
"Mary Had a Little Lamb" "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" "Friends Lullaby" (Larry Groce) "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" "The Hokey Pokey" (Larry LaPrise, Charles Macak and Taftt Baker) "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" "Ten Little Indians" "The Green Grass Grew All Around" "In the Good Old Summer Time" "Animal Fair" "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
The cat tries to eat the mouse with a violin, but ends up with the mouse playing the harp in his mouth using the cat's whiskers. The horse goes jazzy with the trumpet, and the two chicks do the jitterbug, and after the dance sequence, Old MacDonald asks the audience to sing along with the bouncing ball to "Old MacDonald Had a Farm".
This category includes children’s songs that originated in the United States. Subcategories. ... The Old Gray Mare; Old MacDonald Had a Farm; One, Two, Buckle My ...
It shows the artist's impression of the song "Old MacDonald Had a Farm", with the central white farmhouse on a hill overlooking the various barns that house the animals and farmhands working the fields. To the right is a haystack with children playing.