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"The Little Lost Child" is a popular song of 1894 by Edward B. Marks and Joseph W. Stern, with between one and two million copies in sheet music sales. [2] Also known after its first three words as "A Passing Policeman", [3] it is usually considered to have been the first work promoted as an illustrated song (an early precursor of the music video).
The Little Lost Child" was the first song they published and became a huge hit. Stern retired in 1920 and the firm became Edward B. Marks Music Company. Its publishings include hits such as "Strange Fruit" by Abel Meeropol (made famous by Billie Holiday) in 1939. The company has been a subsidiary of Carlin America since 1980. [5]
The first illustrated song was "The Little Lost Child" in 1894. [6] The song went on to become a nationwide hit selling more than two million copies of its sheet music, its success credited mainly to illustrated song performances which have been termed the first "music video." [4] [7] [8] [9]
Marks's "The Little Lost Child" (1894) was one of the many successful songs plugged by Gilson. Her promotion also played a role in the success of " The Sidewalks of New York " (1894); she introduced it in her act at Miner's London Theatre in the Bowery, employing her method of encouraging the audience to sing along at the chorus.
Krank (Daniel Emilfork), a highly intelligent but malicious being created by a vanished scientist, is unable to dream, which causes him to age prematurely.At his lair on an abandoned oil rig (which he shares with the scientist's other creations: six childish clones, a dwarf named Martha, and a brain in a vat named Irvin) he uses a dream-extracting machine to steal dreams from children.
The Little Girl Lost is a 1794 poem published by William Blake in his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience. According to scholar, Grevel Lindop, this poem represents Blake's pattern of the transition between "the spontaneous, imaginative Innocence of childhood" to the "complex and mature (but also more dangerous) adult state of ...
The Lost Children is a French fairy tale collected by Antoinette Bon in Revue des traditions populaires. [1]It is Aarne-Thompson type 327A. [2] Another tale of this type is Hansel and Gretel; The Lost Children combines with that type several motifs typical of Hop o' My Thumb, which is typical of French variants.
Lost Children, a documentary about child soldiers; The Lost Children, New Zealand "The Lost Children", a 1983 episode of Dungeons and Dragons; Other uses. The Lost ...