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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 ...
List of songs based on a film Song Artist Film Ref. "2HB" Roxy Music: Casablanca [1] [2] "Alice" Avril Lavigne: Alice in Wonderland [3] "The American Nightmare" Ice Nine Kills: A Nightmare on Elm Street [4] "Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman" The Tubes: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman [5] "Attack Ships on Fire" Revolting Cocks: Blade Runner [6 ...
The song was performed on the American children's television show Curiosity Shop (ABC). In the television series Quantum Leap episode Another Mother , Al ( Dean Stockwell ) sang it as a lullaby. It was used in a 1995 episode of the UK television programme BBC Horizons entitled "Nanotopia", during a segment explaining the "assemblers" of Eric ...
Jiminy Cricket teaches children how to spell, also in a similar manner to the I'm No Fool series. The series had a catchy theme song from which many children learned to spell "encyclopedia", most likely inspired by Paul Whiteman's novelty hit, "C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E" (both songs even had the same tempo and meter).
In 1855, new lyrics were published by The National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in England and Wales, turning it into a "School Song for Boys." [63] In 1855, the Liverpool School for the Deaf and Dumb published the lyrics for their School Song, sung to the tune of "Pop Goes the Weasel." [64]
Music for the alphabet song including some common variations on the lyrics "The ABC Song" [a] is the best-known song used to recite the English alphabet in alphabetical order. It is commonly used to teach the alphabet to children in English-speaking countries. "The ABC Song" was first copyrighted in 1835 by Boston music
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"The Wheels on the Bus" is an American folk song written by Verna Hills (1898–1990). The earliest known publishing of the lyrics is the December 1937 issue of American Childhood, [1] originally called "The Bus", with the lyrics being "The wheels of the bus", with each verse ending in lines relevant to what the verse spoke of, as opposed to the current standard "all through the town" (or "all ...