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Rita Abrams (born August 30, 1943) is an American songwriter, performer and writer. Her song "Mill Valley", recorded with children at the school where she was teaching, was released under the name Miss Abrams and the Strawberry Point Fourth Grade Class in 1970, becoming a Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening hit and being nominated for a Grammy.
Five Little Ducks" is a traditional children's song. The rhyme also has an associated finger play. Canadian children's folk singer Raffi released it as a single from the Rise and Shine (1982) album. [1] Denise Fleming's 2016 picture book 5 Little Ducks tells a reimagined version of the song.
The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones. Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist ...
Shanadore" was later printed as part of William L. Alden's article "Sailor Songs" in the July 1882 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, [9] [10] [11] and in the 1892 book Songs that Never Die. [12] Alfred Mason Williams' 1895 Studies in Folk-song and Popular Poetry called it a "good specimen of a bowline chant". [13]
"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" (Roud 1, Child 200), is a traditional folk song that originated as a Scottish border ballad, and has been popular throughout Britain, Ireland and North America. It concerns a rich lady who runs off to join the gypsie
The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie (Roud # 545) is a Scottish folk song about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a woman. Like many folk songs, the authorship is unattributed, there is no strict version of the lyrics, and it is often referred to by its opening line "There once was a troop o' Irish dragoons".
This movement is not based on any folk songs, but rather has two tunes from Playford's Dancing Master of 1651. [2] The finale of the suite opens with an alto saxophone solo based on the folk tune "Dargason", a 16th-century English dance tune included in the first edition of The Dancing Master. The fantasia continues through several variations ...
Anthology of American Folk Music, Vol. 1-3: 1952 Recorded and released in 1929 and included in this compilation album Cosmo Sheldrake: Wake Up Calls: 2020 Joan Baez: Live At Newport: 1996 The Be Good Tanyas: Blue Horse: 2000 Song was titled "The Coo Coo Bird". [23] Big Brother and the Holding Company: Big Brother and the Holding Company: 1967