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"Tubby the Tuba" is a 1945 song with lyrics written by Paul Tripp and music composed by George Kleinsinger.The original 1946 recording featured Victor Jory's narration. [1] A second recording, released on the Decca label in 1947, was played by Hollywood Musician Tuba Soloist, George F. Boujie and was narrated and sung by Danny Kaye and later featured on his Hans Christian Andersen album, along ...
The song contains the line Why forty thousand Cornish boys shall knawa the reason why. [1] According to Cornish historian Robert Morton Nance, it was possibly the inspiration for R. S. Hawker's "The Song of the Western Men" which was written in 1824 and contains a strikingly similar line: Here's twenty thousand Cornish men will know the reason why!
He collaborated with Paul Tripp on a number of orchestral/vocal works for a young audience, beginning with "Tubby the Tuba". In 1948 he wrote music for the original Max Fleischer/Jam Handy animated adaptation of the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer story. [5] This led to him being commissioned to set the song to music for the 1964 Rankin-Bass ...
Pierre Max Dubois, Histoires de tuba (1988) Vinko Globokar, Juriritubaïoka (1996) Sofia Gubaidulina, Lamento (1977) Jennifer Higdon, Tuba Songs (2016) Paul Hindemith, Tuba Sonata (1955) Vagn Holmboe, Tuba Sonata, Op. 162 (1985) Bertold Hummel, Sonatina op. 81a (1983) Bertold Hummel, 3 Bagatelles op. 95h (1993)
The Concerto in F Minor for Bass Tuba and Orchestra by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was written in 1954 for Philip Catelinet, principal tubist of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), who together gave the premiere on 13 June 1954 with Sir John Barbirolli conducting. [1] The same musicians made the work’s first recording that same ...
Tubby the Tuba is a 1975 animated musical-comedy film, based on the 1945 children's story for concert orchestra and narrator by Paul Tripp and George Kleinsinger. It was released on April 1, 1975 by Avco Embassy Pictures . [ 1 ]
"Squeeze Me" is a 1925 jazz standard composed by Fats Waller.It was based on an old blues song called "The Boy in the Boat". The lyrics were credited to publisher Clarence Williams, although Andy Razaf has claimed to have actually written the lyrics.
The song fades in with a repeating six-note keyboard figure in a vibraphone-like voice in open fourths and fifths, [22] played on the downbeats, [5] that critic Jon Pareles likened to "the clang of picks". [23] Christopher Gable, author of The Words and Music of Sting, traces the use of the open fourths and fifths to English folk music.