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The lyrics are loosely translated from the traditional Spanish song "Estaba el señor Don Gato", [1] but the melody is from a different song, "Ahora Que Vamos Despacio". [2] [3] There is also a French version of "Estaba el señor Don Gato" called "Monsieur le Chat". [4]
The song helped launch the career of children's entertainer Fred Penner. He has used the song as part of a medley that includes the tune heard in "Hit the Road Jack" with lyrics changed to "Hit the Road, Cat". The song was adapted in Afrikaans as "Die kat kom weer". The Afrikaans version had several references to the Boer War and British ...
Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you do there? I frightened a little mouse under her/the chair. [2] The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first noted by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (1870). [3] For the original version, there is no 'do' in 'what did you ...
"Cat's in the Cradle" is a folk rock song by American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, from his fourth studio album, Verities & Balderdash (1974). The single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in December 1974. As Chapin's only number-one song, it became the best known of his work and a staple for folk rock music.
"Memory" is a show tune composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Trevor Nunn based on poems by T. S. Eliot. It was written for the 1981 musical Cats, where it is sung primarily by the character Grizabella as a melancholic remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance.
"Year of the Cat" is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter Al Stewart, released as a single in July 1976 in the UK (October 1976 in the US). The song is the title track of his 1976 album Year of the Cat , and was recorded at Abbey Road Studios , London, in January 1976 by engineer Alan Parsons .
"Smelly Cat" is a comedy song from the American sitcom Friends (1994–2004), performed by American actress Lisa Kudrow. Friends writers Adam Chase and Betsy Borns wrote the song with musician Chrissie Hynde and Kudrow for the latter's character Phoebe Buffay, and it first appears in the sixth episode of the show's second season, "The One with the Baby on the Bus" (1995).
"Alley Cat", also known as "Alleycat" and "The Alley Cat," is a popular instrumental song made most famous by the Danish pianist and composer Bent Fabric, released in 1962. [1] Fabric (born Bent Fabricius-Bjerre) wrote the tune under the pseudonym Frank Björn.