"Little Tommy Tucker ""Little Tommy Tucker"" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19618. Common modern versions include: The earliest recorded version of this rhyme is from ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"" (c. 1744), which has only four lines. The full version was produced in ""Mother Goose's Melody"" (c. 1765). There are references to various parts of the rhyme in earlier works. To 'sing for one's supper' was a proverbial phrase by the seventeenth century. ""An excellent new Medley"" (c. 1620) included the line 'Tom would eat meat but wants a knife'."
"but JACK HORNERS, who snug in their corners, Till each with his thumb has squeezed out a round plum, Soon after, Thomas Love Peacock took up the theme in his satirical novel ""Melincourt"" (1817). There five go-getting characters contribute to a song describing how they misuse their trades to fleece the public. It begins with the recitative: <poem style=""margin-left:24px> Jack Horner's CHRISTMAS PIE my learned nurse Interpreted to mean the public purse. From thence a plum he drew. O happy Horner! Who would not be ensconced in thy snug corner? </poem> Each in turn then describes the nature of his"
"rhyme which Jack himself is said to have composed. However, it has been observed that the story is based on the much earlier Tudor tale of ""The Fryer and the Boy"", and that this insertion is merely to justify the use of Jack Horner's name. The book’s main purpose is to follow its hero’s career after he has left childhood behind. In the 19th century a story began to gain currency that the rhyme is actually about Thomas Horner, who was steward to Richard Whiting, the last abbot of Glastonbury before the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII of"
"Nursery Songs"" (1870). The earliest reference to the well-known verse is in ""Namby Pamby"", a satire by Henry Carey published in 1725, in which he himself italicised lines dependent on the original: <poem style=""margin-left:24px> Now he sings of ""Jackey Horner"" ""Sitting in the Chimney-Corner"" ""Eating of a Christmas pye,"" ""Putting in his thumb"", Oh fie! ""Putting in,"" Oh fie! ""his Thumb,"" ""Pulling out"", Oh strange! ""a Plum.""</poem> This occurrence has been taken to suggest that the rhyme was well known by the early eighteenth century. Carey's poem ridicules fellow writer Ambrose Philips, who had written infantile poems for the young"
"of 48 at College Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, from inhaling carbon tetrachloride while refinishing the hardwood floors of his home; though his death has been alternatively attributed to food poisoning. Tommy Tucker (singer) Tommy Tucker (born Robert Higginbotham; March 5, 1933 – January 22, 1982) was an American blues singer-songwriter and pianist. He is best known for the 1964 hit song, ""Hi-Heel Sneakers"", that went to No. 11 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, and peaked at No. 23 in the UK Singles Chart. He was born Robert Higginbotham, to Leroy and Mary Higginbotham, the fifth of eleven children,"
"Tick Tock Tuckered Tick Tock Tuckered is a 1944 Looney Tunes cartoon. A color remake of the cartoon ""Porky's Badtime Story"" featuring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck (instead of Gabby Goat), it was directed by the same director of the previous film: Bob Clampett. The plot is largely the same as the plot of ""Porky's Badtime Story"". When Porky Pig and Daffy Duck realize that they overslept to 10:00 after their alarm goes off at 06:00, they end up rushing to work at the Fly By Night Aircraft Co. and sneaking in. When it came to clocking in, Daffy ends"
"Mitch Vogel Mitchel L Vogel (born January 17, 1956) is an American former child actor. Having begun his professional acting career at age ten, Vogel is widely known for his role as the red-headed orphan, Jamie Hunter-Cartwright on the NBC western series ""Bonanza"", as well as for his feature film roles: as Tommy North in ""Yours, Mine and Ours"" and as Lucius McCaslin in ""The Reivers"". Born in Alhambra, California, Vogel began his acting career at the age of ten, appearing in stage productions of ""Tom Sawyer"", ""Heidi"", ""Peter Pan"" and ""The Wizard of Oz"". As his acting career progressed,"
"Animated Program (2003) - ""Rugrats"" On Behind the Voice Actors, Adler is chosen as the best voice for Buster Bunny, Super-Skrull, MODOK, Mojo, Cobra Commander, Low-Light, Stalker, and Sunstorm. Charlie Adler Charles Michael Adler (born October 2, 1956) is an American voice actor and voice director, best known for voicing Buster Bunny in ""Tiny Toon Adventures"", Starscream in the ""Transformers"" film series, and Ickis in ""Aaahh!!! Real Monsters"". He has voice directed numerous animated TV series including ""Rugrats"", ""The Wild Thornberrys"", """", ""Cow and Chicken"", and ""I Am Weasel"". Adler was born in Paterson, New Jersey on October 2, 1956."
"Tucker's Luck Tucker's Luck was a British television series made by the BBC between 1983 and 1985. The series is a spin-off from the school drama ""Grange Hill"" and capitalised on the popularity of one of the series' original characters — Peter ""Tucker"" Jenkins, played by Todd Carty. ""Tucker's Luck"" followed the exploits of Tucker and his friends, Alan Humphries (George Armstrong) and Tommy Watson (Paul McCarthy), after they had left school and their attempts to find employment and cope out there in the ""real world"". Three series were made (although by Series Three, Tommy was gone — his absence"
"Tommy Tucker's Tooth Tommy Tucker's Tooth is an animated short film by Walt Disney at his short-lived Laugh-O-Grams studio in Kansas City from 1922. The format was black and white, and without sound. The film was one of two commissioned by Kansas City Dentist Thomas B. McCrum. It earned the Laugh-O-Gram studio $500. It extols the virtue of regular tooth brushing through the story of two boys: Tommy Tucker and Jimmie Jones. Tommy cares for his teeth, while Jimmie does not. The film ends with advice on proper tooth-brushing technique. In 1926 Disney made the follow up short ""Clara Cleans"
"sure to keep the spin-off as its own independent character and not to be too connected to the main series like, as Willingham described, a ""Fables Jr. kind of book."" Like in ""Fables"", the series takes place in the contemporary world albeit with characters from fairy tales and folklore living alongside normal humans in secret. The story follows one such popular Fable named Jack Horner who is known from stories such as ""Little Jack Horner"", ""Jack and the Beanstalk"", ""Jack and Jill"", Jack Be Nimble, Jack Frost, Jack O'Lantern, Jack the Giant Killer and others. Jack is typically portrayed as"
"feature the song and it has been covered by children's group The Wiggles with Australian country performer Troy Cassar-Daley. In Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus, it appears in the context of powerless Crawfish trying to be heard in an assembly of animals, and Harris writes, ""but dey might ez well er sung Ole Dan Tucker ter a harrycane."" In the 1935 novel ""Little House on the Prairie"" by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the character Mr. Edwards sings the song as his trademark; accordingly, the ""Little House on the Prairie"" television series from the 1970s and 1980s uses the song as a"
"Charlie Adler Charles Michael Adler (born October 2, 1956) is an American voice actor and voice director, best known for voicing Buster Bunny in ""Tiny Toon Adventures"", Starscream in the ""Transformers"" film series, and Ickis in ""Aaahh!!! Real Monsters"". He has voice directed numerous animated TV series including ""Rugrats"", ""The Wild Thornberrys"", """", ""Cow and Chicken"", and ""I Am Weasel"". Adler was born in Paterson, New Jersey on October 2, 1956. In the mid-1960s, his family moved to Nanuet, Rockland County, New York and later to Massachusetts. Charlie was given the nickname ""Beanie"" due to always wearing a Beanie cap."
"The Tommyknockers (miniseries) The Tommyknockers is a 1993 television miniseries based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Stephen King. Broadcast on ABC, it was directed by John Power, adapted by Lawrence D. Cohen and starred Marg Helgenberger and Jimmy Smits. Bobbi Anderson (Helgenberger), a Western fiction writer, and her boyfriend, Jim ""Gard"" Gardner (Smits), a poet, live with their dog, Petey, on the outskirts of Haven, Maine. Anderson suffers from writer's block and Gardner is a recovering alcoholic who currently is not writing. One day, they stumble over a manmade stone object protruding from the ground. They"
"by Jerry). Hanna and Barbera considered Tom and Jerry ""the best of enemies"", whose rivalry hid an unspoken amount of mutual respect. In later ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons, Jerry acquired a young ward: a small grey mouse called ""Tuffy"" or ""Nibbles"" depending upon the cartoon, who was left on Jerry's doorstep as a foundling baby in the 1946 short ""The Milky Waif"". Jerry and Tuffy were also featured together in a sub-series of ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons set in 17th century France which featured the characters as musketeers. The first of these shorts, ""The Two Mouseketeers"", won the 1951 Academy"
"in Macon, Georgia—I think I did pretty good."" His wife, Ethel Blume died in Manhattan on January 16, 2014, two days after her 95th birthday. Felix Knight William Felix Knight (stage name: Felix Knight, November 1, 1908 – June 18, 1998), was an American tenor, actor, and vocal teacher, best known for his role as Tom-Tom in the 1934 Laurel and Hardy musical film ""Babes in Toyland"". William Felix Knight was born in Macon, Georgia, the son of a cotton farmer who died in a hunting accident when Knight was five. Seven years later, he moved with his family to"
"""one of the better adaptations of a King novel"". The Tommyknockers (miniseries) The Tommyknockers is a 1993 television miniseries based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Stephen King. Broadcast on ABC, it was directed by John Power, adapted by Lawrence D. Cohen and starred Marg Helgenberger and Jimmy Smits. Bobbi Anderson (Helgenberger), a Western fiction writer, and her boyfriend, Jim ""Gard"" Gardner (Smits), a poet, live with their dog, Petey, on the outskirts of Haven, Maine. Anderson suffers from writer's block and Gardner is a recovering alcoholic who currently is not writing. One day, they stumble over"
"David Lloyd George’s use of his party political fund. Other humorous uses of the nursery rhyme include a comic variation in Guy Wetmore Carryl’s ""Mother Goose for Grown Ups"" (New York, 1900) in which Jack breaks his tooth on a plum stone, and one of Lee G. Kratz’s ""Humorous Quartets for Men’s Voices"" (Boston, 1905) in which the pie is stolen by a cat. In the chapbook ""The History of Jack Horner, Containing the Witty Pranks he play'd, from his Youth to his Riper Years, Being pleasant for Winter Evenings"" (mid-18th century), there is a summarised version of the nursery"
"versions both refer to lovers, while Farquhar's version refers to fleeing overseas to join the army. The tune was provided with another set of lyrics for the British ""Sharpe"" television series of the 1990s, based on Farquhar's version. This version was also recorded by John Tams who played Dan Hagman in the series. The nursery rhyme ""Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son"" mentions a piper who knows only one tune, this one. Early versions of this, known as ""The distracted Jockey's Lamentations"", may have been written (but not included) in Thomas D'Urfey's play The Campaigners (1698): Another nursery rhyme ""Five Little"
"Tess and the Turk. Brother of Zero and Judy. (Nipper is also the given name of the Clown (q.v.) and the name of a pinching bug of the 1940s that predated naming the boys.) 32. the Old Soldier with a Wooden Leg: 1914-1970. Civil War veteran. 33. Paddy Pinn: 1917(?)-1923. At 4 inches tall, the Teenie Weenie Giant. 34. the Poet: 1917(?)-1924. Also known as Rufus Rhyme. 35. the Policeman: 1914-1970. --. the Professor(?): 1914. Wearing a mortarboard and spectacles, never named but quite prominent in the earliest strips.. --. Rufus Rhyme: see ""the Poet."" --. the Saboes: 1917, 1923."
"Tom Sawyer (1973 film) Tom Sawyer is a 1973 American musical film adaptation of the Mark Twain boyhood adventure story, ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"", directed by Don Taylor and starring Johnny Whitaker as the titular character, Jodie Foster as Becky Thatcher, and Jeff East as Huckleberry Finn. Ho-Chunk tribesman Kunu Hank portrayed Injun Joe. The film was produced by ""Reader's Digest"". The film's screenplay and songs were written by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman who would go on to provide more award-winning music for the sequel ""Huckleberry Finn"". It received three nominations at the 46th Academy Awards;"
"""Behind the Laughter"", in which Homer is seen watching an episode of ""The Simpsons"" wherein the family is visiting Delaware. The first segment is based on the mythological lumberjack Paul Bunyan, who carved Babe the Blue ox out of the Blue Mountains. The second segment shows Lisa as Connie Appleseed, a female version of the American pioneer nurseryman Johnny Appleseed who introduced apple trees to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. ""Tom and Huck"" features Bart as Tom Sawyer and Nelson as Huckleberry Finn, both of whom are characters in Mark Twain's 1876 novel ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer""."
"Tommy Tucker (singer) Tommy Tucker (born Robert Higginbotham; March 5, 1933 – January 22, 1982) was an American blues singer-songwriter and pianist. He is best known for the 1964 hit song, ""Hi-Heel Sneakers"", that went to No. 11 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, and peaked at No. 23 in the UK Singles Chart. He was born Robert Higginbotham, to Leroy and Mary Higginbotham, the fifth of eleven children, in Springfield, Ohio, United States. Tucker's follow-up release, ""Long Tall Shorty"", was less successful. Musicians that played on his albums included Louisiana Red, Willie Dixon and Donny Hathaway. Tucker co-wrote a"
"about fiction, writing, and genres. Jack of Fables Jack of Fables is a spin-off comic book series of ""Fables"" written by Bill Willingham and Lilah Sturges (credited as ""Matthew Sturges"") and published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. The story focuses on the adventures of Jack Horner, a supporting character in the main series, that takes place after his exile from Fabletown in the story-arc ""Jack Be Nimble"". The idea for the spin-off comic came after editor Shelly Bond suggested to put Jack in a separate comic when Willingham planned to write him out of the series. While ""Jack of Fables"""
"Tom Sawyer Thomas Sawyer () is the title character of the Mark Twain novel ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884), ""Tom Sawyer Abroad"" (1894), and ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"" (1896). Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, ""Huck and Tom Among the Indians"", ""Schoolhouse Hill"" and ""Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy"". While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only ""Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy"" has a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters. Tom Sawyer is a boy of about"
"a mammy archetype now often regarded as racist. She was mostly restored in the DVD releases of the cartoons, with an introduction by Whoopi Goldberg explaining the importance of African-American representation in the cartoon series, however stereotyped. ""Tom and Jerry"" was a commonplace phrase for youngsters indulging in riotous behaviour in 19th-century London. The term comes from ""Life in London, or Days and Nights of Jerry Hawthorne and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom"" (1823) by Pierce Egan. However Brewer notes no more than an ""unconscious"" echo of the Regency era original in the naming of the cartoon. William Hanna and"
"Randolph and Paul McCartney, to name but a few."" Tomko explains its influence: In 2017, Tommy Tucker's single was inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame. Hi-Heel Sneakers ""Hi-Heel Sneakers"" (often also spelled ""High Heel Sneakers"") is a blues song written and recorded by Tommy Tucker in 1963. Blues writer Mary Katherine Aldin describes it as an uptempo twelve-bar blues, with ""a spare, lilting musical framework"", and a strong vocal. The song's rhythmic approach has also been compared to that of Jimmy Reed. Tucker's lyrics recall the time he spent as a Golden Gloves boxer in the 1950s: Tommy"
"in 1997. The ""Readers Digest"" recording was released on CD in 2012. A recording of the complete score, with the original orchestrations restored and conducted by John McGlinn with the London Sinfonietta and the London Voices, was made in 2001. It featured Hugh Panaro as Alan, Korliss Uecker as Jane, Ian Richardson as Barnaby, Elizabeth Futral as Contrary Mary, Rebecca Caine as Tom-Tom and Ian McKellen as the Master Toymaker. It has never been released. A cast recording of the 2003 production of ""Toyland!"" was released in 2007, featuring the voice of Mickey Rooney as the Master Toymaker. His wife,"
"of children. The other characters played by Fletcher are the Tumble Family: Mr Tumble, a clown who himself displays delayed learning and communication difficulties, Grandad Tumble, Barry Tumble and Baby Tumble. Other members of the Tumble family to have made appearances include two Aunts - Polly and Suki (as in the popular nursery rhyme ""Polly Put the Kettle On""), Lord Tumble and King Tumble. In series 2, Justin meets a friend named Guy H Pickle, they dance around a mulberry bush. The creator and producer is Allan Johnston, who worked as a teacher of children with special needs before joining"
"Honkers Honkers are friendly monsters from the children's television program, ""Sesame Street"". These creatures have horns instead of ears and their noses are bulbs that can be pressed so that a ""honking"" sound comes out of the horns. They come in various colours and have appeared in the show since 1979. The Honkers were created for Sesame Street by writer and songwriter, Tony Geiss. Grandfather Honker is a dark bluish/purplish Honker with rather unkempt silver hair, a peachy-colored nose, and wire-rimmed glasses. He also has a furry moustache. He debuted in Episode 4067, and is possibly the first Honker to"
"Jack of Fables Jack of Fables is a spin-off comic book series of ""Fables"" written by Bill Willingham and Lilah Sturges (credited as ""Matthew Sturges"") and published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. The story focuses on the adventures of Jack Horner, a supporting character in the main series, that takes place after his exile from Fabletown in the story-arc ""Jack Be Nimble"". The idea for the spin-off comic came after editor Shelly Bond suggested to put Jack in a separate comic when Willingham planned to write him out of the series. While ""Jack of Fables"" focused on the eponymous Jack"
"Tom Hunter (singer) Tom Hunter (14 September 1946 – 20 June 2008, Bellingham, Washington) was an American folk singer best known for his children songs, such as ""My Washing Machine Eats Socks"", ""The Shirt Song"" and ""There's a Monster in My Closet"". His best known song is ""Rock Me to Sleep"", about a man who is ""tired of trying to figure things out, and tired of being so strong"". In 1978, Hunter wrote the song ""Back to Work in Youngstown"", about the closure of the steel mills in Youngstown, Ohio, on Black Monday. His songs have been recorded by many"
"hound; Bookworm, a green worm with glasses; Arnold the Pit Bull, a muscular white pit bull; Fowlmouth, a white rooster with horrid language; Barky Marky, a brown dog, and Mary Melody, a young African American human girl. Feeding off the characters are the more traditional Looney Tunes such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig among others. Most of the adults teach classes at Acme Looniversity and serve as mentors to the Tiny Toons while others fill secondary positions as needed. The series and the show's characters were developed by series producer, head writer and cartoonist Tom Ruegger, division"