"the Mohanam raga. ""Vivaha Bhojanambu"" (""Kalyana Samayal Saadham"" in Tamil) was heavily based on lyrics from Surabhi Nataka Samajam's 1950s plays, which were influenced by 1940s ""Janaki Sapadham"" harikatha records by B. Nagarajakumari. Nagarajakumari was inspired by a song written by Gali Penchala Narasimha Rao for ""Sasirekha Parinayam"" (1936), directed by P. V. Das. That song's melody was inspired by Charles Penrose's 1922 song ""The Laughing Policeman"", written by Penrose under the pseudonym of Charles Jolly. Distributed by HMV, the album's cover depicts S. V. Ranga Rao as Ghatotkacha. Mayabazar: Music from the Motion Picture Mayabazar: Music from the Motion"
"for ""Billboard"" magazine, determined that ""The Prisoner's Song"" was No. 1 hit for twelve weeks in 1925–26. One of the recordings most associated with Vernon Dalhart, especially in the United Kingdom is his 1925: ""The Runaway Train"" (Talking Machine Co., Camden, New Jersey, Victor 19685-A, Shellac). This was played on BBC Radio's 'Children's Favourites' between 1954-1982 and even now almost every compilation of children's records in the UK includes this timeless favourite. Wanting to repeat the success of the single, the Victor Company sent Ralph Peer to the southern mountains in 1927 to facilitate the Bristol Sessions. These sessions led"
"children's chorus recordings made from 1976–77 by Canadian music teacher Hans Fenger in the Glenwood Elementary School gymnasium. The students from Glenwood, South Carvolth, Lochiel and Wix-Brown performed unique versions of pop hits by the likes of The Beach Boys, David Bowie, and Paul McCartney. The recordings were quickly forgotten until Irwin Chusid, a DJ on the New Jersey radio station WFMU rediscovered them in 2000. He managed to get them released on Bar/None Records, and they immediately created an international buzz, making many end-of-the-year best album lists in 2001. VH-1 orchestrated a reunion of the students and their teacher"
"the song, retitled ""Motherless Child"", and recorded it for his album ""From the Cradle"". A song with a similar title, ""Motherless Children"" (also covered by Clapton), is a blues standard, versions of which have been recorded by Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk and Lucinda Williams. The song recorded by Elvie Thomas with Geeshie Wiley in 1930 tells of a daughter not following her dead mother's advice: Motherless Child Blues ""Motherless Child Blues"" (or, in dialect, ""Motherless Chile Blues"") is the name of two distinctly different traditional blues songs. They are different melodically and lyrically. One was first popularized by Robert"
"(1946). The mid-20th-century arrival of the baby boomers provided a growing market for children's music as a separate genre. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Ella Jenkins were among a cadre of politically progressive and socially conscious performers who aimed albums to this group. During this time, such novelty recordings as ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"" (a Montgomery Ward jingle that became a book and later a classic children's movie) and the fictional music group, The Chipmunks, were among the most commercially successful music ventures of the time (""The Chipmunk Song"" was a No. 1 hit single in 1958). TV personality Bob"
"recorded in 1960 by Dorsey Burnette to date was the biggest success for the song in the post-1954 ""rock era"", having reached No. 102 on Billboard's chart. Sanitized versions have been popular, especially with children's musicians; in these, the ""cigarette trees"" become peppermint trees, and the ""streams of alcohol"" trickling down the rocks become streams of lemonade. The lake of gin is not mentioned, and the lake of whiskey becomes a lake of soda pop. The 2008 extended adaptation for children by Gil McLachlan tells the story as a child's dream, the last stanza being: Folklorist John Greenway published the"
"Motherless Child Blues ""Motherless Child Blues"" (or, in dialect, ""Motherless Chile Blues"") is the name of two distinctly different traditional blues songs. They are different melodically and lyrically. One was first popularized by Robert ""Barbecue Bob"" Hicks, the other by Elvie Thomas. The song recorded by Hicks in 1927 tells of the singer's lack of respect for women and disenchantment with them. The song begins with the lyrics that give it its name: This song has been performed by the octogenarian jazz legend Jimmy Scott and in a drum-and-bass reworking by the Scottish electronic artist Colin Waterson. Eric Clapton adapted"
"the audience, as was traditional at the time. Musically, it is strikingly similar to the previous year's hit, ""Honky Tonk Train Blues"", by Meade Lux Lewis, which like ""Pinetop's Boogie Woogie"" went on to become a standard recorded many times by many artists. This may not be a coincidence, as around that time Lewis and Smith lived in the same boarding house. This song became a ""standard"", recorded by many other artists. Most noteworthy may be the 1953 version of Pinetop Perkins, who became so famous for it that he acquired the nickname for himself. Other versions were recorded by:"
"– played by the Golden Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Norman. Jack B. Nimble – A Mother Goose Fantasy Jack B. Nimble – A Mother Goose Fantasy is a LP album by Bing Crosby made for children by Golden Records in 1957. It was a story of a small boy in search of his name. The music was by Dean Fuller and the lyrics and book by Marshall Barer. The album was issued on CD by Drive Entertainment in 2001 (catalogue No. PUR0951). In April 1957, Golden Records recorded a number of new children’s records. Bing Crosby was"
"the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to the creation of a number of songs aimed at children. These included 'Ten little fingers and ten little toes' by Ira Shuster and Edward G. Nelson and 'School Days' (1907) by Gus Edwards and Will Cobb. Perhaps the best remembered now is ""Teddy Bears' Picnic"", with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy in 1932 and the tune by British composer John William Bratton was from 1907. Recordings for children were intertwined with recorded music for as long as it has existed as a medium. The first words ever recorded (in 1860 by Édouard-Léon"
"for which he recorded more than 150 singles that reached the ""Billboard"" Pop, R&B, and Country charts, has yet to be matched by any Capitol artist. His records sold 50 million copies during his career. His recording of ""The Christmas Song"" still receives airplay every holiday season, even hitting the Billboard Top 40 in December 2017. Child actor Cole Sprouse was named after him. His hit singles include ""Straighten Up and Fly Right"" 1944 #8, ""The Christmas Song"" 1946/1962 #?/#65, ""Nature Boy"" 1948 #1, ""Mona Lisa 1950 #1, ""Frosty, The Snowman"" 1950 #9, ""Too Young"" 1951 #1, ""Unforgettable"" 1951 #12,"
"removed his pipe stem from his mouth!"" Crosby enthusiast and author Fred Reynolds had some reservations. ""Neither music nor lyrics are in any way distinguished and Crosby’s singing offers nothing noteworthy, His narration, however, is good and it says something for his powers of persuasion that he invests this amoral and unwholesome tale with a modicum of charm…"" Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (album) Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is a LP album by Bing Crosby made for children by Golden Records in 1957. The Arthur Norman Choir and Orchestra provide support. The music was by Mary Rodgers"
"1965–1979. His first notable composition – ""Daffodils""/""Cennin Aur"" – was written in the mid-1920s for the newly formed Pendyrus Choir, which rehearsed next to his home in Tylorstown. The partsong became so well known that W. S. Gwynn Williams (Gwynn Publishers) requested a mixed choir version of it for publication in 1939, and this version surpassed in popularity its ""TTBB"" original. Songs and choral music are the elements by which he is chiefly known today. There are over 150 songs and traditional-melody arrangements for solo voice and these include ""Y Bardd"", ""Coeden afalau"", ""Caneuon y Misoedd"" and ""Eifionydd"". The choral"
"and it became an overnight success, quickly reaching number one on ""Billboard's"" Top C&W singles and number 24 on the Most Played in Jukeboxes list. The publication named it the top country and western record of the year, while ""Cashbox"" named it ""Best Hillbilly Record of the Year"". Several cover versions of the song have been recorded. The most popular, Frank Ifield's 1962 version, topped the UK Singles Chart. In 2004, Williams' version was added to the National Recording Registry. ""Lovesick Blues"" was originally entitled ""I've Got the Lovesick Blues"" and published by Jack Mills, Inc. in 1922; Irving Mills"
"My Very Favourite Nursery Rhymes My Very Favourite Nursery Rhymes is an album by Tim Hart and Friends. By 1981 both Tim Hart and Maddy Prior had children, so it was appropriate to create an album of children's songs. The treatment is very light and poppy. The clever use of synthesisers makes it seems as if there is a whole orchestra present at times. Tim takes the lead on most songs. ""Old MacDonald"" and ""Bobby Shaftoe"" are given country-and-western treatments. John Kirkpatrick takes the lead vocals on ""Little Bo Peep"". Melanie Harold leads on ""Bobby Shaftoe"". The album was released"
"four million. His sign-off line, ""Goodnight children, everywhere,"" became more poignant after the evacuation of many children from their homes at the start of the Second World War. He resigned from the BBC in 1950 due to ill health but continued to chair Nature Parliament which ran roughly every month on Children's Hour. He became the children's editor for the ""News Chronicle"". In 1954 he returned to the BBC, to present a BBC music request programme for children, ""Children's Favourites"", on Saturday mornings. The programme was dropped in 1964, despite protests and questions in Parliament, but it was popular, and"
"the years. On occasion, a cover can become more popular than the original, such as Elvis Presley's version of Carl Perkins' original ""Blue Suede Shoes"", Santana's 1970 version of Peter Green's and Fleetwood Mac's 1968 ""Black Magic Woman"", Johnny Cash's version of Nine Inch Nails' ""Hurt,"" Whitney Houston's versions of Dolly Parton's ""I Will Always Love You"" and of George Benson's ""The Greatest Love of All"", Glenn Medeiros's version of George Benson's ""Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You"" or Jimi Hendrix's version of Bob Dylan's ""All Along the Watchtower"". The Hendrix recording, released six months after Dylan's original, became"
"trombone, Julian Beasley on alto and baritone saxophones, and Choker Campbell on tenor sax. The song became a hit, spending 15 weeks during 1954 and 1955 on ""Billboard's"" Rhythm & Blues Records chart where it reached number three. The song has been included on several Fulson compilation albums, including 1970's ""Hung Down Head"" (Chess 9325). ""Reconsider Baby"" is a blues standard and Fulson's most recognized song. In 1993, the Blues Foundation inducted it into its Blues Hall of Fame in the ""Classics of Blues Recordings"" category. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included it on its list of the"
"an unauthorized parody. In 1962 Columbia Records issued an album titled ""Peanuts"", with Kaye Ballard and Arthur Siegel performing (as Lucy and Charlie Brown, respectively) to music composed by Fred Karlin. Fantasy Records issued several albums featuring Vince Guaraldi's jazz scores from the animated specials, including ""Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown"" (1964), ""A Charlie Brown Christmas"" (1965), ""Oh, Good Grief!"" (1968), ""Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits"" (1998), and ""Peanuts Portraits"" (2010). All were later reissued on CD. Columbia Records released soundtrack albums for the films ""A Boy Named Charlie Brown"" (1969) and ""Snoopy, Come Home"" (1972), although neither"
"Edward G. Nelson and ""School Days"" (1907) by Gus Edwards and Will Cobb. Perhaps the best remembered now is ""Teddy Bears' Picnic"", with lyrics written by Jimmy Kennedy in 1932, although the tune, by the British composer John Walter Bratton, was composed in 1907. As recording technology developed, children's songs were soon being sold on record; in 1888, the first recorded discs (called ""plates"") offered for sale included Mother Goose nursery rhymes. The earliest record catalogues of several seminal firms in the recording industry—such as Edison, Berliner, and Victor—contained separate children's sections. Until the 1950s, all the major record companies"
"children's authors such as Joan Aiken, Ian Serraillier and Clive King would spend a few days with them. Webb continued as editor until 1979, and the 1970s saw Puffin further advance its position with hits such as ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" by Roald Dahl and ""Watership Down"" by Richard Adams. The range of Picture Puffins, introduced in the late 1960s for younger children, also developed rapidly. Eric Carle's ""The Very Hungry Caterpillar"" and Janet and Allan Ahlberg's ""Each Peach Pear Plum"" became and have remained firm children's favourites, as have Eric Hill's ""Spot the Dog"" and Jan Pienkowski's ""Meg"
"films such as ""Pinocchio"" (1940) and ""Song of the South"" (1946). The mid-twentieth century baby boomers provided a growing market for children's music. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Ella Jenkins were among the politically progressive and socially conscious performers who aimed albums at children. Novelty recordings like ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"" (a Montgomery Ward jingle that became a book and later a classic children's movie) and the fictional music group Alvin and the Chipmunks were among the most commercially successful music ventures of the time. In the 1960s, as the baby boomers matured and became more politically aware, they embraced"
"Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Bing Crosby (recorded January 21, 1945), Doris Day, Lena Horne, Maxine Sullivan, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Louis Prima, Diana Krall, John Barrowman, Bryan Ferry, Lionel Hampton, Claude Bolling, Charlie Parker, Gil Evans, Dave Brubeck, Freddie Hubbard, Oscar Peterson, Lee Morgan, Sidney Bechet, Nellie McKay, Erin McKeown, Joan Morris, Judy Garland, Patricia Barber, Johnny Dorelli, Jamie Cullum, Dionne Warwick, The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. Nat King Cole recorded it as the title track of his 1957 album ""Just One Of Those Things"". Maurice Chevalier included it in"
"Audiences of various cultures and backgrounds have been able to identify with the narrator, the mother, and the child. The tune became a Tin Pan Alley hit with versions by George Alexander (1903), Marguerite Dunlap (1911) and Geraldine Farrar (1916) being particular popular. It was a perennial of traditional pop music for generations. Deanna Durbin sang it as a lullaby in the 1943 feature film ""The Amazing Mrs. Holliday"". Other notable recordings include those by Bing Crosby (recorded December 4, 1945), Jane Powell, Lillian Nordica, Geraldine Farrar, Vincent Lopez, Paul Robeson, Art Tatum, Wilbur DeParis, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone, Petula"
"his most familiar composition, especially in the original recording by the ""Melodi Light Orchestra"". The piece was inspired by an old steam locomotive called ""Puffing Billy"", (not the locomotive in the London Science Museum) seen by the composer while on holiday on the Isle of Wight. The piece was used as the signature tune for the BBC Light Programme's 'Children's Favourites', a radio request programme, from 1952 to 1966. In the United States it was used for an even longer period of time (1955–1974) as the theme music to ""Captain Kangaroo"" on the CBS TV network. When a new theme"
"1830. The first, and possibly the most important collection to focus in this area was, James Orchard Halliwell's, ""The Nursery Rhymes of England"" (1842) and ""Popular Rhymes and Tales"" in 1849. At the height of the revival Sabine Baring-Gould produced ""A Book of Nursery Songs"" (1895), and Andrew Lang produced ""The Nursery Rhyme Book"" in 1897. Children's songs, unlike folk songs, have remained part of a living and continuous tradition, for although added to from other sources and affected by written versions, most adults pass on songs they learned from oral sources as children. It has been noted by most"
"(1969). Both live albums reached number one on ""Billboard"" country album music and the latter crossed over to reach the top of the ""Billboard"" pop album chart. In 1969, Cash became an international hit when he eclipsed even the Beatles by selling 6.5 million albums. In comparison, the prison concerts were much more successful than his later live albums such as ""Strawberry Cake"" recorded in London and ""Live at Madison Square Garden"", which peaked at numbers 33 and 39 on the album charts, respectively. The Folsom Prison record was introduced by a rendition of his ""Folsom Prison Blues"" while the"
"young children. In the 21st century the song has become something of a signifier of childhood Christmas in popular culture having featured in the comedy acts of Alan Carr, Russell Brand and especially in The Ricky Gervais Show which featured a running gag about Karl Pilkington's drum performance of the song. Little Donkey Little Donkey is a popular Christmas carol, written by English songwriter Eric Boswell which describes the journey by Mary the mother of Jesus to Bethlehem on the donkey of the title. It was No. 1 in the UK Sheet Music Chart from mid November 1959 until the"
"Carter Family The Carter Family is a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock musicians as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s. They were the first vocal group to become country music stars. Their recordings of songs such as ""Wabash Cannonball"", ""Can the Circle Be Unbroken"", ""Wildwood Flower"", ""Keep On the Sunny Side"" and ""I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes"" made these songs country standards. The latter's tune was used for Roy Acuff's ""The Great Speckled Bird"","
"""Two Little Girls in Blue"", and others which had very large sales at the time. It was discovered, however, that he had a splendid talent for writing simple piano pieces with well defined melodies and effective harmony. These he turned out in great number, among his most popular being: ""Sing, Robin"", ""Sing - Pretty Little Song Bird"", ""Airy Fairies"", ""Child's Good Night"", ""Dollie's Dream"", ""June Roses"", ""Just a Bunch of Flowers"", ""Mountain Pink"" and ""Dreaming Poppies"". His ""Tunes and Rhymes for the Playroom"", ""Souvenirs of the Masters"", and ""Well Known Fables Set to Music"" are among the most widely used"
"#3. Cliff Richard scored the Christmas number one single with ""Saviour's Day"", his 13th number one, and his 100th top 40 hit. With this he became the only person to have a number one in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Merseyside composer John McCabe produced a flute concerto, written for James Galway and premièred by the London Symphony Orchestra who had commissioned it; it was not recorded until 1999. Another Lancashire composer, John Pickard, produced his best-known work ""The Flight of Icarus"". Simon Rattle became musical director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, of which he had"
"been mistakenly attributed to Ralph Vaughan Williams in, for example, ""The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs"", ""Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams"" and ""The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads"". In 1965 the EFDSS published ""Marrow Bones"", a compilation of songs from the Gardiner and Hammond collections edited by Frank Parslow. Three more books followed - ""The Wanton Seed"" (1968), ""The Constant Lovers (1972) and ""The Foggy Dew"" (1974). In total these books contained 202 songs collected by Gardiner. The Marrow Bone series was an important source of material for English folk musicians, and has recently been revised"
"was ranked No. 9 in ""NME""'s list of the 100 Greatest British Albums. In 2004, the title track was No. 11 in ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. In 2006, ""The Kids Are Alright"" was No. 34 in Pitchfork's list of the 200 greatest songs of the 1960s. In June 2009, the edited 1966 US version of the album ""The Who Sings My Generation"" was selected for the National Recording Registry of the US Library of Congress. The album, deemed ""culturally significant"", will be preserved and archived. Writing for the BBC, Chris Jones described"