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The title poem of American poet Mark Halliday's collection Little Star (W. Morrow, 1987) is an homage to this song, The Elegants, and Vito Picone. The poem is also available in Allen Grossman (with Mark Halliday), The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers (Johns Hopkins UP, 1992), pages 25–27.
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is an English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early-19th-century English poem written by Jane Taylor , "The Star". [ 1 ] The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery , a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann .
This piece consists of twelve variations on the French folk song "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman". The French melody first appeared in 1761, and has been used for many children's songs, such as " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star ", " Baa, Baa, Black Sheep ", and the " Alphabet Song ".
"The ABC Song" was first copyrighted in 1835 by Boston music publisher Charles Bradlee. The melody is from a 1761 French music book and is also used in other nursery rhymes like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", while the author of the lyrics is unknown. Songs set to the same melody are also used to teach the alphabets of other languages.
"Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers. It was released in November 1987 as the first single from the album Chill Factor. The song was the last of Haggard's thirty-four number one singles as a solo artist.
Kristina Ulrika Marianne Nordenstam (born 4 March 1969), [1] better known by her stage name Stina Nordenstam, is a Swedish singer-songwriter and producer.She is perhaps best known for her song "Little Star", which appears in the Baz Luhrman film Romeo + Juliet.
A version with vocals featured a more emotional repetition of the first verse after the third, making the track 4:20 instead of 3:15. When the song's video was released in 1981 it featured another alternate version with a different ending. [54] [55] "Nationalsång" is an instrumental track that later was used in "Anthem" from the musical Chess ...
The chorus of the song, "You could blow with this, or you could blow with that", is a homage to the Black Sheep song "The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)", which has a similar chorus. The lines "Walk without rhythm/and it won't attract the worm " quote the science fiction novel Dune , while the line "tone of my voice" may be the titular weapon, as ...