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The catchy tune is also familiar in the popular children's song, "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes". While the song is usually performed up-tempo, it appeared as a ballad in the Ripper Street third-season episode "Ashes and Diamonds", arranged for Charlene McKenna as the character Rose Erskine on BBC One and Amazon Prime Instant Video .
The song was referenced by the British band Black Midi in their song "John L" with the lyric "Three encores of 'Oh Sonny Boy' [sic] backed only by accordion". The reference is a nod to the blackface minstrelsy performed by Jolson, as the song's protagonist is a fascistic cult leader and espoused racist.
The song typically has only one verse, with lyrics similar to those below. The second line repeats the first line both in words and in melody, the third line has a rising tone, and the fourth line repeats the first two. Children might dance while they sing the song and touch their head, shoulders, knees, and toes in sequence to the words. [4]
An instrumental of the song was included in the video game EA Sports College Football 25 as recorded by the EA Sports College Football Marching Band. [8] This song's association with marching bands inspired the similarly named "Talkin' Out da Side of Ya Neck!", a 2008 single by Dem Franchize Boyz.
"(Not Just) Knee Deep" is a song by the American funk band Funkadelic written by George Clinton. [1] The song was released as a single for their album Uncle Jam Wants You (1979). [ 2 ]
An earworm happens when you have the “inability to dislodge a song and prevent it from repeating itself” in your head, explains Steven Gordon, M.D., neurotologist at UC Health and assistant ...
"History Repeating" is a 1997 song written by Alex Gifford and originally performed by English electronic music duo Propellerheads featuring Welsh singer Shirley Bassey. [1] It was released shortly before their only album, Decksandrumsandrockandroll , released in 1998 by Wall of Sound in Europe and DreamWorks in the US and Japan. [ 1 ]
Before the song’s second verse, Swift asked, “I was wondering, I wanna do the thing, can I do it?” Carpenter agreed as Swift started singing, “I’m working late ‘cause I’m a singer.”