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The song is performed by Jeffrey Tambor's character Hank Kingsley in an episode of The Larry Sanders Show ("Larry's Agent"), where he creates a more Latin sound to it, hoping to perform tap-dancing along with the song. "Spinning Wheel" appears in the films Indian Summer, Where the Truth Lies, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Elvis & Nixon.
The words are sometimes said to be onomatopoeic, made up from the sound of the spinning wheel, “sarasponda, sarasponda, sarasponda", and then the sound of the foot pedal brake slowing down the wheel; "ret, set, set.” This interpretation, however, is questionable, due to the fact that spinning wheels don't have a "foot pedal brake", or any ...
"Spinning the Wheel" is a song by English singer ... was later made available on Michael's official YouTube channel in 2010. The video has amassed more than 7,8 ...
It contained the hit recordings "And When I Die", "You've Made Me So Very Happy", and "Spinning Wheel". [1] All of these peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 . The follow-up album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 , also reached number one in the U.S.
"L'arca di Noè" is a 1970 song composed by Sergio Endrigo. The song premiered at the 20th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, with a double performance by Endrigo and Iva Zanicchi, and placed at the third place. [1] [2] "L'arca di Noè" was a commercial success, ranking third on the Italian hit parade and becoming a lasting classic.
" Gretchen am Spinnrade" (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel), Op. 2, D 118, is a Lied composed by Franz Schubert using the text from Part One, scene 15 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust. With "Gretchen am Spinnrade" and some 600 other songs for voice and piano, Schubert contributed transformatively to the genre of Lied .
The spinning wheel spread from the Middle-East to Europe by the 13th century, with the earliest European illustration dated to around 1280. In France, the spindle and distaff were not displaced until the mid 18th century. [15] [16] The spinning wheel replaced the earlier method of hand spinning with a spindle. The first stage in mechanizing the ...
The song inspired David Clayton-Thomas when he was writing the Blood, Sweat & Tears 1968 hit "Spinning Wheel". The line "The painted ponies go up and down" gave him the idea to write "Ride a painted pony let the spinnin' wheel spin".