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The song was released shortly after Ellis had released "The Name Game". "The Clapping Song" incorporates lyrics from the song "Little Rubber Dolly", [3] a 1930s song recorded by the Light Crust Doughboys, and also features instructions for a clapping game.
The earliest reference to any form of the song is from the title of a piece of sheet music published in 1780, which attributed the song to William Swords, an actor at the Haymarket Theatre of London. [4] [5] Early versions of the song were variously titled "The Farmer's Dog Leapt o'er the Stile", "A Franklyn's Dogge", or "Little Bingo".
The song is played three times in the original live action version of Barney & Friends in the episodes "Caring Means Sharing", "Grandparents Are Grand!", and "Any Way You Slice It". In each episode, Barney leads the kids to a cookie jar, only to discover that all the cookies are gone, to which they launch into the song, each time with Kathy ...
In August 2020, "The Clapping Song" was used in a TV commercial for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0, and in April 2021 her "I See It, I Like It, I Want It" was in another Samsung commercial, this time for the Galaxy Z Flip 5G and Galaxy Z Fold2. In 2021, "The Clapping Song" was used in the movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
"Mary Mack" ("Miss Mary Mack") is a clapping game of unknown origin. It is first attested in the book The Counting Out Rhymes of Children by Henry Carrington Bolton (1888), whose version was collected in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Playground songs may also feature contemporary children's characters or child actors such as Popeye, Shirley Temple, Batman or Barney the Dinosaur. [35] Such songs are usually set to common melodies (a popular Batman-themed song uses much of the chorus of "Jingle Bells") and often include subversive and crude humor; in Barney's case, schoolyard ...
Silly Shy Smurf - Music/Lyrics: B. Corbett/ J. de Piesses; Smurfing Land Express - Music: Pierre Kartner / English lyrics: Linlee, Helna, Corbett; Smurf a Happy Tune - Music: Pierre Kartner / English lyrics: Linlee, Corbett; Side Two The Clapping and Jumping Song - Music and lyrics: B. Corbett/J. de Piesses/Helna
An early occurrence of the tune is from the introduction of the 1899 Charles Hale minstrel song, "At a Darktown Cake Walk". [1] Other songs from the same period also used the tune. The same notes form the bridge in the "Hot Scotch Rag", written by H. A. Fischler in 1911.