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Pages in category "Songs based on fairy tales" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
Mother Goose is a character that originated in children's fiction, as the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes. [1] She also appeared in a song, the first stanza of which often functions now as a nursery rhyme. [2] The character also appears in a pantomime tracing its roots to 1806. [3]
Variations of the tale appeared in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings in 1881, in which the pigs were replaced by Br'er Rabbit. The story also made an appearance in Nights with Uncle Remus in 1883, both by Joel Chandler Harris. Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book, published in 1892, but did not cite his source. In contrast to ...
Justin Timberlake's original Trolls song has over 1.7 billion views, making it his most popular song on YouTube. See the original post on Youtube "Faith" by Stevie Wonder and Ariana Grande (from Sing)
The oldest children's songs for which records exist are lullabies, intended to help a child fall asleep. Lullabies can be found in every human culture. [4] The English term lullaby is thought to come from "lu, lu" or "la la" sounds made by mothers or nurses to calm children, and "by by" or "bye bye", either another lulling sound or a term for a good night. [5]
"Three Blind Mice" was used as a theme song for The Three Stooges and a Curtis Fuller arrangement of the rhyme is featured on the Art Blakey live album of the same name. The song is also the basis for Leroy Anderson's 1947 orchestral "Fiddle Faddle". The theme can be heard in Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 IV.
Such social criticism was reapplied in earnest to the 20th century in an antiauthoritarian lyric from Danbert Nobacon’s The Unfairy Tale (1985). The schoolboy Jack Horner is put in the corner for resisting the racist and self-regarding interpretation of history given by his teacher. But eventually, the children rise up to defend him: