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Folk Song Sing Along with Mitch is an album by Mitch Miller & The Gang. It was released in 1959 on the Columbia label (catalog no. CS-8118). [1] [2]The album debuted on Billboard magazine's popular albums chart on June 15, 1959, peaked at No. 11, and remained on that chart for 31 weeks.
[1] About Entertainment rated the album five stars and said, "This is a great album for family sing-alongs, for classroom use, and for children's entertainers who need a solid performance catalog." [4] Record Roundup stated that, "Pete sings them all with great enthusiasm." [3]
Sing-along, also called community singing or group singing, is an event of singing together at gatherings or parties, less formally than choir singing, sometimes with a songbook. Common genres are folk songs, patriotic songs, kids' songs, spirituals, campfire songs, nonsense songs, humorous songs, hymns and drinking songs .
The secularized version that developed among railroad work gangs in the late 19th century has become a standard over the years, appearing in printed collections of children's music while also being performed by both children and adults in sing-alongs, particularly as a campfire song.
The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman. Founded in 1948, the group sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, gospel music, children's songs, labor songs, and American ballads.
The public domain melody of the song was borrowed for "I Love You", a song used as the theme for the children's television program Barney and Friends.New lyrics were written for the melody in 1982 by Indiana homemaker Lee Bernstein for a children's book titled "Piggyback Songs" (1983), and these lyrics were adapted by the television series in the early 1990s, without knowing they had been ...
Cindy" or "Cindy, Cindy" (Roud 836) is a popular American folk song. According to John Lomax , the song originated in North Carolina . [ citation needed ] In the early and middle 20th century, "Cindy" was included in the songbooks used in many elementary school music programs as an example of folk music.
Still More! Sing Along with Mitch is an album by Mitch Miller & The Gang. It was released in 1959 on the Columbia label (catalog no. CL-1283). [1] [2]The album debuted on Billboard magazine's popular albums chart on March 23, 1959, peaked at No. 4, and remained on that chart for 71 weeks.