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Barbara's Rhubarb Bar (German: Barbaras Rhabarberbar) [1] is a German and Dutch tongue twister that gave rise to a popular novelty song.The tongue twister is based on repetition of the sound "bar", and celebrates a well-liked seasonal dessert.
After hearing Pete Seeger performing Tzena, [1] with The Weavers as backing, Gordon Jenkins made an arrangement of the song for the Weavers with English lyrics. [ 2 ] The Jenkins/Weavers version, released by Decca Records under catalog number 27077, was one side of a two-sided hit, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard magazine charts in 1950 while ...
The BBC Pronunciation Unit, also known as the BBC Pronunciation Research Unit, is an arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) comprising linguists (phoneticians) whose role is "to research and advise on the pronunciation of any words, names or phrases in any language required by anyone in the BBC". [1]
" Un jour, un enfant" (French pronunciation: [œ̃ ʒuʁ œ̃n‿ɑ̃fɑ̃]; "A Day, a Child") is a song recorded by French singer Frida Boccara, with music composed by Emil Stern and lyrics by Eddy Marnay. It represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 held in Madrid, and became one of the four winning songs.
As mentioned above, there is a video, easily found online, of Chicago performing "Saturday in the Park" at the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago, in 1973. In this performance, Robert Lamm clearly sings, "Eh Cumpari, ci vo sunari," no elisions or contractions. He even rolls his "R"s and attempts proper Italian pronunciation.
Think about lyrics like this: “You’re a just ruler/ Covered in mud, you look ridiculous/ And you have no idea.” Read the full lyrics here: This article was originally published on TODAY.com
Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into . differences in accent (i.e. phoneme inventory and realisation).See differences between General American and Received Pronunciation for the standard accents in the United States and Britain; for information about other accents see regional accents of English.
The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent; however, the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Andrew Khan, writing in The Guardian , later described the sound as reminiscent of Bob Dylan 's output from the 1980s.