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"Bingo" (also known as "Bingo Was His Name-O", "There Was a Farmer Had a Dog" or "B-I-N-G-O") is an English language children's song and folksong about a farmer’s dog. [1] Additional verses are sung by omitting the first letter sung in the previous verse and clapping or barking the number of times instead of actually saying each letter.
1960: "Tell me No Lies" (English lyrics to a song sung by Nora Brockstedt) ... "Bobby Bingo" (co-wrote – sung by the Bingo Boys) ... "If I Had a Talking Picture ...
The identity of "Bingo" in the song is formally ambiguous. Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea 'Bobby Shafto' United Kingdom 1805 [22] 18th century British politician Bobby Shafto is a likely subject for this song. Bye, Baby Bunting: Great Britain 1731 [23] A version of this rhyme was first published in 1731 in England. Christmas Is Coming: United ...
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The Opies have argued for an identification of the original Bobby Shafto with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737. [1] However, the tune derives from the earlier "Brave Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, [3] and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England; besides these early versions, there are ...
The song appears on the soundtrack for the movie Beer for My Horses. [1] In 2009, American writer Ron Rosenbaum, writing for Slate, nominated Choctaw Bingo as a new national anthem for the United States. Rosenbaum argues that the themes of the song are a perfect and prophetic metaphor for life in a post-financial crash America. [2]
Bobby “Bingo” Smith was supposed to be the first Black athlete at Memphis State University. There’s even a headline that says so. “Tigers break color line with signing of Smith,” read ...
The Cavaliers announced Thursday that Bobby "Bingo" Smith, one of the franchise's all-time greats and a star at Melrose High School in Memphis, has died at the age of 77.. Smith played for the ...