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"Listen to the Mockingbird" forms part of the "Merry-Go-Round Music" medley in Marvin Hamlisch's soundtrack for the 1973 motion picture The Sting, and is the only portion of the medley that can be heard in the actual movie. "Listen to the Mocking Bird" was remade into a children's version for the show Barney & Friends. The tune is still the ...
"Mockingbird" is also performed by characters in the television series Will & Grace [21] and in the comedy films National Lampoon's Vacation (1983). American rapper Eminem also used the lullaby "Hush Little Baby" in the lyrics of his single "Mockingbird" from his album Encore (2004).
The song was accompanied by a music video, which Eminem himself and John 'Quig' Quigley directed. The video was released on February 21, 2005, through Interscope Records, and later was released on December 24, 2009, on YouTube. As of 2024, the video has over 1 billion views on YouTube, making it Eminem's fifth most viewed video on the platform.
The mockingbird in the title and lyrics symbolizes a messenger or a guide, leading the singer through the emotional landscape of the song. The song was moderately successful, reaching the top 40 in several countries, including the United States, where it peaked at number 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Like most folk songs, the author and date of origin are unclear. The English folklorist Cecil Sharp collected and notated a version from Endicott , Franklin County , Virginia in 1918, [ 3 ] and another version sung by a Julie Boone of Micaville , North Carolina , with a complete version of the lyrics.
Hotcakes is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, released by Elektra Records, on January 11, 1974.Featuring the major hits "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" and "Mockingbird", the latter a duet with her then-husband James Taylor, Hotcakes became one of Simon's biggest selling albums.
The first version, made April 16, 1952, was released on Columbia's Okeh label in 1952 (reaching number 23 on the Billboard chart that year) and re-released four years later on Columbia (number 67 on the 1956 chart.) [citation needed] A new recording was made in 1958, entering the Billboard Hot 100 list on November 24, 1958, eventually reaching number 32 on that chart. [2]
The cover of the sheet music for Listen to the Mocking Bird, published in 1855, credits the melody to Richard Milburn. [1]Richard Milburn, known as Whistling Dick, was an African-American musician in Philadelphia.