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Tommy" is an 1890 poem [1] by Rudyard Kipling, reprinted in his 1892 Barrack-Room Ballads. [2] The poem addresses the ordinary British soldier of Kipling's time in a sympathetic manner. [ 3 ] It is written from the point of view of such a soldier, and contrasts the treatment they receive from the general public during peace and during war.
In Eliot's view, this makes Kipling a 'ballad-writer', and that was already, he thought, more difficult in 1941 than in Kipling's time, as people no longer had the music hall to inspire them. [4] Eliot thought Kipling's ballads unusual, also, in that Kipling had been careful to make it possible to absorb each ballad's message on a single hearing.
In the CGI series The Jungle Book, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is an occasional character who is a friend of Mowgli. The story was adapted as a picture book of the same name in 1997 by Jerry Pinkney. Donovan’s album Open Road has the song Riki Tiki Tavi, which has lyrics based on the story. [6] [7]
A Song of the English illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, 1914. A Song of the English (1909), with W. Heath Robinson (illustrator) Rewards and Fairies (1910) A History of England (1911), non-fiction, with Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher; Songs from Books (1912) As Easy as A.B.C. (1912), science-fiction short story; The Fringes of the Fleet (1915 ...
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo" is a short story — one of the Just So stories by Rudyard Kipling. "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo" from "Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories" The story was first told aloud by the author to his daughter Josephine as part of their oral tradition . [ 1 ]
Tommy, a soundtrack to the 1975 film; The Who's Tommy, a stage production, premiered 1992; Tommy (The Wedding Present album), 1988; Tommy, 2010; Tommy, a 2017 EP by Klein; Tommy, a 2022 EP by Kiesza; Tommy, a 1965 album by Tommy Adderley; Tommy, a 1970 EP by The Who "Tommy", a 1991 song by Status Quo from the album Rock 'til You Drop
Virginia-bred singer Tommy Richman makes his Billboard Hot 100 debut with “Million Dollar Baby” after the single experienced staggering growth in a rollout that started April 13 when Richman ...
Both had a number of arrangements produced several years later by the composer for various choral and part-song configurations. Late in his life, German agreed to have Just So Songs arranged for full chorus and orchestra, but he had retired from composing so he chose the younger composer John West to orchestrate and arrange. West, however, died ...