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398:. I.S.A.M. monographs; number 6. Institute for Studies in American Music, Department of Music, School of Performing Arts, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. 1979. p. 65. 258:
The melody is a standard in the repertoire of many bluegrass and old-time country fiddlers, often as a novelty tune and including various bird calls played on the violin strings.
230:"Listen to the Mockingbird" was played on the piano by Jason Walton (Jon Walmsley) at the request of Miss Mamie and Miss Emily Baldwin (Helen Kleeb and Mary Jackson) on 393: 170:(1944), the song is used as accompaniment to Gilda LaVerne's act at Leonardo's. After the place is raided, it is quoted twice as a reminder of the raid. 536: 608: 463: 437: 511: 251:" includes a scene in which a character, listening to the radio for news of the bird attacks, flips the dial to one station only to hear 403: 495: 384: 201:. The tune is still the same but the lyrics were changed to make it more kid friendly. It debuted in Barney's Sense-Sational Day. 291: 72: 559: 223:
plays "Listen to the Mocking Bird" on his fiddle to a crowd, although the song was not composed until 1855, 19 years after the
126:, rendered in a comical manner with birds chirping in the background. The first Stooges short to employ this theme was 1935's 593: 603: 569: 312: 376: 278:
In 2013, the Gettysburg College Singers released a cover of the song as part of a collection of music of the
179:, as a swinging jazz tune called "Listen to the Rocking Bird", in the 1961 episode "The Girls' Night Out". 49:, whose song the couple once enjoyed, now singing over her grave. However, the melody is moderately lively. 215: 206: 166: 268: 263: 598: 224: 197: 515: 279: 57: 103:
for their 1956 version of the song, with new lyrics, entitled "Nothing's Too Good For My Baby."
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was especially fond of it, saying, "It is as sincere as the laughter of a little girl at play."
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of the era and sold more than twenty million copies of sheet music. It was popular during the
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It relates the story of a singer dreaming of his sweetheart, now dead and buried, and a
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A Hawaiian-style arrangement is used as background music in later seasons of
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American Music Before 1865 in Print and on Records: A Biblio-discography
154: 53: 173:"Listen to the Mocking Bird" was parodied in the television series, 52:"Listen to the Mocking Bird" was one of the most popular 234:
TV series, Season 4, Episode 19 "The Burnout" (1976).
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Index

Listen to the Mockingbird
Septimus Winner
pseudonym
Richard Milburn
mockingbird
ballads
American Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
John Yorke AtLee
Joe Belmont
Frank Stanley
Corinne Morgan
Alma Gluck
Louis Prima
Keely Smith
Bing Crosby
101 Gang Songs
number of the early short films from 1935 to 1938
The Three Stooges
Pardon My Scotch
Three Blind Mice
Shemp Howard
The Bank Dick
Terrytoons
magpie
Heckle and Jeckle
Together Again
The Flintstones
Marvin Hamlisch
The Sting

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