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The More We Get Together
"The More We Get Together" is a popular English children's song, originally written for a British charitable organisation for children, claimed authorship by Irving King in 1926, based on an old Viennese tune, "Oh du lieber Augustin", like" Did You Ever See a Lassie?". It is very popular throughout the world. Lyrics Original :Oh the more we are together, together, together, :Oh the more we are together :The merrier we’ll be. :For your friends are my friends :And my friends are your friends, :So, the more we are together, :The merrier we’ll be. Later :The more we get together, together, together, :The more we get together, :The happier we’ll be. :For your friends are my friends, :And my friends are your friends. :The more we get together, :The happier we’ll be. In popular culture *British songwriters Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly, under the pseudonym Irving King, claimed authorship in 1926 as the official song of the Ancient Order of Froth Blowers, with lyrics, "...The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Song
A children's song may be a nursery rhyme set to music, a song that children invent and share among themselves or a modern creation intended for entertainment, use in the home or education. Although children's songs have been recorded and studied in some cultures more than others, they appear to be universal in human society. Categories Iona and Peter Opie, pioneers of the academic study of children's culture, divided children's songs into two classes: those taught to children by adults, which when part of a traditional culture they saw as nursery rhymes, and those that children taught to each other, which formed part of the independent culture of childhood. A further use of the term ''children's song'' is for songs written for the entertainment or education of children, usually in the modern era. In practice none of these categories is entirely discrete, since, for example, children often reuse and adapt nursery rhymes, and many songs now considered as traditional were deliberatel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrigley's
The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, known as the Wrigley Company, is an American multinational chewing gum (Wrigley's gum) company, based in the Global Innovation Center (GIC) in Goose Island, Chicago, Illinois. Wrigley's is wholly owned by Mars, Incorporated, and, along with Mars chocolate bars and other candy products, makes up Mars Wrigley Confectionery. It is the largest manufacturer and marketer of chewing gum in the world. The company currently sells its products in over 180 countries and districts, operates in over 50 countries, and has 21 production facilities in 14 countries including the United States, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, the Czech Republic, Colombia, Poland, Russia, China, India, Japan, Kenya, Australia, and New Zealand. History The company was founded on April 1, 1891, in Chicago, Illinois by William Wrigley Jr. Wrigley's gum was traditionally made out of chicle, sourced largely from Latin America. In 1952, in response to Decree 900, land reform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Nursery Rhymes
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles The terminology of the British Isles refers to the words and phrases that are used to describe the (sometimes overlapping) geographical an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
