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Songs and Rhymes for Letter O

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We’re moving through the alphabet, and with each letter I share a printable letter book. Today’s book has six songs and rhymes for letter O.

Songs and Rhymes for Letter O

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Putting together these books of rhymes is fun for me, but the letter O was a  tough one!  Some of these rhymes were new to me.

Here are the songs and rhymes in the little book:

O is for Old Mother Goose

Old Mother Goose,
When she wanted to wander,
Would ride through the air
On a very fine gander.

O is for On Top of Spaghetti (to the tune of “On Top of Old Smokey”)

On top of spaghetti, 
All covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball, 
When somebody sneezed.

It rolled off the table,
And on to the floor,
And then my poor meatball,
Rolled out of the door.

It rolled in the garden,
And under a bush,
And then my poor meatball,
Was nothing but mush.

Over the river and through the wood,
To Grandfather’s house we go;
The horse knows the way
To carry the sleigh,
Through the white and drifted snow, oh!

Over the river and through the wood,
Oh, how the wind does blow!
It stings the toes,
And bites the nose,
As over the ground we go.

 O is for Old Chairs to Mend

Old chairs to mend,
Old chairs to mend!
If I’d as much money
As I could spend,
I never would cry,
“Old chairs to mend!”

 O is for Open, Shut Them

Open, shut them,
Open, shut them,
Give a little clap.
Open, shut them,
Open, shut them,
Lay them in your lap.

O is for Old Owl

A wise old owl lived in an oak.
The more he saw the less he spoke.
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why can’t we be like that wise old bird?

How to assemble my Little Letter Books:

• Print the document in color (if you desire) on cardstock.  Be sure to print pages 2-3 front to back (page 1 is my Terms of Use). You will need only one piece of paper.
• Cut an even line across the center of the page.
• Fold the two sheets to make a book. Make sure the cover is in front, and insert the other page inside.
• Staple with a long arm stapler.

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5 most popular children's songs and their history

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Many songs for children have been popular since Soviet times to this day. They are taught in kindergartens and schools, they sound in your favorite cartoons, at holidays and concerts. "Culture.RF" has collected five stories about how famous songs for kids appeared. Read who Yury Entin dedicated Antoshka to, where the name of Chunga-Chang's "wonder island" came from, and how many authors wrote music for the composition "A Grasshopper Sat in the Grass".

"A Christmas tree was born in the forest"

Yuri Reiner. New Year tree (Lights of Moscow) (detail). nineteen47. Chuvash State Art Museum, Cheboksary

Ilya Glazunov. Christmas tree. New Year's Eve (detail). 1989. Private collection

Boris Smirnov. Christmas tree in a rich house. 1904. Novosibirsk State Museum of Local Lore, Novosibirsk

The text of the famous song “A Christmas tree was born in the forest” appeared more than a century ago. The poem about the New Year tree was written for her pupils by the teacher and governess Raisa Kudasheva. In December 1903, it was published in the magazine "Malyutka", however, under a pseudonym: out of modesty, Kudasheva did not want to indicate her real name. nine0003

The music for the poem "Christmas Tree" was composed for his daughter by scientist Leonid Beckman. He was not a composer, he did not know musical notation, and therefore he was not going to write down the melody. This was done by his wife, Elena Beckman, a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory and a friend of Sergei Rachmaninov.

Soon, Beckman's daughter performed a song about a Christmas tree at a family holiday with friends. The listeners liked the melody so much that they asked to rewrite the notes and words. During 1906, Beckman rewrote "Yolochka" for friends more than 10 times, they passed it on to their acquaintances, and soon the New Year's song became very popular in Moscow. nine0003

Raisa Kudasheva did not know for a long time that her poem had become so famous. It wasn't until 1921 that she first heard a little girl on a train sing "Herringbone" to her words. Kudasheva herself became famous only in the 1950s, when she gave two interviews - to the Evening Moscow newspaper and the Ogonyok magazine. However, she never sought fame and said in a letter to a friend: "I didn't want to be famous, but I couldn't help but write" .

Antoshka

Composer Vladimir Shainsky. nineteen80 year. Photo: Vladimir Savostyanov / TASS

Still from Leonid Nosyrev's animated film "Antoshka" anthology "Merry Carousel" No. 1 (1969)

Cartoonist Leonid Nosyrev and artist Vera Kudryavtseva. 1989–1990 Photo: State Central Museum of Cinema, Moscow

Poet Yuri Entin and composer Vladimir Shainsky wrote the song "Antoshka" in 1968. A few years before, Entin worked as a history teacher at the school. He dedicated a poem about a lazy but mischievous boy who answers all requests to one of the especially negligent students: "We didn't go through this, we weren't asked!"

Shainsky composed the melody in just a few minutes, even without a musical instrument. Yuri Entin recalled: “He said: “I don’t need a piano, I compose on the table.” He began to knock on the table and sing: “Tili-tili, trali-vali ...” There are only six lines. The song turned out right on this day ”.

However, in the children's edition of television, Antoshka was not immediately appreciated. Entin and Shainsky applied to different programs, and everywhere the song was refused to be aired. They accepted her only in the program "Good morning!". Already on the day of its release on television, Antoshka became a hit. After, at 19In 1970, a cartoon of the same name appeared: it was directed by Leonid Nosyrev for the animation magazine "Merry Carousel".

I liked the song about Antoshka. Cheerful melody, mischievous words. The image of a boy immediately presented itself ... I decided that Antoshka must be a red-haired, sunny, free man who is sitting somewhere in nature under a sunflower.

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Chunga-Changa

Poet Yuri Entin. Photo: Sergey Miklyaev / ITAR-TASS

A still from Inessa Kovalevskaya's animated film "Katerok" (1970)

Singer Aida Vedischeva. 1972 Photo: Mikhail Strokov / TASS Newsreel

This song was featured in Inessa Kovalevskaya's cartoon "Katerok". Yuri Entin and Vladimir Shainsky also worked on it, and they composed it on the same day as Antoshka. They just could not immediately come up with the main thing - the name of the "wonder island". All options seemed unsuccessful to Entin until he accidentally saw a poster for a ballet on ice. The name of director Evgeny Changi was indicated on it. Yuri Entin liked the unusual surname so much that he supplemented it with the fictitious word "chunga" and inserted it into the text. nine0003

Popular Soviet singers Anatoly Gorokhov and Aida Vedischeva performed in the cartoon "Chunga-Changu". Entin himself did not consider this work successful: the motive and rhymes seemed to him too uncomplicated. But it was thanks to the light melody and words that the song was quickly remembered by children throughout the Soviet Union.

“A grasshopper sat in the grass”

Writer Nikolai Nosov reads to children. Moscow, 1969. Photo: P. Lesnoy / Newsreel TASS

Still from the animated film by Yuri Trofimov, Vladimir Golikov, Alexander Bogolyubov, Leonid Aristov, Carlo Sulakauri, Kirill Malyantovich and Yuri Klepatsky "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends" (1971–1973)

Actress Klara Rumyanova. Photo: Belozersky Regional Museum of Local Lore, Belozersk

The lyrics of the song "A Grasshopper Sitting in the Grass" appeared much earlier than the music to it. In 1954, the fairy tale novel by Nikolai Nosov "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends" was published. In one of the last chapters, the inhabitants of the Flower City sang this song, which, according to the plot, was composed by the poet Tsvetik and the musician Guslya. Nosov wrote the verses for this episode himself.

In 1961, based on the story of Dunno, a radio play was staged and a short cartoon filmed. Both works included a song about a grasshopper: Yan Frenkel and Ilya Shakhov wrote the music for the radio show, and Mikhail Meerovich wrote the music for the animated short film. But both versions did not gain popularity. Only the version of Vladimir Shainsky, which sounded in the puppet animated series "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends" in 1971 years old. It was performed by actress Klara Rumyanova, who voiced the main character.

"What they teach at school"

Songwriter Mikhail Plyatskovsky with young viewers at the XIII Moscow International Film Festival. Moscow, 1983. Photo: Alexander Shogin / TASS newsreel

Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky. Oral account (fragment). 1895. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Singer Eduard Khil. Moscow, 1965. Photo: Valery Gende-Rote, Vladimir Musaelyan / TASS

The text of the song "What they teach at school" was written by the popular Soviet songwriter Mikhail Plyatskovsky. He recalled that he once rode in an elevator with a neighbor's boy who was supposed to go to first grade.

- You're doing great! I told him. - You will go to school.
— And what do they teach at school? he asked me.
- Read!
— What else?
- Write!
— What else?
- Count!
— What else? What else? What else?

This dialogue inspired Plyatskovsky. This is how the famous lines appeared: “They learn to write different letters with a thin pen in a notebook at school, they teach at school, they teach at school…”

The music for the poem by Mikhail Plyatskovsky was created by Vladimir Shainsky.

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