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12 Great Songs You Should Teach Your Preschool Child

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One of the best activities to do with your children every day is to sing songs. Children love singing and they learn a lot through music and songs.

Teach your kids these fun songs for preschoolers and toddlers.

Here are just some of the educational benefits of singing nursery rhymes and songs:

  • Develops gross motor skills (action rhymes)
  • Develops fine motor skills (finger rhymes)
  • Teaches language and increases vocabulary
  • Builds auditory perceptual skills (by learning rhythm, rhyme and sounds)
  • Develops mathematical skills (counting rhymes)

These 12 songs are all-time favourites and a must for your preschoolers. Some are action songs that you can do the movements to, some are fun fingerplays and some will teach your little ones about numbers.

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12 Best Preschool Songs and Rhymes

These 12 songs are all-time favourites and a must for your preschoolers. They are also great songs for toddlers.

Some are action songs that you can do the movements to, some are fun fingerplays and some will teach your little ones about numbers.

ACTION RHYMES:

1. If You’re Happy and You Know It

If you’re happy and you know it
Clap your hands
If you’re happy and you know it
Clap your hands
If you’re happy and you know it
And you really want to show it
If you’re happy and you know it
Clap your hands

Repeat with:

If you’re happy and you know it stomp your feet, shout ‘hurray’, pat your cheeks, do all four.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

2. The Wheels on the Bus

The wheels on the bus go round and round,
(roll forearms over one another in front of the body)
Round and round;
Round and round.
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
All day long.

The lights on the bus go blink, blink, blink,
(open and shut hands)
Blink, blink, blink;
Blink, blink, blink.
The lights on the bus go blink, blink, blink
All day long.

The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish,
(make arms like windscreen wipers)
Swish, swish, swish;
Swish, swish, swish.
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish,
All day long.

Make up other actions e.g. the moms go chatter, the horn goes toot, etc.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

3. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Knees and toes.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Knees and toes,
And eyes, and ears, and mouth and nose
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Knees and toes.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

4. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

Here we go round the mulberry bush
The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush
Here we go round the mulberry bush
So early in the morning.

This is the way we wash our face
Wash our face, wash our face
This is the way we wash our face
So early in the morning.

Repeat with:

This is the way we take our bath, wear our clothes, drink our milk, march to school.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

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NUMBER SONGS:

5. Five Green Bottles

Five green bottles hanging on the wall
Five green bottles hanging on the wall
And if one green bottle should accidentally fall
There’ll be four green bottles hanging on the wall

Repeat with four, three, two, one and no green bottles.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

6. Five Little Ducks

Five little ducks went swimming one day
(hold up five fingers)
Over the hills and far away
(hold arm across body and tuck fingers behind shoulder on the opposite side of the body)
Mother duck said, “Quack, quack, quack, quack”
(use other hand to make a mother duck beak and open and close hand to quack)
But only four little ducks came back
(bring first hand back to the front with four fingers showing

Continue until no little ducks came back, then;

Old Mother Duck went out one day,
Over the hills and far away,
Mother Duck said “Quack, quack, quack, quack”
And all of those five little ducks came back.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

Here are more fun animal songs for preschoolers.

7. Five Speckled Frogs

Five little speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs.
YUM! YUM!
One jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Then there were four speckled frogs!
GLUB! GLUB!

Four little speckled frogs…

Three little speckled frogs…

Repeat verses until there is one speckled frog left:

One little speckled frog
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs.
YUM! YUM!
He jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Then there were no speckled frogs!

Listen to the tune on YouTube

8. The Ants Go Marching

The ants go marching one by one
(hold up one finger)
Hoorah! Hoorah!
The ants go marching one by one,
Hoorah! Hoorah!
The ants go marching one by one,
The little one stops to suck his thumb
(pretend to suck thumb)
And they all go marching down to the ground to get out of the rain.

2
The little one stops to tie his shoe
(pretend to tie shoe)
3
The little one stops to climb a tree
(pretend to climb a tree)
4
The little one stops to shut the door
(pretend to shut a door)
5
The little one stops to take a dive
(pretend to dive)
6
The little one stops to pick up sticks
(pretend to pick up sticks)
7
The little one stops to pray to heaven
(pretend to pray)
8
The little one stops to shut the gate
(pretend to shut a gate)
9
The little one stops to check the time
(pretend to check wristwatch)
10
The little one stops to shout “THE END!!”
(shout out loud)

Listen to the tune on YouTube

Click here for more counting rhymes.

FINGER PLAYS:

9. Two Little Dickey Birds

Two little dickey birds sitting on a wall,
(both index fingers in air, move both of them)
One named Peter, One named Paul
(wiggle one index finger, then the other)
Fly away Peter,
(draw the hand with “the Peter finger” behind your back and hide it)
Fly away Paul
(draw the other hand – “the Paul finger’s hand” – behind your back and hide it)
Come back Peter,
(reverse the last action with “the Peter finger” hand)
Come back Paul.
(reverse the last action with “the Paul finger” hand)

Listen to the tune on YouTube

10. Tommy Thumb Where Are You?

Tommy Thumb,
(hands in air and lift thumbs)
Tommy Thumb,
Where are you?
Here I am,
(wriggle thumb)
Here I am,
(wriggle other thumb)
How do you do?

Repeat verse with Peter Pointer (index finger), Toby Tall (middle finger), Ruby Ring (ring finger), Baby Small (little finger), and Fingers All.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

11. Where Is Thumbkin?

(Start with hands behind back)
Where is Thumbkin? Where is Thumbkin?
Here I am.
(bring right hand to front, with thumb up)
Here I am.
(bring left hand to front, with thumb up)
How are you this morning?
Very well, I thank you.
(Wiggle thumbs as if they’re ‘talking’ together)
Run away.
(hide right hand behind back)
Run away.
(hide left hand behind back)

(Repeat rhyme with each finger: Pointer, Tall Man, Ring Man, and Pinkie)

Listen to the tune on YouTube

12. Ten Fingers

I have ten fingers
(hold up both hands, fingers spread)
And they all belong to me
(point to self)
I can make them do things
Would you like to see?
I can shut them up tight
(make fists)
I can open them wide
(open hands)
I can put them together
(place palms together)
I can make them all hide
(put hands behind back)
I can make them jump high
(hands over head)
I can make them jump low
(touch floor)
I can fold them up quietly
(fold hands in lap)
And hold them just so.

Listen to the tune on YouTube

I hope you enjoyed these songs for preschoolers. Need more songs? Here is a big collection of classic preschool songs.

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Preschool, Early Childhood, and Kindergarten Songs

These classroom transitions songs are available from a variety of albums.

These Preschool/Kindergarten songs are available from a variety of albums and teach directions, parts of the body, opposites, money, weather, clothing, telling time, adjectives, action and participation, and good behavior.

Alphabet, Letters & Phonics
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See our songs about Nature & the Environment

Preschool Theme Units
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Parts of the Body
Bath – Jeanne Nelson and Hector Marín
Cleanup Vacuum Cleaner – Jack Hartmann
Face to Face – Fran Avni
Feelin' Good – Lauren Mayer
Finger Family – Music with Mar.
Five Senses – Music with Mar.
Five Fingers  – Music with Mar.
Hands – Songs for Speech and Language Skills
I Can!  – Ron Brown
Itchy, Itchy  – The Amazing Body 
Itchy Twitchy  – Ron Brown
I Got a Wiggle – Colleen & Uncle Squaty
I’ve Got the Music In Me – Margie La Bella
I've Got Two – Songs for Speech and Language Skills 
My Hands On My Head  – Adapted by Stephanie Burton
My Thumb – Music With Mar.
Numbers In A Circle (10) – Colleen & Uncle Squaty
Put Your Hands Up in the Air  – Hap Palmer
Tap It On Your Head – Margie La Bella
These Are My Hands  – Jack Hartmann 
Turn Around  – Hap Palmer 
What a Miracle  – Hap Palmer 
See Also:  – Songs About My Body, Health, Fitness, and Illness

Following Directions
Beginning / End
Let's Start – Prue Whoo
Body Parts
Everybody Touch Your Head – Margie La Bella
Family Dance – Dr. Thomas Moore
Head, Shoulders Knees and Toes – Kiboomu Music
Head, Shoulders Knees and Toes (Learn It) (sing It) – Super Simple Songs
Hey, Hey Everybody – Music with Mar.
I Got a Wiggle – Colleen & Uncle Squaty
Itchy Itchy – Music, Movement & Magination
I've Got the Music In Me – Margie La Bella
Let's Clap Our Hands Together – Colleen & Uncle Squaty
Shake and Move – Patty Shukla
Tap It On Your Head – Margie La Bella
Wiggle My Body – Ron Brown
Counting
A Counting We Will Go – Music, Movement & Magination
Jump for Numbers 0-10 – Ron Brown
Move It By Your Chair – Margie La Bella
Fast / Slow
Come, Play That Music – Margie La Bella
Move Fast, Move Slow – Jack Hartmann
Follow Commands
Careful Cuts – Cherry Carl
Everybody Wave Hello – Margie La Bella
The Finger Dance – Dr. Thomas Moore
Follow Directions – Music with Mar.
Follow Me – Patty Shukla
Food Group Fun – Music with Mar.
I Can Do That! – Jack Hartmann
Jump Up!  Music, Movement & Magination
Little Johnny Brown – Colleen & Uncle Squaty
Monkey, Monkey – Music with Mar.
Move Your Body Along – Listen and Learn
Open Your Mouth and Sing "Ah" – Margie La Bella
Reach For the Sky – Amy Michelle & Friends
Show Me 10 – Ron Brown
The Sockball – Dr. Thomas Moore
Stand Up – Skip West
Wake Up! – Listen & Learn
Wiggle, Giggle and Learn – Stephanie Burton
Wiggle Worm Workout – Stephanie Burton
Front / Back
Around the World – Jack Hartmann
Doing the Flamingo Walk – Diana Colson
Move It By Your Chair – Margie La Bella
ZooDeeAy – Music with Mar.
High / Low
My Elastic Band – Dr. Thomas Moore
Reach For the Sky – Amy Michelle & Friends
Wiggle It! – Patty Shukla
Left / Right
Get Up On Your Feet! – Music with Mar.
Kangaroo Learns Left and Right – Jack Hartmann
Left and Right – Listen and Learn
Left and Right – Ron Brown
Lefty – Prue Whoo
Penguin Dance Chant – Jack Hartmann
Right Hand, Left Hand – Music with Mar.
Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey  – Gary Rosen
Roly Poly #2  – Colleen & Uncle Squaty
Safety Comes First – Listen and Learn
Snap, Clap, Wiggle & Giggle– Mary Jo Huff
Step to the Right – Mary Jo Huff
Way Up In the Sky  Stephanie Burton
Loud / Soft
Come, Play That Music – Margie La Bella
Move / Freeze
Frozen Kidsicle Freeze – Musical Games and Action Songs
Magic Ball – Jack Capon & Rosemary Hallum, Ph.D.
Move and Stop – Margie La Bella
Move It To the Music – Margie La Bella
Move, Then, Stay Still – Music with Mar.
Play and Do This – Margie La Bella
S.T.O.P. –Patty Shukla
Wiggle and Freeze – Cathy Bollinger
Near / Far
Places Close and Far – Music with Mar.
North, South, East and West
Directions – Music with Mar.
Rhyming
Exercise When We Rhyme – Jack Hartmann
Up / Down
Parachute Goes Up and Down – Music with Mar.
Pretty Scarves – Music with Mar.
Roly Poly #2  – Colleen & Uncle Squaty
Stand Up, Sit Down – Margie LaBella
Up – Prue Whoo
Up and Down – Cherry Carl

Opposites
The Opposite Conga  – Jack Hartmann
The Opposite Song – Gemini
The Opposite Song – David Putano  
Opposites  – Kiboomu Music
Opposites  – Gary Rosen
Opposites – Mary Jo Huff
Opposites  – Stephanie Burton
Say the Opposite  – Hap Palmer
What's Bigger Than A Bear?  – Hap Palmer

Money, Currency, and Budgeting
15 Cents – Scott Goodman
Coin Song – Scott Goodman 
Coins In a Dollar – Kathleen Wiley 
Heads or Tails – Gary Rosen
How Many Pennies? – Ron Brown
Jobs: Getting Things Done – Frank Bruen
Money – Jennifer Fixman
Money 1¢ 5¢ 10¢ – Ron Brown
Money Counts – Music Movement & Magination  
The Money Game – Marla Lewis 
Money In My Pocket – Marilyn M. Linford 
Money, Money – Frank Bruen
Money! Money! – Ron Brown
The One-Less-Penny Blues – Music Movement & Magination 
Skip by Twenty-Fives – Scott Goodman

The Calendar, Weather, and Seasons
Songs that Teach about the Weather and Seasons
Songs for Teaching Concepts of Weather & Meteorology
Songs that Teach the Calendar: Days of the Week and Months of the Year 

Clothing
The Colors Of Our Clothes – Music, Movement Magination
I Am Dressed – Jeanne Nelson and Hector Marín
I Just Can't Seem to Tie My Shoes Yet – Music with Mar.
Jenny Jenkins – Two of a Kind
Look What I Did This Morning – Dr. Thomas Moore
My Clothes and Shoes – Listen and Learn 
New Pair of Shoes  – Andy Glockenspiel 
Put On Your Shoes – Super Simple Songs
What Else Do I Need? – Listen and Learn 
What Are You Wearing?  – Hap Palmer 
What Color Are You Wearing?  – Kiboomu Music
Whatever the Weather (What to Wear)  – Jackie Silberg

Telling Time – Reading the Clock
Clock Rock – Listen and Learn
Moving Around the Clock – Music with Mar.  
Smell My Feet (The Time Song) – Tim Pacific 
Telling Time – Jennifer Fixman
Telling Time – Marilyn M. Linford 
Tick Tock  – Jim Rule
Tick Tock  – Ron Brown

Adjectives and Concepts of Fast and Slow for Preschoolers
Energy  – Kelly Good
Everything Has a Shape (Adjectives)  – Hap Palmer  
Move Fast, Move Slow  – Jack Hartmann
Rowing Song  – Ron Brown
Self-Control – Songs for Speech and Language Skills 
Slow and Steady – Prue Whoo
Song About Slow and Fast  – Hap Palmer
Stank Up, Sit Down  – Patty Shukla
Walk. Jog. Run. – Music with Mar. 

Musical Instruments - Action & Participation 
The Bubble Wrap Stomp – Stephanie Burton
C to C – Wendy Rollin
Clap Your Hands – Tickle Tune Typhoon
Clap, Clap, Clap – Rachel Rambach - Listen & Learn
Come and Go Around with Me – Music With Mar.
Come, Play That Music – Margie La Bella
Crescendo – Wendy Rollin
Dancer in the Middle – Colleen & Uncle Squaty
Do You Speak Music? – Judy Leonard
Funky Chicken – Mary Jo Huff
Get Up and Sing! – Amy Michelle & Friends
Good Time  – Listen & Learn
Hand Clap Rap – Jack Hartmann
Hear Me Sing; Watch Me Dance – Music With Mar.
Homemade Band – Margie La Bella
The Humm-emotion Song – J. W. Snyder
I Can Do It By Myself  – Listen & Learn
I Can Tango – Patty Shukla
I Like to Clap  – Listen & Learn  
The Icicle Ball – Karen Rupprecht & Pam Miinor
Instrument Friends Suite – Wendy Rollin 
Jump – Patty Shukla
Just For Fun – Marilyn M. Linford
The La La Song  – Listen & Learn
Let's Clap Our Hands Together – Colleen & Uncle Squaty
Let's Freeze  – Karen Rupprecht & Pam Miinor
Making Music – Tickle Tune Typhoon
Maraca Rock  – Listen & Learn
Maracas - I Love That Sound – Dianne Baker
Melody & Harmony – Wendy Rollin
Movin' is Cool – Jack Hartmann
Music Make Me Wanna Move – Music with Mar.
Music Time is Over – Margie La Bella
My First Song – Wendy Rollin
Penguin Waddle  – Karen Rupprecht & Pam Miinor
Play and Do This – Margie La Bella
Play Your Instruments – Stephanie Burton
Preschool Rocks! – Preschool Rocks!
Raise Your Hand Song –  J. W. Snyder
Reach For the Sky – Amy Michelle & Friends
Rhythm - March & Waltz – Wendy Rollin
Rumble To the Bottom – Colleen and Uncle Squaty
Sing an Echo Song – Margie La Bella
Shake the Shaker – Music with Mar.
Spooky Band – Steve Blunt
Tap Tap Your Rhythm Sticks  – Listen & Learn
Ten Little Skeletons (Rhythm Sticks) – Steve Blunt
Time to Sing Hello – Listen & Learn
Triangle  – Ron Brown
The Ukulele Song  – Listen & Learn
Very Best Band – Margie La Bella  
The Windmill Song – Colleen and Uncle Squaty
You Can Strum Too  – Listen & Learn
You've Got to Wait – Margie La Bella

See More:  – Action Songs for Young Children

Values & Virtues 
1, 2, 3, Four-Ever Friends – Colleen & Uncle Squaty
Ant & Grasshopper – Mary Jo Huff
Be My Friend – Hap Palmer
Be Nice – The Battersby Duo
Be Responsible – Patty Shukla
Believe in Yourself – Marilyn M. Linford  
Circle of Friends – Colleen & Uncle Squaty
Co-Operation – Prue Whoo
Daddies – Marilyn M. Linford
Everybody Has a Family – Music with Mar.
Family – J.W. Snyder
The Feelings in My Heart – Listen & Learn
Friends--We All Need Friends – Dianne Baker
Friendship - Be a Good Friend – "Miss Jenny" 
Glad I am Just Me – Amy Michelle & Friends 
Good for Each Other  – Judy Leonard
Good Friends Are Forever – Dianne Baker 
Hello Friend – Dianne Baker
How Many Ways Can You Say “I Love You”? –Music with Mar.
How To Take Your Turn – Rita Gold
The Hug Song – "Miss Jenny" 
I Am 4, 5, 6 – Margot Bevington
I Love You, No Matter What – Jack Hartmann
I'm A Special Kid – Dr. Thomas Moore
It's Love – Jack Hartmann
Little Magic Words – Marilyn M. Linford
Let the World Be Well – Pam Donkin
Look At Me – Marilyn M. Linford
Love Grows One by One – Carol Johnson
The Magic Word – Listen & Learn
Make A Difference – Marilyn M. Linford
Making Friends – Listen & Learn
Manners Matter Everywhere – Music with Mar.
Mind Your Manners – Amy Michelle & Friends
Mitzvah Monkey – Music with Mar.
The New Baby At My House – Dr. Thomas Moore
No One Like Me – Pam Minor 
Our Family is a Happy One – Fred Gee
Ready, Set, Wait! – Listen & Learn
Shine! Shine! Shine! – Amy Michelle & Friends
Slow and Steady – Susan Harrison
Someone Else's Turn – Music with Mar.
Superhero – Patty Shukla
Thank You  – Jaycee Voorhees 
The More We Get Together  – Kiboomu Music
The "Thank You" Song  – Rita Gold 
Thankful – Listen & Learn 
The Thankful Song – Marilyn M. Linford
Twinkle Twinkle – Amy Michelle & Friends
We All Live Together – Mary Jo Huff
We're All Different and We're the Same – Jack Hartmann
What Is A Mother? – Marilyn M. Linford
When Your Manners Shine – David Putano 
The World is a Circle – Rita Gold
You're Wonderful – Debbie Clement

See More:  – Character Education Songs

Preschool Fingerplays
Fingerplays provide a natural, enjoyable way to build number and language skills.
Circle Time Songs

Everyday Activities for Preschoolers and Kindergarteners 
See our songs about Everyday Activities and Routines

Pets, Animals, and Dinosaurs
See all of our pages on Animals, Bugs and Dinosaurs.

Numbers and Counting Skills for Preschool and Kindergarten
See our Songs and Chants for Early Math Concepts

Colors and Shapes for Early Childhood 
See all of our Songs that Teach Colors and Shapes to Young Children

Sounds of Letters, Digraphs, and Blends and Phonemic Awareness 
Alphabet Letters and their Sounds and Phonological Awareness

Starting and Ending the Day, Clean-Up Time, and Transitions 
Songs for Classroom Transitions

Safety Songs
Songs and Chants that Teach About Safety

Family Songs and Songs About Friendship, Getting Along with Others, Character Building, and Conflict Resolution
Friends and Family

Songs About Food and Nutrition and My Body, Health, and Fitness
Healthy Bodies, Food Songs and Physical Fitness Education Songs 

Music to Celebrate Presidents' Day, Valentine's Day, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and the Winter Holidays
Holiday Songs

Songs Inspired by Classical Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes and Poetry 
See all of our Fairy Tale & Nursery Rhyme Songs 

Head Start Programs Song 
Head Start Kid – Jackie Silberg

Machines, Cars, and Trains
See all of our Train and Transportation Songs

Occupations, Schools, Families, Neighborhoods and Homes
See all of our Songs for Teaching the "Communities" Curriculum

See all of our 
Movement and Participation Songs for early childhood.

Science Songs for Early Childhood Development 
See all of our Science Songs for Young Children

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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). 1947. 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. 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.

    The music for the poem "Christmas Tree" was composed for his daughter by the 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 Rachmaninoff.

    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. Within 19In 06, Beckman rewrote "Yolochka" for friends more than 10 times, they passed it on to their friends, and soon the New Year's song became very popular in Moscow.

    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. 1980 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" at 1968. A few years before, Entin worked as a history teacher at the school. He dedicated a poem about a lazy but mischievous boy to one of the especially negligent students, who answers all requests: “We didn’t go through this, they didn’t ask us!”

    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 that, in 1970, a cartoon of the same name appeared: it was directed by Leonid Nosyrev for the animated 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.

    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 Nikolay 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.
    - What do they teach at school? he asked me.

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