Think About This The Next Time You Hear "What A Wonderful World&q

[JSngry]

It's the same melody as "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

No it isn't.

(Perhaps we sing a different version of "Twinkle" over here.)

MG

[Tom Storer]

The beginning is close. But to this:

I prefer this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnRqYMTpXHc

[JSngry]

No it isn't.

(Perhaps we sing a different version of "Twinkle" over here.)

MG

Uh, yeah, it is. Different changes & rhythmic displacement, but the same melodic intervals.

I'm talking about just the first four bars, but that's the hook, so...

[carnivore]

and the first five notes of the Star Spangled Banner are the same as Darktown Strutter' Ball

[Royal Oak]

and the first five notes of the Star Spangled Banner are the same as Darktown Strutter' Ball

As a fairly recent parent, I've discovered that "Twinkle" has the same changes as those two other end-of-playgroup singalong favourites "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and "Sleeping Bunnies".

[Jim Alfredson]

And the ABC song. Unoriginal bastards.

[Aggie87]

and the first five notes of the Star Spangled Banner are the same as Darktown Strutter' Ball

As a fairly recent parent, I've discovered that "Twinkle" has the same changes as those two other end-of-playgroup singalong favourites "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and "Sleeping Bunnies".

Don't forget that all time kid's classic, the ABC song.

Edit - beat to the draw!

Edited December 8, 2008 by Aggie87

[JSngry]

And the ABC song. Unoriginal bastards.

and the first five notes of the Star Spangled Banner are the same as Darktown Strutter' Ball

As a fairly recent parent, I've discovered that "Twinkle" has the same changes as those two other end-of-playgroup singalong favourites "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and "Sleeping Bunnies".

Don't forget that all time kid's classic, the ABC song.

Edit - beat to the draw!

What a WONDERFUL world!

[Jim Alfredson]

And isn't the melody to Twinkle Twinkle et al actually based on a piece by Bach?

[JSngry]

Nah, I think Bach gangstered it outta Africa.

Or maybe China.

[JSngry]

Nah, I think Bach gangstered it outta Africa.

Or maybe China.

Or maybe it's a blues lick that the white folks took over & turned into something else.

We all know how that goes...

[Royal Oak]

and the first five notes of the Star Spangled Banner are the same as Darktown Strutter' Ball

As a fairly recent parent, I've discovered that "Twinkle" has the same changes as those two other end-of-playgroup singalong favourites "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and "Sleeping Bunnies".

Don't forget that all time kid's classic, the ABC song.

Edit - beat to the draw!

Fifteen years after listening to my dad talk about "the changes", I think I finally understand what he meant. Now, if he'd only played me a selection of nursery rhymes, I may have carried on playing my alto saxophone!

[JSngry]

Does somebody have the internet? Can we get this checked out for real?

[Chuck Nessa]

Mozart

[rockefeller center]

And isn't the melody to Twinkle Twinkle et al actually based on a piece by Bach?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle_Twinkle_Little_Star

[Aggie87]

Scintillate scintillate asteroid minific,

Fain would I ponder thy nature specific,

Loftily perched in the ether capacious,

Strongly resembling a gem, carbonaceous.

[BruceH]

Scintillate scintillate asteroid minific,

Fain would I ponder thy nature specific,

Loftily perched in the ether capacious,

Strongly resembling a gem, carbonaceous.

The Mr. Spock version.

[Spontooneous]

Don't forget the resemblance to "Louie Louie."

Wanna see the original lyrics?

[Alexander Hawkins]

Mozart

Yes, not Bach!

The piece I'm thinking if is the variations on 'Ah vous dirais-je, maman' KV265 - so I guess the melody is a traditional French thing?

[Looks like it might be, if this is correct!]

[Joe G]

Scintillate scintillate asteroid minific,

Fain would I ponder thy nature specific,

Loftily perched in the ether capacious,

Strongly resembling a gem, carbonaceous.

Three rodents with defective vision

Three rodents with defective vision

See how they are motivated

See how they are motivated

They are all being pursued by the agriculturalist's mate

Who severed their rear extensions with a kitchen utensil

Have you ever observed such a phenomena in your entire existence

Three rodents with defective vision

(courtesy of Prairie Home Companion)

[AllenLowe]

few people know this, but if you interpolate Twinkle Twinkle over the changes of Wonderful World, you hear "Armstrong's Dead, Armstrong's Dead."

[RDK]

And I hear Joe Satriani is suing...

[Jazzmoose]

few people know this, but if you interpolate Twinkle Twinkle over the changes of Wonderful World, you hear "Armstrong's Dead, Armstrong's Dead."

I thought it was "I buried Louis" backwards...

[JohnS]

According to David Murray, James Spaulding plays on Its a Wonderful World.