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What I wrote for the description:

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This song came out of frustration. I've long asked two simple (I think they're simple) questions. And so far, no one seems to be able to give me a real answer:

1) *Why* is Alphabetical Order the order that it's in?

I've seen it written that it goes back to the ancient alphabet of the Phoenicians, but no one can tell me why *they* settled on the order that they did...

and:

2) When did "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" (also the tune to "Baa, baa, Black Sheep"), become the only "right" tune for the alphabet song?

Seriously -- does anyone know? I hate it when there I things I have to accept "Just because that's the way things are!"

Oh, and I've also found that the ABCs go quite well to "Frere Jaques" and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat."
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Slow Zoom, silent title: "The Albaphet Snog"

First verse to the so-called "real tune" to the Alphabet Song (yellow letters on Maroon field, slow zoom:

H O N
W A!
K B G Z
F X R E J
M V T.L.C. &
P.D.Q. S U & I

I can't tell you what went wrong.
Someone scrambled up thi song!

Silent title: "If at first you don't succeed..."

Second verse, also to the "real tune:"

A B C D
Z X Y
J K L & G H I
M N O P E & F
Q & U & T R S
W and last comes V!
Why you shake your head at me?

Silent title: "Third time's a charm (I hope?)

Third Verse, to the "wrong tune" Three Blind Mice:

A B C
D E F
G H I J
K L M N
O P Q R S T U V
& W & X Y Z

Hey, I got it right! HOORAY for ME!
My ABCs!

Silent Title: "You know what? I need a nap. I'll see you later."

##End##

Date: 2012-07-19 11:51 am (UTC)
smw: A woman sits at a typewriter, pages flying, a plug in the back of her awesomely big-curly hair. (Default)
From: [personal profile] smw
Color me thoroughly amused, though having the ABCs set to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" stuck in my head is not what I expect of 5AM.

Date: 2012-07-19 01:58 pm (UTC)
jesse_the_k: cap Times Roman "S" with nick in upper corner, captioned "I shot the serif." (shot the serif)
From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k
The "O P Q R S T U V" via Three Blind Mice is triumphal! (But why don't you include credits in the video?)

I have heard, but not learned, that there's a Chinese character order (for dictionaries and such) based on the component strokes in the ideograph.

Date: 2012-07-19 02:59 pm (UTC)
raze: A man and a rooster. (Default)
From: [personal profile] raze
*laughs* This was delightful.

Incidentally, learning the alphabet in Spanish? Was done to the tune of "When The Saints Come Marching In" in my highschool spanish class.

Date: 2012-07-22 04:44 am (UTC)
pebblerocker: A worried orange dragon, holding an umbrella, gazes at the sky. (Default)
From: [personal profile] pebblerocker
My mother's alphabet song, Americanised out of existence by the ubiquitousness of the Sesame Street song, went to the tune of Jack and Jill, and she sang various nursery rhymes in between. So it went:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q, R S T U, V WXYZ! Oh...

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water,
Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.

Oh... A B C etc

Oh... Little Jack Horner sat in his corner, etc

--and she fitted in other nursery rhymes to the same tune, although some of them were tweaked a bit to make them work, and some of them sound better to their own tunes. I can't remember what other rhymes went in between alphabet sections. Have you come across this one at all?

Date: 2012-07-24 03:56 am (UTC)
pebblerocker: A worried orange dragon, holding an umbrella, gazes at the sky. (Default)
From: [personal profile] pebblerocker
Sort of chanted -- the first eight syllables are all on one note (as far as my inexpert ear can determine)!

The Twinkle Twinkle tune came over here from Sesame Street and wasn't well known before that, so we assumed they'd invented it. They did write a lot of songs for the show as well as adapting current songs.

"In between alphabet sections" -- the song was sung alternating various nursery rhymes as verses and the entire alphabet as the chorus in between each one.

I can offer you one more alphabet song: at Maori classes the teacher taught us to sing all the sounds of the Maori alphabet to the tune of the Connie Francis song "Stupid Cupid" :o)

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