The tune (or rather, the strange melancholy harmony of the Inchworm song with the children's voices) is so beautiful, so brief and so perpetually haunting. I heard this as a child on an old, old LP and it's engraved deep down among the cradle songs.
The tune (or rather, the strange melancholy harmony of the Inchworm song with the children's voices) is so beautiful, so brief and so perpetually haunting. I heard this as a child on an old, old LP and it's engraved deep down among the cradle songs.
What a great movie - Hans Christian Anderson - with SUCH beautiful music by Frank Loesser. This song seems especially touching to me - so simple and yet so melodically inviting. Just gorgeous. Just wish it was longer, but that is also part of it's beauty. Love this music. And Danny Kaye, whatever his other shortcomings, was perfect in this role.
Excelente, ver e ouvir as obras de Hans Christian Andersen, faz-me pensar que sendo ele o primeiro criador de contos infantis...sem qualquer formação literária, e tendo ele passado pelos problemas sociais que passou!!! á mais de um céculo, com a perfeição que apresentava, e apresentam seus contos..chego á conclusão que falar, escrever, cantar, pintar, ensinar enfim, é para quem Deus deu o Don.
This song is beautiful and beautifully done but it's too short. Should have had more verses. Danny sings this beautifully. Makes me feel better and I love it so much.
I love Danny Kaye Movies. I fell in love with this song when I was a child. I thought the song was longer tho!! lol But he had such an amazing voice and talent
Frank Loesser, who wrote this and all the truly wonderful songs in the movie Hans Christian Andersen, is quite simply one of the greatest songwriters of all time...unbelievable humanity in all he creates. To think he also wrote Baby It's Cold Outside, the scores to Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. I am in awe. Danny Kaye is a genius too. Did you know he was a gourmet chef and a pilot among all his other talents?
This is a song in my head... It bring to me my memories of those times when I read books to children at the library..... So fun to dress up like Mother Goose and read to the children... Was surrounded by a sea of innocent faces, eager sailor listeneres on a voyage of imagination, ease smile so yet untouched by what a challenge the world really is.
It always had a meloncholy melody, its true, but was beautiful nevertheless I agree with RayfeldA...its a little deeper than a worm and math...a true classic song and performer...loved it then and still do now...I'm 58.
I love This. movie It was soooooo sad, and this song also made me frikin depressed. WAaaaahhhhh! Poor, HCA, POOR danny kay, why were people so CRUEL to him? Waaaahha, lol.
I was watching this movie on a local TV network (many years ago...pre-video days) with anticipation of hearing this beautiful song. Just when Danny began singing, the TV station cut to a commerical! The entire song was deleted from viewing. I was sorely disappointed, and frankly more than miffed!
@FreewheelinPhrank Andersen had a great style, yes I know it's translated into English. Some of his stories were very sad and some were very scary for me as a kid, like the Little Match Girl and the Snow Queen. But when he was at his best, his writing is amazing and he is one of the greats. He had a lot of issues from childhood abuse, but his heart was big and I do not believe he was anything but good to children.
@Harlequin1998 As a matter of fact, when his stories first were published, they were said to be "harmful to children". But now, almost every danish kid has a book with some of his fairytales, and we learn about him in school. He's a "national treasure", so to say.
Mary Hopkin, a folksinger from Wales I think, has a beautiful version of this on her album called "Postcard", which is available on CD. It is issued on the Beatles' Apple record label.
I''am an Inventor/Engineer ... I use to use this song all the time when trying to read binary numbers from a computer. All my Brother and Sister nerds know what I'm talken Bout. ;-)
I don't even really know what the song is about but...
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There's just something that t gets me about a Dragon living by the sea frolicking in the Autumn mist. Then on top of that its got a cute name like PUFF!
Then...
I think he dies or something...Hey ...I was about 7 years old when I heard this song. Yeah this one really gets me going... I mean MAN! WTF!
creaturebotman ~ Your comment made me smile. I'm 52 now, and I just came in from watching the tiniest inchworm I ever remember seeing. I loved playing with them when I was a kid! I don't think there's anything wrong with you at all. (=
I had to look up the song because I couldn't remember the words (merigolds to be exact.)
I remember them playing this on the radio when they announced his death. Im a dude.. and I teared up when I heard this. Something magical with people like Danny Kaye that I miss in the present world today.
The math chanting part of this song popped into my head randomly earlier...i just had to hear it. Glad i was able to find it here. This is a good movie!
I didn't knew you made a movie about H.C. Andersen. I've seen a couple of danish movies about him but never this one. He does deserve respect. He was one great man!
@homersparents Yes! Great Claus, Little Claus! I loved that story! He told many stories with sadness, many with dark elements...that was one of my favorites, too.
I used to have this on a cassette tape (oh memories) when I was little and I remember being SOOOO excited when we were told we were going to perform it in a school concert because I already knew the song :D
I distinctly remember having scarlet fever and watching this film when i was 5. I just now read that it was David Bowie's favorite song as a child of 5, so I came to come relive some memories. Well worth it.
I loved this movie when I was little. Isn't Danny Kaye great in this part? So many great stories and songs within this movie. What a beautiful melodic voice he had.
I had a tape with this song for all my childhood, I used to listen to it every night. I never knew where the songs came from, but I'm glad I do now. This is making me misty eyed already.
This is possibly one of the briefest yet most sensitive moments of the entire movie! but it's also telling that in this instant gratification age where everything is immediate and faster, it's difficult for younger ppl to appreciate movies in this era. I grew up in the 80s on alot of DK movies. immensely sad when he died.
Brilliant song cause of contrast tween cold rationality drilled into kids vs imagination & 'carpe diem' message of Hans. Poignant w/ tone of nostalgia & loss and relentless progression of numbers, representing passage of childhood: what adds up are years...& they add up quickly. Hans' lyrics see kids from distance, but kids themselves (like inchworms) may miss how wonderful are the years they measure out (marigolds). School focused on "going far," but Hans focused on not missing childhood.
It's the quiet, sad, reflective juxtaposition of one person's personal appreciation of nature against the regimented, impersonal mass education framework.
Although nothing can be done to change the latter, the simple existence of the former is classic pathos.
that's too funny. childhood memories are so strong. I cry every time I listen to Beethoven's 6th symphony, because one of the melodies was a lullaby sung to me when I was little.
@creaturebotman It's okay, I don't cry during the most depressing movies but then various Disney movies get me all choked up. Or things like the song "Puff the Magic Dragon". Haa.
@creaturebotman Just this week, this song came to me while I was driving to work, and started to "tear up" so much I had to wait to go into work. I don;t know why I thought of it. The song made me thing about life, daily toil, but not stopping to see how bearutiful the marigolds or "people" are in my life. Oh one more thing, I am 52.
@skinnyblinddude ~~~~~~ Sniff! AWW SUCKS! I listen to this song AND while reading your reply comment! Thanks! Now I'm really soaked in tears! ~~~~~~~ You said.. "....it's a lovely song and you have a heart" ~~~~~~~ OH GAWD! and Danny Kay...singing that song! Awww wwwaa waaa waaa TOO MUCH! :-)
@creaturebotman Nothing is wrong with you or anybody who loves beautiful music. Certain musical combinations (sharps/flats) have been shown to produce an emotionally response when played in a particular pattern.
@creaturebotman I think it's more about how the children were all crammed up in the school and they weren't living out their happy childhoods in the outside. It's probably something deep like that because notice how as he sings he keeps looking back at the schoolhouse.
@creaturebotman We sang it in our school choir in 1967...the music teacher had a heck of a time teaching elementary school children with no music background to sing both of these parts together. I kept wanting to listen to the Sopranos sing their part.
@creaturebotman Is it really just about a worm and math? What this song says to Me is that so many of us go through life working so hard as the years fly by, worrying about things beyond our control that we to rarely take the time to stop and notice just how wonderful life is until were about to lose it. Thus it's a sad true thought that seems to ring through this melody. It seems somewhat subconscious maybe.
@creaturebotman The song does me the same way.I am 24 but watched this movie when I was little and now I show it to my son.The movie,let alone this song,has stuck woth me all through these years but none more so than this song :-)
@creaturebotman nothing is wrong with you!! :) you're just a 'tender heart' and that movie was so much about the loneliness of the odd man out.Danny Kaye portrayed it so well; the perfect 'happy-sad' face. Feelings etched into my heart. i watched that movie every chance they'd show it on tv when i was growing up and it still touches all those little pains i felt growing up. nothing like good song writer with a good movie and a good actor to ping the heart strings.
@creaturebotman my guess would be, and this is me talking from my own 55 yr old perspective, is that it makes us cry because it is about both the tasking we are made to do to grow out of childhood, and the yearning as an adult for that time.
Ya'll talk a lot of shit about nothing but a little fluff of a song some guy thought up to help him with math. Its cute, and probably helped at least one person. Come up with one thing in your life thats probably helped as many people, then you have the right to be pedantic.
I couldn't agree more. There's always this slam against those of us conversent with science and mathematics that we cannot appreciate beauty.
Bullshit! I know art better than you guys know science. It has always made me wonder why my engineering colleagues do in their spare time what the liberal arts guys do full time and complain about it.
And, in college, I never saw anyone drop out of English and go into Engineering.
ah well, that's people for you. I'm not fond of math or engineering stuff like that at all but I know my brother is and he does have an eye for beauty so yeah its not fair to assume intelligence can't see beauty.
Yeah, it's like that episode of NORTHERN EXPOSURE where Maurice buys the antique German clock and expects it to be perfectly accurate. The clocksmith is angered by his insensitivity to the clock's beautiful mechanics and at the end of the episode we hear this song with a montage of everyone quietly ending their day.
Cultural osmosis and a thirty second youTube clip does not enable you to critique a movie, I'm afraid. If you'd actually seen the movie in question, you'd be more than aware that it's not an "ant-math" song, but rather decrying the educational methods of the time, which focused on the rod and on rote methods, which allowed for no real understanding or appreciation of the subject matter in question.
One comment does not enable you to tell if I've seen the whole movie, obviously, since I *have* seen it. (I was angry when HCA was driven out of town, for instance) Perhaps if you'd tutored students in college algebra who have to take 20 hours to do their homework every week because their grade school teachers' ideology set them up to have to pick up a calculator every time they have to figure out 5 x 7, you'd appreciate that "rod and rote" methods do have their place in education.
i was hanging fresh mistletoe and an inchworm came out of it! i remembered this song from when i was little [i loved the movie, my brothers hated it!] so i looked it up to show my niece and nephew. at 15, i still love this movie.
Our family loves him so much, too. We grew up with him...such a fine, decent lovely human being...married and in love with the same woman his whole life, never anything bad spoken of him, everyone who met him loved him, too. Wish he was still here.
Bless your heart, me too I wish he was still here, such a Magic Man, and so decent yes, for many years with the same woman and a heart of Gold, I miss him so much it hurts! I think about him all the time in fact when my father was younger he looked just like him, but with darker hair God Bless xxxxxx.
In our new textbook, on number theory for p-5 teachers, is an illustration from Hans Christian Anderson and the lyrics for "Inchworm." I asked the class if anyone knew about this song. Only one young lady raised her hand. I asked her if she could sing it. To our surprise she gave us a very beautiful rendition. I told the class that the song must be somewhere on Youtube and to find it and listen.
I never learned my times tables that way! It's so much easier isn't it, if you sing it! Oh and I just ADORE this movie! The scenery is so beautiful! It reminds me of when I used to live in England! One of my all-time favorite movies! :)
Just listened to Mccartneys version, superb
garyem 2 days ago
McCartney has just done a lovely cover of this enchanting song!
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The tune (or rather, the strange melancholy harmony of the Inchworm song with the children's voices) is so beautiful, so brief and so perpetually haunting. I heard this as a child on an old, old LP and it's engraved deep down among the cradle songs.
well said.
raanan111 1 month ago
a classic magical memory from my childhood. Thank you
icanwaitanotherday 1 month ago
This is great, but don't miss the Sesame Street version.
balladofamerica 1 month ago
The tune (or rather, the strange melancholy harmony of the Inchworm song with the children's voices) is so beautiful, so brief and so perpetually haunting. I heard this as a child on an old, old LP and it's engraved deep down among the cradle songs.
sunsdomain 1 month ago
The lyrics I know are " 2 &2 are 4, 4 & 4 r 8, that's all you have on your business like mind."
webkinzproductionz22 2 months ago
This makes me incredibly happy and sad at the same time...
PoemOf4Letters 2 months ago
Love this song. Though it should properly "2 and 2 IS 4," not "are."
FortOrdRecUsers 2 months ago
@FortOrdRecUsers we are adding two numbers '2 and 2' plural 'are'.
bood22ataol 2 months ago
1952
Erlend65 2 months ago
What year did this come out?/.
saxxman07 2 months ago
Two and two are four, four and four are eight, eight and eight are sixteen.....didn´t we all go through class like this? And how I miss it....
Saartje05 3 months ago
my children all love this film ..my youngest is 4
traceygibbo1 3 months ago
One of my favorit songs! i grew up on it.... Still beautiful !
sharonmohar 3 months ago
If anyone has a problem with this tune, then go
else where!
yorkie6687 4 months ago
Thank you.
HeirOfEnoch 4 months ago
Such an underrated talent, it breaks my heart that everybody in the world hasn't grown up with his films
ecureuil85 5 months ago 12
@ecureuil85 Wow....we think the same, i even named my son Daniel because Danny Kaye was such an influence in my life <3
MsAdda1 3 months ago
One of the best entertainers
robinpollock 7 months ago
this has always been one of my favorite movies, and this was my favorite song. ^_^. Thank you so much for this flash of my childhood.
SuperKawaiKitty 8 months ago 2
Just lovely. Takes me back to simpler times, like childhood.... Awesome post!!!
Broblem12 8 months ago
Dedicated to RJ Diaz.
Sharrock03 8 months ago
the teacher looks like cosmo kramer
hewi5134 9 months ago
What a great movie - Hans Christian Anderson - with SUCH beautiful music by Frank Loesser. This song seems especially touching to me - so simple and yet so melodically inviting. Just gorgeous. Just wish it was longer, but that is also part of it's beauty. Love this music. And Danny Kaye, whatever his other shortcomings, was perfect in this role.
microdon2 9 months ago 2
@microdon2 It´s Andersen, If he were swedish it would be Anderson, but Andersen in danish
krusokat 5 months ago
kiss me deeply as this plays. its all i dream
UmbrellaWatch 10 months ago 2
Excelente, ver e ouvir as obras de Hans Christian Andersen, faz-me pensar que sendo ele o primeiro criador de contos infantis...sem qualquer formação literária, e tendo ele passado pelos problemas sociais que passou!!! á mais de um céculo, com a perfeição que apresentava, e apresentam seus contos..chego á conclusão que falar, escrever, cantar, pintar, ensinar enfim, é para quem Deus deu o Don.
crasyivan 10 months ago
My gran used to sing me this song when I was 2 or 3 years old! Im 21 now and I've only just remembered it!
newjoeorder 10 months ago
The part of the song where the kids keep singing "2 and 2 are 4 (etc.)" used to sound funny to me, but now I find it annoying.
cbsteffen 10 months ago
@cbsteffen that's the point, it's monotonous and the beat falls on an off word, it signifies the boredom and discomfort of their schoolday.
sunsdomain 1 month ago
What film is this from? Does anyone know??
Undercovertheory 11 months ago
@Undercovertheory Hans Christen Anderson, an old Musical
xdarkfirex 10 months ago
@xdarkfirex Is that the title of the Musical or is it called something else?
Undercovertheory 10 months ago
This song is beautiful and beautifully done but it's too short. Should have had more verses. Danny sings this beautifully. Makes me feel better and I love it so much.
MsPussPuss01 11 months ago
I honestly remember learning this song to help me with math.
nidus2 1 year ago
I love Danny Kaye Movies. I fell in love with this song when I was a child. I thought the song was longer tho!! lol But he had such an amazing voice and talent
Dayydayy30 1 year ago
I log on to watch this all the time. It's good for the soul hehe :)
Innerbee 1 year ago 2
Frank Loesser, who wrote this and all the truly wonderful songs in the movie Hans Christian Andersen, is quite simply one of the greatest songwriters of all time...unbelievable humanity in all he creates. To think he also wrote Baby It's Cold Outside, the scores to Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. I am in awe. Danny Kaye is a genius too. Did you know he was a gourmet chef and a pilot among all his other talents?
julbim 1 year ago 2
DId u know that David Bowie based a bunch of his songs off of this. For example, Ashes to Ashes.
robertplantisgod1234 1 year ago
DId u know that David Bowie based a bunch of his songs off of this.
robertplantisgod1234 1 year ago
He was my favourite when I was a child...with Gene Kelly
OsjeckaJugoslavenka 1 year ago
@OsjeckaJugoslavenka HECK YES! Gene Kelly & Danny Kaye FTW!
GothicxGalxAbby 1 year ago
Lovely old song....Wouldn't work with centimetres though - would it?
Wnoronz 1 year ago
This is a song in my head... It bring to me my memories of those times when I read books to children at the library..... So fun to dress up like Mother Goose and read to the children... Was surrounded by a sea of innocent faces, eager sailor listeneres on a voyage of imagination, ease smile so yet untouched by what a challenge the world really is.
aprilangel916 1 year ago 3
@aprilangel916 May God bless you for it.
mustangjjz109 1 year ago
David Bowie's favorite song..
momentaryhaze 1 year ago 2
its about the sifting sands of time.. its beautiful.
futuristfood 1 year ago
It always had a meloncholy melody, its true, but was beautiful nevertheless I agree with RayfeldA...its a little deeper than a worm and math...a true classic song and performer...loved it then and still do now...I'm 58.
jackstemon 1 year ago
I love This. movie It was soooooo sad, and this song also made me frikin depressed. WAaaaahhhhh! Poor, HCA, POOR danny kay, why were people so CRUEL to him? Waaaahha, lol.
ricogoldstar 1 year ago
we're singing this song for choir
DemiLovatoFan14eve 1 year ago
I love this movie!*^^* I'm so sad the the VHS we have of it skipps and stuff.T_T Danny Kaye is the best.*^^*
every time someone hits the dislike button, a merigold dies.-_-
TheHTAA 1 year ago
I is a loving an tender song, delivered by a wonderful actor, Danny Kaye (in spite of that insipid kid who cannot act his way out of a paper bag.)
RaymondTeller 1 year ago
wow danny Kaye is in this , what is the movie called ?
Niff4me 1 year ago
@Niff4me It's called Hans Christian Anderson .. one of his greatest movies to me.
AdamAntLover 1 year ago
I was watching this movie on a local TV network (many years ago...pre-video days) with anticipation of hearing this beautiful song. Just when Danny began singing, the TV station cut to a commerical! The entire song was deleted from viewing. I was sorely disappointed, and frankly more than miffed!
jsbach15 1 year ago
@jsbach15 Argh! I feel your pain!
sunsdomain 1 month ago
Connie Francis performed this song beautifully with a children's choir on her 1961 television special "Connie Francis: Kicking Sound Around."
cwoodn 1 year ago
what's this? The americans made a movie about HC? WAY TO GO! *HAPPINESS*
Chimeraniue 1 year ago
Straight up quote from Wikipedia .. " In recent times some literary studies have speculated about the homoerotic camouflage in Andersen's works".
Michael Jackson's favorite movie.
Yup - buy it and teach your kids to accept pedophiles advances.
FreewheelinPhrank 1 year ago
@FreewheelinPhrank Andersen had a great style, yes I know it's translated into English. Some of his stories were very sad and some were very scary for me as a kid, like the Little Match Girl and the Snow Queen. But when he was at his best, his writing is amazing and he is one of the greats. He had a lot of issues from childhood abuse, but his heart was big and I do not believe he was anything but good to children.
Harlequin1998 1 year ago
@Harlequin1998 As a matter of fact, when his stories first were published, they were said to be "harmful to children". But now, almost every danish kid has a book with some of his fairytales, and we learn about him in school. He's a "national treasure", so to say.
Chimeraniue 1 year ago
boring looking for more crying
MontanaMayhem131 1 year ago
you got that right, creaturebotman...that letter is my a treasure to me. Danny Kaye was the best.
HeidiSue60 1 year ago
Mary Hopkin, a folksinger from Wales I think, has a beautiful version of this on her album called "Postcard", which is available on CD. It is issued on the Beatles' Apple record label.
skinnyblinddude 1 year ago
Math makes everyone cry.
pbrown 1 year ago
@pbrown LOL!!! 2b or not 2b...What was the question?
skinnyblinddude 1 year ago
I''am an Inventor/Engineer ... I use to use this song all the time when trying to read binary numbers from a computer. All my Brother and Sister nerds know what I'm talken Bout. ;-)
creaturebotman 1 year ago
YEAH!
And how bout that Puff that Magic Dragon song?
That's another one!
I don't even really know what the song is about but...
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There's just something that t gets me about a Dragon living by the sea frolicking in the Autumn mist. Then on top of that its got a cute name like PUFF!
Then...
I think he dies or something...Hey ...I was about 7 years old when I heard this song. Yeah this one really gets me going... I mean MAN! WTF!
creaturebotman 1 year ago
WOW! It has been YEARS since i've heard this song! I used to sing this song long long ago.
MrChristopherPriest 1 year ago
That boy looks like Peter Pan...
Entropy56 1 year ago
creaturebotman ~ Your comment made me smile. I'm 52 now, and I just came in from watching the tiniest inchworm I ever remember seeing. I loved playing with them when I was a kid! I don't think there's anything wrong with you at all. (=
I had to look up the song because I couldn't remember the words (merigolds to be exact.)
The101177 1 year ago
I remember them playing this on the radio when they announced his death. Im a dude.. and I teared up when I heard this. Something magical with people like Danny Kaye that I miss in the present world today.
jabberwolf 1 year ago 3
:-)
creaturebotman 1 year ago
you can't compare this to lil wayne xd
Abraxas20012 1 year ago
The math chanting part of this song popped into my head randomly earlier...i just had to hear it. Glad i was able to find it here. This is a good movie!
WuHa105 1 year ago
I didn't knew you made a movie about H.C. Andersen. I've seen a couple of danish movies about him but never this one. He does deserve respect. He was one great man!
1994Andersen 1 year ago
@1994Andersen
awesome story teller
they are translated into English and told to all children around the world..(probably all other languages too)
he is celebrated worldwide.
my absolute favorite is great caus little claus...
better than Grim brothers.
homersparents 1 year ago
@homersparents Yes! Great Claus, Little Claus! I loved that story! He told many stories with sadness, many with dark elements...that was one of my favorites, too.
HeidiSue60 1 year ago
<3 love love love love love :) this song were singing it in our concert :D XD thanks for the vid. clip :0
bugsrcool55 1 year ago
I used to have this on a cassette tape (oh memories) when I was little and I remember being SOOOO excited when we were told we were going to perform it in a school concert because I already knew the song :D
Ahh to be six years old again...
sazmerelda 2 years ago 2
lovely song , the children's choir sounds mysterious somehow ...
i love Andersen !^^
nocturne163 2 years ago
I distinctly remember having scarlet fever and watching this film when i was 5. I just now read that it was David Bowie's favorite song as a child of 5, so I came to come relive some memories. Well worth it.
gumborific 2 years ago 3
16 an16 is 36 anyway, my teacher says so.
peto0101 2 years ago
No, the song is right. Do the math, or use a calculator.
HookSilverSparrow 2 years ago
No, your teacher's an idiot- it's 32- they're adding....
bad2bone 2 years ago
Your teacher must be from my generation. Check out Tom Lehrer's song "New Math." Then you'll understand.
AnotherSpecialEdMom 2 years ago
Danny Kaye is my favorite of all time. I even wrote him a letter when I was four, and got a letter back from him! This is so sweet...
HeidiSue60 2 years ago 54
@HeidiSue60 sweet man... <3
Xilluci 1 year ago
@HeidiSue60 ~~~~
Umm... 4 years old?
We all used to write letters like that at that age.
Mainly to Santa.
He replied too.
Dad helped me because I was too small to reach the mailbox
(Wink)
I'm just saying...
creaturebotman 1 year ago
@creaturebotman Except I wrote (I dictated; my mom wrote the words) to Santa and never got a reply. The letter is legit. Danny Kaye wrote back.
HeidiSue60 1 year ago
@HeidiSue60 Then you got the most precious letter any child could want.
A reply back from Danny Kaye is way better than a letter from Santa.
creaturebotman 1 year ago
@HeidiSue60 Hate to break it to you, but Danny Kaye was notoriously mean spirited. Check out biographies about him.
TabletopBarbies 10 months ago
@TabletopBarbies
That raises an interesting contrast, that between the amiable public persona of a celebrity and their private personality. What to make of it?
theprophet20 8 months ago
I loved this movie when I was little. Isn't Danny Kaye great in this part? So many great stories and songs within this movie. What a beautiful melodic voice he had.
alee192 2 years ago 18
Beautiful song with a beautiful and strong message.
Ponchodelamancha 2 years ago 4
@Geminii27
Now say that 3 times fast lol.
ChaosLegion 2 years ago
all i can think about is
2 and 2 is 4
4 and 4 is 8
8 and 8 is 16
16 and 16 is 32
:|
MegNCharlProductions 2 years ago
I had a tape with this song for all my childhood, I used to listen to it every night. I never knew where the songs came from, but I'm glad I do now. This is making me misty eyed already.
PeanutButter5 2 years ago
NO
WAY
ME TOO!! I loved Danny Kaye when i was little, couldn't get to sleep without it!
rustedrainbow 2 years ago
This was my lullaby for seven years, i still listen to it help calm me. Great song, thx for putting it up!
ShawnFinatic13 2 years ago
same for me! i just found this today and was shocked to tears lol
lilmissymo 2 years ago
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yeah, coz its about your cock!
gregevigan 2 years ago
When I can't sleep, I play this song. I'm getting sleepy listening to it right now as I'm typing this.
jccw227 2 years ago
I get to sing this in choir 2moz!!! yay!!! beaut song
Ishi4eva 2 years ago
I first heard this song on a public radio station and was struck by how peaceful and beautiul it is.
tubian323 2 years ago 2
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Fuck en lorte film!
Snigeskyt 2 years ago
This is possibly one of the briefest yet most sensitive moments of the entire movie! but it's also telling that in this instant gratification age where everything is immediate and faster, it's difficult for younger ppl to appreciate movies in this era. I grew up in the 80s on alot of DK movies. immensely sad when he died.
KCityHoplite 2 years ago 5
ijst had to sing this for a play i did and i was the lead and singin this alone is kinda scary cux of al da high nots
ashleyloveya1234 2 years ago
I don't know why but this song always used to make me CRY when I herd it as a kid.
I am 52 now and I still tear up when I hear it.
Its just about a freakin worm and math!
WTF's wrong with me!
creaturebotman 2 years ago 49
Brilliant song cause of contrast tween cold rationality drilled into kids vs imagination & 'carpe diem' message of Hans. Poignant w/ tone of nostalgia & loss and relentless progression of numbers, representing passage of childhood: what adds up are years...& they add up quickly. Hans' lyrics see kids from distance, but kids themselves (like inchworms) may miss how wonderful are the years they measure out (marigolds). School focused on "going far," but Hans focused on not missing childhood.
unholythunderbiker 2 years ago 4
It's the quiet, sad, reflective juxtaposition of one person's personal appreciation of nature against the regimented, impersonal mass education framework.
Although nothing can be done to change the latter, the simple existence of the former is classic pathos.
Geminii27 2 years ago
Why do you think nothing can be done to change regimented, impersonal mass education?
wicksha88able 2 years ago
Agreed all the way, except I'm 41. :P
magnoliasouth 2 years ago
@creaturebotman
that's too funny. childhood memories are so strong. I cry every time I listen to Beethoven's 6th symphony, because one of the melodies was a lullaby sung to me when I was little.
bgoluboff1 1 year ago
@creaturebotman you and david bowie
WakkaX9 1 year ago
@creaturebotman It's okay, I don't cry during the most depressing movies but then various Disney movies get me all choked up. Or things like the song "Puff the Magic Dragon". Haa.
tripthelightfilm 1 year ago
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creaturebotman 1 year ago
@creaturebotman Just this week, this song came to me while I was driving to work, and started to "tear up" so much I had to wait to go into work. I don;t know why I thought of it. The song made me thing about life, daily toil, but not stopping to see how bearutiful the marigolds or "people" are in my life. Oh one more thing, I am 52.
YTBOYBLUE 1 year ago
@creaturebotman Well, my goodness you! It's because it's a lovely song and you have a heart. :)
skinnyblinddude 1 year ago
creaturebotman 1 year ago
@creaturebotman --- i feel the same way..... it's sooo sweet and yet sad... Glad I'm not the only one... lol
dslewinski 1 year ago
@creaturebotman Nothing is wrong with you or anybody who loves beautiful music. Certain musical combinations (sharps/flats) have been shown to produce an emotionally response when played in a particular pattern.
jsbach15 1 year ago
@creaturebotman I think it's more about how the children were all crammed up in the school and they weren't living out their happy childhoods in the outside. It's probably something deep like that because notice how as he sings he keeps looking back at the schoolhouse.
DAVN121 1 year ago
@creaturebotman well don't feel alone. everytime i watch this movie and hear the song i tear up as well ... it's a great moving song.
AdamAntLover 1 year ago
@creaturebotman We sang it in our school choir in 1967...the music teacher had a heck of a time teaching elementary school children with no music background to sing both of these parts together. I kept wanting to listen to the Sopranos sing their part.
It is a beautiful song though.
ekocentric 1 year ago
@creaturebotman Is it really just about a worm and math? What this song says to Me is that so many of us go through life working so hard as the years fly by, worrying about things beyond our control that we to rarely take the time to stop and notice just how wonderful life is until were about to lose it. Thus it's a sad true thought that seems to ring through this melody. It seems somewhat subconscious maybe.
RayfieldA 1 year ago 16
@RayfieldA ...
Yeah I think you are right. This song also reminds me of the song "Nowhere Man" by the Beatles. It carrys a simular theme in the melody.
creaturebotman 1 year ago
@RayfieldA Beautifully stated.
dsmt25 3 months ago
@RayfieldA The symbolism is so haunting..
FlyFree4evr 3 months ago 3
@creaturebotman Wow,Im 56 now and when I was a kid it had same effect on me,& still does
warlordky 1 year ago
@creaturebotman nothing u just have a good taste in beautiful music and it prob, made u cry bc its so beautiful i cry about it 2 :D
xoblueoctoberfanxo 1 year ago
@creaturebotman The song does me the same way.I am 24 but watched this movie when I was little and now I show it to my son.The movie,let alone this song,has stuck woth me all through these years but none more so than this song :-)
blunklaura 1 year ago
@creaturebotman nothing is wrong with you!! :) you're just a 'tender heart' and that movie was so much about the loneliness of the odd man out.Danny Kaye portrayed it so well; the perfect 'happy-sad' face. Feelings etched into my heart. i watched that movie every chance they'd show it on tv when i was growing up and it still touches all those little pains i felt growing up. nothing like good song writer with a good movie and a good actor to ping the heart strings.
coffeedanish 1 year ago
@creaturebotman... I can't believe so many people feel the same way I do.
It warms my heart that here are a lot of people like me who are kid at heart.
But then again Danny Kaye has that effect. I guess the best word is "Enchanting"
creaturebotman 1 year ago
@creaturebotman Not a damn thing.
blkfunster 1 year ago
@creaturebotman...You are not alone! This song used to make me cry too.
stevemichiganman 1 year ago
@creaturebotman my guess would be, and this is me talking from my own 55 yr old perspective, is that it makes us cry because it is about both the tasking we are made to do to grow out of childhood, and the yearning as an adult for that time.
SacMyk 1 year ago
@SacMyk ...
Well said...
It kinds of make me feel the same way as the Beatle's "No Where man"
creaturebotman 1 year ago
I had to sing this at Whitman Middle School around 1991. I never knew it was in this movie.
bmedeiros678 2 years ago
/watch?v=fFH0khjgA0U
TheHonestTheist 2 years ago
I am singing this W-H-O-L-E WHOLE song in chorus and shut up with the rude comments!!!
kaitlynsworld 2 years ago 3
i love this.. thanks for postin.. i used to sing it all the time
soulsistahmel 2 years ago
THANK YOU!!!!!!!! for uploading this the best lullaby in the world.
cooldaddyjames 2 years ago
allways loved this movie when i was little
janjay48 2 years ago
Ya'll talk a lot of shit about nothing but a little fluff of a song some guy thought up to help him with math. Its cute, and probably helped at least one person. Come up with one thing in your life thats probably helped as many people, then you have the right to be pedantic.
jedus1 2 years ago
How lovely.
LilyBess 3 years ago 3
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omg that song was really annoying. i love the movie otherwise but jesus the kids in the background was just ear tearing annoying,
BoriquaLady1209 3 years ago
Oh, another anti-math song. Perhaps if Herr Andersen had memorized his multiplication tables he wouldn't be fixing smelly shoes for a living.
chromethink 3 years ago
I couldn't agree more. There's always this slam against those of us conversent with science and mathematics that we cannot appreciate beauty.
Bullshit! I know art better than you guys know science. It has always made me wonder why my engineering colleagues do in their spare time what the liberal arts guys do full time and complain about it.
And, in college, I never saw anyone drop out of English and go into Engineering.
lskarin 2 years ago
ah well, that's people for you. I'm not fond of math or engineering stuff like that at all but I know my brother is and he does have an eye for beauty so yeah its not fair to assume intelligence can't see beauty.
QuechuaWind 2 years ago
Yeah, it's like that episode of NORTHERN EXPOSURE where Maurice buys the antique German clock and expects it to be perfectly accurate. The clocksmith is angered by his insensitivity to the clock's beautiful mechanics and at the end of the episode we hear this song with a montage of everyone quietly ending their day.
1915fas 2 years ago
----Point----
---Your head--
Cultural osmosis and a thirty second youTube clip does not enable you to critique a movie, I'm afraid. If you'd actually seen the movie in question, you'd be more than aware that it's not an "ant-math" song, but rather decrying the educational methods of the time, which focused on the rod and on rote methods, which allowed for no real understanding or appreciation of the subject matter in question.
taleya 2 years ago 2
One comment does not enable you to tell if I've seen the whole movie, obviously, since I *have* seen it. (I was angry when HCA was driven out of town, for instance) Perhaps if you'd tutored students in college algebra who have to take 20 hours to do their homework every week because their grade school teachers' ideology set them up to have to pick up a calculator every time they have to figure out 5 x 7, you'd appreciate that "rod and rote" methods do have their place in education.
chromethink 2 years ago
we did this song at school
TTYL60 3 years ago
Dear Morgan you are a elf. You are so cute... I could just pinch your cheeks and hug you.
hahaha...
You big wiener.
That's right I said wiener!
SpinDoctorSpin 3 years ago
My daughter LOVES when I sing this song!!!! It makes her giggle...
SpinDoctorSpin 3 years ago
i was hanging fresh mistletoe and an inchworm came out of it! i remembered this song from when i was little [i loved the movie, my brothers hated it!] so i looked it up to show my niece and nephew. at 15, i still love this movie.
SamFortuna 3 years ago
That boy sure looks like Peter Pan. O_o And it's not even H.C.Andersen's story... There's just a boy who looks exactly like Peter Pan.
AnanasZombie 3 years ago
This is such a BEAUTIFUL video! Thank you so much for posting this! 5 Stars!....:) Karen
karenscott3 3 years ago 6
you can find this movie on TV alot around the Holidays inparticular Thanksgiving, amazon is a good place to look for it............
bindylstiff 3 years ago 3
I am so glad I have this movie it's timeless, and so beautiful. Love Danny so much xxxxx
Cherstars 3 years ago 6
Our family loves him so much, too. We grew up with him...such a fine, decent lovely human being...married and in love with the same woman his whole life, never anything bad spoken of him, everyone who met him loved him, too. Wish he was still here.
TheSolidGloryisJesus 3 years ago
Bless your heart, me too I wish he was still here, such a Magic Man, and so decent yes, for many years with the same woman and a heart of Gold, I miss him so much it hurts! I think about him all the time in fact when my father was younger he looked just like him, but with darker hair God Bless xxxxxx.
Cherstars 3 years ago
I like this song. My mother used to sing it to me when I was little.
gio2475 3 years ago 5
so did mine :o)
key2kingdom 3 years ago 2
Thank you eshutdown for this posting.
In our new textbook, on number theory for p-5 teachers, is an illustration from Hans Christian Anderson and the lyrics for "Inchworm." I asked the class if anyone knew about this song. Only one young lady raised her hand. I asked her if she could sing it. To our surprise she gave us a very beautiful rendition. I told the class that the song must be somewhere on Youtube and to find it and listen.
Thanks again.
2 and 2 are 4. 4 and 4 are 8.....
jwpatt1st 3 years ago 3
this film is call just hans christian anderson but i have no clue where to find it .i have it on video but we have no video player any more lol
hypergirllaura 3 years ago
i wanna see this movie now too
XstrtSk8rZ 3 years ago
what is the name of this movie and where can i get it/ rent it???
godislordofall 3 years ago 2
The name of this movie is Hans Christain Andersen and I'm sure you can get it where movies are sold.
Davidt33 3 years ago
well i don't want to buy it untill i see it - i was trying to find it at the library but they didn't have it --- thanks:)
godislordofall 3 years ago
trust me its a great movie! i grew up watching it. if you have kids (or know any) they will love it. guaranteed or your money back :-)
lilmissnugget 3 years ago
I never learned my times tables that way! It's so much easier isn't it, if you sing it! Oh and I just ADORE this movie! The scenery is so beautiful! It reminds me of when I used to live in England! One of my all-time favorite movies! :)
TimeWaster001 3 years ago
Pink Floyd were so cute ...
wotinblooblazes 3 years ago 2
Mr.Kaye would perform this tune again many years
later on"The Muppet Show"on tv to a "Muppet"inchworm.
143AC 3 years ago
Danny Kaye is brilliant!
bringonthelovin 4 years ago 3