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"Three Little Fishies" is a song, recorded by Kay Kyser and His Band, with words by Josephine Carringer and Bernice Idins and music by Saxie Dowell. The song tells the story of three fishes, who defy their mother's command of swimming only in a meadow, by swimming over a dam and on out to sea, where they encounter a shark, which the fish describe as a whale. They flee for their lives and return to the meadow in safety. The song was a US No. 1 hit in 1939.〔()〕 It was released in the UK as a 78 by British comedian Frankie Howerd, on the short-lived Harmony label, in 1949. The recording was re-issued as a single in the 1980s. It was revived in 2012 by Ray Stevens for inclusion in his 108-song box set, ''The Encyclopedia of Recorded Comedy Music''. ==Popular culture== *In 1953 Spike Jones and his City Slickers recorded a version of the song featuring George Rock imitating the high child's African American voice.〔()〕 *In 1966 Jon Pertwee contributed the song to the children's album ''Children's Favourites'' by EMI and Paul Hamlyn. *In a 1981 episode of ''Three's Company'', a misunderstanding occurs when Jack and Janet overhear a psychiatrist, played by Jeffrey Tambor, repeatedly saying "boom, boom, dittum dattem..." while trying to remember the words to this song, to help him get through to a patient. Jack and Janet mistake him for the mental patient and fear for Terri's safety on their date. *In a fourth season episode (417) of ''The Muppet Show'', guest-starring some of the cast of the original ''Star Wars'' films, the song is sung by a Muppet eel, performed by Jerry Nelson, with Muppet fishes and a shark. *In "Force of Habit", the 15th episode of the 1982-1983 television show ''Tales of the Gold Monkey'', the main character, an ex-Flying Tiger named Jake Cutter, played by Stephen Collins, sings the song in the middle of a storm to keep up morale in his plane. *In two episodes of ''Barney & Friends'', ''A Splash Party Please'' from 1992 and ''Look at me, I'm 3!'' from 1993, the children perform the song with Barney and Baby Bop. *There is a version on the 1963 Homer and Jethro album ''Zany Songs of the 30s''. *A portion of the song was used by Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, in 1966, as part of their version of The Marvelettes' "Too Many Fish in the Sea". *Ray Walston and the Do Re Mi Children's Chorus recorded a version of the song in 1965.(Source: "Ray Walston and the children sings songs from "Mary Poppins" and other children's songs" released in 1965.) *It has also been recorded in other languages, including Dutch and Norwegian (as "Har du hørt historien om de tre små fisk"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Three Little Fishies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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