"According to the English nursery rhyme, who ""called for his pipe and called for his bowl and called for his fiddlers three""?"
Old King Cole without heir. James Joyce made reference to the rhyme in "Finnegans Wake" (619.27f): <poem>With pipe on bowl. Terce for a fiddler, sixt for makmerriers, none for a Cole.</poem> Joyce is also punning on the canonical hours ' (3), ' (6), and "" (9), in "Terce ... sixt ... none", and on Fionn MacCool and his Fianna, in "fiddlers ... makmerriers ... Cole". The Old King Cole theme appeared twice in 1933 cartoons: Walt Disney made a "Silly Symphony" cartoon called "Old King Cole", in which the character holds a huge party where various nursery rhyme characters are invited. Walter Lantz
...And His Mother Called Him Bill over 300 albums, this set is among his most profoundly felt and very finest recorded moments." Source: Allmusic ...And His Mother Called Him Bill ...And His Mother Called Him Bill is a studio album by Duke Ellington recorded in the wake of the 1967 death of his long-time collaborator, Billy Strayhorn. It won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 1969. Ellington recorded the album as a tribute to Billy Strayhorn, who died of cancer in May 1967. Strayhorn was a composer, arranger, and one of Ellington's closest friends. The album was recorded in August and November