pretending to conduct a large orchestra*
“I’m a little tea pot, short and stout…”
*She puts her left hand on her hip
mimicking the handle of a tea pot*
“Here is my handle, here is my spout…”
*She puts her right hand in an arch
mimicking the spout of a teapot*
“When I get all steamed up, then I shout,
Just tip me over, pour me out!”
*She leans over to the right side as far as she can go*
Well – THAT was liberating…
Maybe not…
Getting old you know!
No matter what your age, I’m sure you’ve heard this song at one time or another.
But where did it come from? Most of us think it is a nursery rhyme,
but it actually has a history more noteworthy than that…
The song was written in 1939 by George Sanders and Clarence Kelly in
Tin Pan Alley – The Core of the Music publishing District at that time.
Kelley at that time, ran a dance school that specialized in teaching tap
dance maneuvers. The school was open to even the youngest children, who were still
what I like to think of as bobble-head little kidlets… You know the ones: Heads that
still look just a little bit too big for their bodies, the ones that have a handle on
the basic walk and are now mastering the run… tiny little tots… As one could
imagine – teaching youngsters like this dance steps would not be an easy task.
Attention spans alone ( never-mind physical coordination issues) involved in a
dance routine for the paying parents would be quite an undertaking. Sanders,
who usually played the piano accompaniment to the school’s dance recitals worked
with Kelley to create song that the children could sing to remember their dance moves,
hence creating the “Teapot Tip”.
For more information on this song’s origins look for the book by Ronald Sanders
(the son of George Sanders) entitled “Reflections on a Teapot: The Personal History of Time”.
It was published in 1972 by Harper and Row.
And here is the song taken from you tube... cute hein?
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