OLD MacDONALD HAD A FARM
“Old MacDonald Had a Farm” is a children’s song and nursery rhyme about a farmer named MacDonald (or McDonald, Macdonald) and the various animals he keeps on his farm. Each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise. In many versions, the song is cumulative, with the noises from all the earlier verses added to each subsequent verse. (More from Wikipedia)
Over half of the songs by the Piltdown Men are original compositions, but they also innovatively reworked old standards: “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” became “Mac Donald’s Cave”, and The William Tell Overture – universally associated with The Lone Ranger in that time period – was released as “Piltdown Rides Again”.
(October 2010)
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There are several videos on YouTube, though it is certainly not surprising that all are audio-only; the band was anonymous after all. A clip of “Mac Donald’s Cave” by the Piltdown Men – their take on “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” – can be heard at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CckoQK7fJiw&feature=fvwrel .
(October 2012)
