This Old Man

~ Recording by The Mike Sammes Singers

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
4.6This Old Man?:??The Mike Sammes SingersThe Encyclopaedia of Childrens Stories and Nursery RhymesVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
RoncoRTD/4 2026

Relationships

assistant producer:Neil Palmer (producer)
producer:Gordon Smith (70s UK producer)
recording of:This Old Man

This Old Man

publisher:Sabine Baring‐Gould (in 1906)
Cecil Sharp (in 1906)
writer:[traditional] (special purpose artist)
referred to in medleys:Nursery Rhymes Medley (order: 1)
later parody versions:[We are such happy flowers, we will now sing for hours] (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, “Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep”)
later versions:I Love You (Barney & Friends, ending theme)
Te quiero (Barney y sus amigos, ending theme)
That Old Man (aka "Children's Song")
The Children's Marching Song
is the basis for:This Old Man (arranged by Abstürzende Brieftauben)
arrangements:Nick Nack Paddy Wack
This Old Man
music quoted in:Hey DJ
lyrics quoted in:Shoots and Ladders