If you’re of a certain age, you remember being herded onto a school stage for a patriotic assembly and warbling “Fifty Nifty United States” to beaming parents. “Fifty, nifty, United States from 13 ...
Songs aid memorization. When I was in fourth grade in Indiana in the 1970s, our music teacher, Miss Burke, taught us to sing “Fifty Nifty United States.” Like everyone else in my class, I was able ...
In 1961, a songwriter named Ray Charles -- not the famous Ray Charles, a different Ray Charles -- wrote a kids' novelty song called "Fifty Nifty United States" for the weekly variety show Perry Como's ...