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  • The Unicorn
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  • Decca Records singles
  • Number-one singles in Australia
  • Atlantic Records singles
  • 1968 singles
  • 1962 songs
  • American folk songs
  • Children's songs
  • Song recordings produced by Jerry Wexler
  • Songs written by Shel Silverstein
  • Noah's Ark in popular culture
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  • The Unicorn is a song by Shel Silverstein that has been made very popular by Canadian band The Irish Rovers in 1968. It remains one of the best-known songs of the The Irish Rovers' long career. It sold 8 million copies worldwide and reached #2 in the US Adult Contemporary Charts, #7 in the U.S. Hot 100, and #5 in Ireland. It can still be heard regularly in Irish Pubs. The lyrics to the song are also printed as a poem in Silverstein's book Where the Sidewalk Ends. In the original version of the song, The Irish Rovers speak half of the lyrics, as well as the part of the 4th Chorus. The final line of the 5th verse is spoken freely without the music: %22And that's why you'll never see a Unicorn to this very day%22. On the remakes. the majority of the song is sung, again except for the final line, which is also spoken freely, without the music.Shel Silverstein's own version was released in 1962 on his album Inside Folk Songs (Atlantic 8072).His songbook, %22Dirty Feet%22 (TRO/Hollis Music, 1969), includes a discography saying that, along with The Irish Rovers and Silverstein's versions, %22The Unicorn%22 had been recorded by Bill Anderson (Decca), Shay Duffin (RCA), Robert Goulet (Columbia), Bob Turner (ABC), and %22Uncle Bill%22 (Dot). (The record %22Uncle Bill Socks It To Ya%22 was by Burt Wilson, imitating W.C. Fields)Will Millar of The Irish Rovers recorded another, earlier version of the song with the St. Michaels Kids. In 1981 Millar opened an Irish pub in Toronto under the name The Unicorn. Sister pubs were also opened, including one at the site of Expo 86 where the Irish Rovers recorded a live version of the song.In 1968 the song was covered by Irish trio The Bachelors.In 1986, the song was covered by the Kidsongs Kids in their Kidsongs video %22Good Night, Sleep Tight%22.
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  • Shel Silverstein
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  • CA6BE1400027
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  • Charles %22Bud%22 Dant
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  • PT179.01820861S
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  • english
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  • Decca Records
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  • The Unicorn
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