Question for British members- Do You know the name of this children's(?) song?

[sgcim]

I don't know the name of this song at about 0.57 into this film. It sounds like it could be a children's song or folk song. It's played as a fast jazz waltz.
It might be the composer's original tune, but people I've played it for say it sounds familiar.
TIA

[Mick Wright]

Hi Sgcim, it sounds very like a musical quotation from the old nursery rhyme, 'Girls and Boys Come Out to Play'. It's still frequently heard as one of the mechanical bell-chimes played by mobile ice-cream vans in England and the song also has its own Wikipedia page, here:

'Girls and Boys Come Out to Play (nursery rhyme)

All the best, Mick W

[sgcim]

Hi Sgcim, it sounds very like a musical quotation from the old nursery rhyme, 'Girls and Boys Come Out to Play'. It's still frequently heard as one of the mechanical bell-chimes played by mobile ice-cream vans in England and the song also has its own Wikipedia page, here:

'Girls and Boys Come Out to Play (nursery rhyme)

All the best, Mick W

Thank You,Thank You, Thank You, Mick!!!!!!!!
I just wrote a 20 page jazz big band arrangement on that little tune that I had heard when I watched that crazy Freddie Francis movie back in the 80s when it first came out on video. Ebbinghouse (the film composer who arranged it) turned out to be a German composer who came to England, where he started his own jazz band, and made a few records.
Thanks to you, I finally have a title for it. If we ever record it, I'll send you my derangement of it.
Thanks again!!!

[Mick Wright]

You're very welcome, sgcim, it's no trouble at all!

I was curious about Bernard Ebbinghouse too, after I heard the opening minutes of his movie soundtrack. IMDB has a list of his film work and I see some of his library & film music is on YouTube.

You've picked a venerable old melody to arrange. Apparently it's traceable back to the start of the 18th century but it may be older. There's a lute piece from around 1615 called Dreweries Accords that it reminds me of: 'Dreweries' imitates the pealing of London church-bells and, perhaps, there's also a hint of a peal of bells in the descending phrases of 'Girls and Boys...'

All the best
Mick W

[geoff23]

Yes, I think it’s “Boys and girls come ou to play”. But also it made me think of “Pop goes the weasel”.

[Mick Wright]

Yes, that crossed my mind as well — perhaps there's a tune family connection.

There's a fascinating Wiki page, with a score, for this one as well:

Pop goes the Weasel

all the best,
Mick