The top prize for a jingle was even earlier. Funiculì, Funiculà’ was composed by Luigi Denza in 1880, to lyrics in Neapolitan dialect by Peppino Turco. The merry Neapolitan tune sings of a young man, who compares his sweetheart to a volcano and invites her to join him on a romantic walk up to the summit. It was written to mark the opening of the first funicular railway on Mount Vesuvius - and within the year, the song had done the 19th-century equivalent of shooting to the top of the charts. By 1881, the sheet music had sold a million copies. A million copies of sheet music is massive even now let alone back then. All intended to be played by musically capable people and not just passively listened to. A performance from 2000 : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itJyodSl2bXPdok.html Hard to think of any jingle that would attract a singer of the calibre of Pavarotti and get such a response from a huge audience after well over 100 years. Nearly an unofficial Italian national anthem in the response it gets from Italians especially.

That's some very specialised time travel.

Go far enough back and the American colonies used £-s-d. New Zealand to just a few ears after Australia. Even 9 year olds in fourth grade were expected and able tp add up simple sums like £2-3-4 plus £1-17-9 back before 1966. To quote the likely lads from TV "Not many people know that 6 shillings and 8 pence is a third of a pound". Go back far enough and there were mites in circulation being one eighth of a penny. Back when a penny was worth so much to buy something useful. Before 200 years of inflation. Farthings gone in Australia much earlier than UK, but hapennies still around in 1966.

2 3 4 + 1 17 9 = 4d+9d = 13d = 1s and 1d carry the 1s + 3s + 17s = 21s = L1 + 1s carry L1 + L2 + L1 = L4 we have 4 pounds 1 schilling 1 pence 😄 simple lol 6s 8d you hit the mark on that one 😆

I'm British and born years after our own _Decimal Day_ (Yeah, we were a bit slow to that party! 🐌💨🇬🇧😋) but I still carry 10/- around in my wallet... 😳 No, my wallet isn't 50 years old (Even if it might _look_ that ancient!) but after we left the EU, preparing for possible _De-Decimalisation_ seemed like a wise precaution... 😉

Thanks.

I remember the original tune was based on a stockman song. Do you remember the song it was based on?

@@ken48827, “Click Go the Shears”, if I recall correctly. (I’m American, so I’m prepared to be epically wrong.)

@@emmarose4234 You've got it absolutely correct.

+TheZodiacz If only she did.

@TheRenaissanceman65 he meant decimal!

All history now. Hopefully the trauma has subsided. We also changed from imperial measurements to metric; miles to kilometers, pounds to kilograms, Fahrenheit to Celsius etc....

Except us Yanks, who have clung onto the Old System as we can't quite give Metric a full warm welcome up here.

The States were the first nation to go to decimal money, but the last to adopt the metric system!

lakersandi And why does the girl’s piano stool float in mid-air?

Magic!!!

Ditto New Zealand.

@@anglobostonian yes mate!!

I think the change from _Pound_ to _Dollar_ might've been part of the de-Empiring exercise that HlM QEII was tasked with during her reign. There's quite a difference between them in the basis of the value they express (Pounds have real value, the origin of _Dollar_ comes from Spanish and corresponds to debt) so as well as _decimalising_ the currency it may also have _removed_ the real worth that the Pound carries with it. (N.B: This is from a Laymans perspective, a solicitor in numismatics would offer a much more authoritative explanation. 😇)