♫ Glad All Over ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

Dave Clark said: “I knew that we needed a song with the thumps in. we had been playing dance halls and we were getting a great audience response to the stomping things we were doing.”

Crystal Palace Football Club have adopted this song as their theme song. When they reached the FA Cup Final in 1990, the Crystal Palace players teamed up with a UK group called the Fab Four to record a cover version of this – it reached in the UK.

This charted at in the UK, in Canada, and in the U.S.

Glad All Over

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Celebrating National Language Month in the Philippines (Buwan Ng Wika) | From Behind the Pen

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Language is one of the critical components that makes a culture so incredibly unique. To rob a culture of its native tongue and other variables that embody who a group of people are is like crucifying that culture of their indigenous origins and the region they represent.

Throughout the month of August, Buwan Ng Wika, or National Language Month is celebrated in the Philippines. The theme of this year’s festival is “Filipino: The Language of Liberation.” It highlights the Filipino language as a liberating instrument. Buwan means month and wika means language. The celebration is per Proclamation No. 1041 s. 1997 which declares the annual celebration every August 1-31, as National Language Month, and aims to raise the awareness of the Filipino people about the language and its history.

Former President Manuel Luis Quezon is considered the Father of the National Language. This month of August also celebrates the anniversary of his birth and death. He was born on August 19, 1878, in Baler, Aurora, and died on Aug 1, 1944, at age 65.

According to historical accounts, Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippine Commonwealth Republic, pushed for establishing Tagalog as the Philippines’ national language. This occurred during a time when most educated individuals regarded the influence of the English language as the mark of sophistication and intelligence. If natives only spoke the languages of the Philippines, they were not regarded in such high standing.

Government agencies and private sectors are encouraged to help increase Filipinos’ civic and language awareness. Buwan ng Wika embraces activities such as staging plays, attending classes in Tagalog, participating in traditional games of the Philippines, or wearing traditional native costumes to school that will add value to the Filipino language and culture. Students also highlight the language through the creation of posters or poems.

The Commission of the Filipino Language (Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino ) in conjunction with the Department of Education (DepEd) is the organizer of this month-long celebration. With such emphasis on the themes of the month’s celebration of language, the influence of English among Filipinos is gradually declining. This national celebration in the Philippines is pursuant to Presidential Decree Number 1041 (1997). There are many accounts of the importance and significance of Buwan ng Wika, but including the remembrance of the country’s struggle for freedom and the influence of its culture, helps to intensify the pride of the people of the Philippines.

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Happy Buwan Ng Wika

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