Transmission 6818 - New Sky Is Falling

They all go in, but they never, never come out again.

Crack The Sky

Cruel Shoes

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Butts Band

Stiff Little Fingers

Ray Charles

Humble Pie

John Mayall with Eric Clapton

Stephen Stills

Neil Young

Buffalo Springfield 

T6818

"rise up"

RFW

*The story of the character we now call Chicken Little was part of the oral folk tradition and only began to appear in print after the Brothers Grimm had set a European example with their collection of German tales in the early years of the 19th century. One of the earliest to collect tales from Scandinavian sources was Just Mathias Thiele, who in 1823 published an early version of the Henny Penny story in the Danish language. In his untitled account, a nut falls on Kylling Kluk's back and knocks him over. He then goes to each of the other characters, proclaiming that "I think all the world is falling" and setting them all running. The fox Ræv Skræv joins in the flight and, when they reach the wood, eats them one by one. Eventually the tale was translated into English by Benjamin Thorpe and thereafter, many variations have appeared. Comparing the different versions, we find that in the Scots and English stories the animals want "to tell the king" that the skies are falling; while in the American story, as in the Danish, they are not given any specific motivation. In all versions they are eaten by the fox, although in different circumstances.