Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Cool Beans
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 03:04 PM

In New York in the 1950s was "The Merry Mailman" starring Ray Heatherton (father of Joey Heatherton):
I am the Merry Mailman,
Ding Ding! Your bell will ring,
That's my very special ring
And this is what I'll bring:
A letter from your grandma
To say she's coming to stay.
Then close your eyes for the big surprise,
It's a present for your birthday.
I am the Merry Mailman...
(i forget the rest)

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 02:54 PM

Thanks, Ruth!!!

Here's that link for the cartoon featuring Owl Jolson-now how clever is that?!

http://www.13tongimp.com/index.php/archive/i-love-to-singa/


Here's a link for the show Zoom:

http://www.tvparty.com/lostzoom.html

The commentor of that particular article about Zoom also briefly mentions The Electric Company and the same Easy Reader character who I mentioned in my post upthread.

Here's a link for that show:

The Electric Company

**

Btw, Ruth, I 'note' that you were born & raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey. So was I, but I left there before the children's show you mentioned.

I guess I missed out, hun?

;0)

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 01:27 PM

Must mention that several (many?) songs for Sesame Street were crafted by Tom Lehrer

And, for Hawker:
Down in the meadow where the wind blows free,
In the middle of a field stands a lightning tree.
It's limbs all torn from the day it was born
For the tree was born in a thunderstorm.

Grow, grow, the lightning tree,
It's never too late for you and me;
Grow, grow, the lightning tree,
Never give in too easily.



CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Marion
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 01:23 PM

Spiderman, spiderman,
does whatever a spider can.
Spins a web, any size,
Catches thieves, just like flies,
Look out, here comes the spiderman.

In the chill of night,
At the scene of a crime
Like a streak of light
He arrives just in time

Spiderman, spiderman,
Friendly neighbourhood spiderman
.....(I forget!)..........
Action is his reward
To him, life is a great big bangup
Wherever there's a hangup
You'll find the spiderman!

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Hawker
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 01:17 PM

Not a song but remember the fabulous theme tune from Tales of the riverbank ?

Also the theme song/tune from Belle and Sebastian!

And The lightning tree from Follyfoot.......
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:33 PM

And one more: here you go, Azizi...

http://www.13tongimp.com/index.php/archive/i-love-to-singa/

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:31 PM

I should have said, Azizi: yes, I remember the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a cartoon, too...was it early Warner Bros?

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:29 PM

I remember Zoom:

"Come on and Zoom zoom zoom-a zoom..."

And I loved The Magic Garden, with the Chuckle Patch. And the Electric Company, which you graduated to when you became too old for Sesame Street..."We're gonna turn it on, we're gonna bring you the power..." but no, I don't remember any more than that either!

There was also Wonderama with Bob McAllister - that was my favourite. And if you grew up in the greater Philadelphia area (including South Jersey), you got the wonderfully amateurish horror that was Captain Noah's Magical Ark, complete with the organ-playing of Larry Ferrari: "Send your pictures to dear old Captain Noah, send today, send right away..."

Hell, I was a pre-schooler and even I knew their production values were crap.

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:29 PM

Bill and Ben, Bill and Ben
Bill and Ben, flower pot men

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:17 PM

Up above the streets and houses
Rainbows flying high
etc.

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,Bobbijo
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:09 PM

From Captain Kangaroo--
"Alfred the airsick eagle,
Never liked being up high.
So delicate is he that
flight makes him dizzy
So he never learned to fly."

Oh, how I wish I remembered the rest of those words. Does anyone remember that one?

Did Col. Bleep have a theme song?

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Scrump
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:00 PM

Time to go home, time to go home
Andy and Teddy are saying goodbye
Time to go home, time to go home
Andy is saying goodbye, goodbye

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Bert
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 11:25 AM

We want Muffin, Muffin the mule
We want Muffin, playing the fool
We want Muffin, everbody says
We want Muffin, Muffin the mule

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: DebC
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 11:22 AM

When I was a little kid in Los Angeles, we had a show called Sheriff John and he used to sing a great birthday song:

"Put another candle on the birthday cake
We're gonna make a Birthday Cake
Put another candle on the birthday cake
I'm another year old today"

That's how I recall it. If someone remembers differently, I'd love to know!

Debra Cowan

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: RangerSteve
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 10:15 AM

From the Mickey Mouse Club, the introduction to the cartoon:
Now we turn the Mouse-ka-dial
To the right and the left with a great big smile,
This is the way we get to see
A mouse cartoon for you and me.
Meeska, Mooska, Mousekateer,
Mouse cartoon time now is here.

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Padre
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 12:41 AM

HOWDY DOODY
It's Howdy Doody Time (x2)
Bob Smith and Howdy too
Say Howdy Do to you
Let's give a rousing cheer
'Cause Howdy Doody's here
It's time to start the show
So kids, let's go!

SEALTEST BIG TOP
Now's the time to have some fun
Lots of thrills for everyone
Beneath the Sealtest Big Top

Clowns and acrobats are here
Daring feats that you will cheer
And Sealtest ice cream too

Padre

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:17 PM

Why Thanks KT!

Yes, I remember that I also liked Fridays.

And wasn't one of those days Western day? Was it Wednesday?

I remember how sad I was that I didn't have a Musketter hat.

That was real disappointment. But I guess I got over it.

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: KT
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:13 PM

Azizi....
Today is Tuesday, you know what that means?
We're gonna have a special guest.
So, ______, sweep the place clean
Dust off the mat so the welcome can be seen.

Roll out the carpet, strike up the band
and hit it with a hip hooray! (hip hooray!)

Wiggle your ears, like good mousekateers
We're gonna present our guest today
"Cause Tuesday is guest star day!!


Unless of course, it was Friday.....

Saddle your ponies, here we go
Down to the talent rodeo.
Gather up Susie, Jack and Joe
Join the talent round up!

Round 'em up, bring 'em in,
every body's sure to win
Step right up
Here we go, Oh, what a rodeo!

Bring along Dinah, Bob & Bill
Ask everybody on the hill
We're gonna have a great big thrill
Join the talent round up!


Those are the only two I remember...

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:07 PM

Of course for those of us really tuned into the sillyass Mouse, there was the Annette Funicello Fan Club with its own Mickey style theme.......................

S..I..T..........O..N..M............Y..F..A..C..E..

Spaw

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 10:49 PM

Okay-here's one error I caught right off the bat-
The Sesame Street theme song- the first line is
Sunny days sweepin the clouds away...

:o)

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Azizi
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 10:44 PM

Howdie Doody:
I remember the words and tune "It's Howdie Doody Time" {repeat 2x} But that's all I can remember from that song and not that much from the program itself.

Mickey Mouse Club:
I always liked it when Donald Duck interrupted and said his name when the Musketters were singing the M-I-C-K-E-Y song And I liked the "Y" part "Why, because we love you" and then they would end with M-O-U-S E-.

I also liked that the week on that series was divided into specific themes for each particular day. My favorite day was Thursday...I think that was "Adventure Day". I still remember the words & the tune to the first part of that day's song:
"This is the day that is filled with excitement. Nobody knows whata going to happen".

It's interesting that I liked this day of all the others, since I don't think of myself as an adventurous person in real life...

Cartoon {I can't remember the name}:
I don't even remember the name of this cartoon, but I remember very well its plot and the main song that goes with it. The central character is a some kind of animal-but he's portrayed as a boy.This boy likes to sing and wants to be a star, but his father wants him to work at a real job. And so the boy goes off down the road singing "I like to singa/I like to singa/about the moon-ah and the june-ah and the spring-ah/because I love you/I love to sing". I think the boy eventually enters a talent contest and wins singing that song and his father reunites with him and they live happily ever after.

Does anyone else remember this cartoon?

Sesame Street:
I think the songwriters on this show are soooo creative. I think the songs I like best are the theme song itself:
Here's the song as I remember it without looking it up:
Sunny days sweeping the time away
On our way to where the air is free
Won't you tell me how to get
How to get to Sesame street?

I also liked the "C is for Cookie" and "I'm Sammy The Snake And I Look Like The Letter S" songs.

And I remember this song "One of these things are not like the other/one of these things just doesn't below/can you tell which thing is not like the other/before we stop singing this song

I was impressed that the producers of the show changed the song because they received comments that the way it was the song may have inadvertently taught children that people who looked different didn't belong together. But I can't remember the words of the song that took it's place.

Electric Company:
I believe that this show was taken off the air much too song. It was geared to elementary school age children and I still remember some of its theme song:
HEY YOU GUUUUYS/ We going to bring you the power! ?????
We're the Electric Company-ee, The Electric Company-ee

Hmmm. I guess I don't remember it as much as I thought I did.

But one character I do remember is the one that was played by Morgan Freeman. He was "Easy Reader" His song was "Easy Reader, that's my name. Reading readers {?} that's my game.

ZOOM
This was also a great show-I don't know if it's still on. A group of children played imaginative and creative games that other children sent in. I think the words to that show's theme song is: "We're gonna zoom zoom zooma zooma/we're gonna zooma zooma zomma zonna. Come on, give it a try/we're gonna show you just why/we're gonna teach you how to fly HIGH/come on and zoom/come on and zoom"

Or something like that...

Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
[This show was produced in Pittsburgh, and since I live in that city, I couldn't write about children's songs and not mention Mr. Rogers, now could I?]
The Mr. Roger's thems song {as I remember it}
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood
It's a beautiful day for a neighborbor
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
I have always wanted to have a neighbor
just like you.
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood
with you.
So let's make the most of this beautiful day
since we're together we might as well say
won't you please
won't you be my neighbor?

[by now Mr. Rogers would have taken off his jacket, put on his sweater, taken off his shoes[why ??], and put on his tennis shoes {sneakers} [why??] And then he would say

"Hi Neighbor!"

And all the teeny weenie children around the nation who were watching him would say "Hi" back to him.

I certainly helped my children say "hi" to Mr. Rogers. Of course, by the time they were four years old or so, they thought that program was too babyish for them.

But it was a good beginning and probably was better than the tv shows I grew up on, inspite of my good memories of some of them.

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 10:17 PM

Mr. I. Magination, The Man With The Magic Reputation.

                                        SOL ZELLER

Subject: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: dulcimer42
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 09:53 PM

I was just reading thru and enjoying all the advertising jingles that you and I recall. How about jingles or songs from kid shows. I remember one from Romper Room.... in the early 50's: Little Ducky Duddle, Went Swimming in a Puddle. Went swimming in a puddle Quite Small. Said He, It doesn't matter, how much I splash and spatter. I'm only a Ducky after all.

Of course we all remember "It's Howdy Doody Time."

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