Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: clueless don
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 08:44 AM

Thanks for the info, Cool Beans. I think I knew that the singer of "I'm no Fool" was the same person as the voice of Jiminy Cricket. I was just wrong about it being Jimmy Dodd.

Don

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: PHJim
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 11:52 AM

There's a man you've seen
On your television screne
He's the one I'd like to be.
He can ride and shoot
And he's plenty smart to boot
That's Hopalong Cassidy.

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: bgoodak
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 12:34 PM

Another from Sesame Street - not sure why the whole thing is still in my brain

It is I, Captain Vegetable, with my carrot and my celery
Eating crunchy vegetables is good for me
And they're good for you so eat them too
For teeth so strong your whole life long
Eat celery and carrots by the bunch
Hooray for me Captain Vegetable, crunch, crunch, crunch

My kids loved that song, although continued to despise vegetables

Bruce

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 12:41 PM

Help! Does anybody remember a birthday song from the late 60's or early 70's that was on an album by perhaps Sesame Street or Captain Kangaroo w/lyrics like this.."your one year older, almost grown up now" & "So, have a happy birthday, in each & every way, and may your birthday wishes all come true...Wer'e glad that it's your birthday and we would just like to say....a very happy birthday to you".. or maybe this lyric.."there's no other day exactly like a birthday"...My kid sister loved this song & we can't remember the artist or name of the song. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I spent 3 hours today on the computer & it shows up nowhere:(

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Apr 10 - 07:27 PM

I just need to hear the birthday song from the original Mickey Mouse Club. Do anyone remember the words to the song?

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,Toranella
Date: 22 May 10 - 07:26 AM

On page 1 I just noticed Cats' post of Dill the Dog's song from The Herbs and I feel I should point out that it was actually:

I'm Dill the Dog
I'm a dog called Dill
Though my tail I'd love to get
I've never caught it yet!

Close!! :o)

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,Patsy Warren
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 07:06 AM

Here comes the policeman the big friendly policeman,
PC McGarry Number 452 (Camberwick Green).

P-L-A-Y Playaway way Playaway way PLAYAWAY!

I'm a very friendly lion called Parsley (The Herbs).

Jamie, Jamie and his Magic torch (boy and his dog used to go down a hollow in a tree when everyone was asleep, very hip children's animation).

I wish I was a spaceman the fastest guy alive and zoom around the Milky Way in Fireball XL5,
We'll fly or race across the something or other and zoom our way to Mars,
If I was a Fireball a Fireball,
And you would be my Venus of the stars (Fireball XL5)

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,Rich Boyd
Date: 02 Oct 10 - 08:27 AM

I think it went like this:
Buckwheat cakes, buckwheat cakes, along with crispy bacon...
yes, it is those buckwheat cakes that set my heart to achin'....

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,Sealtest Big Top
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 01:24 PM

Hurry Hurry right this way,
To your Sealtest Matinee,
Beneath the Sealtest Big Top,
Here's a dandy Sealtest treat,
Hurry Hurry to your seat,
The Show's about to start
It's Sealtest big time .............?

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 08:15 AM

White horses

On my horses let me ride away,
To a world that seems so far away,
Let me run, to the sun.
To a world my heart can understand,
It's a gentle warm and wonderland,
Far away, stars away,
Where the clouds are made of candyfloss and the days are long,
When the the stars are gone we'll race to meet the dawn,

(Dont remember this line)

Of a sad and very lonely day that's when I softly sigh,
On my horses snowy, white horses let me ride away.

Roughly that is what I remember, I would be grateful to have the right lyrics for that song. The singer also did 'Rupert the Bear'.

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,Tony Saletan Lets All Sing
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 11:30 AM

Lets'All Sing a song today a song today a song today lets all sing a song today with tony saletan were going to meet the banjo today the banjo today were going to meet the banjo today and this is tony saletan

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 12:48 PM

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen,
Robin Hood Robin Hood, with his band of men,
Feared by the bad, loved by the good,
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood.
(preceded by a fanfare and a terrific THWACK! of an arrow hitting a tree trunk)

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,Kat
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 12:06 AM

"happy birthday happy happy birthday this is your day to have a lot of fun"
This is part of the birthday song sung by Heck Harper on his afternoon kid show - was it Cartoon Corral? - which was out of Portland, OR in the 60's. The theme song was,
"Come a-runnin', bring your pal,
To the (new?big?) Cartoon Corral.
Clutch Cargo, Dick Tracy and Mister Magoo,
Felix and Popeye will be along, too...."
That's all I got; the last couple of lines or so are pretty fuzzy.

The birthday song went:
"Happy birthday, happy, Happy birthday,
This is your day to (or 'so') have a lot of fun.
Happy birthday, happy, Happy birthday,
This is your day, until the night is done.
Blow out the candles on your cake and make a wish,
And we'll serve everybody's favorite dish (Happy birthday, happy)
Happy birthday, happy, Happy birthday,
This is your day, so have a lot of fun"

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 02:53 AM

from howdy doody:

look on the bright side of every apple. look on the bright side of every pear. look on the bright side of every apple and soon we'll be all right there.

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,Pattycakes55
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 07:49 PM

In the Philadelphia area when I was a kid there was a show called the Gene London show. For part of it Gene would tell a story while drawing it on a big pad of paper. He'd introduce the segment by singing:

Let's pretend that it's story time and I'll tell a tale to you,
I'll tell you a tale of make believe, and all your dreams will come true.
And when the story's over, and when we've reached the end,
We'll live happily ever after -- where?
In the land of "Let's Pretend."

I ate it up!

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Sep 12 - 05:25 PM

Ok... Has anybody figured out the Alfred the airsickness bird rest of lyrics???

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,eldergirl
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 03:54 AM

So when I can only see the grey
Of a sad and very lonely day
That's when I softly sigh
On white horses, snowy white horses,
Let me ride awaaaaay...

Being a romantically inclined teen at the time, that really chimed in with my world view. Sad, innit....

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 05:20 AM

I used to adore the song 'A Four-Legged Friend' sung by Roy Rogers. I don't think it was from any children's programme though. It was often on Uncle Mac's Children's Favourites on radio.

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,eldergirl
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 07:34 PM

Cheers Eliza!
These days if I think of A Four-Legged Friend I find it hard to stop, like spelling 'banana'. A one-two-three-four-five-six-seven legged.. Oh no, that's not right, is it?
Too silly.
Uncle Mac used to play some gems. I only wish he'd never included Sparky's Magic Piano. Yeccchhh!

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,James Phillips
Date: 24 Mar 21 - 02:46 PM

If it's songs from kid's TV shows you're after then look no further than the early 70's BBC show "Bagpuss," the music for which was folky and beautiful and written and performed by the great John Faulkner (Dolores Keane's ex) and the great Sandra Kerr: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhSp1I0HhFFd_rz45HZEDL4gbOf4QErO9

The Bony King of Nowhere

He sat upon his throne
He didn't much like sitting there
Because his throne was ...
His throne was made of stone
His throne was made of marble white
It's feet were made of gold
It was a royal throne alright
But oh dear it was ...
It was extremely cold
That skinny king of nowhere
Was feeling very chilly
He said to go on sitting there
Was really very ...
And also very chilly

He jumped on the tea table
And said please will you find
A seat thats soft and suitable
To warm a king's be-...
Just see what you can find
They fetched him up a hammock
But they couldnt keep it still
They put him on a rocking horse
The rocking made him ...
It made him very ill
They sat him on a wool sack
But that rubbed up his knees
They rolled him on a feather bed
But that just made him...
It simply made him sneeze
That poor old king of nowhere
Just sat there looking sad
He said if you could help me
I'd be very very...
Particularly glad
Two mice came up from somewhere
Behind their royal chum
They said dear king here is a thing
To warm the royal ...
And stop you feeling numb
The thing it was a cushion bright
Of silk and gold brocade
So square and soft and small and light
And very neatly...
Of silk and gold brocade
Now the happy king of nowhere
Is smiling on his throne
His smile is rosy, his seat is cozy
Although his throne is stone, is stone
The mice have made it nice, oh nice
He is a happy king

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 24 Mar 21 - 06:34 PM

Billy Bean built a machine to see what it could do.
He made it out of sticks and stones, and nuts and bolts and glue.
The motor sang Chuffaty Bang, Rattata Rattatarator,
And all of a sudden a picture appeared on the funny old cartoonerator
Billy Bean built a machine to see what it would do,
It did the funniest things he'd seen,
So he called it his funny machine, machine,
Billy Bean and his funny machine.

Billy Bean first aired in July 1953. If Billy wanted the machine to make something he would draw it on the screen. The machine then drew pictures to indicate what raw materials were required. When these were placed in the mixerator, levers pulled and buttons pressed the machine got to work with suitable mechanical sound effects.

Needless to say there were 'bugs' and the possibility of misunderstanding the graphical communication gave rise to considerable amusement. Some of the things the machine made were very surprising.

Yoo-Hoo, the stupid cuckoo bird, laid an egg at intervals, never more than one per programme, which rolled down a series of zig-zag channels on the machine.

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: GUEST,Beachcomber
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 07:46 AM

Remembering watching the ELEPHANT SHOW when my kids were little. There was a fine Bluegrass Quartet who introduced the show, two ladies and two gentlemen, who sang children's folk songs mostly with guitar and banjo.
Did they ever have an identity as a Main stream folk band or were they involved with other groups ?

Subject: RE: Songs from Kids Shows, that you remember
From: Cool Beans
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 10:46 AM

The Elephant Show was the vehicle for Canadian folk trio Sharon, Lois and Bram. There was a fourth person on the show, Eric Nagler, who sang and played guitar and banjo and built home-made instruments, but I never saw/heard all four them perform at once. My kids loved them. We saw them in concert many times; i.e., we saw concerts by Sharon, Lois and Bram and we saw concerts by Eric Nagler. They toured separately, as I recall.