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Chatting => Chatting on the Plot => Topic started by: Growster... on August 17, 2018, 20:30
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Chums of a certain age will remember Uncle Mac, who presented this on The Light Programme from the early '50s...
Mrs Growster and I are stuck beyond 'The laughing policeman', and 'Max Bygraves - 'Gilly, Gilly, Ossenfeffer, Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea', so will everyone approaching early/late middle age please fill in a few gaps...
We rarely got a decent song played back then, but a quick peek at Wiki is a sure sign that we got what we wanted eventually! Any weed who wanted something 'classical' was sneered at mercilessly!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Favourites
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Think this list sums it up a lot (I remember ALL of them)!
Nellie the elephant - Miller, Mandy
Runaway train - Delhart, Vernon
Middle of the house - Cogan, Alma
Grandfather's clock - Radio Revellers
Owl and the pussycat - Hayes, Elton
Puffin' Billy - Melody Light Orchestra
All things bright and beautiful - Uncle Mac
Robin Hood - James, Dick
How much is that doggie - Pinky & Perky
I've lost my mummy - Harris, Rolf
Laughing policeman - Penrose, Charles
My boomerang won't come back - Drake, Charlie
You're a pink toothbrush - Bygraves, Max
I taut I taw a puddy cat - Blanc, Mel
Teddy bear's picnic - Hall, Henry
Ballad of Davy Crockett - Ford, 'Tennessee' Ernie
Hippopotamus song - Flanders & Swann
Jake the peg - Harris, Rolf
Gilly gilly ossenfeffer katzen... - Bygraves, Max
Woody woodpecker - Blanc, Mel
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf - Pinky & Perky
Ugly duckling - Cribbins, Bernard
I know an old lady - Pertwee, Jon
Bee song - Askey, Arthur
When I see an elepahnt fly - Peterson, Clive
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And must not forget "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam" by Ronnie Hilton. Now that lot should get a few earworms going!
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Rawhide by Frankie Lane. I had it played as a Birthday request in '59/'60.
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No George Formby in that list?
When I'm cleaning windows...
Ooh, ooh, another one... Chuck Berry and "My Ding-a-ling". That one annoyed many a parent when we sang it! If you look up the original video on YouTube of him singing it there is a moment when a girl in the audience doesn't know if she is allowed to laugh because of the naughty lyrics.
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The Ugly Bug Ball - Burl Ives
Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins :D
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The Ugly Duckling i remember was Danny Kaye.
High Hopes (D K?)
Messing about on the river ?
English country garden ?
My brother ! T Scott
Tie me Kangaroo down sport . R Harris
Court of King Caractacus (sic) R Harris
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Now then, I used to listen to Children's Favourites and mum would roll back the dining room carpet, I'd put on my tap or ballet shoes with a little pink net dress and a blue angora cape then I was on stage dancing away! Here are some I remember well.
The Little Shoemaker by Petula Clark. (My childhood favourite)
I am a mole and I live in a hole.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
This Ole House.
Glow Worm.
How much is that doggie in the window.
Little white bull.
I once was an ugly duckling.
Nellie the elephant.
The runaway train.
Twenty tiny fingers.
Where will the dimple be.
I'm a pink toothbrush.
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Nobody's mentioned Puff the Magic Dragon! I will admit to remembering all of the above songs and singing along. What was the name of the show on the radio on a Sunday morning, it may have been connected to the forces and it played all of this type of record.
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Who could forget that one Wighty! Lovely song, still a favourite, and not a 'whiff' of raised eyebrows!
'Two-way family favourites' was the prog, and all the names came from places like Munchen Gladbach, 2nd Batallion, The Black Watch etc etc...
And the wives were all looking forward to Christmas - I bet they were..;0)
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Mrs Growster's list has now become a printable item, which is worrying...
I will add one though, which reduces me to tears every time - 'Tubby the tuba' with Danny Kaye!
Gulp - sob...
Sob again - AND THEY ALL PLAYED!
(Growster collapses in a soggy heap).
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'Sparky's magic piano'. No idea who did it.
'Three little kittens (lost their mittens)' - Petula Clark
'My friend the witch doctor' - Charles Drake esq (ballad singer from Weybridge)
'Goodness gracious me' - Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren
'Ying tong idle Ipoh' - the goons
About all the others I can remember have been already outed.
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Little Boy Fishing on a wooden pier. Shirley Abacair. (I think) Is she the lady who played the Zither ? Mrs Bouquet
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Yes she is! :)
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...there's a little green snake, swimming in the water, a little green snake, doing what he oughter...
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Hamsters, 'Sparky's magic piano' was on both sides of several 78s, and we had the whole set for several years!
I just loved it all, and am now going to go on Youtube to see if it's there...;0)
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Allan Sherman's 'Skin' (released in 1964 so strictly speaking could be mis-remembering slightly.)
First verse reminder (if needed):
You gotta have skin
All you really need is skin
Skin's the thing that if you got it outside,
It helps keep your insides in. :lol:
Fondly remember nearly all the others already mentioned too. :)
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Seeing Alan Sherman's name reminded me - oddly - of one chap whose songs would never have been played!
Tom Lehrer...
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How about "There's hole in my bucket" by Harry Belafonte.
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Marvellous, Goosey!
He had a beautiful voice!
I'd love to put a song by Nat King Cole up here too, would 'Ramblin' Rose' have been played?. They both had fabulous tone and somehow children always listened properly to their songs, I know we did!
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This is really old, (but so am I :D)
There was an old woman as I've heard say
Fa La Diddle Diddle Da
She went to market upon a fine day
F la diddle diddle da
She went to market her eggs to sell etc etc
I bet you don't remember that !!! :lol: :lol: Mrs Bouquet
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I've been wracking my brains all night and I thought I had come up with a couple:-
This morning Kenneth Horn(e) in his 1950's programme "Beyond our Ken"came up with a couple
Alma Cogan, "The railroad runs through the middle of the house"
but this had already been grabbed,
So the only one left was
Jimmie Rodgers - The Fox And The Goose, (Oh the fox he went out on acold dark night).
Cheers (for the memories) Tony.
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Alma Cogan, "The railroad runs through the middle of the ho
Cheers (for the memories) Tony.
Thanks for the Alma Cogan memory. I always wanted to be her, she had lovely big twinkle dresses and was gorgeous. Mrs Bouquet
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As a child I always thought her name was Al McCogan! :D
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"There's a hole in my bucket" not sure if it was Burl Ives
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Does this one comply?
Grandpa's Grave by Peter Sellers.
They're moving father's grave to build a sewer
They're moving it regardless of expense
They're moving his remains to lay down
nine-inch drains
To irrigate some rich bloke's residence
Now what's the use of having a religion?
If when you're dead you cannot get some peace
'Cause some society chap wants a pipeline to his
tank and there's more...
Cheers, Tony.
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A couple of years ago we were driving down to Eastbourne at about 5.30 am (my daughter had gone into labour and we were needed to look after the eldest) and Radio 2 were playing songs from the past and I remember a lovely one about a Teddy Bear but can't remember much else (I did have other things on my mind). :D
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"There's a hole in my bucket" not sure if it was Burl Ives
Sorry but it was definitely by Harry Belafonte.
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"There's a hole in my bucket" not sure if it was Burl Ives
Sorry but it was definitely by Harry Belafonte.
Lots of people have recorded it including Burl Ives . ;)
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"There's a hole in my bucket" not sure if it was Burl Ives
Sorry but it was definitely by Harry Belafonte.
Lots of people have recorded it including Burl Ives . ;)
....and probably cast members of just about every single pantomime-producing village at least once in the last twenty years. With varying degrees of pitch consistency...
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How about Side Saddle by Russ Conway.