Music for sawing wood
Mr. Dress Up aka Fancy Pants. From a Canadian Broadcasting Company TV Show. I guess like their Capt. Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 4:00 am
Mr Dress Up… only to play with toys and saw wood ! One would imagine a latter day Mr Dress Up would be doing something more risque.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:05 am
(ha ha Romartus!)
Mr. Dressup was THE quintessential children’s viewing here in Canada from the late 1950’s until about 5 years after his passing when they stopped showing reruns, approximately 2 years ago! I don’t think any show ran as long on Canadian TV.
I’ve seen a couple of his LP’s but this one looks to be the oldest, judging from the CBC logo on the jacket.
eric
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:06 am
Yes, Mr. Dress-Up was our version of Captain Kangaroo. He was brought to Canada by none other than Fred Rogers. Mr. Rogers’ Neighbourhood started here in Canada folks. So put that in your bubble pipe and puff it.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
I think Joe Flaherty stole this guys’ act (or at least his look).
April 25th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Mr. Dress Up, who do you have with you today? Why, it’s Pernilla, the tiny little hooker of Tinytown!
April 29th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Is Tinytown twinned with Toytown ??
May 28th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Let’s see, the puppet’s got four fingers, the dog’s got no arms. Who’s up for more sawing?
March 30th, 2010 at 10:30 am
@Scotty G: No, the blonde puppet was actually called Casey and was of indeterminate sex. The dog’s name was Finnegan. Mr. Dressup was a big part of my childhood – he was on the air from 1967 to 1996, and Ernie Coombs (Mr. D’s real name) was given the Order of Canada the same year. He died in 2001, and was widely mourned up here.
July 22nd, 2012 at 4:52 pm
Like another well loved Canadian children’s show host, Bob Homme of The Freindly Giant, Ernie Coombs was American. One of them, can’t remember which one, invited the different networks to see the concept in action. The American networks sent a person each, the CBC sent an entire team of people. It was decided that the CBC took children’s programming seriously, so the move was made.