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“The Whistler and His Dog” Golden Crest Records This was the theme song for a 1960s local TV show in New York , Officer Joe Bolton’s Fun House. This piece was written in 1905 by ARTHUR PRYOR (1870-1942), who was a trombonist/arranger in John Philip Sousa’s band.
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Japanese superhero show on Nippon TV (Any info on this out there?)
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“Thunderbirds Are Go!” Cliff Richard Sings “Shooting Star” with The Shadows Columbia EMI Records (UK) A 1966 film based on the popular British TV series featuring marionettes set in 2065 .
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“Grannys Mini-Skirt” Irene Ryan (of the top-rated CBS TV Show “The Beverly Hillbillies” I always loved the Beverly Hillbillies and especially Granny who was always fixin’ up some strange vittles and shooing Jed and Jethro and other varmints out of the kitchen.
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“A Visit With Uncle Al at His Happy Farm & Castle with Mike Tangi & Larry Smith Jubilee Records
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Mork and Mindy “Na-no Na-no” Bruno D’Andrea
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“A Charlie Brown Christmas” Charles Schulz (Charlie Brown Records) The 1966 Emmy and Peapody Award-winning, Primetime CBS-TV special that became an annual holiday ritual for kids of all ages. Repelled by the commercialism he sees around him, Charlie Brown tries to find the true meaning of Christmas.
The soundtrack by jazz composer Vince Guaraldi has become as well-known as the story itself. In particular, the instrumental “Linus and Lucy” has come to be regarded as the signature musical theme of the Peanuts specials. Additionally “Christmas Time is Here” has become a popular Christmas tune. A soundtrack album for the special was released by Fantasy Records and remains a perennial best-seller. (While the soundtrack contains some music that does not appear in the TV special, it also fails to include two musical themes which appear in the special. Both of those missing themes are, however, available on another album by the Vince Guaraldi Trio entitled Charlie Brown’s Holiday Hits.)
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Captain Kangaroo’s Songs and Dances Bob Keeshan with Orchestra and Chorus Columbia Records Everyone I hung out with in kindergarden watched the Captain and Mr. Green Jeans and the puppets. Of course there were only three channels.
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Shrimpenstein was on KHJ channel 9 in LA from 1966 to 1968. This is the opening theme sung by Dr. Von Schtick (Gene Moss in a bad Boris Karloff imitation and the Tijuana Bats.
The hosts were Gene Moss (Dr. Von Schtick) and Jim Thurman (voices). Shrimpenstein was a miniature Frankenstein monster (a ventriloquist dummy who was “created” when jellybeans were thrown into the Monster Machine) Moss and Thurman wrote the Roger Ramjet cartoons and did advertising campaigns, mostly for radio. Moss later did voice-overs for LA’s channel 2 news and Disney/Touchstone pictures previews. Thurman also wrote and did voices for Sesame Street.
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The Adventures of Babar the Elephant Philips France As I imagine many of my generation do, I remember Babar well from those first oversized books I read and reread as a young boy. Like Bambi, it begins with his mother getting shot and killed by hunters. Pretty heavy. I should go back and read it again.
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