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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Snoopy on August 19, 2007, 04:55:12 PM
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Well ~ whilst we have been playing here my three + their mother have been playing old fashioned board games in the front room. I wandered in to see what they were up to and was taken back sooooooooo many years that I just had to dig out a CD that a mate ripped for me from his original some months ago. Believe it or not it is 30 favourites from the days of Uncle Mac on Saturday Mornings.
The Teddy Bear's Picnic, The Laughing Policeman (YES the original by Charles Penrose) Nellie the Elephant (Mandy Miller)etc etc. The kids have never heard most of these and are enthralled. Even the teenage hormone heap is joining in with the songs (and she is into Heavy Metal ::)
T'rific stuff!
So come on ~ you're not all kids ~ how many remember Uncle Mac?
PS And we're having Home made Scones and Jam for tea. Christ it's like being a kid again.
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Sparky and the Magic Piano?
I recall Uncle Mac quite well.
Why, you could even bear sitting through those ghastly, relentlessly cheerful Austrian children fal-da-reeing their way through The Happy Wanderer
http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/childrensfav.htm (http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/childrensfav.htm)
The Laughing Policeman : Charles Penrose (lyrics)
Twenty Tiny Fingers : Alma Cogan (lyrics)
Little Red Monkey : Rosemary Clooney (lyrics)
Buttons and Bows : Dinah Shore (lyrics)
Pretty Little Black Eyed Susie : Guy Mitchell (lyrics)
Run, Rabbit, Run : Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen (lyrics)
The Runaway Train : Michael Holliday(lyrics)
The Animals Went In Two-by-Two : (lyrics)
When you come to the end of a lollipop : Max Bygraves (lyrics)
Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzellen Bogen by the sea : Max Bygraves (lyrics)
Swedish Rhapsody : Mantovani and his Orchestra
Nellie the elephant : Mandy Miller
Poppa Piccolino : Petula Clark (lyrics)
I tawt I saw a puddy tat : Mel Blanc (lyrics)
The Bee Song : Arthur Askey (lyrics)
The Big Rock Candy Mountain : Burl Ives (lyrics)
How much is that doggy in the window : Lita Rosa (lyrics)
Hey Little Hen : Harry Roy (lyrics)
Bimbo : Suzi Miller (lyrics)
The yellow rose of Texas : Stan Freburg (lyrics)
I Know an Old Lady : Burl Ives (lyrics)
Inch Worm : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
The King's New Clothes : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff : Frank Luther (lyrics) (listen)
The Ugly Duckling : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
The Three Little Fishes : Frankie Howerd (lyrics)
The Hippopotamus Song : Flanders and Swann (lyrics)
Little White Duck : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
A Four Legged Friend : Roy Rogers (lyrics)
The Deadwood Stage : Doris Day (lyrics)
Tubby the Tuba : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
Sparky's Magic Piano : Henry Blair (link)
Mairzy doats and dozy doats : Johnny Dennis (lyrics)
My Old Man's a Dustman : Lonnie Donegan
Old Macdonald had a Farm (lyrics)
The Owl and The Pussycat : Elton Hayes (lyrics)
Thumbelina : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
Little White Bull : Tommy Steele (lyrics)
She'll be Coming Round the Mountain, When she Comes : ? (lyrics)
Me and My Teddy Bear : Rosemary Clooney (lyrics)
Little boy fishing : Shirley Abicair (lyrics)
The Teddy Bear's Picnic : Henry Hall (lyrics)
I'm a Pink Toothbrush, you're a Blue Toothbrush : Max Bygraves (lyrics)
Sparky's Magic Piano : Danny Kaye
My Brother : (Terry Scott) (lyrics)
All I want for Christmas, is my Two Front Teeth : Spike Jones City Slickers (lyrics)
A Windmill in Old Amsterdam : Ronnie Hilton (lyrics)
Carbon the Copy Cat : Tex Ritter
Puff, The Magic Dragon : Peter, Paul and Mary (lyrics)
Wonderful Wonderful Copenhagen : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
Buffalo Billy (Cowboys and Indians) : Roy Rogers
Beep Beep (The Bubble Car Song) : The Playmates (lyrics)
Ragtime Cowboy Joe :The Chipmunks (lyrics)
Barney the Bashful Bullfrog : Gene Autry (lyrics)
This ol' House : Rosemary Clooney (lyrics)
Around The Corner : Stargazers (lyrics)
Mommy, Gimme a Drinka Water : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
Christmas Alphabet : The McGuire Sisters (lyrics)
The Children's Marching Song (Nick Nack Paddy Whack) : Mitch Miller and His Orchestra (lyrics)
The Happy Wanderer : The Obenkirchen Children's Choir (lyrics)
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf : Henry Hall and his Orchestra (lyrics)
Michael Row the Boat Ashore : The Highwaymen (lyrics)
Three Wheels on My Wagon : The New Christy Minstrels (lyrics)
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly: Burl Ives (lyrics)
The Whistling Gipsy Rover : Elton Hayes (lyrics)
The Blue-Tailed Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn) : Burl Ives (lyrics)
In the Middle of the House : Alma Cogan (lyrics)
Que Sera, Sera : Doris Day (lyrics)
The Mama Doll Song: Patti Page (lyrics)
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That's the fellow. lol:
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noooo:
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Why does Sparky's Magic Piano get two mentions in that list eeek:
I can see this is going to trouble me for the rest of the evening... "Put your fingers on my keys..."
Sadly I no longer have my copy but pretty sure it was Danny Kaye's version redface:
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noooo:
Clearly you are one of the later Ed "Stewpot" Stewart generation happy100 Never Mind Eh?
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Hmmmm...
http://www.kiddierecords.com/2006/archive/week_32.htm
P'raps it wasn't DK after all cry:
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noooo:
Clearly you are one of the later Ed "Stewpot" Stewart generation happy100 Never Mind Eh?
sad24:
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Hmmmm...
http://www.kiddierecords.com/2006/archive/week_32.htm
P'raps it wasn't DK after all cry:
rubschin: Hmmmm ~ Had a listen and it certainly doesn't sound quite as I remember it. 3 x10" records = 6 sides ....p'raps Uncle Mac only played one of them.
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Meanwhile, about five hours behind us, someone else is having one hell of a wet Sunday afternoon, courtesy of one Dean eeek:
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Meanwhile, about five hours behind us, someone else is having one hell of a wet Sunday afternoon, courtesy of one Dean eeek:
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Yes I've been watching Dean's progress. Looks like it is going to get very windy in the Windies pretty soon. And we complain at a couple of inches of rain in Tewksbury ::)
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rubschin: Hmmmm ~ Had a listen and it certainly doesn't sound quite as I remember it. 3 x10" records = 6 sides ....p'raps Uncle Mac only played one of them.
Another one consigned to Mystery Corner noooo:
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Yes I've been watching Dean's progress. Looks like it is going to get very windy in the Windies pretty soon. And we complain at a couple of inches of rain in Tewksbury ::)
Me too. I'm due back out there in November, which is post classic hurricane season. But this year they're predicting more lively activity than classic. scared2:
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That's what started this ~ the kids were playing Cluedo.
Ah well here we are again ~ thank you ladies and gentlemen ~ we hope you have enjoyed this afternoon's magical mystery tour. I'll leave my cap here on the engine housing should any of you feel inclined. whistle:
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So it was Stewpot next. Thought so, but my memory failed.
Who is this Dean of which we speak?
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So it was Stewpot next. Thought so, but my memory failed.
Who is this Dean of which we speak?
Hurricane "Dean" ~ currently approaching Jamaica at about 25mph with anticipated rainfall of twenty inches and winds up to 150mph. Due to hit within the next few hours.
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. . approaching Jamaica at about 25mph . . . anticipated twenty inches. . . winds up to 150mph. . . .
That Lenny Henry gets around eh?
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Phew! The Worse seems to have just missed Jamaica and is now headed for the Yanks ~ well they asked for it!
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God, am I older than You?
Many of these melodies featured in the fifties, i think, were enjoyed by my kids on early BBC TV. My childhood memorabilia seemed to be Beano comics, Modern Boy, Wizard and earlier still, the kid's cartoon in the Daily Mirror ~ Pip Squeak and Wilfred.
I do remember watching Annette Mills and her Muffin the Mule and Bill and Ben, The Flowerpot Men.
I loved sock puppet Lambchop but was in love with its beautiful talented creator Sherri Lewis, who sadly died in LA in her early sixties.
Can I hope that any of you youngsters remember these things?
Ah memories! cry: Anyone for a Bishop's Finger in the Snug?
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Yes I remember them all. Plus "Oor Willie", "Alf Tupper, the Tough of the Track" and so many many more. Nowadays it's all Japanese cartoons characters on the haunted fish-tank qand bloody play stations.
Times aren't what they were ~ sadly.
Pip, Squeak and Wilfred were characters in a comic strip which first appeared in the "DAILY MIRROR" newspaper on the 12th of May 1919. The author of the script was Bertram J. Lamb and the artist was Austin B. Payne. The naming of the characters in the strip is due to Payne's wartime batman who for unknown reasons was known as "Pip-Squeak"
Pip was a dog, Squeak a penguin and Wilfred who did not appear until later in the series was a rabbit. Pip and Squeak were portrayed as being Wilfred's parents and there was a supporting cast of a Russian bomb maker and his dog "Popski". Another jaded and elderly penguin known as "AUNTIE" made an appearance.
The comic strip was extremely popular and became a craze in the 20's. The issue of the medals coincided with the start of this craze and they soon became known as Pip, Squeak and Wilfred.
Medals awarded to servicemen at the end of WWI known as Pip, Squeak and Wilfred.
Pip was 1914/15 Star, Wilfred was The British War Medal 1914 - 1920 and Wilfred was the Victory Medal 1914/18.
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Hi All - Sorry for late reply but been a tad busy trying to catch up with business paperwork sad24:
So, my input (for what it is worth) - no don't remember Uncle Mac (slightly older than Barman but not telling by how much and if he does then evil:) but do have fond memories of the radio programme The Clitheroe Kid on Sunday early afternoon.
Our listening was done on one of the big bronw type GEC valve wirelesses (I still call the radio a wireless which generally makes Barman hoot in derision ) and timed (if I remember rightly but it was a looooooooong time ago eeek:) to coincide with my Father's return from his weekly Sunday lunch time drink. We all then sat down for the roast (used to be a time then when beef was cheaper than chicken) and chomped our way through Mum's offerings which normally meant using a knife and fork on the gravy alone (it was always a tad thick).... Ah fond memories
Then Sunday evenings re-tuning into the wireless for 'Sing Something Simple' and 'The Black and White Minstral Show' ....
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Our listening was done on one of the big bronw type GEC valve wirelesses (I still call the radio a wireless which generally makes Barman hoot in derision ) and timed (if I remember rightly but it was a looooooooong time ago ) to coincide with my Father's return from his weekly Sunday lunch time drink. We all then sat down for the roast (used to be a time then when beef was cheaper than chicken) and chomped our way through Mum's offerings which normally meant using a knife and fork on the gravy alone (it was always a tad thick).... Ah fond memories
Then Sunday evenings re-tuning into the wireless for 'Sing Something Simple' and 'The Black and White Minstral Show' ....
If your Mum did any ironing while that frightful "Sing Something Simple" was on then you are my sister. I have now got Sing Something SImple revolving in my head as an ear worm. Thanks evil:
Round the Horne anyone?
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The Billy Cotton Band Show
Round the Horne
The Navy Lark
Ahhhhhh ~~ Blessed memories cloud9:
My mother used to make gravy like that ~ I got into a lot of trouble one Sunday by passing the Gravy Boat to my brother and asking "One lump or two?"
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Round the Horne anyone?
Oooooooo .... in' 'e bold?
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My Mum always put a whole cauliflower in a saucepan and left it cooking while we went to chapel evil:. An hour and a half later it was like a ball of wet newspaper. sick2:
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Round the Horne anyone?
Oooooooo .... in' 'e bold?
A while back, and in another place, I reported my reading of the biog of K Horne. Interesting man!! Great quote:
I am all in favour of censorship. If I see a double entendre I whip it out
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Our listening was done on one of the big bronw type GEC valve wirelesses (I still call the radio a wireless which generally makes Barman hoot in derision ) and timed (if I remember rightly but it was a looooooooong time ago ) to coincide with my Father's return from his weekly Sunday lunch time drink. We all then sat down for the roast (used to be a time then when beef was cheaper than chicken) and chomped our way through Mum's offerings which normally meant using a knife and fork on the gravy alone (it was always a tad thick).... Ah fond memories
Then Sunday evenings re-tuning into the wireless for 'Sing Something Simple' and 'The Black and White Minstral Show' ....
If your Mum did any ironing while that frightful "Sing Something Simple" was on then you are my sister. I have now got Sing Something SImple revolving in my head as an ear worm. Thanks evil:
Round the Horne anyone?
And the never to be forgotten (unfortunately)
Semprini Serenade : 'Old Ones, New Ones, Loved Ones, Neglected Ones....' A series, produced by Alastair Scott-Johnston, had previously featured pianist Arthur Young, but he was emigrating to Australia. An actor, Michael Brennan, during his army service, had heard a pianist in Italy, became his agent, and brought him to Britain. His name was Albert Semprini (left). He was accompanied by Harry Rabinowitz and the BBC Revue Orchestra. Some critics dismissed it as musical treacle but a loving and loyal audience lapped it up for more than 25 years during which he made more than 700 programm
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If your Mum did any ironing while that frightful "Sing Something Simple" was on then you are my sister.
You being my 'lost brother' I don't mind BUT that also means The Boy is therefore my nephew eeek: eeek: eeek: eeek:
I don't think I can afford the insurance ;D
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My Mum always put a whole cauliflower in a saucepan and left it cooking while we went to chapel evil:. An hour and a half later it was like a ball of wet newspaper. sick2:
They all cooked like that~ summat to do with the war I 'spect.
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So she did do the ironing. Through some strange brain process I can now hear Sing something Simple and smell Robin starch at the same time.
Oh and a friend of my mum's (who was a bit thick) fed her budgie onRobin starch for years cos the pic on the box made her think it was bird food. Early sort of Viagra I guess confused:
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My Mum always put a whole cauliflower in a saucepan and left it cooking while we went to chapel evil:. An hour and a half later it was like a ball of wet newspaper. sick2:
They all cooked like that~ summat to do with the war I 'spect.
I cooked a cauliflower once for my Mum (she was born in 1918) and she asked why I had chopped it up! She then complained that it was "chewy" noooo:
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'Old Ones, New Ones, Loved Ones, Neglected Ones....
Sounds a bit like a list of the Pub's clientele whistle:
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Well this thread has flushed out some distant memories!! Now back to sexual assault by a camel please.
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Well this thread has flushed out some distant memories!! Now back to sexual assault by a camel please.
noooo: noooo: noooo: noooo: noooo:
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Well it never happened then, but this is the 21st century. Entertainment has moved on!
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Well this thread has flushed out some distant memories!! Now back to sexual assault by a camel please.
I've given you all I know about camels and we are NOT getting onto the subject of their feet OK evil:
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Pardon?
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God, am I older than You?
No Mozo, I think you'll find that god is much older... noooo:
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God, am I older than You?
No Mozo, I think you'll find that god is much older... noooo:
Oh Barman - what humour drumroll:
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I was in love with Julia Lang and she read me a story every day on the wireless. cloud9:
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Pardon?
Camel toes... whistle:
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I was in love with Julia Lang and she read me a story every day on the wireless. cloud9:
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - she really loved you then ;D
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Pardon?
Camel toes... whistle:
Men don't get camel toes - it's medically impossible ::)
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Pardon?
Camel toes... whistle:
Men don't get camel toes - it's medically impossible ::)
Nick doesn?t know what they are! point:
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Mrs Nick has a builders' bottom. Is that similar?
I haven't told her, obviously. I wish to live spider: spider:
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Mrs Nick has a builders' bottom. Is that similar?
I haven't told her, obviously. I wish to live spider: spider:
Um... yes... prolly... whistle:
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Mrs Nick has a builders' bottom. Is that similar?
I haven't told her, obviously. I wish to live spider: spider:
rubschin: whistle: whistle: whistle:
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I was in love with Julia Lang and she read me a story every day on the wireless. cloud9:
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - she really loved you then ;D
Yes definitely. Until I went to the BIG BOYS school when I had to confess that another lass had nicked my cherry.
Life was never quite the same again... She never read me another story, I think she may have been attracted to younger boys. noooo:
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rubschin:
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The Laughing Policeman : Charles Penrose (lyrics)
Twenty Tiny Fingers : Alma Cogan (lyrics)
Little Red Monkey : Rosemary Clooney (lyrics)
Buttons and Bows : Dinah Shore (lyrics)
Pretty Little Black Eyed Susie : Guy Mitchell (lyrics)
Run, Rabbit, Run : Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen (lyrics)
The Runaway Train : Michael Holliday(lyrics)
The Animals Went In Two-by-Two : (lyrics)
When you come to the end of a lollipop : Max Bygraves (lyrics)
Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzellen Bogen by the sea : Max Bygraves (lyrics)
Swedish Rhapsody : Mantovani and his Orchestra
Nellie the elephant : Mandy Miller
Poppa Piccolino : Petula Clark (lyrics)
I tawt I saw a puddy tat : Mel Blanc (lyrics)
The Bee Song : Arthur Askey (lyrics)
The Big Rock Candy Mountain : Burl Ives (lyrics)
How much is that doggy in the window : Lita Rosa (lyrics)
Hey Little Hen : Harry Roy (lyrics)
Bimbo : Suzi Miller (lyrics)
The yellow rose of Texas : Stan Freburg (lyrics)
I Know an Old Lady : Burl Ives (lyrics)
Inch Worm : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
The King's New Clothes : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff : Frank Luther (lyrics) (listen)
The Ugly Duckling : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
The Three Little Fishes : Frankie Howerd (lyrics)
The Hippopotamus Song : Flanders and Swann (lyrics)
Little White Duck : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
A Four Legged Friend : Roy Rogers (lyrics)
The Deadwood Stage : Doris Day (lyrics)
Tubby the Tuba : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
Sparky's Magic Piano : Henry Blair (link)
Mairzy doats and dozy doats : Johnny Dennis (lyrics)
My Old Man's a Dustman : Lonnie Donegan
Old Macdonald had a Farm (lyrics)
The Owl and The Pussycat : Elton Hayes (lyrics)
Thumbelina : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
Little White Bull : Tommy Steele (lyrics)
She'll be Coming Round the Mountain, When she Comes : ? (lyrics)
Me and My Teddy Bear : Rosemary Clooney (lyrics)
Little boy fishing : Shirley Abicair (lyrics)
The Teddy Bear's Picnic : Henry Hall (lyrics)
I'm a Pink Toothbrush, you're a Blue Toothbrush : Max Bygraves (lyrics)
Sparky's Magic Piano : Danny Kaye
My Brother : (Terry Scott) (lyrics)
All I want for Christmas, is my Two Front Teeth : Spike Jones City Slickers (lyrics)
A Windmill in Old Amsterdam : Ronnie Hilton (lyrics)
Carbon the Copy Cat : Tex Ritter
Puff, The Magic Dragon : Peter, Paul and Mary (lyrics)
Wonderful Wonderful Copenhagen : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
Buffalo Billy (Cowboys and Indians) : Roy Rogers
Beep Beep (The Bubble Car Song) : The Playmates (lyrics)
Ragtime Cowboy Joe :The Chipmunks (lyrics)
Barney the Bashful Bullfrog : Gene Autry (lyrics)
This ol' House : Rosemary Clooney (lyrics)
Around The Corner : Stargazers (lyrics)
Mommy, Gimme a Drinka Water : Danny Kaye (lyrics)
Christmas Alphabet : The McGuire Sisters (lyrics)
The Children's Marching Song (Nick Nack Paddy Whack) : Mitch Miller and His Orchestra (lyrics)
The Happy Wanderer : The Obenkirchen Children's Choir (lyrics)
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf : Henry Hall and his Orchestra (lyrics)
Michael Row the Boat Ashore : The Highwaymen (lyrics)
Three Wheels on My Wagon : The New Christy Minstrels (lyrics)
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly: Burl Ives (lyrics)
The Whistling Gipsy Rover : Elton Hayes (lyrics)
The Blue-Tailed Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn) : Burl Ives (lyrics)
In the Middle of the House : Alma Cogan (lyrics)
Que Sera, Sera : Doris Day (lyrics)
The Mama Doll Song: Patti Page (lyrics)
eeek: How do I get a copy?... Just what I am looking for, for a project I am doing... cloud9:
I was just listining to Buttons & Bows but by Gene Autry
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http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/childrensfav.htm
Go to the bottom of the page and all the CDs are shown there.
After that try Amazon