From 1960s Baltimore:
Milk and butter and eggs and cheese
Fresh from the farm to you
So, if you don’t own a cow
Call Cloverland now
It’s NOrth 9-2222
(With puppet work by Jim Henson)
From 1960s Baltimore:
Milk and butter and eggs and cheese
Fresh from the farm to you
So, if you don’t own a cow
Call Cloverland now
It’s NOrth 9-2222
(With puppet work by Jim Henson)
All but one man died,
There at Bitter Creek,
And they say he ran away …
Branded!
Marked with a coward’s shame.
What do you do when you’re branded,
Will you fight for your name?
He was innocent,
Not a charge was true,
But the world will never know …
Branded!
Scorned as the one who ran.
What do you do when you’re branded,
And you know you’re a man?
And wherever you go
for the rest of your life
You must prove …
You’re a man!
I can do some, but the one that will get stuck in my head the most (and is now) is the Dallas Times Herald Classifieds theme. It’s mostly 748-1414.
Now, I need to go listen to Sousa marches.
People let me tell’ya ‘bout he’s so much fun
Whether we’re talkin’ man to man
Or whether we’re talkin’ son to son
Cuz he’s my best friend
La la da di da da.
For jingle I’ve always got these two cookies not far from my brain (yet I can’t remember my own cell phone number)
Peek Freans are a very serious cookie
They’re made for grown up tastes
Peek Freans are much too serious to give to children
Oh, they’re serious. Very serious
Peek Freans are an extrodinarily serious cookie.
And the other cookie song
Ooie, gooey rich and chewy inside
Tender cake-y, golden flaky outside
Wrap the outside on the inside and what do you get?
You get the big Fig Newton!
Here’s the tricky part!
The Big Fig Newtown
One more time
The Big Fig Newtoooooon!
Should I be embarrassed to admit that I remembered all of theselyrics? OR that I watched that show. And I loved that show???
They just don’t make 'em like that anymore. ![]()
Well done ![]()
Back in the '80s, a coworker asked me how the theme for Whirlybirds went. I hadn’t seen the show in almost a quarter century, but the music came to me automatically. I started singing it and he said in a bewildered voice “… That’s right!” :eek:
In the late '70s, I was thumbing through a book on classic TV shows. I absentmindedly started whistling the theme to Henessey, and my older brother stuck his head around the corner.
“Where did you hear that tune?!?”
“I remember it from when it was on TV.”
“You remember that?!?”
“I remember watching it when we lived on Bloomington Avenue.”
“I can’t believe you remember that!”
“It wasn’t that long ago! Only … [Moment of surprised realization] fifteen years ago.” (Fifteen years before, I had been in second grade.)
I know the themes from obscure shows all the way back to the '50s (e.g., Our Miss Brooks, Burns and Allen, Private Secretary). Hell, I can even sing the theme from My Mother, the Car. Top that!
Oh please, of course we can
Zorro TV Series 1957 Guy Williams
“Out of the night
When the full moon is bright
Comes the horseman known as zorro
This bold renegade
Carves a “z” with his blade
A “z” that stands for zorro”
Marine Boy (1967)
“It’s Marine Boy,
Brave and Free!
Fighting evil 'neath the sea.”
Tomfoolery Show
“C’mon, We’re Putting On The Nonsense…”
How about songs featured *within *shows:
I think I’ll go for a walk outside now
The summer sun’s calling my name
I’m gonna blow you a kiss in the wind
You need me You need me
Like a baby needs a toy Like Hawaiians need their poi
There’s a town I know where the hip kids go called Bedrock
Twitch Twitch
“Zorro, the fox so cunning and free,
Zorro, who makes the sign of the Z!”
Stingray*
“Marina, aqua Marina…”
*
Thunderbirds
“Thunderbirds are GO!”
Supercar
“It travels on land, it travels on sea,
it can journey anywhere…”
Wonderama
“We may be small, and not full-grown,
but we have problems of our own, ya-da-da-da,
kids are people, too (whacka-do, whacka-do)!”
No. 1: No idea! ![]()
No. 2: Bewitched.
No. 3: Gilligan’s Island.
No. 4. The Flintstones.
Holy Bob McAllister! I almost involuntarily clapped my hands above my head.
Without looking: What TV show had the S&J Stomp as its theme? :dubious:
Shows:
Diamonds, daisies… That Girl
It really came together when Mom sang along … The Partridge Family
at the junction …Petticoat Junction
Hello Larry, My Two Dads, Greatest American Hero**, It’s a Living, **
I can’t hear My Life by Billy Joel without thinking of Tom hanks and Peter Scolari in Bosom Buddies**.
I can name a lot of great instrumental themes in two or three notes; Barney Miller**, Quincy, M.E., Rockford Files, Sanford and Son**…
Commercials:
Digger the Dog (Where you going Charlie? Wawkin’ Digger, Ma!)
Perfection (Push the plunger down, set the timer …)
How do you handle a hungry man? The MANHANDLERS (masculine soup.)
Honeycomb Cereal
Honestly, I don’t have time to type the whole list. I will say that I even know the words to the Andy Griffith theme…
Old Spice means quality, said the Captain to the Bosun.
Ask for the package with the ship that sails the ocean.
The Fishin’ Hole
“Take down your fishin’ pole
and meet me at the fishin’ hole…”
(At one time I knew all the words, but they’re now buried in my memory.)
If anyone other than me remembers this show I’ll be truly amazed. I now think of it as “The Squire of Gothos on Wheels”:
Here's one for you: *"Heroes, heroes, husky men of war, sons of all the heroes of the war before. Yes, we're heroes, up to our ear-o's, you pull the roses, we punch the noses, that's what we're heroes for!"*I know a slightly different version… ![]()
“And that’s what you get when you rub Old Spice on your organ!”
BTW, F Troop did an episode (“That’s Show Biz”) that was a ripoff of Gilligan’s Island (“Don’t Bug the Mosquitoes”):
Without looking, who can sing the theme for the first season of ***F Troop***? :dubious:Wild guess: The Partridge Family? ![]()
Brady Bunch…aka the Silver Platters.
“Gonna keep on, keep on, keep on, keep on dancin’ all through the night
Gonna keep on, keep on, keep on doin’ it right”