# What is this tune from The Lucy Show and Sooper Goop?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune-from-the-lucy-show-and-sooper-goop/930498>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [January 14, 2021, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune-from-the-lucy-show-and-sooper-goop/930498 "2021-01-14T06:26:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Hakushon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hakushon/32/5503_2.png) [@Hakushon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakushon)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune-from-the-lucy-show-and-sooper-goop/930498/1 "2021-01-14T06:26:59Z")

</div>

In Season 5 Episode 3 of _The Lucy Show_, “Lucy the Bean Queen” (1966), Ed Begley (Sr.) sings a jingle about a fictitious brand of beans. You can listen to it at the 6:15 mark, here: [The Lucy Show |TV-1966| LUCY AND THE BEAN QUEEN |S5E3 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36_dTq_vJQ)

The same tune is used in the animated film _Sooper Goop_ (1976) as a jingle for a fictitious brand of cereal. You can hear it at the 1:10 mark, here (make sure that Dailymotion is not muted): [https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xem0tb](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xem0tb)

Can someone please identify this tune? It sounds like some kind of children’s song/nursery rhyme, but I can’t quite place it.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune-from-the-lucy-show-and-sooper-goop/930498/2 "2021-01-14T06:46:49Z")

</div>

[My Pony Boy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZZ1ItQB76Q), a hit from the first decade of last century. (Usually called just “Pony Boy” now.)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Hakushon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hakushon/32/5503_2.png) [@Hakushon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakushon)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune-from-the-lucy-show-and-sooper-goop/930498/3 "2021-01-14T07:10:32Z")

</div>

Solved! By Jove, that was fast!

I had never heard the original title or lyrics, only the tune. (I have, however, heard other songs sung by Ada Jones.)

Thanks, Hatchie!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-tune-from-the-lucy-show-and-sooper-goop/930498/4 "2021-01-14T13:23:38Z")

</div>

Also used by Pat Paulsen for his “Hobby Hot” jingle (on the Smothers Brothers show).

“Hobby hut, hobby hut, you can be a hobby nut.”… etc.