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We had a local celebrity who had a TV show on Saturday mornings when I was young. He used to set up an easel and draw pics of Snow White and her dwarfs (or other cartoon characters) in a matter of minutes as he explained the next cartoon or skit that was coming up. Our 2nd grade class went to the studio and was on the show once. His name was Gene London. He did a skit about Quigley Mansion and the Golden Fleece. He'd sing a song when it was time to "go to" the mansion. Went like this...

Let's pretend that it's storytime and I'll tell a tale to you.
I'll tell a story of make believe and all your dreams will come true.
And when the story's over, and when we reach the end...
We'll live happily ever after...where?
In the land of Let's Pretend!

Found out years later that he was gay...but I was "in love" with Gene London for most of my early years!

BTW Shar? I love the Kimba theme!

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Minds are like parachutes. They only work when they are open.

~Thomas Dewar~

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Sunny day - Sweepin’ the clouds away,
On my way to where the air is sweet.
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street.

Not a childhood song, but a song from my childhood~ the theme to "All In The Family"...

Edith and Archie belting out the song at their piano, singing off-key....


"Boy the way Glen Miller played songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us we had it made, those were the days.

And you knew who you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men,
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

Didn’t need no welfare state, Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days. "

Brings back memories of my Grandpa. I used to sit on his lap and watch that show every week. I just loved hearing him laugh.

My dad's weekend music - Johnny Cash, "Sunday Morning" and Gordon Lightfoot's "In the Early Morning Rain"

"Davey, Davey Crockett .... King of the wild frontier." That's all I remember of the song, but that portion of it will probably come out frequently when I'm old and senile ... LOL!

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

(spoken)
It happened on one
of them Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
days. Now that's the kind of
day where you can't open your
mouth without a song jumping
right out of it.

(sung)
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Zip-a-dee-ay
My, oh my, what a
wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine
Headin' my way
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Zip-a-dee-ay

Mr. Bluebird's on
my shoulder
It's the truth
It's "act-ch'll"
Everything is
"satisfact-ch'll"
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful fellin'
Wonderful day

From the first movie I remember going to.

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I remember the Sesame Street theme and the Mr. Rodger's song...

Its a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
a beautiful day for a neighbor,
could you be mine? wont you be mine?
oh wont you be my neighbor?

then at the end he sung the goodbye song... errr how'd that go?

something something something.... but I'll be back when the day is new and I'll have more ideas for you... and you'll have things you'll want to talk about, I Will Too.... GOOD BYE NEIGHBOR

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Has to be for me something brings back those long long summer holidays away from school called The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. The theme tune still makes me pause.

http://tv.cream.org/specialassignme...emes/crusoe.mp3

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What is life?
If not an excuse for death,
and what is death,
if not an escape from life?

Who's the King in deepest darkest Africa?

Who's the one who just won't turn and run?


My personal memories were "Little blue man" and Johnny Horton.

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

I also don't really have any childhood songs but songs I remember from childhood and bring it back for me.

Any of Phil Collins songs from the 80s. Don't know why his are the only ones but they always do it. Also have some songs that remind me of college life in the dorms. Arent' memories great.

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"...I won't be your winter...and I won't be anyones excuse to cry."

"Even heroes have the right to bleed."

"I'm wakin up at the start of the end of the world

"How much is that doggie in the window?"

Also, listened to lots of regular music ... 5 older siblings who are just enough older than me so I got to listen to all the "cool" music when I was just a kid .... and a wide variety since they all had differing tastes!

Beatles, Eddy Arnold, but the one I really remember ...

Barry Sadler .... The Green Beret

"fighting soldiers from the sky .... fearless men who jump and die ... men who mean just what they say, these are men of the green beret" ....

Long distance information give me Memphis Tennessee.
I'm trying to get in touch with a woman tryin' to get in touch with me.
Her house in on the south side, way up on a ridge.
Just about a mile from the Mississippi bridge


Yeah, an old Johnny Rivers tune my Dad's band used to do all the time. That song drums of memories of an overcrowded livingroom. Instruments and amps all around. Dad gettin' on somebody's ass about putting a beer on his amp, my cousin Vernon bending some strings and of course yours truly jammin' on the broom guitar. Those were the days.

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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will. He will be sure to repent - Socrates

Love is not looking in each other's eyes, but looking together in the same direction - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

OK .. having trouble getting my brain to turn off so I can go to sleep .... and these songs from my childhood keep coming back to me ....

Alvin & the Chipmunks .... "Do you have some Japaneze bananas, that's what I'd like to know."

And the Ricky Nelson album one of my sisters bought .... I think I could still sing every word along with any one of the songs from that album .....

"I'm a travelin' man, made a lot of stops, all over the world, and in every port I own the heart of at least one lovely girl.... There's a pretty seniorita waiting for me down in old Mexico and if you're ever in Alaska, stop and see my sweet little eskimo. Ah, my sweet fraulein down in Berlin town, makes my heart start to yearn, and my china doll down in old Hong Kong, waits for my return.... pretty Polynesian baby over the sea, I remember the night when we walked in the sands ofa Waikiki and I held her oh so tight .... "

Dang it, now the song is stuck firm in my head! LOL!!!