Entertainment For Lively Minds
'Allo Darling
Posted by Southern River on 18 December 2008 - 4:34pm.
Here's one for the teenage readers of Word.
Ed Stewpot returns with Junior Choice on Christmas Day on Radio 2.
The show is inviting listeners to send in their requests so it got me wondering if it'll be a nostalgia fest featuring Three Wheels On My Wagon, Puff The Magic Dragon and anything by Bernard Cribbens or Charlie Drake.
In a perfect world it will be.
What are your fave Junior Choice type tunes?
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The Ugly Duckling
and The King Is In His Altogether
Let's not get our hopes up too much though, eh?
I'm asking for this
Heard a version
Of that on Wogan this morning. Despite including all the between verses 'jokes', it wasn't a patch on Terry Scott.
I'm hoping for Frankie Howerd's Three Little Fishes.
Me too
Still great.
There was also a song about a camp - American I believe. Can't quite remember the song but remember loving it when I was 6 or so and would listen to Junior Choice in bed on a Saturday morning.
Hello Muddah Hello Faddah
By Allan Sherman.
That's the fella
Thanks. My sons going to get a blast of it now.
Nellie The Elephant
Packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus.
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump trump trump.
Toy Dolls version allowed though under duress.
I've said it before
And I'll say it again
"CHAMPION the WOOOOOONDER HOOOOORSE"
Oh the italians they dance in spaghetti.....
...and the mexicans dance in their hats.
(Actually, never quite sure if the italian line is correct, but it has been how I've recalled it these 40+ years.)
Alternatively.....and my poor little meat ball,
rolled out of the door etc etc
Or...little boxes, little boxes,
all made of ticky tacky.
Last one was a Pete Seeger I have recently discovered.
High Hopes
High in the sky, apple pie-hopes...or summat. That would take me right back.
Can't think
of a show more deserving of a humane (and permanent) end - the prospect of accidentally having to listen to Three Little Fishes - or Puff the Magic Dragon (they're coming back to me) gives me the shivers ...
Mike Oldfield - On Horseback
My mum and dad always played Mike Oldfield's 'Ommadawn' album when I was a nipper, and this rare example of an Oldfield opus that isn't an hour long is still guaranteed to transport me back to days of shorts and school homework. I think it's rather sweet...
No, I'm sorry
You can't nominate childhood memories from albums that I bought as an adult. It's just wrong.
The Valster
Ying Tong Ying Tong Ying Tong
"There's a song that I recall my mother sang to me. She sang it as she tucked me in when I was ninety-three."
Have recently re-discovered this after loving it as a kid, thanks to Stewpot.
My favourite
was this one. Didn't have a clue it was part of some groovy sixties concept album: