Then you are my people. My CANADIAN people. For a certain generation of tundra dwellers he is a GOD. Bonus points if you can name his four companions and the instruments they played on his show.
Friday, October 29, 2010
If You Know Who This Magnificent Bastard Is...
Then you are my people. My CANADIAN people. For a certain generation of tundra dwellers he is a GOD. Bonus points if you can name his four companions and the instruments they played on his show.
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I bet i'd have loved this show as a kid!
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Look up. Look waaaaay up!
I SO wanted to sit on one of those little chairs of his... :)
((Hugs))
Laura
Rusty the rooster, Jerome the Giraffe and the two kittens. Can't remember what instruments they played, but I do know that the theme song is called "Early One Morning" and is an old English Folk song. I once taught myself to play it on the recorder but I have long since forgotten how.
That's funny M.D. Jackson! I could play it on the recorder too!
Do you think maybe it was one of the songs they taught us in school here?
Part of the Canadian School curriculum... ;p
((Hugs))
Laura
I fear this generation of children will not know the joys of truly local television. You had your giant we had this happy old fellow here in LA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfN7-NpSwAU&p=FF01764723E0B524&playnext=1&index=22
Lazarus Lupin
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Look up... way up!
Rusty played the harp, and Jerome sang, I think he might have played a harmonica
Angie and Fiddle where the cats
I loved the cow jumping the moon at the end... thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I know him though I never saw the show. Does that count? Probably not. I know how high your standards are.
If you never saw him you missed out. The cool opening sequence where he invited you into his castle and arranged the tiny doll furniture for you around the fire is iconic. I like the two jazz kitties the best. They never said anything but they rocked that freaky animal band he had. Who else would even had concidered a giraffe and a rooster as bandmates. Never did the playing of a recorder seem so cool. His theme was the first songs most of us learned to play on any instrument. This was a sweet and gentle show that took it's time. No flashy bells and whistles, no giant bee on crack, just The a nice giant and his friends. Unlike Romper Room he never lied to us.
Romper Room did lie to me. Unfortunately I never saw it, just clips. It ended before I moved to Canada.
WOW! Am I old or what! I always liked it when he set the chairs out :)
The setting of the chairs by the fire really sold the illusion for me that he was a real giant. His hands were as big as ten chairs for christ sake. And the giraffe was tall enough to stand face to face with him from outside the tower window.
Even as a kid I needed to see the logic of a situation to enjoy and they answered all my questions. Of course now that I think about it I realize that for the rooster and the cats to be in scale meant that in reality they were as big as the tool shed.
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