we want our
kids we want our
kids we want our kids
take it we want them
[Music]
mrs wilson you know how you asked us to
work arts and crafts into the show mhm
well we found a way to do it oh really
how we've invited Howard Barnett the
puppeteer to come on our show and he's
going to give us a demonstration on how
to make simple hand puppets out of socks
and things and Janet will do it with him
and the kids at home can too i like the
interactive element of this show good
stuff kids i agree now can I have a peek
at the songs you've prepared for today
sure down by the bay where the
watermelons grow back to my home I dare
not go a B C D E F G come and sing along
with me the more we play together
together the more we play together the
happier we'll be who's going to put all
this stuff together for the puppet
demonstration i've got time i'll take
care of it good okay Trips so throw the
opening graphic in three two one and
take
it and cue the
host good morning and welcome to the
Kids Songs TV show the one and only show
made by kids for kids and starring kids
hi I'm Christian Wooda and I'm Alexander
Pong and I'm Billy Bigle we have a
really fun show for you today so I
strongly suggest you stick with us for a
funfilled half hour which starts now
let's get started with a song that's fun
to sing along with it's called Bingo
and Bingo was his nameo b I N G O B I N
G O B I N G O and Bingo
there were some kids who had a dog and
Bingo was his
nameo i N G O I N G O I N G O and Bingo
was his
nameo there were some kids who had a dog
and Bingo was his nameo
n
O N
O N O and Bingo was his
nameo there were some kids who had a dog
and Bingo was his
nameo
G and Bingo was his nameo
there were some kids who had a dog and
Bingo was his
nameo
[Music]
oh and Bingo was his
nameo there were some kids who had a dog
and Bingo was his nameo
and bingo was his
nameo b I N G O B I N G O B I N G O and
Bingo his nameo bingo his nameo
bingo his name okay so we'll need paper
bags socks and some buttons for eyes and
how about some string for hair great and
don't forget the glue don't worry Jennet
i've got it under control three two
and it's time to go out to sea with our
cool Coast Guard friends i love these
sailors they really got into making this
video with us they're just fun folks so
kids come along with the kids song kids
and the US Coast Guard on a sea cruise
oh man music in my shoes there's no
sitting singing with my You got nothing
to lose won't you let me take you on a
sea cruise ooh wee ooh we baby ooh we
ooh we baby ooh wee ooh we baby won't
you let me take you on the sea cruise
feel like travel baby won't you join me
please i don't like but now I'm
on i got to get to rock and get my hat
off the rack you know the boogie woogie
hit me right in the back so be my guest
you got nothing to lose won't you let me
take you on cruise
we
[Music]
baby won't let me take you on a sweet
cruise
[Music]
i got to get some moving i ain't lying
my heart is beating
[Music]
R be my guest got nothing to lose won't
you let me take you on a secret
we baby
we
baby won't you let me take you on
se baby
[Music]
see these big sequins work much better
yeah you're right i think I'm going to
add a little braid too what do you have
here you go they are so pretty let me
look what's next the school songs medley
good i like that clip is it ready it's
cute and standing by good answer mark
count in the host in four three two and
it's time to go to school oh good i want
to go to school wait a minute we're in
the middle of making the show okay let
me try another way of saying it this
next video is going to take us to school
oh that's better and we're going to work
on our ABCs and our 1 two 3es can we do
our four five sixes too sure Billy let's
go 1
2 3 4 shut the door 5
6 7 8 Don't be late 9 10 Do it over
again
[Music]
school days school days good
oldfashioned rush days leading and
riding and
rich our teachers great and we learn
quick when we started schooling we only
knew all the great things we learned
from you there's so many things that we
can do now
good morning children good morning Miss
and now this morning we're going to work
on the alphabet
a B C D E F G Come and sing along with
me h I J K L M N O P tell me what you
want to be q R S T U V W X Y and Z now I
know my ABCs
next time you
[Music]
sing a B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y and Z now I know my ABCs
next time
that was very good children that was
just wonderful
in ancient times astronomers group
bright stars together into patterns
called constants hi Chris what are you
up to i'm reading a stron book look at
this neat one I found wow it has all the
constellations where's the Big Dipper
right there let's try to find the Little
Dipper it should be Mark we're going to
have to start setting up the stuff for
the puppeteer segment soon is it here
yet no melanie must still be getting it
together coming to you in three two and
this next song finds the kids songs kids
at camp hard at play hard at play you
know the expression grown-ups always use
hard at work well kids play as hard as
grown-ups work i guess so in this next
video they're playing all kinds of games
it's called the more we get together the
happier we'll be which by the way is
something I truly believe thank you
Billy the more we get together together
together the more we get together the
happier we'll be cuz your friends are my
friends and my friends are your friends
the more we get together the happier
we'll
be the more we play together
together the more we play together the
happier we'll be cuz your friends are my
friends and my friends are your friends
the more we play together the happier
we'll
[Music]
be the more we dance together
together the more we dance together the
happier we'll be cuz your friends are my
friends and my friends are your friends
the more we dance together the happier
we'll be
i'm Eddie i'm Monica i'm Debbie i'm
Chris and we're your counselors
the more we get together
together the more we get together the
happier we'll be cuz your friends are my
friends and my friends are your friends
the more we get together the happier
we'll be the more we get together the
happier we'll be the more we get
together the
happier we'll be hi Janet hi Melanie
where's the stuff for the puppeteer
segment i I I haven't gotten it together
yet you haven't he's going to be here
any minute and the segment starts right
after the next song and you promised how
could you do this to me what am I
supposed to do now i'll do it right now
Janet i'm sorry i just got distracted
with other projects well you better have
it ready in time
oh Billy I really messed up what am I
going to do we're going to fix it
Melanie how How am I going to get all
this stuff together in just a few
minutes with the help of your friends
especially this little blue one yes
Janet i'm surprised too melanie is
usually so responsible what are we going
to
do sure if you need to change the order
of the show we'll deal with it bye host
intro in five four three two and this
next song features some very cute
animals i think you think all animals
are very cute just about but these next
ones are so adorable i suppose you're
referring to the raccoon possum and
bunny rabbit you guessed
right raccoon's got a bushy
tail
goes tail at a little bunch of
[Music]
hair raccoon is a man loves to sneak
around see the funny things he does he
looks just like a
[Music]
clown psome up an apple tree raccoon on
the ground raccoon
says you shake them down
[Music]
raccoon says to rabbit "Would you like
to share my food?" Raccoon says "I'll
wash it first to make it taste so
[Music]
good." Raccoon's got a bushy tail
psome's tail goes bear rabbit's got no
tail at all just a little bunch of hair
raccoon's got a bushy tail psome's tail
goes tail at all just a little bunch of
hair
[Music]
okay here are all the socks and here's
the glue and the paints and I've got all
your sequins and pretty ribbons together
and here's thread and needles and my
whole arts and crafts box now that's got
to be everything Mr barnett could
possibly use scissors right scissors and
Q this next song is about a very sweet
hand dog that gets into lots of trouble
but he doesn't mean to i guess he just
doesn't understand why he shouldn't
sleep in the flower beds or roll in the
mud he's just like my dog so let's
follow the adventures of this hound dog
as he makes mischief everywhere he goes
hound dog crying all the
time you ain't a hound dog crying all
the
time you ain't never got around and you
ain't no friend of
mine they said you
high that was just a
lie they said you
[Music]
high off of my
You ain't never you ain't no friend of
mine
[Music]
you ain't nothing but a hound
dog crying all the
time you ain't nothing but a
hound crying all the
time you ain't never you ain't no friend
of
mine they said you was high
class that was just a
lie they said you were high
class that was just a
lie you ain't never got a rabbit and you
ain't no friend of
mine you ain't nothing but a hound dog
crying all the
time you ain't nothing but a hound dog
crying all the time
you ain't never caught a rabbit and you
ain't no friend of
mine you ain't got a rabbit you ain't no
friend of mine
i don't know how she did it but Melanie
came through everything's ready for the
puppet making segment great should I
roll the graphic roll it three two one
and take it
today we have a special treat for you
howard Barnett the famous puppeteer is
here to show you how to make and work
puppets if you follow his great advice
you will be a puppeteer yourself by the
end of the show just grab a sock and
join Janet Bates on question time thank
you Christian thank you Alexandra and
now Howard Barnett thank you good
morning good morning to you hello boys
and girls would you like to make a
puppet i'd love to good would you kids
at home like to make a puppet well good
i think everybody knows where to get a
paper bag either at home or at the store
now the first thing our paper bag puppet
would need is a mouth a mouth i have a
scissors here and some construction
paper and I'm going to cut a mouth very
easy and now all we need is a little bit
of glue and you could use any kind of
glue don't put too much on cuz we don't
want it to be too drippy and as we can
see
already we've got the beginning of a
good puppet hi how you
doing but we need a few more things eyes
eyes good would you like to draw the
eyes i'd love to okay we'll draw Okay a
couple of nice small little eyes what's
What's on top of eyes eyebrows eyebrows
good and how about if I make the eyes
that you made the eyeballs
and make two big droopy eyes and I
pre-made a
nose everybody has a nose right this is
kind of a goofy nose puppet nose big
giant goofy nose and now we turn it
around the
back we're going to add hair and
arms janet's cutting the hair and I'm
going to put the arms on
see we're we're putting things on the
back i know it's a little confusing
you're thinking why would you put why
would you glue things on the back well
let me show you because when we turn it
around we have a puppet
and would you like to work this puppet
uh-huh okay and I have another puppet
here now this is so simple everybody has
a sock at home right here I've put two
little eyes i got at a craft store and
we'll call him How about Sako saco and
Droopy since he has droopy eyes okay hi
Droopy hi Sako and you know to make a
stage kids it's so simple you could just
go behind a table or a chair put the
glue to the side we could do a little
show you want to do a show okay okay
well hello there Droopy want to go out
and play i'd love to okay well bye-bye
boys and girls we're going to go out and
play now bye bye
thank you very much i'm so relieved it
came out all right i can't thank you
guys enough for your help anytime
Melanie don't even mention it no really
thank you i messed up and I knew Janet
was really mad if you guys hadn't helped
me melody that's what friends are for
[Music]
hey Billy you're late for your sing
along
see we all mess up well as soon as he
gets here oh hi Billy it's time for your
sing along i'm ready today's song is a
kids classic i'm sure you all know it
it's called Mary Had a Little Lamb now
kids let's all sing it together ready
mary had a little lamb little lamb
little lamb mary had a little lamb it
fleece was white as snow and everywhere
that Mary went Mary went Mary went
everywhere that Mary went the lamb was
sure to
go follow it there she
goes oh Mary followed her to school one
day school one day school one day he
followed her to school one day it was
against the rule kids made the children
laugh and play laugh and play laugh and
play oh poor Mary oh Mary that makes you
so sad that's your only friend a If it
were your best friend you would be sad
too and so the teacher turned him out
turned him out turned him out and so the
teacher turned him out but still he
lingered near and went and ate it
patiently patiently patiently and went
and ate it patiently till Mary did
appear mary had a little lamb little
lamb little lamb mary had a little lamb
it fleece was white as snow and
everywhere that Mary went Mary went Mary
went everywhere that Mary went the lamb
was sure to go and this next song is
about the biggest animal in the circus
the elephants you got it let's see that
must be strolling through the park one
day right
[Music]
againary i was taken by surprise by a
pair of rogish eyes i was scared but I
didn't run
away he walked along so
daintil moving as graceful as can
be his legs were like the trunks of
trees i hardly came up to his
knees he looked at me again and I knew
he would be friends he's just a
[Music]
[Applause]
little
baby about as old as me and
you maybe soon one day we could all go
out and play and be friends with the
elephants in the park
he walked along
[Music]
soil moving as graceful as can
[Music]
be i thought I'd seen a lot of things
from the
Arctic Springs from his tail up to his
trunk from the back up to the front the
elephant is so astonishing
[Music]
this elephant is so
astonishing so astonishing
[Applause]
[Music]
it feels like going home time what's
your hurry basketball practice oh I see
now that baseball season is over you're
going to be rushing off to basketball
practice you got it we better cue the
host before anyone rushes anywhere cue
him we have time for only one more song
today so the Kids Songs kids decided to
show you the one with the whale with the
polkadotted tail and the llama with
pajamas and the pig with the wig it's
down by the bay down by the bay where
the watermelons grow
i dare not go for if I do my mother will
say "Did you ever see a baboon holding a
balloon by the bay down by the bay where
the watermelons grow back to my home i
dare not
go if I do my mother will say
"Did you ever see a whale with a polka
dot tail?" Down by the bay down by the
bay where the watermelons grow back to
my home i dare not go for if I do my
mother will say
"Did you ever see a pig wearing a wig?"
Down by the bay down by the bay where
the watermelons grow back to my home i
dare not go or if I do my mother will
say
"Did you ever see a goat standing in a
boat?" Down by
the bay where the watermelons grow back
to my home I dare not go
for if I do my mother will
say "Did you ever see a llama wearing
pajamas down by the bay?" Down by the
bay down by the bay
i'm sorry I got so mad at you i'm sorry
I left it all to the last minute are we
friends again of course we are want to
come over after the show sure i'll call
my mom and ask if I can come on
host time to wrap it up in three two and
Well kiddos that's all we have time for
on the Kids Song of TV show the one and
only show made by kids for kids and
starring kids and me Billy Bigle see you
see you bye
he's got magic powers that make
him big we'll keep him a secret coming
to the rescue when they're
going to call the kids songs tapping our
feet soon everybody's going to move to
the beat give us kids songs we've got
the sound we're going to be coming to
your city and town we want our kids
songs we want our kids
songs we want our kids
and take it we
[Music]
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Home video series was launched with four Kidsongs "Music Video Stories" being announced at New York's Toy Fair in February 1986. "A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm" was one of those first four and has sold over 4 million copies and won the Vira Award.
Home video series was launched with four Kidsongs "Music Video Stories" being announced at New York's Toy Fair in February 1986. "A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm" was one of those first four and has sold over 4 million copies and won the Vira Award.