Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 02, 2022

That song was a long generation old when I first heard it. And I’ve been retired for some several years.

And is B-I-N-G-O his name O?

I just watched a YouTube vid of the Chordettes singing “Lollipop” and “Mister Sandman”. What is this “recent past” of which you speak?

Thoughts left better un-thought.

Even though I am “only” 52, I don’t see the 1950s as that ancient!. Anyway, here goes one version:

https://youtu.be/6rJo9yJxd5M

Some songs like this one should be passed on – even if it’s only so you can sing this song (or at least think it in your head) for amusement once in awhile (when you see a doggie in the window).

I like how they sneaked math into today’s cartoon.

I love how Mrs. Olsen allows the kids to come up and talk about stuff in their life like this. I had a teacher she reminds me of that would just tell you to go sit down.

My Grandma taught me that song when I was about the same age as the school kids. It’s fun!

IIRC, the TV show Your Hit Parade (which every week acted out the Top 10 pop songs) had to do that one about a dozen times before it sank out of sight. The one that Snooky Lanson said was most challenging was the many weeks in which “Shrimp Boats Are A-Comin’” had to be reimagined afresh every week.

Loved that song by Ms Patti Page

It’s not that old. I heard Phil Harris’s orchestra play it just recently on the Jack Benny radio show.

I remember in the ’70’s the incident when Texas A&M played Rice in Rice Stadium. The Marching Owl Band (MOB) ran in their usual random fashion, as opposed to the military precision of the Aggie band, to a formation of a fire plug and played that song. The A&M Corps members were incensed for the MOB making fun of their mascot Reveille, and actually held the MOB under the stands with their dress swords after they exited the field. Aggies have no sense of humor about some stuff.

Time is on our side Yes it is You always say…..Oops sorry zoned out there for a minute

Patti Page version came out 1/53, I would have been almost 8. I remember the Lennon Sisters singing it on the Welk show.

I still enjoy Doris Day.

Guessing Mrs. Olsen is around 60 or so, she would have heard that song on a Golden Oldie station. So Frazz nailed it.

I heard it when it debuted and also heard Gene Autry do Rudolf, The Red-Nosed Reindeer first time on air, 1949. He said in an interview that he was totally surprised that it sales were very high and that it really boosted his ratings and music sales, as he had considered it just a cute song for kids.

Recent is relative. Twenty Three Skidoo is timeless.

I REALLY get annoyed as an English major and writer when Bob Seger switches tenses …… “Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.” ARRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!

It’s not as if they are making new children’s or silly fun songs. It’s all love and protest, when you can make out the words anyway. If you know of any, please say.

I can’t believe i heard that song when it originally came out. I’d always thought it was before my time and i was listening to an oldie!

I wonder what the “kids” today would make of Mairzy Doats https://youtu.be/aFcx7phO_9E

Oh, can it Frazz. I’m firmly in Gen X territory, younger than Mallet, and I remember singing that song at school myself. Not every eight year old listens to Lyle $@## Lovett. (In fact, NONE OF THEM DO)

When I was a dog I was in the window 86% of the time. My apologies to Jason.

Loved that song

Teach should be impressed the kid knows percentages.

Some songs seem ancient two years after they’re recorded. Others seem fresh generations after they were first written.

Some think of “Georgia On My Mind” as a Ray Charles song (1960); others think of it as a Willie Nelson song (1978). But Hoagy Carmichael (the songwriter) first had a hit with it in 1930…

(There are people who believe the band Disturbed “improved” Simon and Garfunkle’s 1964 “Sound of Silence” in 2015; I don’t agree, but it’s a good track.)

I remember when ‘Doggie’ was new and very popular. Our dog rode in the back window of our car, and we were frequently serenaded when stopped at signal lights.

Hehehe. I remember singing that in elementary school.

How much is that doggie in the window

With the basketball nose on its face?

You know what a basketball nose is?

It dribbles all over the place.

She should have asked him if it had a waggly tail.

Patti Page-1953…I was six. Mrs.Olsen must be younger than she looks.

It does seem like this generation has been torn from our roots. Thanks pschearer for the reminder that those roots can now be easily accessed, if anyone wants to look for them.