Chickery Chick, Cha la cha la
Chickelaromi
In a bananica
Bollica wollica
Can't you see
Chckery Chick is me

Just guessing at the spelling of some of that, but it was a fun one.

How about Mairsey doats...   and Hutsut Ralston

Mary Ann, I misspoke when I said PBS when telling about Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz.  It's my local NPR station.  I do watch a lot of shows on PBS, but not her Piano Jazz.  I know they are reruns, but I do love the program.  It's on Saturday evenings at 11:00 p.m.  just after I am getting into bed.

Sue

How about Three Little Fishies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-963CTDLy68

Sue, we get Marian Mc Partland on Saturday morning at 10 am.  It's a morning of jazz because the previous program is "live" from the station. 

Jack, what great memories.  Someone mentioned Mairzie Doats and that was another great crazy song. 

Mary Ann

Does anyone remember "Peg of my Heart" ?

Sure do, June.     It's been a long time since I've thought of it and I'm trying to remember some of the lyrics - "Since I heard your lilting laughter, it's your Irish heart I'm after.... "

Jack, thanks for the Three Little Fishies. I remember that well!  Cute version with the kiddie voices, too.

Sue

June and Jeanne Lee......  here it is.  Always one of my favorite's also.  One of my favorite singers,  too.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1UQXD4Fmlo

Joy

Since I am Margie and not Margeret, I got this one sung to me a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAM74H_4y8U

Another  good oldie, MarsGal.  And, I pretty much remembered all the words.   Great song !

Joy

Stumbled across this neat rendition of a classic a while back. It was released as a single in the 70s but didn't chart.

"You Are My Sunshine" by Duane Eddy, featuring vocals from his wife Deed and country legends Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTBdj88biHQ

Duane Eddy is an American guitarist best known for a string of rock instrumental hits in the late 50s and early 60s ("Rebel Rouser", "40 Miles Of Bad Road", "Peter Gunn", etc.).

Oldiesman, I love "Your Are my Sunshine" BUT this version didn't do it for me.  My Daddy sang it to me when I was a toddler and even early grade school--and my sisters and I sang it, too.  When I was in High School, 3 friends and I sang it at an assembly.  Twins Pam and Paula and Jane and me.  Jane did the chorus by playing it on her pinched nose--we got lots of laughs and some applause, too!  We sang it up tempo and that's one of the reasons I didn't like Duane Eddy's version.  Too slow and draggy!

SCFSue

I am fond of Duane Eddy. Here is one of my favorites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1KNlw329hA  But then, I just like the tune so much. I have at least three versions including Frankie Laine and the Ventures. It is fun to play them back to back for the differences.

Quote from: MarsGal on August 24, 2017, 02:04:03 PM
I am fond of Duane Eddy. Here is one of my favorites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1KNlw329hA  But then, I just like the tune so much. I have at least three versions including Frankie Laine and the Ventures. It is fun to play them back to back for the differences.

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of versions of that song. A local radio show, "The Rockin' and Surfin' Show", has played a different version of that song every week for years. It's a very popular tune among surf bands for some reason. My favorite would be the one from The Outlaws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmpvpypXKf0

I didn't realize that so many groups or vocalists had recorded "Ghost Riders in the Sky".  I only remember the one that was a Top Ten in the 1950's by Frankie Laine.

oldiesman - I liked the version by The Outlaws. Love that photo!  It reminds me of what my daughter's boyfriends looked like in the 1970's! LOL!

Reaching back for this one, done 1927.  Do not know why my father would sing it to the young ones trying to put to sleep.  This would have been in the mid 30's.   I had 6 sisters and 3 brothers, so he sang it a lot.    This was done by Cliff Edwards, he did the voice of Jiminy Cricket singing When you wish upon a star.  (another great one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFjdXP6WRdc

I like to hear those old songs, Jack.  Some of them that I like are older than I am! 

Mary Ann

I was so sure this was our Don...( Radioman )...but our Don is prettier...

Burl Ives - Cool Water


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtxqFZbyzS0

Vanilla, I went looking for more Burl Ives (I particularly remember Goober Peas). What I came up was Ives and Glen Campbell from 1974. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5bUUq_pans I was so surprised when Glen passed away. I just never thought of him as being that old. Here am I thinking he was about my age or younger all these years.

Well, that was fun.  I watched and listened to several Burl Ives songs, saw Jerry Lewis do some jitterbugging with Sheree North, heard Burl Ives and George Gobel and ended with Burl Ives singing "The Old Rugged Cross".  I quit because I have to finish S&F before I go to bed.

Mary Ann

I just have the "Frankie Laine" Version of Ghost Riders. have lots of his records.

Here, or in Classical ?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/GUBhE00h9U0?feature=player_detailpage

Rammel, thank your for a happy, but tear inducing, William Tell Overture featuring Glen Campbell on the guitar.  I've always loved the W.T. Overture--as a kid, I liked to listen to the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday mornings and this was one of my favorites--this was a nice surprise as I didn't know Glen Campbell did this.  I enjoyed his folk and rock music and was saddened by his death and Alzheimer's diagnosis.

SCFSue

Sue, I first became familiar with the William Tell Overture when I listened to The Lone Ranger on the radio - much before TV.

Mary Ann

Good Gracious, Mary Ann.  I probably first heard The William Tell Overture on the Lone Ranger radio program, too.  I'd forgotten that!   Thanks for the reminder.  Every time I hear that played on PBS, I think of the Lone Ranger.

Sue

P.S.  My sister Anne and I had to clean the house on Saturdays (dust and run the vacuum cleaner) before we could attend our local High School football games.  I always had the radio on to help it go faster!  So I heard and enjoyed lots of classical music.

Sue, I remember playing various stations on the radio, programs of all types, but when I look at the LPs I bought, most of them are classical.  I now usually have NPR on and our station is all music.  When Annie lived here, she did not like my music and I'd find that my radio had either been turned off or down!  Norm and I were brought up on classical music and that is what I listen to now.  I also listen to Music Choice on TV and they have many channels for all kinds of music and my choice is Light Classic.

Mary Ann

Now I still miss listening to all those radio shows we use to follow way back in the 50/60s)  Would have them all on on a Sunday.  Seemed to enjoy better than seeing the people on TV.  I even like the soap opera's better.

Yet I can't stand to put on a Book on Tape and listen to it.

We all probably were exposed to some classical music by way of other media - radio, movies, etc. I knew a high school music teacher that said he often used "popular" music to introduce classical.  I enjoy classical but I   (generally) don't know one piece from another.

Rick, there are very few classical pieces I can identify by name or composer, but I do recognize the tunes.  I just think the light classical music I listen to now is more soothing to my ears than what is called popular music today.  And popular music of my youth is so old, it hardly is played any more.  Of course, I'm old too!

Mary Ann

I've probably mentioned this before, but my Dad's spinster cousin who was a beautician lived with my Grandmother as my sisters and I did.  On Saturday she only worked until about 1:00, so we walked up town to the beauty shop and she took us to the local news stand where we could buy a comic book, only Archie, Disney comics, or others that she approved of.  However, this news stand also sold small newspaper magazines that had all the lyrics to everything on the Hit Parade.  My sisters and I all loved to sing and Cousin Frances would buy the pamphlet with the lyrics, not the music.  We could sing every song that was on the Hit Parade.  Our first favorite was Chickoree Chick Cha La Cha La. 

P. S.  I am having memory problems from a bad fall, so if I've mentioned this recently, please forgive me.
Sue