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anyone else remember this short-lived Saturday morning kids show? not sure of the years, but i'd say late '70's to early '80's. it starred Hal Linden (of Barney Miller fame) hosting vignettes about various and sundry things related to ... animals. The theme song was sung by Lynn Anderson, who if i'm remembering correctly, had a claim to fame with the song "I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden)" and she sometimes appeared on the show, too, i believe...
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Tue, March 23, 2004 - 1:29 PMit sounds vaguely familiar...but i don't remember it real well or anything
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Tue, March 23, 2004 - 2:35 PMYep. I remember it.
"Animals, Animals, Animals here and there. Animals, Animals, Animals, Animals eveywhere!"
In LA it was on late mornings or early afternoons in the early-to-mid 70s. I can't remember it being around in that area after about 1976. I could be wrong, though.
I also don't remember Lynn Anderson being ON the show, but I'm not sure that I would. Just some other grown-up that wasn't Barney Miller.... Even though my mom was into country music, I doubt I would have recoginized the woman's face. :-) -
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Tue, March 23, 2004 - 11:24 PMmy recollection was that if Lynn was on, it was on very rare occasions.
but then again, that's what ... 25 years ago? didn't they carve TV programs in stone back then? heh heh.
so if there was a woman on the show, who would she have been?!?!? hmmmm... -
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Wed, March 24, 2004 - 8:38 AMI do remember Goodall being on at least once. I only remember because she was doing an exhibit at the LA Zoo at the time which my parents took me to see.
For some reason the only photos that survived are of the parking lot and one of the rhinos...
I did find a listing at IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt0231010/trivia
Which states that singer Lynn Kellogg appeared on the show, but their listing also places the show not on the air before 1976 and I am certain that the Goodall exhibit and episode was not later than early 1975, before my sixth birthday, and I actually think it was mid-to-late 1974.
But, as you say, it was 25+ years ago so I am not 100% positive myself. -
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Wed, March 24, 2004 - 10:20 AMi didn't get around to the usual round of google/IMDB ... yes, it was Lynn Kellogg. so that blows the whole Lynn Anderson theory. oh well, it was a nice delusion while it lasted. now to remember what Lynn Kellogg's other claim(s) to fame is/are...
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Thu, March 25, 2004 - 4:27 PMA very minor amount of research on my part dug up the following info.
I was almost certainly (again, I think) mixing up Dusty's Treehouse, a personal fave of mine from kiddiehood with a different show (my association with the Goodall/LA Zoo exhibit in '74 or '75, I mean)
Animals, Animals, Animals began in Sept. of 1976. It was apparently usually broadcast on Sundays, meaning I probably watched it after our local cartoon show in LA was over or Wonderama, both of which are subjects I want to address in other posts in the future.
Lynn Kellogg was primarily known for her singing on 60s/70s TV variety shows and her refusal to bare all but inclusion any way in the the original broadway cast of "Hair".
She has a recent but still difficult to locate CD called "Balm of Gilead".
"Animals" focused primarily on a particular animal genus per show, like marsupials, and included animated segments, hands on visits to zoos and their staffs by Hal Linden. Animal rights activist Roger Karrass appeared at least once in a while, as did Lynn Kellogg.
Maybe more than any of us wanted to know...though if anyone can remember more of the verses to the song or where to find the lyrics, it would be cool.
In addition to the refrain, all I remember is:
You can lead a horse to water,
You can even milk a cow.
After that all I vaguely recall is that the rhyme to "cow" was "sow". -
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Thu, March 25, 2004 - 7:07 PMA whale is just a mammal that blows water in the air
A worm can turn and disappear ... and then he isn't there...
Oh Animals! Animals! Animals here and there
Animals animals animals everywhere.
so far, that's the biggest chunk of the theme song i remember. there were other lines about "the whole ecology" and something about animals "that become our pets"
i'll see if i can squeeze more of it out of my brain or stumble across it somewhere in the vast almighty Internet :) -
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Thu, March 25, 2004 - 7:37 PMI still sing this song to myself from time to time :)
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Fri, March 26, 2004 - 1:54 PMThank you Chris!! I have done some searching, but more can't hurt. I find it difficult to believe that it's not out there somewhere!!
I was even trying to find an email address or fan club for Lynn Kellogg, since she wrote the darned thing. :-)
I'll continue to search as well!
Oh...and I think the line after "cow" was "A tiger is a great big cat" and then the line about the sow.
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Fri, March 26, 2004 - 1:57 PMYay Chris!!! Thank you!! I do remember those lines now.
I'm continuing to search when I have a chance, too. I've even resorted to trying to locate a contact email address or fan club for Ms. Kellogg, since she wrote the darned thing.
I seem to recall now that the line after the two I quoted above was "A tiger is a great big cat" the next one could possibly be "A lady pig's a sow". But I could be wrong...heck I couldn't even remember what year I first saw it.... I feel old. -
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Sat, March 27, 2004 - 11:03 PMso i wonder if lynn kellogg is the same one who was in Hair. that's about all i could turn up on the web. but the tiger and pig lines ... i'd totally forgotten about those!
hmmm, we'll have to wait and see what the next big break is to unravel the mystery... -
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Tue, March 30, 2004 - 4:54 PMyea, back in 1976-77. imprisoned in the children's programming ghetto late Sunday, last kids show before sports. a harbinger of doom...
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Re: Animals Animals Animals
Mon, June 18, 2007 - 11:52 PMHey I remember that show, but the singer was Lynn Kellogg and not Lynn Anderson, and they even aired it in french here in Canada.
