Bored..so thought id ask what peoples fav childhood songs were?

Silence is Golden by the Tremeloes!!

And the one that goes "Up, up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon!"

....... am I showing my age here?

• 16 years ago
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I always thought it was Jake the peg!?!?

• 16 years ago
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When my daughers were very young there was a fantastic version of Nellie the Elephant that was in the charts (It'll be about 20 years ago I think). They loved it, and so did I! Think it was by The Toys or someone.

Mx

• 16 years ago
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"The Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy" from Thchaikovski's "Nut Cracker Suite"

It always preceeded "Listen With Mother" with Julia Lang and Daphne Oxenford on the BBC's Home Service in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

It is such a haunting melody and little did I know then that I SHOULD have listened to mother a bit more perhaps and chosen a humdrum boring 9-5 job.

Still...optimistically I say "This Nut aint for cracking! LOL!

• 16 years ago
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Mae . i remember it, it was by "toybox" i think

very upbeat and "trumpy trumpy"

my dad was at college at the same time as my mum at the time, and when she was doing her social studies in teh room next to the jewelry workshop. apparently my dad would be singing along to it on the radio, bashing brass to the beat. she would get embarassed 'cos all her classmates would be laughing at this and my mum was like "oh i wonder who it could be..." lol

• 16 years ago
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Yes - that's the one. It went faster & faster & we used to leap around the living room like fools! There was also a verey long 'oooooooooooooooooooh Nellie the Elephant ........'. Great fun!

Mx

• 16 years ago
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Benny Hill with Ernie The Milkman. Anything by The Goodies. I also loved the surreality of Lily The Pink by The Scaffolod. Oh dear showing my age aren't I?

• 16 years ago
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Sorry I meant The Scaffold.

• 16 years ago
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I loved anything by Cliff Richard (cringe) and the whole upbeat cheesy type music. I loved all musicals and would sing and dance to them all... but fav cartoony type song was Fraggle Rock and Poddington pea "down at the bottom of the garden, among the birds and the bees, a little lot of little people they call the poddington peeas...the poddington peeeeaaas"

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• 16 years ago
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poddingtton peas! omg lol

• 16 years ago
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The Banana Splits on TV, Bucks Fizz, Shakin` Stevens, The Beatles, Sunday Girl (was young but heard it somewhere!), Club Tropicana (Wham), Heidi Cartoon theme tune in Italian (!)...

• 16 years ago
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Poddington peas is genius! My favorite one (which everyone pulls a blank look whenever I mention it) is '5 little speckle frogs, sat on a speckle log eating some most delicious grubs, yum yum.' Does anyone else remember this one? xx

• 16 years ago
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i know of them all Nadia, but i am too young to remember them the first time round ;)

• 16 years ago
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Cheeky bugger Nathan!! ;-))

• 16 years ago
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5 little speckled frogs? no not at all


did you dream it?

• 16 years ago
• 15

I used to sit after school and sing away! And I loved the theme tune to Grange hill too (even though there were no words!

xx

• 16 years ago
• 16

one main theme i do remember very vividly is ulysses 31

when it got to the chorus while watching it on tv i would belt out "ulysee---EEE-eeee__eeeeEEES" lol

• 16 years ago
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I we're talking about real young,
i'd have to say 'Puff the magic dragon'
and a bit older i would say 'Tour de france' Kraftwerk or anything by the World class recking crew! Oooh yeah.....I can see us all spinning on are backs, with the croped T shirts and Nike Trainers!

• 16 years ago
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I hope I didn't dream it! I'm sure one day I'll find someone who knows it. The other one I loved was 'The Good the Bad and the Ugly' tune. My sister & I used to shine lamps on the wall & make cowboy shadow dances up to it.

• 16 years ago
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Gosh, doesnt it bring the memories flooding back?! Puff the magic dragon-had forgotten that one :)

• 16 years ago
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