Nellie the Elephant - who else remembers?

How could I have forgotten that Max Bygraves one, Kalu?
Used to love it!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqAQVQL0e2c

Really loved Sparky and his magic piano.. I also often find old songs playing in my head. The other day it was A Four Legged Friend and Mud, Mud, glorious Mud. Then How Much Is That Doggy In The Window?

Kalu

I remember all of the above but no one has yet mentioned my favourite, Muffin the Mule, I had a tin one
Hi Lily, Hi Lili, Hi Low, can’t remember which film
High Hopes - Frank Sinatra
Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By Thé Sea - Max Bygraves.

I mentioned Muffin the Mule, Kalu and I still have mine (he lives in the attic somewhere 🙂)

I can remember the words of so many of these songs - they're so much better than the rubbish churned out today!

Goes off singing "Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea"

And, I read every post singing each title that appeared Calli, how could I have missed Muffin? Wish I still had mine.

There’s a tiny house, by a tiny stream
Where a lovely lass, had a lovely dream
This was on the list of our car journey songs, both DDs loved it along with High Hopes

Next time your found with your chin on the ground
There’s a lot to be learnt so look around
Once there was a silly old ant, thought he’d move a rubber tree plant….

Witzend

How could I have forgotten that Max Bygraves one, Kalu?
Used to love it!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqAQVQL0e2c

I have just listened to you link Witzend and realised I have been singing the wrong words all this time😂

Gilly Gilly ossenpepper cats and Ella Bogen by the sea!🤦🏼‍♀️

The happy pair were married one Sunday afternoon
They left the church and ran away to spend their honeymoon
In a tiny house (In a tiny house)
By a tiny stream (By a tiny stream)
Where the lovely lass (Where the lovely lass)
Had a lovely dream (Had a lovely dream)
And the last I heard (And the last I heard)
They still live happily
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea
In Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea

I always thought it was 'sunny afternoon'

Callistemon21

I can remember the words of so many of these songs - they're so much better than the rubbish churned out today!

Goes off singing "Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea"

I remember going to a Mass where the Our Father was sung to that tune, and in that manner, with the priest leading and the congregation repeating!

I always thought it was oxenpepper!

I remembered the Typewriter tune earlier - must find it on good old YT. Reminds me of a crash course I did aeons ago, in shorthand and typing. Run by two very spinstery old ladies, almost certainly a couple, though such things weren’t much mentioned then - who wouldn’t have looked at all amiss in a Miss Marple (Joan Hickson version.).

We had to practise typing to a strictly even rhythm, to some Glen Miller tune, which was very jolly - punctuated often of course by carriage return! - bang, ding! - as in the tune.
*one of them had won a typewriting championship - about 100 words a minute, IIRC!

What a lovely thread! When we moved house we discovered an old LP of Listen With Mother (wouldn’t get away with a title like that now!) which my boys used to listen to on the radio. Dh has one of those modern LP players, in a neat briefcase-sized box so we must get it set up.

My sister in law found dh’s wooden Muffin the Mule and his membership card for the MTM club!

Daddima

Callistemon21

I can remember the words of so many of these songs - they're so much better than the rubbish churned out today!

Goes off singing "Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea"

I remember going to a Mass where the Our Father was sung to that tune, and in that manner, with the priest leading and the congregation repeating!

Brilliant, Daddima
How to keep the congregation engaged and interested. 🙂

Going off at a very slight tangent - does anyone remember The Muscle Man? I think he was on something like Opportunity Knocks or such like, his body was oily and he twitched his muscles in an amusing fashion to music?

There was also a couple who tore up newspapers and made them into a very long cyclinder and twirled them about artistically whilst giving the chat.

I think the youngsters of today would laugh their socks off, but then, this is what our generation called entertainment!

I well remember Listen with Mother SueDonim - they occasionally play the theme tune on Classic and it takes me right back to the house we left when I was 9, and exactly where I sat in the room where our big old ‘wireless’ was.

When I was very, very small I remember trying to get behind that wireless, to see the little people who were talking. (Probably Mrs Dale’s Diary! ) What a crashing disappointment to see only wires and little light bulbs!

Was the muscle man Tony Holland? I remember him.

What a lovely trip down memory lane! How come I can still remember all the words to these songs that I perhaps haven’t heard for 40 or so years? My faves were Inch Worm and Little White Bull. Burl Ives and Tommy Steele. And Ugly Bug Ball by Burl Ives. I loved singing that. Oh, and Handful of Songs by Tommy! Thanks witzend

I still sing the ‘Swinging along ‘ song by Loubie Lou when I swing with my grandchildren 😊

How about "I love to go a-wandering along the mountain track"' It was sung by German children's choir sometimes in English and sometimes German.

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Anyone still got their Muffin the Mule membership card?

Kalu and Callistemon21 I had a terrible experience. The train had stopped and I was looking out of the window. I was wearing my Muffin badge and it got caught on the window and fell onto the stones below. Of course I couldn't reach it, just had to look down and see the precious badge lying so far down and out of reach. I'll never forget it. 😢

Little Sir Echo, how do you do?
Hello (Hello)
Won't you come over and play? (and play)
You're a nice little fellow
I know by your voice
But you're always so far away (away)

Chestnut, how awful for you! 😥

I don't think I was ever a member of the Muffin Club or ever had a badge - I was deprived 😫

MrsKen33. I think Nymphs and Shepherds was sung by the Manchester Girls’ Choir.

Does anyone remember Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
So Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t Fuzzy
Wuz he?

A bit later were Ape Call (doodle aba)
(Repeat twice more)
If you want to be cool man, go ape!
not forgetting. Frankfurter sandwiches

MrsKen33. I think Nymphs and Shepherds was sung by the Manchester Girls’ Choir

I'm sure there was a film about this, starring Vctoria Wood.

It was called That Day We Sang, I think.

Oh, just remembered the Ovaltinies:
Maybe this was on Radio Luxembourg or something similar. You could request songs or stories if I remember correctly and them children sang something like this:

We are the Ovaltinies little girls and boys
At work and play we’re always keen
No happier children could be seen
Because we all drink Ovaltine
we’re happy girls and boys.

Callistemon21. I had forgotten about that, I’m sure you are right, it was the story of the choir and how the song had been recorded.

Don’t remember remember Fuzzy wuzzy and never even knew there was a muffin the Mule club badge, but, I can sing Nymphs and Shepherds all the way through ( as well as lots of others from the 50 s).