Comments on: Songs from Childhood

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:18:00 +0000

Whoa! Jonny Quest theme! My brothers and I were really into high-tech shows. Star Trek, of course was a great favorite. We had an instrument panel (a piece of plywood) with working buttons and blinking lights! Remember when most homes had only one TV? On Saturday morning, we used to fight over what cartoons, we’d watch. It usually came down the one who pulled the channel dial off the TV first. (No remotes, either!) The one cartoon we could always agree on was Jonny Quest. We l-o-v-e-d the gadgets they used, especially the plane. What great memories! Even the fighting for stations (all three of them) seems nostalgic. By the way, when I was a kid, I received a diary for Christmas. I read an entry from that diary not long ago. “We watch cartoons today. They good. I took the noob before bed. Marty hit me hard.” Too funny! I think “noob” is supposed to be knob.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:34:01 +0000

Well said, Amber!

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:31:17 +0000

I went through a period of going through old songs and compiled a very long list. Cartoons today just aren’t the same. When I listen to the theme songs, I reminisce over the past and long for my childhood, but also know that as an adult I can appreciate such a little thing as a theme song to a cartoon I watched as a kid. Video games were important too and I think we are definitely hindering our children by building bubble wrap around them (anybody reminded of that weird commercial recently?) to protect them from everything for fear that they are going to become “violent”. The violence, in my opinion, probably stems from suppression. Kids will be kids. Let them!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:29:01 +0000

It’s amazing how nostalgic those old songs can make us, isn’t it? Especially when you run across shows you had completely forgotten about!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:30:31 +0000

Jason, you put into words how I feel about the TV theme songs from our childhood. They’re so earnest and reassuring – you just know good will triumph over evil. We were watching old Punky Brewster clips the other night on YouTube and I was all sniffly at Punky fighting to live with Henry in the early episodes (and succeeding – of course!). Theme songs are my guilty pleasure – thanks for letting me revel in them today!

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:00:13 +0000

I do not have a great voice either…not even a good one, for that matter. But I am an excellent lip syncher. (When I know the words, if not, I tend to struggle a bit.)

By: Minette

Minette — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:49:20 +0000

I LOVED music as a kid (kind of weird when you think about the fact that I’m hard of hearing). My parents required all 4 kids to have piano lessons and 3 of us took band lessons. My favorite songs (and my sister’s) are Christmas songs – I can remember acting out “Nuttin’ for Christmas” for my parents. When I got to the line “Mommy and Daddy are mad”, I had a very good frowny face. I don’t have a great voice but it was a lot of fun to play for my parents! I still sing it at home to myself – and to my dogs

By: Shirley

Shirley — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:35:25 +0000

I just had to listen to that Underdog song – another of my favorites of course. I agree that these songs (and those cheesy cartoons) made it seem like anything was possible. And where there is hope, there is power!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:58:12 +0000

He sells it 110%, that’s for sure, Bob.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:47:53 +0000

You gotta love how serious that guy sounds who sings the G. I. Joe theme song.

“He’ll fight for freedom wherever there’s trouble…”

By: Walt

Walt — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:37:50 +0000

Jason, i decided to check out your blog today at work and I played the under dog theme for the office and some broke into song. Then a truss salesman came in and shouted out UNDERDOG and sang a verse. Walt