Growing Up In the 50's With Ding-Dong School
Do you remember
'Ding-Dong School'
An 'educational TV show'
Who were they trying to fool
Were the viewers at home
or the teachers the ding-dongs
That I can't answer, but
about the music I'm not wrong
'Cos I'd watch and I'd laugh
all morning long
at the ridiculous lyrics
of their 'hit theme song:'
"I'm your school bell: ding-dong-ding
Boys and girls all hear me ring
Every time I ding-dong-ding
Come with me to play and sing."
I'd laugh so hard that I'd cry
My mother asked me, 'But why?'
I told her to check out some Dr. Seuss
So I could turn my starving brain loose
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'Ding-Dong-School' ran on American TV between
1952-1956. (I was born in 1950). If you want
to howl, just google the video of the show's
theme song. It's one-minute twelve-seconds
of pure embarrassment... Then the Russians
sent up Sputnik I, and we got a little more
serious over on this side of the world...
Copyright © Gershon Wolf | Year Posted 2020
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