This was *slightly* after my6 time (I started Kindergarten in '76), but I love this because it reunites "The Music Man" composer Meredith Wilson with his Harold Hill, Robert Preston.
Arp School, Cheyenne, WY, 1963. I thought we were the only ones who did this 5 days a week.
I think the schools now should require this and maybe our nation's kids wouldn't have diabetes, high blood pressure, fallen arches and weigh as much or more than their parents.
To those complaining about how we were "tortured" with this song during P.E. or recess (during the early to mid sixties for me), remember, most kids back in the 50's. 60's and 70's were NOT fat.
Today, many kids and adults are a bunch of lard-asses, and getting B-I-G-G-E-R.
And schools talk about eliminating physical education programs?????
The first time I heard this song I was about 3 or 4 years old. Mom my played it, and then my kindergarten teacher played it during class sometimes; usually during recess when the weather was too bad to go out and play. I loved this song.
Camp Bloomfield, Malibu CA .... I don't know if the camp uses this now, but back in the day (70's, 80's) we did this every morning before breakfast. "Left a good pound and a quarter. Was it right, right that it should be left?" HA, love it!
We use to have a day close to the end of school called "May Day" and I remember being out on the playground exercising to this song for our classes activity....lol. I think that was 1970
I still exercise to this song - just not nearly as fast, as well, or as enthusiastically. Plus, it takes several days afterwards to recover or "cool down." sigh.
Not just the 60s and 70s: about every week in P.E. from 2001-2004 (b. 1992) we were forced to exercise along to this... I had no idea it was that old!
Oh, what great memories! We used this in school in the gym, and the hosts on "The Morning Show" in Birmingham (WBRC-TV) would exercise to this for years back in the 60's! Again, great memories.
This was back in the day when they had a diet gimmick called "ayds"(not HIV). It was a box of chocolate supposedly designed to kill your appetite. I would eat a half box before supper.
@lonemapper Oh, my gosh, I did the same thing!!! I remember seeing "Ayds" advertised in a magazine and just "had" to try them, LOL. Looking back, both the chocolate and was it caramel (or vanilla?) were really pretty disgusting, but I also would eat too many of them. It's so strange that I thought about those things just the other day for the first time in many, many years! How funny!!! :-)
Funny how many posts are about "horrible memories" of this tune/routine. Yeah, like six minutes of daily exercise is/was "horrible." LOL, you gotta be kidding me.
thank you SO much for posting this song! i'm glad that my brother and I aren't the only people in the world that remember this great gem! GO CHICKEN FAT GO!
Good day, great video. You should try Intellectus 424 diet (Search google) You can probably download it for free. Best diet I have ever tried! I quickly lost all unwanted weight.
3rd grade, Mrs. Thoman, Longfellow Elementary, 1976. This was first, then came the "Did you milk my cow? Yes, ma'am" song. Wonderful memories. Thanks very much for posting this.
When I was in elementary school (in Miami Beach), our PE teacher played this. Was in the 1970's. And the record player in the video looks just like the one he used!
my mom had me look this up. she said she use to do this in 6th and 7th grade pe class. i had to turn it off after 3 minutes....just listening to it made me want to take a nap.
I just found a mint un-played original Robert Preston 45rpm with insert yesterday !!!! in a thrift store in Vista California I remember working out to this when I was in school in MN back in the day.
I remember this like it was yesterday at Edward S. Bragg School in Fond du Lac, WI. Mr. Hansen was our gym teacher and we did our exercises to this song every day. Great memories from the '60s. Thanks for posting this.
I remember this like it was yesterday at Edward S. Bragg School in Fond du Lac, WI. Mr. Hansen was our gym teacher and we did our exercises to this song at least three times a week. Great memories from the '60s. Thanks for posting this.
I remember this like it was yesterday at Edward S. Bragg School in Fond du Lac, WI. Mr. Hansen was our gym teacher and we did our exercises to this song at least three times a week. Great memories from the '60s. Thanks for posting this.
I remember this like it was yesterday at Edward S. Bragg School in Fond du Lac, WI. Mr. Hansen was our gym teacher and we did our exercises to this song at least three times a week. Great memories from the '60s. Thanks for posting this.
I remember this like it was yesterday at Edward S. Bragg School in Fond du Lac, WI. Mr. Hansen was our gym teacher and we did our exercises to this song at least three times a week. Great memories from the '60s. Thanks for posting this.
I remember this song like it was yesterday! Mr. Hansen was our gym teacher at Edward S. Bragg School in Fond du Lac, WI. 1960's. We also had a large, climbing rope that hung from the ceiling (TWO stories up) in our gym. I know it was two stories because the gym was surrounded by our classrooms - and the halls were closed in with heavy fencing so no one would fall. Our goal was to climb to the top of the rope and then shimmy down to the ONE mat laid to catch us if we fell. Wouldn't happen today!
I just heard this on Scooter Magruder's show on WBFW (Nothing but the Blues). He did this as a break in the blues, to remind us of our old gym classes in DC. I told my staff that we were going to do this every morning from now on. I'll need to do it every hour.
wow, back from the day... we actually played outside all the time and were probably a thousand times more physically fit than today's kids! but this brings back great memories!
Thank You Our Morning DJ Here in Atlantic City in the sixties used to play this every day My Mother and I would march around the dining room table and do the whole workout Great Memory
Now THIS is what our school kids need today!!!! I remember doing this at least twice a week in grade school, what a workout. Bring this back and we won't have to worry about obesity~lol. We also had good homemade food in the lunchroom~not a lot of frozen stuff. I went to elementary school in the 1960s. My memories are (mostly) good ones.
omg my english teacher came in with a portable i dock and had this playing, and marched in with this song playing and we were killing ourselves laughing, and then he told us about his gym classes with this. a week later, we were doing burpies to this tune.
Tom York and Pat Gray on the morning show at WBRC channel 6 in Birmingham. Played this one for weeks back in '63, and my mother and her BFF bought 45 RPM copies at their weekly SlimNastics class in Roebuck. Then Miss Maddox, my first grade teacher, got a copy and we had to do this every damn morning.
I grew up in the 80s going to Star Lake Elementary. My classmates and I worked out to this all the time. AH - the old memories. Thank you for posting!
All the 6th grade girls at Tom Joy Elementary 1966 used this song at a program for our parents. Our PE teacher, Mr. Ed Fowler, had two girls dress in a large type costume and we stuffed them with balloons and each time we would change to a different exercise they would pop some of the balloons. By the time it was at the end, they were their skinny self. Really a cute idea. Mr. Fowler was a great teacher. Thanks for putting this on the tube.
I'm a freshman in college, and my Acting teacher makes us do this at the start of evey class! I hated it at first, but it's actually a pretty good workout!
Thanks so much for posting this! My sister and I were just singing it last week to some slightly younger, appalled friends. Oh, those hideous gym uniforms we had to wear!
This brings back memories, Taylorsville Elementary, Utah '65-'72. In those days there was a dress code for girls, they had to wear dresses to school, so when we did this record each day the guys went on one side of the room, and the girls, in their dresses on the other side, facing away from the walls, to be modest :) Fun times. The music is great, I wish this was the culture today :( sigh.
I think the Long Beach School District wore this out. But, it was always fun to exercise with this! And, I was already smitten with musicals, so working out with Robert was my cup of tea.
I was glad to find this; I had a copy of this record many years ago, but somehow it got lost. Somehow I am more inclined to exercise when I hear Robert Preston singing.
I was born in the 80's and my elementary gym teacher made us do this every year, like clockwork. He also had us run a mile at the beginning and end of the school year.
God, I hated this song because I was a chubby kid and felt it was talking to me specifically.... hated it! ha ha Can't believe I found it on Youtube. Thanks
We were stuck inside for about 3 weeks for PE class & this is what they had us do, everyone trimmed down! Yes it was early 70's but used to hear this on Bob McAlister show too!
i actually do this every morning twice. i know cheesy. but im trying to get in shape. not only that im also going to start running around our city more. along with pushing myself past the limit of how i want to excersize. you should see how far out of shape i am.
My brother did a dance at his middle-school's year-end stage show to this song. Boy, was he ever embarrassed. He had to wear a fat suit while doing the dance. In 1981. Can you imagine how corny song this song was to kids in 1981?
imadreamkeeper: You are thinking of Lucy's Toyshop. I watched that as a kid in the early-to-mid '60s. I remember that Lucy also sang to a tree. "Hi there Mr. Tree, it's very good to see you." She had a toybox where you could win things if she pulled your postcard. I won twice and was thrilled. Ah, good old locally produced TV shows. I read a few years back that she had died. Great memories
In the 60s or 70s, my kids jumped around to this song every morning with a lady on a kid's show out of Columbus, OH. Wish I could remember her name. What a great memory!!
Aaack! The local radio station used to play this every weekday morning, around 6:45. That was in the early 1960's I think... when Pres. Kennedy's physical fitness program was in effect.
I did this all through grade school, and we did it on a kids show every kid was on in the sixties, and I bought a copy at a flea market recently, thanks for posting, great memories
i don't know how they still had a working recording of this on vinyl, but my school still had us listening when i was in elementary school in the early nineties. i wonder if they are still doing it today.
or if you go to evergreenpark h.s and Ur in marching band u do this every day lol
iloveboats1 1 day ago
My homework today is to do this with my parents.
mickki19 2 weeks ago
Did this alot in school
dalaotioncommotion 3 weeks ago
I remember working out to this in grade school, three times a week
Bronwyn51 1 month ago
i researched chicken fat and it came up with this.
E-E Go, you chicken fat, GO!
AeroOkamiPainter 1 month ago
This is a great memory, of my Dad doing this with me, such a fun memory for me!! I LOVE Chichen Fat, it was nice and easy!!!!!
smartdog3003 1 month ago
This was *slightly* after my6 time (I started Kindergarten in '76), but I love this because it reunites "The Music Man" composer Meredith Wilson with his Harold Hill, Robert Preston.
RonMotta1972 1 month ago
Arp School, Cheyenne, WY, 1963. I thought we were the only ones who did this 5 days a week.
I think the schools now should require this and maybe our nation's kids wouldn't have diabetes, high blood pressure, fallen arches and weigh as much or more than their parents.
blueberries4ever 2 months ago
To those complaining about how we were "tortured" with this song during P.E. or recess (during the early to mid sixties for me), remember, most kids back in the 50's. 60's and 70's were NOT fat.
Today, many kids and adults are a bunch of lard-asses, and getting B-I-G-G-E-R.
And schools talk about eliminating physical education programs?????
Mind-boggling.
bond007collector 2 months ago 2
@bond007collector I remember working out to this song in the 70s!! love it!! I may work out with it daily now!! lol
ojmccaf63 2 months ago
The first time I heard this song I was about 3 or 4 years old. Mom my played it, and then my kindergarten teacher played it during class sometimes; usually during recess when the weather was too bad to go out and play. I loved this song.
debimcdaniel 2 months ago
We did this in 3rd grade and I thought our school was the only one who had this in gym class.
Brings back so many memories.
blueberries4ever 2 months ago
It's a good work out, but I just started doing it in school, and I'm rly rly sore!
puccagarukiss 3 months ago
Camp Bloomfield, Malibu CA .... I don't know if the camp uses this now, but back in the day (70's, 80's) we did this every morning before breakfast. "Left a good pound and a quarter. Was it right, right that it should be left?" HA, love it!
1969MsMercedes 3 months ago
This song and routine were an event in my elementary school's field day in 6th grade, that was 6 years ago now.
08Lasventuras 3 months ago
@aacaacaacaacaacaacaa your pe teacher teach you at school
MrBrandonsaunders 3 months ago
in school i did
MrBrandonsaunders 3 months ago
goo you chiken fatt goooo!!!!!!! lol
america032011 3 months ago
This song is not dead ! I had to do it in middle school 2 years ago :) I got so addicted that i even began using it for my morning workouts :)
SamanthaNicole49 3 months ago
Sadly, my PE forced us to do this in 7th grade--1990
aaqaaqaaqaaqaaqaaqaa 4 months ago
When i was in grade school overseas in Germany, our gym teacher would play it every morning for our exercise warmups. The memories.
wiled5 4 months ago
We use to have a day close to the end of school called "May Day" and I remember being out on the playground exercising to this song for our classes activity....lol. I think that was 1970
deezingo 4 months ago
I still exercise to this song - just not nearly as fast, as well, or as enthusiastically. Plus, it takes several days afterwards to recover or "cool down." sigh.
Jdthlnndkns 4 months ago
I'm happy to see that this song still lives! I wonder what Robert Preston thought of it?
Seattleharpist 4 months ago
I remember this well. I even had the 45 for a long time. My mom might still have it. What do you mean by torture? This is heavenly!!!!
pozbro59 4 months ago
Evil memories of Miss Reed playing this in my fourth grade class every Friday at 9 a.m. At 6:33, it's the MacArthur Park of exercise records.
38ddkelly 5 months ago
My mother just introduced my kids and my niece to this gem! I love it! My 5 and 7 year old girls are coming up with their own version!
buhing513 5 months ago
i went to a musical theater camp and we did this for a warm up everyday, it was so interesting :P we cracked up everyday. it was the best!
xoxovgp 5 months ago
I cannot believe I still remember the words to the song. Brings back memories of gym class.
kraftmarktim 5 months ago
Not just the 60s and 70s: about every week in P.E. from 2001-2004 (b. 1992) we were forced to exercise along to this... I had no idea it was that old!
LogoFan121092 6 months ago
Our gym teacher would put this on. But she couldn't touch her toes. Too funny!!
musicteachjw 6 months ago in playlist Chicken Fat song
WBNS -10 TV Columbus, Ohio had a show called Luci's Toy Shop. I remember being a little girl in the late 60's exercising to this song with Luci :)
mooncat1965 7 months ago
im a freshman & during marching band we hav to do this workout lol
shadyizmine 7 months ago
My high school gym teacher played this record to get us warmed up. What a scream!
lilliemom 7 months ago
Oh, what great memories! We used this in school in the gym, and the hosts on "The Morning Show" in Birmingham (WBRC-TV) would exercise to this for years back in the 60's! Again, great memories.
MarythePeach 7 months ago
This may be one of the keys to losing weight. This, and the "Shipoopi" dance.
spookboy0 7 months ago
it's probably a pretty good workout if followed in the song - even if it is only six minutes long!
cripbabe111 7 months ago
I remember this from elementary school-good workout today though!
Craigsmom1 7 months ago
We used to do this every morning at band camp. The 1st day is was annoying. By the 3rd day everybody loved it.
london3636 7 months ago
This was back in the day when they had a diet gimmick called "ayds"(not HIV). It was a box of chocolate supposedly designed to kill your appetite. I would eat a half box before supper.
lonemapper 7 months ago 3
@lonemapper Oh, my gosh, I did the same thing!!! I remember seeing "Ayds" advertised in a magazine and just "had" to try them, LOL. Looking back, both the chocolate and was it caramel (or vanilla?) were really pretty disgusting, but I also would eat too many of them. It's so strange that I thought about those things just the other day for the first time in many, many years! How funny!!! :-)
MarythePeach 7 months ago
@MarythePeach HAHA! I think you are the first person that has ever known what I am talking about. I work with a lot of twenty five year olds.
lonemapper 7 months ago
they play this song every morning at my summer camp
Shamaster56 7 months ago
Funny how many posts are about "horrible memories" of this tune/routine. Yeah, like six minutes of daily exercise is/was "horrible." LOL, you gotta be kidding me.
cheezencrackers 7 months ago
thank you SO much for posting this song! i'm glad that my brother and I aren't the only people in the world that remember this great gem! GO CHICKEN FAT GO!
boxerrescue 7 months ago
if there's a hell, I assume Preston is there for what he did to a generation of kids ...
jpramas 8 months ago
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Heard this "Classic" in gym class at my elementary school in Indianapolis during the mid to late 1970's
DarthAcroyear 8 months ago
We had to exercise to that song in grade school. I used to think that if I met Robert Preston, that I would smack him hard because of this dang song!
jrbaskind 8 months ago
Good day, great video. You should try Intellectus 424 diet (Search google) You can probably download it for free. Best diet I have ever tried! I quickly lost all unwanted weight.
metal4livin 9 months ago
3rd grade, Mrs. Thoman, Longfellow Elementary, 1976. This was first, then came the "Did you milk my cow? Yes, ma'am" song. Wonderful memories. Thanks very much for posting this.
jtoubeaux 9 months ago
My daughters teacher has them do this before theater class every day lol
Btrfly5477 9 months ago
"once more on the rise / nuts to the flabby guys" LOL
basilrose 9 months ago
Did anybody have to wear those stupid one piece red jump suits for gym? This song brought back horrible memories of that hated class! Hehe.
kl417g 9 months ago
I must have some kind of sickness: Not only did I look for this and find it; I sang along and didn't miss one word.
Iggy428 10 months ago 7
Oh my God, do I remember this!!
OnCloudNine62 11 months ago
Mr. Bunkingham
uhclem 11 months ago
@uhclem Buckingham
uhclem 11 months ago
i remember this at my primary been looknig for this for ages
hobbodr 1 year ago
i remember this when i was in kindergarden and im 29 now
keonta81 1 year ago
Brings back memories! The song and the record player in this video is spot on. Thanks for posting this piece of history!
alphastarcar 1 year ago
that reminds me pf 3rd greade feild day
pikachu1215 1 year ago
Oh man...this brings back such memories!!
rayshelleh 1 year ago
Remember 4th Grade P.E. Class?
WBGow 1 year ago
When I was in elementary school (in Miami Beach), our PE teacher played this. Was in the 1970's. And the record player in the video looks just like the one he used!
The lyrics still haunt me to this day!!
fsumagician 1 year ago 2
...Nothing like a bunch o sweaty teenagers dancing to this in Gym..
followed by the hokey poky and cha cha slide. ;A;
Izzybeana 1 year ago
The great irony here is that Robert Preston sang this song in a lawn chair while eating fried chicken.
LatteBoy123 1 year ago 28
@LatteBoy123
[citation needed]
deimos23 4 months ago
@deimos23 [It's a joke.]
LatteBoy123 4 months ago
WHY torture us again with that horrible memory????
pataphysician66 1 year ago 13
My sixth grade PE teacher (the late Mr Spearman) had us do this almost every day. It is heavy ingrained into my head
tekkensentai 1 year ago 2
my mom had me look this up. she said she use to do this in 6th and 7th grade pe class. i had to turn it off after 3 minutes....just listening to it made me want to take a nap.
pookiechick69 1 year ago
I'm doing it in middle school for pe
Petlover9868 1 year ago
I did this every gym class in elementary school in the 90s!! Crazy haha
srandall1892 1 year ago
i hav to do this on gym class!!
10Ashra 1 year ago
I just found a mint un-played original Robert Preston 45rpm with insert yesterday !!!! in a thrift store in Vista California I remember working out to this when I was in school in MN back in the day.
stingertbx 1 year ago
Wasn't this on the Skipper Chuck show in South Florida?
doulasc 1 year ago
I sure remember that!
BillingsJT1 1 year ago
OMG! u are soooo right.It is somewhere in mymind.Vieau school in the 70,s. we always exercised to this! wow. memories Milwaukee wisconsin
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I remember this like it was yesterday at Edward S. Bragg School in Fond du Lac, WI. Mr. Hansen was our gym teacher and we did our exercises to this song at least three times a week. Great memories from the '60s. Thanks for posting this.
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I remember this song like it was yesterday! Mr. Hansen was our gym teacher at Edward S. Bragg School in Fond du Lac, WI. 1960's. We also had a large, climbing rope that hung from the ceiling (TWO stories up) in our gym. I know it was two stories because the gym was surrounded by our classrooms - and the halls were closed in with heavy fencing so no one would fall. Our goal was to climb to the top of the rope and then shimmy down to the ONE mat laid to catch us if we fell. Wouldn't happen today!
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craftydeece 1 year ago
Ok ... giving up my age here but, when I was in elementary school, we actually used to use this music to exercise to each day.
What a hoot to listen to it again!
Is this from The Music Man or was it a stand alone initiative to try to keep the fat off of USA citizens?
MarjWyatt 1 year ago
Jesus.. I love this!! - just like 1972 all over again
dtr0005 1 year ago
I just heard this on Scooter Magruder's show on WBFW (Nothing but the Blues). He did this as a break in the blues, to remind us of our old gym classes in DC. I told my staff that we were going to do this every morning from now on. I'll need to do it every hour.
I still hate it after 50 years.
musicteachjw 1 year ago
Thank god I must have just missed this in school. Was this from some strange military musical, originally?
GoblinXXX 1 year ago
Mr Harris' 5th grade class everyday...Crap I thought he was crazy!
Mattietee3777 1 year ago
JESUS, I REMEMBER DOING EXERCISES TO THIS SONG BACK IN THE EARLY 70'S; HOW SCARY IS THAT?
fran9860 1 year ago
dumbasses
sexybryan314 1 year ago
wow, back from the day... we actually played outside all the time and were probably a thousand times more physically fit than today's kids! but this brings back great memories!
tripleRNL 1 year ago
I am tired just listening to it!
jameala 1 year ago
OHHHHH the memories!!! 1965 gradeschool!!
alexparrot1 1 year ago
Thank You Our Morning DJ Here in Atlantic City in the sixties used to play this every day My Mother and I would march around the dining room table and do the whole workout Great Memory
SCHILLBOMBE 1 year ago
Thank you. In grade school, the nuns had us do this by the side our desks... In full school uniform no less.
orangeviolins 1 year ago
Epic win!
MrAlcazar 1 year ago
Now THIS is what our school kids need today!!!! I remember doing this at least twice a week in grade school, what a workout. Bring this back and we won't have to worry about obesity~lol. We also had good homemade food in the lunchroom~not a lot of frozen stuff. I went to elementary school in the 1960s. My memories are (mostly) good ones.
Char503 1 year ago
omg my english teacher came in with a portable i dock and had this playing, and marched in with this song playing and we were killing ourselves laughing, and then he told us about his gym classes with this. a week later, we were doing burpies to this tune.
Mewtwopower1000 1 year ago
My 1st grade elementary school gym teacher used to play this record and make us exercise to it. And I remember it so well!!!
svensevensven 1 year ago
Brings back many terrible memories of gym!!!
martdelcat 1 year ago
Tom York and Pat Gray on the morning show at WBRC channel 6 in Birmingham. Played this one for weeks back in '63, and my mother and her BFF bought 45 RPM copies at their weekly SlimNastics class in Roebuck. Then Miss Maddox, my first grade teacher, got a copy and we had to do this every damn morning.
Strange, but I find it oddly comforting, now.
Petestjoe 1 year ago
Meredith Willson really outdid himself, huh?
dogkelp 1 year ago
I grew up in the 80s going to Star Lake Elementary. My classmates and I worked out to this all the time. AH - the old memories. Thank you for posting!
b4ifly2paradise 1 year ago
i do this dance at camp dearborn
Natalie5422 1 year ago
so great i have the original record and its on my ipod yee haw
ponkaton1 1 year ago
All the 6th grade girls at Tom Joy Elementary 1966 used this song at a program for our parents. Our PE teacher, Mr. Ed Fowler, had two girls dress in a large type costume and we stuffed them with balloons and each time we would change to a different exercise they would pop some of the balloons. By the time it was at the end, they were their skinny self. Really a cute idea. Mr. Fowler was a great teacher. Thanks for putting this on the tube.
MsCrash007 1 year ago
How could they still sing after doing all the exercises? I guess that's why they're on a record. The video would be too hard to produce!
JGCooney 1 year ago
I'm a freshman in college, and my Acting teacher makes us do this at the start of evey class! I hated it at first, but it's actually a pretty good workout!
pharaohdeej 1 year ago
I grew up in the 80s, & this song was one of my earliest school-related memories. My elementary schoolmates & I exercised to it.
CCRoxtar 1 year ago
Thanks so much for posting this! My sister and I were just singing it last week to some slightly younger, appalled friends. Oh, those hideous gym uniforms we had to wear!
Aeserena 1 year ago
This brings back memories, Taylorsville Elementary, Utah '65-'72. In those days there was a dress code for girls, they had to wear dresses to school, so when we did this record each day the guys went on one side of the room, and the girls, in their dresses on the other side, facing away from the walls, to be modest :) Fun times. The music is great, I wish this was the culture today :( sigh.
JeffBoomer1 1 year ago
OMG - Did this in grade school in the late 60's - hahaha!
What a blast from the past. :-)
HivelyMansion 1 year ago
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i still have the 7" 33 1/3 of this and on my ipod so cool 100 years later
ponkaton1 1 year ago
Go you Chicken Fat, Gooooo! I remember exercising to this in Gym at Mustang elementary school.
lyndelld1 1 year ago
9:00, every morning, Camp Dearborn.
thatgirlwhoplaysCOD 1 year ago
yes and its the most annoying thing ever
JoneZzyx 1 year ago
they played this every morning at scout camp...so it got annoying after a while
Linkshadow24 1 year ago
Elementary gym class Hell, courtesy Geneva Nebraska Elementary 1965-68
TheRandyradio 1 year ago
Muskingum
qwedgeonline12 1 year ago
how can i obtain a copy of this song ?
mrsmotroni1 1 year ago
@mrsmotroni1
I have an MP3 of this song if you'd like me to e-mail it to you. Write back with your address.
tompitt3000 1 year ago
Memories! Oh boy!
roamer61 1 year ago
my mom just pissed her pants laughing from hearing this she thought she would never here it again
daxoo2 1 year ago
I think the Long Beach School District wore this out. But, it was always fun to exercise with this! And, I was already smitten with musicals, so working out with Robert was my cup of tea.
kjmt42 1 year ago
Amazing how such a proclamation sounds far more authoritative because it was made by the great Robert "Harold Hill" Preston. Love it!
MikeBlitzMag 1 year ago
Hickory Grove elementary, 1965-69. Talk about memories.
NastydudeMI 1 year ago
I was glad to find this; I had a copy of this record many years ago, but somehow it got lost. Somehow I am more inclined to exercise when I hear Robert Preston singing.
b7271951 1 year ago
I was born in the 80's and my elementary gym teacher made us do this every year, like clockwork. He also had us run a mile at the beginning and end of the school year.
lita313 1 year ago
I lost my virginity to this. Good find..
mangusrah 1 year ago
Camp dearborn every morning
djh1118 1 year ago
God, I hated this song because I was a chubby kid and felt it was talking to me specifically.... hated it! ha ha Can't believe I found it on Youtube. Thanks
zosoiv71 1 year ago
This certainly brings back some memories! Ridgeview Elementary 1964-1966
npp3512007 1 year ago
I loved Chicken Fat. I still have my 45 record somewhere. We used to do it at home and act silly.
quintanarocks 1 year ago
At my middle school, we STILL have to do this song, EVERY day. It's fun seeing everyone in squad lines on their backs with their feet in the air XD
Nanichan777 1 year ago
have to do this in PE, it is fun though!
FredThaSlayer 1 year ago
We were stuck inside for about 3 weeks for PE class & this is what they had us do, everyone trimmed down! Yes it was early 70's but used to hear this on Bob McAlister show too!
nubbin1000 1 year ago
i actually do this every morning twice. i know cheesy. but im trying to get in shape. not only that im also going to start running around our city more. along with pushing myself past the limit of how i want to excersize. you should see how far out of shape i am.
horsecrazy8900 1 year ago
Mrs. Howell's kindergarten worked out in her garage to this song every rainy day.
rillaakil 1 year ago
they play this in school all the time
horsecrazy8900 1 year ago
give that chicken fat back to the chicken and join the army today. Oh join the army today.
nealadamsdotcum 1 year ago
My brother did a dance at his middle-school's year-end stage show to this song. Boy, was he ever embarrassed. He had to wear a fat suit while doing the dance. In 1981. Can you imagine how corny song this song was to kids in 1981?
murielsartre 1 year ago
@murielsartre: Trust me, it was corny to us in 1968, too! Part of the fun was hating it.
Aeserena 1 year ago
We would exercise to this song in PE class in the 80s while I was in elementary school. This damn song is still burned in my memory.
ZombieHustla 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing, we did this too for gym in the 60's!
xDSxVengeance 1 year ago
Love Chicken Fat! There weren't that many fat kids in the sixties, just chubby.
cat718 1 year ago
Oh god.
I missed this. I am a "Music Man" fan ans this is just brilliant.
bookofblue 2 years ago
In the mid 60s WGVA Geneva, NY played the short version of "Chicken Fat" every morning. Fun memory!
gombodog 2 years ago
we learned this at band camp last year :DDD i loved it and im only 15 lol its amazing
SUiCiDALBANDiE 2 years ago
AWESOME.. I remember this... damn.. good times....
dtr0005 2 years ago
i do this at camp!
courtnieexxCVP 2 years ago
imadreamkeeper: You are thinking of Lucy's Toyshop. I watched that as a kid in the early-to-mid '60s. I remember that Lucy also sang to a tree. "Hi there Mr. Tree, it's very good to see you." She had a toybox where you could win things if she pulled your postcard. I won twice and was thrilled. Ah, good old locally produced TV shows. I read a few years back that she had died. Great memories
AlaneSue 2 years ago
Lucy's Toyshop.. with Pierre and Dragon... she did play this one... excellent show in Columbus... small world...
dtr0005 2 years ago
@dtr0005 I was on Luci's toyshop in 1965.RIP Luci and Flippo.
doulasc 1 year ago
@doulasc I never made it to Luci's but I was on Flippos.... damn.. good times.
dtr0005 1 year ago
i still do this in school every mon. and fri.
cptnitemare520 2 years ago
In the 60s or 70s, my kids jumped around to this song every morning with a lady on a kid's show out of Columbus, OH. Wish I could remember her name. What a great memory!!
imadreamkeeper2 2 years ago
@imadreamkeeper2 that was Luci :)
mooncat1965 7 months ago
We had the 45' at home, with the short (2') version on one side, and this longer version on the other side.
Fictacello 2 years ago
I went to school in the 60s and 70s AND I am a Broadway Musical fan and NEVER heard this song.
actrguy 2 years ago
I just did this at school today!
So weird that its 2010 and we did this in like 1960's!
LOL
RoxNiks 2 years ago
do it
it hurts but you feel like a kid again after!!!!
melanieeng 2 years ago
the horror...... the horror
briandas1 2 years ago
Aaack! The local radio station used to play this every weekday morning, around 6:45. That was in the early 1960's I think... when Pres. Kennedy's physical fitness program was in effect.
2moccasins 2 years ago
@skifan07 Lol, I hear this every morning during Summer camp. At MSVR, the Reverend plays this over the loudspeakers.
TheMuffinMammoth 2 years ago
I used to be able to do this; forget it now!
msncnj 2 years ago
Does this bring back memories. I didn't realize we were in such good shape. Tried doing it and forget it!
msncnj 2 years ago
im only 15 and my gym teacher made us do this. i never knew how old it was haha we did it on the record, but soon evolved to the tv video hahah
DOOTx3 2 years ago
Talk about memories. My dad had ALL 7 of us kids do this at least once a week.! Great memories!
perryjs5303 2 years ago
I did this all through grade school, and we did it on a kids show every kid was on in the sixties, and I bought a copy at a flea market recently, thanks for posting, great memories
Bronwyn51 2 years ago
i don't know how they still had a working recording of this on vinyl, but my school still had us listening when i was in elementary school in the early nineties. i wonder if they are still doing it today.
michaelhallock 2 years ago 2
I'm going to talk my rock band into doing a cover of this song.
mikeusat 2 years ago