Meredith Wilson and Robert Preston, I had no idea. No wonder it was so popular. Exercised to this with Mr. McLaren's gym class at Woodlawn Grade School in the 60's. And we would all sing as loud as we could, "Go you chicken fat go!"
They made us exercise to this song when I was in first grade! 1962 Nauraushaun Elementary School Pearl River, NY. I remember the gym teacher telling us that President Kennedy wanted us to learn this song as part of his fitness program. I haven't heard it in 49 years!
I remember exercising to this song as a child. Funny, I just baked a bunch of chicken quarters and wondering what to do with all this chicken fat and that song immediately came to mind. I didn't know it was Preston who sung it.
I did this in the first grade (1973-74 school year), and 2nd grade (1974-75 school year). I had forgotten this until someone on my facebook page brought it up.
Midway during my kindergarten year (1960-1961) my parents moved from Monroeville, PA to Birmingham, AL where I attended Mrs. Simpson's School. I remember exercising to this every day. People now look at me like I'm crazy when I started singing the song.
Early 90s, I had some teachers who must have been in their early 90s it seemed to me, and they made us "work out" to this song , for about two weeks and then gave up
They are bringing this back to my uncle's school. My aunt was not at all happy when he brought it home and played it, says she used to cry when they brought this record out.
Forget Michelle Obama! Bring back this song in the schools and our childhood obesity problems will be licked! I certainly don't remember much in the way of fatty classmates in the early 1960s, and my old school pictures confirm that.
A cruel joke they played on us…On snowy days, when recess was held in the lunchroom, we would always expect to play dodgeball, until we saw that record player on a table…We knew we were doomed!
When I was in elementary, we had to exercise to an exercise video with this song playing. It lasted FOREVER and we watched it waaaaay too often. This song haunts me to this very day...
There was a short version for radio and the much longer for PE classes. I remember in the mid-60's this song played every morning on WGVA, Geneva, NY.
Love that others have this filed stuck in their heads also. Most thought I made this song up. Recent search revealed they were wrong. Love your video!!!!!
.I remember i when this came on...everyone would jump up and start looking like Weebles . It was pure playtime for a bunch of captive 6 year old kids stuck in the classroom!
@littlelibby12345 - Please accept my apologies for the lameness of my entire generation. I still hear this song from grammar school gym class in my nightmares.
i remember being tortured with this song in elementary school in the mid 80s...long after the cold war....what the hell were my 3rd grade teacher's motives?!?! get us to commit suicide at an early age?!?!
My dad was my gym teacher at my Catholic grade school in the 1960s/1970s & we did workout to this song all the time! St. Louise de Marillac in LaGrange Park---Mr. McLynn is my dad!!!
I was thinking about how fun the "summer fun" program at a local school was for me growing up in the 1960s. We heard this song every morning and "worked out" to it (actually, my friend and I just rolled our eyes and checked out the teenage girls who were counselors). Thanks for evoking some great memories!
I went to elementary school in the 70s and they would break this out every once in a while - perhaps for the sake of nostalgia of the teachers and the principal, lol.
My brothers HATED the fact that I sang this song enthusiastically at home, lol. They figured they had escaped it when the 60s ended.
LOLOLOLOLOL 1961 a very good year. The year I was born :-) This is tooooooooooo funny!!!!!! I happen to LOVE Robert Preston but that is beside the pt.
I just saw a headline about "do children nowadays need more PE classes?", and this came to mind, and sure enough...found it on youtube lol. I was 10 y.o. in 1961. We weren't crazy about the exercising, but loved to stop and holler-sing "go you chicken fat, go!!" That's news to me that Robert Preston did the song.
I just saw a headline about "do children nowadays need more PE classes?", and this came to mind, and sure enough...found it on youtube lol. I was 10 y.o. in 1961. We weren't crazy about the exercising, but loved to stop and holler-sing "go you chicken fat, go!!" That's news to me that Robert Preston did the song.
JFK, Democrats and the freakin' government were trying to control my health and health care even back then. Didn't work then and won't work today. Take a lesson Washington!!
LOL Can't believe I found this on you tube, I remember this song well. I was in the 6th grade, it was in 1963, we even did a program for all the parents to see with this song. Melvin Ave Elementary School, Reseda, CA... Mr. Gilroy's class...
Had to exercise to this damned song in the mid-seventies. Additionally, THis was before Video Games, Computers etc. so as kids we played outdoors, Rode Bikes, ran already. This was unnecessary.
I noticed that NONE of the kids in the photo are fat. I currently teach 8th grade phy. ed and the obesity fight feels like an impossible one to fight. Kids don't want to do ANYTHING!!!
this was the song they used to play during rainy days in elementary school. now i'm in high school and i still remember having a gym full of people exercising to this song
I just had quadruple bypass a couple of months ago. Chicken fat song was certainly part of my fifty healthiest years. A fine form of propoganda. It was non political and downright healthy. Thank you Mr. Preston.
I lived next to a high school track and the girls class would jog around it. One day in the garage I opened the door and cranked this song up> It was so funny! A girl stopped running and stomped her feet with her hands on her hips and gave me the look. I laughed and laughed as she shook her fist playfully at me.
when I was in elementary school back in Pittsburgh, it was so so so cold one winter, and the heat in our school wasn't working so great, so they played this over the loudspeaker and we had to all do it, to warm up.
OMG - How many years I had this stuck in my head!!! Memories of banging my head on desk legs trying to do pushups between the other kids and desks and such. I wondered what I would find when I googled this and there they were - my peers of the early '60's.
Thanks to whomever posted this one! Now its back in my head for the final 50 years of my life!
at camp, they make the 6-10 year old girls do this every morning. i was their counselor for most of the summer this past year and I WAS SOOOO HAPPY TO STOP DOING IT!!!!! its cute when u start to do it, but after 6 weeks of doing it every morning, it gets mad annoying.
Mrs. Rudisill. Grove Park Elementary- 1963. Yep. Learned that song from in my very first year and heard it for several years after. And to respond to the person saying it is cruel to obese kids below- there were no obese kids back then. That happened with the advent of fast food and video games. Don't believe me? Find a FAT kid in the video above.
Don't laugh--this won the Cold War for us. JFK threatened surgical air strikes to drop this record over Cuba unless the Soviets removed their missiles.
In elementary school, in the mid 80's, our lazy, fat PE teach played this every day, and then would bring out a bin full of balls, jump ropes, etc. and consider his job done. Lazy bastard...Mr. Henderson, Battle Ground, WA.
I think this physical fitness kick was a way of preparing our generation to fight the Commies. Remember, this was the period of the Cold War, which threatened to flair up in 1962 with the Bay of Pigs (google it if you don't know what that is). We had no gym so stood next to our desks to do the routine.I was in first grade in the fall of 1961 but I remember this song all too well. And it IS cruel to overweight little kids. No one thought about feelings at that time.I was glad I wasn't fat.
My dad had to do this everymorning at Sb Buttler in groton, (i think) he said they had to do it because kids were over weight. This summer he is going to make me and my sister do it everymorning!! I kinda want to do. Our school does not teach us to be in shape like this song! All they do is teach us how to play basket ball and lacross. I want to be more fit at our school!!!
my school used to do this but that all ended 3 or 4 years ago when a couple of heavier kids told their mothers and it ended. I miss that song, it was awesome!
our PE teacher showed us this today and he said they made this song cause kids were 2 fat so we were all laughing cause we were trying to picture fat people doing it
Not a joke. This was played in classrooms and PE classes beginning in 1961. 'BCsportsnight2006' and 'hlwoods' have the complete song here on U-Tube. I'm 57, did this song in the 60s in school, and can still do it. ;-) I love the song! My grandkids will be doing it soon. Great daily workout!
crazy - i remember this. over the years i don't remember if i kept up to it, but it never occurred to me that it could have conveyed a damaging message to people who didn't keep up. chicken fat.
I was thinking of this crazy song a week ago or so! Haven't heard it since we played it over and over at my aunts house when I was around 6 or so. Way back in the 60's! :)
When I was a little kid (early 90's) by mom used to put this on our record player and do this funny dance that would crack us up. I think she remembered it from when she was a kid and bought it at some school sale, and bought a record player just to listen to that one song.
You are right, you can't forget this song. I haven't heard it in almost 15 years and somehow I found myself looking it up on youtube! Haha!
I remember this song from second and third grade during the short exercise period at the start of the school day, right after saying the "Pledge of Allegiance". This was in 1969-70 and 1970-71. Besides that 45 recording, we also sometimes did exercises to "Boots Randolph and His Yakety Sax" LP of him playing songs on the saxophone, of which "Yakety Sax" maybe remembered by some as the theme song for the BBC TV production for ?Benny Hill".
This was our gym class song back in the day, when kids actually exercised in gym instead of sitting on their butts like they do now. We started out class with this !!!!!
I was chopping up chicken and I had chicken fat on my fingers and i was bored so i decide to type it in and this popped up...interestin a song about Chicken fat?!
OMG!! We did this everyday in my PE class in elementary school!! My teacher used to play it at the start of every clas as our warm-up before dodge ball or jump ropes...I loved it!!
Just for giggles, I put this song title in and did not expect to find it! Oh my gosh, this song has been playing in my mind since the early 70's when I was in grade school and my teacher would play it for us! This is tooooo funny! Thank you for posting this.
they opened "field day" every year with this song in elementry school. i thought about how , in the early morning , outside in that field...that by the time the song was over you were soaking wet with dew on both sides of your body. whatta way to start the day.haha
Thanks for posting, it brings back such happy grade school memories. I remember our gym teacher, Mr. Nickels, would play this on Fridays as a treat. And now I see partly why I loved this song, it's sung by my favorite performer when I was a kid, Robert Preston, aka Professor Harold Hill. I'm sad that it cuts out before the ending though...but THANKS! :)
my mom had a disney version of this when I was little. magnified the wtf factor, with minnie & donald singing it, but I have never been able to find another copy of it
My cousin and I remember this from High School. 1973-77. We thought it was so silly...and yes it stayed inside our heads for years. Good jingle. So, go you Chicken Fat go!!
I was reading Sister Karol Jackowski's book "Forever and ever, amen" and she mentions a funny incident about processing to this song at the convent and challenged readers to find and listen to it. I'm glad I did! I remember President Kennedy's physical fitness program still in effect when I was in first or second grade in the mid-1960's.
The words are nonsensically weird and as difficult to understand now as they were 47 years ago. The orchestration is a sarcastic joke. I remember we all thought it was the stupidist thing we'd ever heard, let alone to have to follow, as if a 2-1/2 minute workout were going to be beneficial anyone. Our teacher wisely put this record away after the first outing and it never appeared again.
Robert Preston SOLD this song. I remember seeing The Music Man on tv and saying to my family that it was the Chicken Fat Song man. They didn't know what the hell I was talking about.
OMG, this song popped into my head today, and the thought occurred to check online for it. I used to exercise to this in school in the first grade. I haven't heard it in 45 years, and I could still remember the words! I loved this song. Who know, maybe it helped me to become a Division I basketball player! (back in the day...)
I was just telling my trainer at the gym about this today when it occured to me to check for it here. I was about 8 - 2nd grade - when we began using this in class every day. I remembered ALL THE WORDS!!!! I loved it! Probably why I still work out!!
my aunt who was and still is a elem pe teacher and still use this song.she made up a dance to go with it and if you do it 3 or 4 times a week it will help you trim up and lose weight butit get stuck in your head and never leaves..
I can remember this playing at gym class in the 60's at Hebron School....ohhh my the nostalgia!!!!
wildfire357 1 week ago
I remember exercising in PE classes to this song in 1973. It has been stuck in my head ever since.
missbunnylover2000 1 week ago
We STILL have to do that at our school xD
spookycelery 1 week ago
Meredith *Willson* !
He was my grandmother's first cousin.
javajeff2 4 weeks ago
He sounds like President Eden from fallout3
ataraxic89 1 month ago
Rev. Tim played this song at camp MVSR every year after the pledge of allegiance at scout camp.
stoutn007 2 months ago
wait you mean like me at school for the rest of the quarter?
flapster494 2 months ago
I hated this shit. Everyday after lunch...
CheyenneSmiles1 2 months ago
Meredith Wilson and Robert Preston, I had no idea. No wonder it was so popular. Exercised to this with Mr. McLaren's gym class at Woodlawn Grade School in the 60's. And we would all sing as loud as we could, "Go you chicken fat go!"
SherJM100 2 months ago
They made us exercise to this song when I was in first grade! 1962 Nauraushaun Elementary School Pearl River, NY. I remember the gym teacher telling us that President Kennedy wanted us to learn this song as part of his fitness program. I haven't heard it in 49 years!
vcoaster 3 months ago
I remember exercising to this song as a child. Funny, I just baked a bunch of chicken quarters and wondering what to do with all this chicken fat and that song immediately came to mind. I didn't know it was Preston who sung it.
Seattleharpist 3 months ago
Gym class Buxton, Oregon 1966-67
arthurleino 3 months ago
I loved this-kindergarten, Second Hill Lane, Mrs. Bassett-65-66
Aberdeen80 3 months ago
so funny
replayclub 3 months ago
Mr. Greenwald used to always play this song in gym class at Lincoln Elementary in Summit, New Jersey in the 80's!!!
prewittj1 4 months ago
1 person couldn't get that chicken fat go!!!
prewittj1 4 months ago
We stretch to this song every day in marching band!
daydreamer526 5 months ago
This song was played almost everday in the 1961-63 during gym recess at Sherman Elementary Roselle Park NJ
bpkeane1 5 months ago
My school didn't get it...or may be our teachers decided not to subject us to it....
But I always have loved Robert Preston's enthusiastic style!
fvshkatie 5 months ago
I did this in the first grade (1973-74 school year), and 2nd grade (1974-75 school year). I had forgotten this until someone on my facebook page brought it up.
garywayne1966 5 months ago
ugh i had to do that...
and i was in 5th grade... in like 2008-2009
TheMstweet 6 months ago
@TheMstweet me too. What school?
AC1209ROX 5 months ago
@TheMstweet hey, me too. I went to franklin elementary in muscatine iowa.. good times.
AC1209ROX 3 months ago
THE CRAP?
lovemenowyoumonster 6 months ago
The first aerobics, right? We did this in gym in Port Washington, John J Daly, with Coach Cutler! Loved it, and still love working out!
abcwritestartreadlk 6 months ago
GO CAMP DEARBORN WOOT!!!!
darthrubberchicken 6 months ago
Heard this "Classic" in gym class at my elementary school in Indianapolis during the mid to late 1970's.
DarthAcroyear 6 months ago
Midway during my kindergarten year (1960-1961) my parents moved from Monroeville, PA to Birmingham, AL where I attended Mrs. Simpson's School. I remember exercising to this every day. People now look at me like I'm crazy when I started singing the song.
socalgounc 7 months ago
I remember this from kindergarten at Mrs. Simpson's School in Birmingham, AL. People now look at me like I'm crazy when I start singing it.
socalgounc 7 months ago
I started first grade in 1961. This video brings back lots of memories. Thanks for sharing with Us. Lorraine
Gemini730 8 months ago
OMG every Friday in PE we had to do this!! Love it!!
ThePattymuffin 8 months ago
we had a variation in school.."jerk off every morning...ten times...not just now and then"..lol
stellrock 9 months ago
Early 90s, I had some teachers who must have been in their early 90s it seemed to me, and they made us "work out" to this song , for about two weeks and then gave up
PhilM662 10 months ago
They are bringing this back to my uncle's school. My aunt was not at all happy when he brought it home and played it, says she used to cry when they brought this record out.
LycanderIxion 11 months ago
Shit! Elementary school warm up music. Makes me smile.
Nik123456 11 months ago
Forget Michelle Obama! Bring back this song in the schools and our childhood obesity problems will be licked! I certainly don't remember much in the way of fatty classmates in the early 1960s, and my old school pictures confirm that.
upajos 11 months ago
A cruel joke they played on us…On snowy days, when recess was held in the lunchroom, we would always expect to play dodgeball, until we saw that record player on a table…We knew we were doomed!
"What? Chicken fat?!!? NOOOOOOOOOOOO".
SmokeyGoodness 11 months ago
I still crack up everytime I hear this. Robert Preston was so great.
DMS412 1 year ago
When I was in elementary, we had to exercise to an exercise video with this song playing. It lasted FOREVER and we watched it waaaaay too often. This song haunts me to this very day...
LeonPryde 1 year ago
There was a short version for radio and the much longer for PE classes. I remember in the mid-60's this song played every morning on WGVA, Geneva, NY.
gombodog 1 year ago
This is the cut version of the song
doulasc 1 year ago
Love that others have this filed stuck in their heads also. Most thought I made this song up. Recent search revealed they were wrong. Love your video!!!!!
kagacamp247 1 year ago
OMFG...It's Robert Preston, the Music man!
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lavoniaharris 1 year ago
.I remember i when this came on...everyone would jump up and start looking like Weebles . It was pure playtime for a bunch of captive 6 year old kids stuck in the classroom!
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TheRiqzster 1 year ago
My Class Does the Actions every day
littlelibby12345 1 year ago
@littlelibby12345 - Please accept my apologies for the lameness of my entire generation. I still hear this song from grammar school gym class in my nightmares.
cardcreekdesign 1 year ago
@cardcreekdesign Its Fine ;3
littlelibby12345 1 year ago
did kennedy send this record while he fucking marilyn monroe?
fran9860 1 year ago
I remember this thing very clearly from fourth grade, in Rapid City, South Dakota....in
1965. I'm glad to confirm for my other half that it wasn't my imagination. Oh, I'm still very fit, and play tennis. Absolutely no chicken fat.
Hako2004 1 year ago
i remember being tortured with this song in elementary school in the mid 80s...long after the cold war....what the hell were my 3rd grade teacher's motives?!?! get us to commit suicide at an early age?!?!
kurojin97 1 year ago
I still remember our gym teacher putting this on in 1967-72. I dreaded it. Have to go puke now.
UrbanDKaye 1 year ago
My dad was my gym teacher at my Catholic grade school in the 1960s/1970s & we did workout to this song all the time! St. Louise de Marillac in LaGrange Park---Mr. McLynn is my dad!!!
ECCRN1996 1 year ago
My dad sings this all the time x]
MentalMediaMusic 1 year ago
LMAO!!! i remember this song -- i was in kindergarden in 1961! :o)
Aileen21731 1 year ago
I LOVE THIS SONG!!! We used to do it!!! HAHAHA!
phatmanwalkin 1 year ago
awkward
maruninja1 1 year ago
I was thinking about how fun the "summer fun" program at a local school was for me growing up in the 1960s. We heard this song every morning and "worked out" to it (actually, my friend and I just rolled our eyes and checked out the teenage girls who were counselors). Thanks for evoking some great memories!
paultakushi 1 year ago
I too remember hearing this song in school. It was played a few times during gym. This was during 1991.
mohinderbauer 1 year ago
I so remember this! Thanks for putting a smile on my face today.
dahuffy 1 year ago
I went to elementary school in the 70s and they would break this out every once in a while - perhaps for the sake of nostalgia of the teachers and the principal, lol.
My brothers HATED the fact that I sang this song enthusiastically at home, lol. They figured they had escaped it when the 60s ended.
mileshedgehog 1 year ago
LOLOLOLOLOL 1961 a very good year. The year I was born :-) This is tooooooooooo funny!!!!!! I happen to LOVE Robert Preston but that is beside the pt.
SueBeaWho 1 year ago
That's the year I was born!
Jordmate 1 year ago
I've never heard this song before...I guess nuns & catholic school was enough !
pamcablerep 1 year ago
This was a real trip back in time...I was in grade school during JFK's time in office.
mtcubs1 1 year ago
my 46 year old dad talks about this
19cartoon95 1 year ago
I remember this very well... we all seemed to like it, or at least some of us! What memories this brings back!
singinmom55 1 year ago
Well done, well done!
xDSxVengeance 1 year ago
The 1977 Class of St. Joseph's High School, Brooklyn, New York, humbly thanks you for posting this!!!
cybergal99 1 year ago
We used this for gym class in '62-'66. Oh, my gosh. It was so intimidating.
Only 1 out of 12 could do volunteer sit-ups. The rest of us had a herneated disc.
Ask Miss Dean!
CookieZeal 1 year ago
I just saw a headline about "do children nowadays need more PE classes?", and this came to mind, and sure enough...found it on youtube lol. I was 10 y.o. in 1961. We weren't crazy about the exercising, but loved to stop and holler-sing "go you chicken fat, go!!" That's news to me that Robert Preston did the song.
Swoon4Josh 1 year ago
I just saw a headline about "do children nowadays need more PE classes?", and this came to mind, and sure enough...found it on youtube lol. I was 10 y.o. in 1961. We weren't crazy about the exercising, but loved to stop and holler-sing "go you chicken fat, go!!" That's news to me that Robert Preston did the song.
Swoon4Josh 1 year ago
JFK, Democrats and the freakin' government were trying to control my health and health care even back then. Didn't work then and won't work today. Take a lesson Washington!!
dovebros 1 year ago
EhMyGod!
We use to do this in block in 6th gradee!!
Sooo love it, such memories<3
ah, loved that class! (:
GlitterGirlz1 1 year ago
i remember this song at pomeroy elementary in pasadena texas...lol..its so rude..lol
dramalife68 1 year ago
LOL Can't believe I found this on you tube, I remember this song well. I was in the 6th grade, it was in 1963, we even did a program for all the parents to see with this song. Melvin Ave Elementary School, Reseda, CA... Mr. Gilroy's class...
1Kalyssa 1 year ago
Had to suffer through this song every Friday with Mrs Miller's third grade class - Olivia Park Elem. in the late 60's.
Scarred me for life!
devonskyle 1 year ago
Had to exercise to this damned song in the mid-seventies. Additionally, THis was before Video Games, Computers etc. so as kids we played outdoors, Rode Bikes, ran already. This was unnecessary.
yerkeskid 2 years ago
I noticed that NONE of the kids in the photo are fat. I currently teach 8th grade phy. ed and the obesity fight feels like an impossible one to fight. Kids don't want to do ANYTHING!!!
indyboxer 2 years ago
@indyboxer Get a xbox 360 for the class and then they will run a mile to play it
Knowwon249 2 years ago
evil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hobo23456 2 years ago
This song is soooo corny, and that's why it's one of the greats ! !
We heard it in grade school PE, in the early 70s.
Sorry, but I love it - a classic corn-dog, if there ever was one!
vrikey 2 years ago
this was the song they used to play during rainy days in elementary school. now i'm in high school and i still remember having a gym full of people exercising to this song
MrRandom26 2 years ago
I just had quadruple bypass a couple of months ago. Chicken fat song was certainly part of my fifty healthiest years. A fine form of propoganda. It was non political and downright healthy. Thank you Mr. Preston.
autofletch 2 years ago
I lived next to a high school track and the girls class would jog around it. One day in the garage I opened the door and cranked this song up> It was so funny! A girl stopped running and stomped her feet with her hands on her hips and gave me the look. I laughed and laughed as she shook her fist playfully at me.
plalelal 2 years ago 6
LOL Classic!
longingforthepast 2 years ago 2
This is the first I heard it, but I do like Robert Preston's voice.
I weigh 115, but we all need to excersize, but not to this song.
furcollar 2 years ago
we had to do this everyday for 3 years in elemnerty too lmao im in highschool now and still remember it
togood01000 2 years ago
when I was in elementary school back in Pittsburgh, it was so so so cold one winter, and the heat in our school wasn't working so great, so they played this over the loudspeaker and we had to all do it, to warm up.
AKENNEDY703 2 years ago
My elementary school used to make us do p.e. shows that always began with this tune.
I always sucked at sports,
I still have nightmares! *s*
sjpeaced 2 years ago
Notice all the kids are not overweight.
Teacherheart 2 years ago
OMG - How many years I had this stuck in my head!!! Memories of banging my head on desk legs trying to do pushups between the other kids and desks and such. I wondered what I would find when I googled this and there they were - my peers of the early '60's.
Thanks to whomever posted this one! Now its back in my head for the final 50 years of my life!
TheBob912 2 years ago
at camp, they make the 6-10 year old girls do this every morning. i was their counselor for most of the summer this past year and I WAS SOOOO HAPPY TO STOP DOING IT!!!!! its cute when u start to do it, but after 6 weeks of doing it every morning, it gets mad annoying.
LilacStone523 2 years ago
My mom had this on a 45 and my sisters and I used to listen to it all the time and do the motions.
jbushft 2 years ago
Me, too! LOL. I seem to be one of the few people that like this song.....maybe because it wasn't forced on me.
mikeusat 2 years ago
my teachers father sings that no joke
lilgeek909 2 years ago
I was going to say it needs to be reprised but appears to already have been.
It is an honest motivator
sullyshadow 2 years ago
For 3 years! It was so annoying! Because In elementry we had to do this every monday and friday!
BrianaBananaGirl 2 years ago
Flashed right back to the 2nd grade, 1967-8, all this done in the rows between the desks. Maybe I'll use this in my classes this year.
minus1linus 2 years ago
Remember kids: Service Guarantees Citizenship!
Do Your Part!
etzel33 2 years ago
Mrs. Rudisill. Grove Park Elementary- 1963. Yep. Learned that song from in my very first year and heard it for several years after. And to respond to the person saying it is cruel to obese kids below- there were no obese kids back then. That happened with the advent of fast food and video games. Don't believe me? Find a FAT kid in the video above.
JulieGEORGIA 2 years ago
Ms Harvey 1976. Would not stop playing this. She fit the typicial gym teacher stereo-type.
celinejen 2 years ago
Don't laugh--this won the Cold War for us. JFK threatened surgical air strikes to drop this record over Cuba unless the Soviets removed their missiles.
McMillian5 2 years ago 18
I was telling my wife and 22 year old daughter about this song.
I dont think they believed me.
This is the way we rolled in 1963-1968
logistixmedia 2 years ago
It survived into the 70's as well. Think we did this every day in PE from 1970-77.
N8908E 2 years ago
they used this for my elementary school in the early 2000's
1stchairbarisax 2 years ago
Apparently, we rolled like this in 1981, too.
SomebodyFarted 2 years ago
In elementary school, in the mid 80's, our lazy, fat PE teach played this every day, and then would bring out a bin full of balls, jump ropes, etc. and consider his job done. Lazy bastard...Mr. Henderson, Battle Ground, WA.
blurglide 2 years ago
I think this physical fitness kick was a way of preparing our generation to fight the Commies. Remember, this was the period of the Cold War, which threatened to flair up in 1962 with the Bay of Pigs (google it if you don't know what that is). We had no gym so stood next to our desks to do the routine.I was in first grade in the fall of 1961 but I remember this song all too well. And it IS cruel to overweight little kids. No one thought about feelings at that time.I was glad I wasn't fat.
jobee9356 2 years ago
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Linzyolive 2 years ago
Sieg Heil!!
America del cazzo!!!!!!!!!
vour475 2 years ago
My dad had to do this everymorning at Sb Buttler in groton, (i think) he said they had to do it because kids were over weight. This summer he is going to make me and my sister do it everymorning!! I kinda want to do. Our school does not teach us to be in shape like this song! All they do is teach us how to play basket ball and lacross. I want to be more fit at our school!!!
aerohollister5 2 years ago
I signed my kids (6 and 4) up for an exercise class and they do this every time - I love it!!
sargitty 2 years ago
I remember when Franz the Toymaker
use to play this song on his show.
MichaelJordan060627 2 years ago
my school used to do this but that all ended 3 or 4 years ago when a couple of heavier kids told their mothers and it ended. I miss that song, it was awesome!
xxpauliegunzxx 2 years ago
our PE teacher showed us this today and he said they made this song cause kids were 2 fat so we were all laughing cause we were trying to picture fat people doing it
hollisterluver20 2 years ago
lol when my skool goes camping upper merion middle skool we got to do the workout to dis song this a joke
darkknightrapstar 2 years ago
This is no joke. I remember exercising to it in PE at Chisholm Junior High School in Newton, KS back in the early 60's.
janjwog 2 years ago
ohly shit i go to that school!!!!!!!!!
sky790tony 2 years ago
is this a joke?
pollybird101 2 years ago
Not a joke. This was played in classrooms and PE classes beginning in 1961. 'BCsportsnight2006' and 'hlwoods' have the complete song here on U-Tube. I'm 57, did this song in the 60s in school, and can still do it. ;-) I love the song! My grandkids will be doing it soon. Great daily workout!
ariesvicki 2 years ago
my camp in Allentown, PA played this song every day for exercise. oh dear...
eljuanstumofu 2 years ago
And remember, Swimming is FUN!
futerfas 2 years ago
crazy - i remember this. over the years i don't remember if i kept up to it, but it never occurred to me that it could have conveyed a damaging message to people who didn't keep up. chicken fat.
fizzyfizzz 2 years ago
My poor friend has to run during this song. hehe.
MissElanaC 2 years ago
OMG, HELP !
foxieroxie51 3 years ago
i remember this lol P.E's warmup song lol
tony23zzz 3 years ago
we listen to this in P.E
wiiguy0 3 years ago
when i was in elementry school they played this every morning on the intercom. lol =P
Werelofet3 3 years ago
They used to play this in my junior high school gym classes at least 3 times a week.
claredontyoudare 3 years ago
I was thinking of this crazy song a week ago or so! Haven't heard it since we played it over and over at my aunts house when I was around 6 or so. Way back in the 60's! :)
LisaS7 3 years ago
lol go u chicken fat go omfg CHICKEN FAT WTF WELL THIZ SONG STARTED GYM SO
puppyprincess21 3 years ago
this is so gr8 thanx 4 posting it
jzoren64 3 years ago
When I was a little kid (early 90's) by mom used to put this on our record player and do this funny dance that would crack us up. I think she remembered it from when she was a kid and bought it at some school sale, and bought a record player just to listen to that one song.
You are right, you can't forget this song. I haven't heard it in almost 15 years and somehow I found myself looking it up on youtube! Haha!
bobjob25 3 years ago
I remember this song from second and third grade during the short exercise period at the start of the school day, right after saying the "Pledge of Allegiance". This was in 1969-70 and 1970-71. Besides that 45 recording, we also sometimes did exercises to "Boots Randolph and His Yakety Sax" LP of him playing songs on the saxophone, of which "Yakety Sax" maybe remembered by some as the theme song for the BBC TV production for ?Benny Hill".
montanaguy0001 3 years ago
This was our gym class song back in the day, when kids actually exercised in gym instead of sitting on their butts like they do now. We started out class with this !!!!!
NiseDen 3 years ago
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!! We exercised to this all the time when I was little.
dancerbo1 3 years ago
GYM Class - EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!!
This is how we started Gym Class - I love these memories!!!
RTL777 3 years ago
Damn people putting thumbs down on comments reflecting their past.
My history teacher told us about how he always did this song everyday in the old school.
DjRevTech 3 years ago 4
I was chopping up chicken and I had chicken fat on my fingers and i was bored so i decide to type it in and this popped up...interestin a song about Chicken fat?!
barbieguirl 3 years ago
When I was student teaching (late 70s) the PE teacher had this record and the kids really enjoyed doing the exercises (me too). This is
a fun song by the great Robert Preston of "Music Man" fame. Chickens have less fat now than they used to.
FUDGYPAUL 3 years ago
you are good. hassan
LameFtw 3 years ago
I remembered "Chicken Fat" back when I was in the 2nd grade.
CraigFoye80 3 years ago 2
OMG!! We did this everyday in my PE class in elementary school!! My teacher used to play it at the start of every clas as our warm-up before dodge ball or jump ropes...I loved it!!
grrrrrrrrrrr11111111 3 years ago
OMG! I DID THIS BEFORE!
elsuavetheking 3 years ago 2
What a blast from the past, LOL! Thanks for posting. I adore Robert Preston!
Griwhoolda 3 years ago 2
i still have my original record of this i found it on limewire was thrilled to have it on cd its gr8
zorenj64 3 years ago
Just for giggles, I put this song title in and did not expect to find it! Oh my gosh, this song has been playing in my mind since the early 70's when I was in grade school and my teacher would play it for us! This is tooooo funny! Thank you for posting this.
CrescentMoonglow 3 years ago 4
When I was grammar school (late '60s) we (the whole school) would exercise to this record out on the field every Friday.
elliott021 3 years ago
they opened "field day" every year with this song in elementry school. i thought about how , in the early morning , outside in that field...that by the time the song was over you were soaking wet with dew on both sides of your body. whatta way to start the day.haha
RMaziarz 3 years ago
wow, i feel old. its hilarious. love when they say it is for girls too, why thanks!
meena1677 3 years ago 2
this is scary... just kidding, its pretty addicting 2 sing
crbmkf 3 years ago
Thanks for posting, it brings back such happy grade school memories. I remember our gym teacher, Mr. Nickels, would play this on Fridays as a treat. And now I see partly why I loved this song, it's sung by my favorite performer when I was a kid, Robert Preston, aka Professor Harold Hill. I'm sad that it cuts out before the ending though...but THANKS! :)
gomogo2000 3 years ago 2
OMG Harold Hill is making us do aerobics lol
madscout96 3 years ago 2
I heard this sometime in 1997 when I was 6.
1f5sda 3 years ago
Lol me 2
VanillaShordi27 3 years ago
That's cool!
1f5sda 3 years ago 2
I remember this from grade school!! What a blast from the past.
smagwat 3 years ago 2
Ditto. This goes back to 1967 -68, when I entered the first grade. Where did the decades go?!
Helivz 3 years ago
my mom had a disney version of this when I was little. magnified the wtf factor, with minnie & donald singing it, but I have never been able to find another copy of it
hawtmawm 3 years ago
My cousin and I remember this from High School. 1973-77. We thought it was so silly...and yes it stayed inside our heads for years. Good jingle. So, go you Chicken Fat go!!
LastTree 3 years ago
I was reading Sister Karol Jackowski's book "Forever and ever, amen" and she mentions a funny incident about processing to this song at the convent and challenged readers to find and listen to it. I'm glad I did! I remember President Kennedy's physical fitness program still in effect when I was in first or second grade in the mid-1960's.
smw100a 3 years ago
Aw man.. this isn't the whole song :(
keaven 3 years ago
i hate the dance
warriorshobbs67 4 years ago
The words are nonsensically weird and as difficult to understand now as they were 47 years ago. The orchestration is a sarcastic joke. I remember we all thought it was the stupidist thing we'd ever heard, let alone to have to follow, as if a 2-1/2 minute workout were going to be beneficial anyone. Our teacher wisely put this record away after the first outing and it never appeared again.
freestuffffff 4 years ago
Ditto to all those boomers who rememeber it from gym class!
14minutes2go 4 years ago 2
Great song to be listening to when practicing duck and cover during the mistle crisis.
StanBennet 4 years ago 3
They played this in my gym class.
StanBennet 4 years ago
Lucy's Toy Shop in Columbus, OH!!!!! They played this every morning on her show for children!! It was on in the 60s and 70s.
KKalisa 4 years ago
@KKalisa I was on luci's toyshop in 1965.RIP Luci and Flippo.
doulasc 1 year ago
Robert Preston SOLD this song. I remember seeing The Music Man on tv and saying to my family that it was the Chicken Fat Song man. They didn't know what the hell I was talking about.
BigSkyGuy 4 years ago
OMG, this song popped into my head today, and the thought occurred to check online for it. I used to exercise to this in school in the first grade. I haven't heard it in 45 years, and I could still remember the words! I loved this song. Who know, maybe it helped me to become a Division I basketball player! (back in the day...)
79inches 4 years ago 2
I was just telling my trainer at the gym about this today when it occured to me to check for it here. I was about 8 - 2nd grade - when we began using this in class every day. I remembered ALL THE WORDS!!!! I loved it! Probably why I still work out!!
Big grins!!
cruzansuz 4 years ago
You found my school pictures! (I know I was in there somewhere.) I love Chicken Fat and remember it well - good memories.
my52cents 4 years ago
This song is one of the few bright moments in gym class!
karobay 4 years ago
We wouldn't need Honey,We're Killing Our Kids.We used to do this in 2nd grade back in the '70's.
bigroy38 4 years ago
If that song was used today, some parent would complain.
ebf1957 4 years ago
my aunt who was and still is a elem pe teacher and still use this song.she made up a dance to go with it and if you do it 3 or 4 times a week it will help you trim up and lose weight butit get stuck in your head and never leaves..
raymond37148 4 years ago
We used to do this in the dorm when I was attending university. Hearing it here made me laugh.
erra404 4 years ago
Wow, this song brings back memories. I used to exercise to it in kindergarten,(sh-hhhh,our secret) thanks for sharing.
mikep793 4 years ago