Mister Rogers - Tomorrow With NET Ident

[MariluHennerArtist45]

There's something strange about the closing to the earliest (1968-1970) episodes. Usually when the show ends, Johnny Costa would lead the house band in an upbeat almost nightclub-style jazz piano/drum/percussion/bass fiddle (or in the 1975 episodes, a rock bass) improvisation of either "Tomorrow", "Good Feeling", any of the opera songs or, only in #1658, "I Like Someone, Do You Know Who?" and usually the celesta's not heard until near the end.

[splashjw]

Nice jacket Fred...

[pupdog2pa]

what year is this from

[murielsartre]

@pupdog2pa - 1968, which was about 43 years ago.

[sweetlife031]

Can we please see some colorized endings with this song? Growing up, I hardly saw the early eps cuz they were rarely aired :)

[sweetlife031]

Wowie lol...I remember that ending song vividly...thats why I tended to favor his old brown neighborhood setting :) there needs to be more kids' shows like this; kids TV today has lost all innocence for sure.

[Usagi1992]

The lyric change occurred in the middle part. It originally went "I know tomorrow will be haaaaapy/ And so, tomorrow, make it snaaaapy!"

Just thought I'd let you wonderful folks know this little tidbit of information. :)

[Usagi1992]

This ending was from the only season NOT to be filmed in color; the first one. 100 episodes in total were made for the original first season (1968-69). And the reason why the ending song was changed to "Such a Good Feeling" was because "Tomorrow" was still partially copyrighted to an earlier show that he worked on called "The Children's Corner"; though a lyric was changed to avoid total infringement. (continued in next comment)

[disneyfan81]

@Usagi1992 Yeah according to a "Mister Rogers" record album I've had for years Josie Carey, Mister Rogers co-host on "The Children's Corner wrote "Tomorrow".  However before they made "Good Feeling" the end song, they used another song called "I'll Be Back".

[m0tAguy]

I guess they changed from the Tomorrow song to Good Feeling because the Tomorrow song started to sound old and out-dated since it was played in the key of D each ending. Most old classic songs are in key of D.

[Sodahpop96]

I've never seen it not in color before!

[kbirdusa]

@Sodahpop96 The first national season was in black and white. But starting with the second season, it was taped in color and even when they did reruns, they tended to stick with the color shows since color TVs became commonplace in the 1970s.

[backinthecrystal]

RIP, Mister Rogers!

[colleen4ever]

I always liked this song better than Good Feeling.

[38106chick]

@colleen4ever Me too!!!!

[RmoWiliams]

Any chance you have this from when the show was sponsored by The Joseph Horne Company?

[MilkyMilkBurger54]

@RmoWiliams

no, sorry

[RQBtv]

R.I.P.

[JGCooney]

Good Feeling was introduced in #1069 (A Thursday show).

[JGCooney]

Josie Carey from Children's Corner wrote the lyrics for "Tomorrow". Fred wrote the music.

[miiket67]

amazon.com has all of the classic mr.rogers'neighborhood episodes that you can download as well as purchase from their site.

[moxie96]

by the time I was born they were out moding the black and white episodes though on slim occasions one did air. I don't see it on anymore, and you are very lucky if it was a 70's episode if it does come on since the ones from 1986 are pretty dominant.

[maggielovesu787]

Anyone know where I could find the audio alone for this if I were to put in on a cd? I've searched and had no luck up until now.

[MilkyMilkBurger54]

@maggielovesu787

use video2mp3

it lets you download youtube videos as mp3s

[GenoTheGiant]

give me a link to where i can download this vid

[MilkyMilkBurger54]

@GenoTheGiant

use youtube downloader or keepvid, they let you download youtube videos

sry for late response

[tonydmen1]

awesome

[wyecee]

THIS IS N.E.T. NATIONAL EDUCATION NETWORK!

[tubefan78]

I woke up with this in my head..tomorrow is my birthday!

[lskwdddc99]

I miss this song

[Relax298]

Im currently trying to learn this on the piano,, do you have any more closings with "tomorrow' or even good feeling?

[dave11061]

Thanks for posting this! Somewhere along the line, Mr. Rogers discontinued using this catchy song as his closing number and started using the "It's Such a Good Feeling" song. I always loved the "Tomorrow" song and couldn't find it anywhere on YouTube until now. Thanks again!!

[meloyellowduck]

@dave11061 I always liked this song better too. I loved the other one, but felt this was more fitting for a closing song, as his other one was more along the lines of "It's you I like" or "You are special" to use during the show.