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  • I found out who wrote this, but i'm trying to find who SANG it. Fantastic voice.

  • Thanks for posting. I remembered this song from long ago, and knew that someone would have it here. Yes, it may be a "filler," but it blows away most of today's sonic manipulation that passes for music.

  • Get Drooper at the end: "You're too kind, too kind."

    One thing's for sure: No way Paul Winchell(Drooper), Daws Butler(Bingo) and Allan Melvin(Fleagle) sounded like that. 

  • I wonder who owns the custumes they wore and who wore them i bet they were hot inside them doin Tapein of show in 1968 n 1969 showins.....i just askin surely some one who had worked durin the show run knew who were inside the kroff's custumes any one know...and please this is my typin i ain't prefect so there!

  • Could this possibly be the Mothers of Invention, with Ray Collins handling vocals? Good gods, it sounds for all the world like one of the deceptively "straight" songs on "Freak Out", e.g.,"Any Way The Wind Blows"!

  • So nastalgic i just burst into tears....I had the best childhood!!

  • so beautiful. Just a reminder that tomorrow will be better despite what we see today

  • hey novicethe...no!!! your not the only one that is amazed. i think that everyday. these so called music artist..98% are a joke. their are some talented artist around today that i will give credit to but even then..10 20 30 yrs from now they will be flashes in the pan. they can ridicule are music all they want my friend...but if their true musicians..way deep down inside..they know what we are talking about?

  • i stumbled on this bubblegum classic..completely forgot about it. thanks sooo much for posting it. simple childhood memories...even with the crap going on then...i wouldnt change being a kid back then for anything. good luck to todays kids.

  • This has been an underrated song, and a great harpsichord intro.

  • HOLY SHIT psychedelia for kids!

  • it is such a shame life today is not like it was then,care free and easy

  • This is my all time favourite kids show from when I was growing up in the late 60s/early 70s. I have the dvd of the first series and it is still great, apart from the 'Danger Island' part which is pretty naff and poorly acted. The rest though - brilliant! And the music is great too, as this wonderful clip proves. The San Francisco tourist board should've employed em, coz this Brit would love to go there!

  • YIFF IN HELL FURFAGS

  • wow!! i was there last month, and went everywhere these guys went, i can die happy now.....

  • I have been looking for this forever! They remind me of Gary Puckett and the Union gap. Thank you for posting. Straight into my favorites!

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  • As a harpsichordist living in San Francisco, this video really made me smile!

  • I remember being like 5yo my brother was 3 and my cousin(girl) was 2,and my grandmom dancing with us to the tra la la la song in the closing credits,I remember my cousin was crying about something,and just stopped and she started singing Tra la la la all of a sudden,my grandmom passed in 2004,my brother passed in 1990,so glad that these Banana Splits songs,bring back such great memories,Love you Nan and Mark,miss you both

  • I found it! That was perfect! Fleegle was my hero when I was 7! Of course back then I didn't even know it was San Francisco! The organ/harpsichord sound is a bit like the Doors' Light My Fire. Magic.

  • I'm having flashbacks of my early childhood......I'm having flashbacks of my early childhood......I'm having flashbacks of my early childhood.......

  • im in awe at the affection for this song, as i remember it the first time around, and it always takes me back, to when times were simple ,and uncomplicated, and my beloved parents were alive, i would give 20 mill for 5 mins back then.....

  • @HugoMaskela- The guy who sang is Ritchie Adams.

  • Words can barely begin to describe how great this video and song are on so many levels. Like another poster said, this "filler" song is so much better than any kids show song today! Cruising the Golden Gate Bridge in a 1968 Impala convertible? It just doesn't get any better than that!!! An innocent and positive song in the face of all the chaos of Vietnam.

  • Reminds me of the Turtles...

  • The singer KIND of sounds like Michael Nesmith, like maybe along the lines of "Door Into Summer".

  • I am stunned by this! I swear to God, I havent heard this since I was 6 in 1970. I never really forgot it and this is the first time in 40 years I heard it again..Nice song..great show

  • Hey, don't sound anything like Daws Butler, Paul Winchell, et. al.

    But seriously folks, a half-forgotten masterpiece of sunshine pop with a Frisco travelogue for a video(a mysterious former friend, or one of my sister's, made off with my flipbook of said town). Anything positive said here goes double for me(especialy novicethe, cjlovesjazz, etc..).

  • Things look so fun and awesome from the 60's especially the cars.

  • I LOVE LOVE LOVE the banana splits and other classic songs,shows, and cartoons. And im only 11.

  • I remember that there was a song of same title (Wait Till Tomorrow) back in 1958. The singer was a female and in a different style. Does anyone know that song and can they upload in Youtube for us to share, please.

  • I used to love the Banana Splits back in the day - this song haunted me as a kid and it still does. Absolutely AMAZING!  Thanks for posting this gem.

  • It is a beautiful song. I remember watching the Banana Splits and I definitely remember this song. It was my favorite. I was only six years old when this came out, but it made an impression on me. It definitely has that 60's sound, but I like it.

  • They dont make music or kids programmes like this anymore. Thanks for posting my favourite BS's track

  • This is a great song and I'm glad you posted it. I listened to it after losing my house & for a while I was inconsolable. But the song did help...it has a positive message.

  • @RichHartley19671 Glad you enjoyed it and could find it inspirational. It's such a great video. You would never see anything like it today...

  • @RichHartley19671 I am so sorry to hear that you lost your house,I really hope things are better for you now

  • @megobatman I have the Banana Splits series (half-hour version) from Teletoon Retro recorded to DVD...do you have the Cattanooga Cats complete? Would love to get hold of that!

  • @megobatman I have the Banana Splits series (half-hour version) recorded from Teletoon Retro recorded to DVD...do you have the Cattanooga Cats complete? Would love to get hold of that!

  • It's cool to see how SF has changed since then

  • Am I the only one astonished that an apparent ''filler'' song from a childrens' show with people dressed like animals OBLITERATES the songs of today?All the thugs'n'sluts all thumpin and'a'gruntin has left me in poverty,besides the fact ANYBODY could do better with a little more talent and a little less ATTITUDE.Thanks so much for a song I remembered a third of a century later.

  • @novicethe AMEN!

  • @novicethe I am right there with you on this, you aren't alone.

  • Love it..well done mate!..it takes me back ..but what kids these days would think of it makes my mind boggle!! ha ha!!

  • In this song the lead sounds like Gary Puckett.

  • By far the best pop song on the series -- one that could have stood on its own. This was released as a single in 1968 and the Banana Splits LP. There was also a surprisingly good funk song by Barry White ("Doin' the Banana Split") performed with the Sour Grapes girls dancing Tina Turner-style. The other songs were a mixed bag with crazy psychedelic graphics. Nice that Boomerang is rerunning this show. Was into Danger Island as a kid.

  • I watch them, religiously, well, try to atleast. Everyday, here in San Diego, they are on Boomerang, at 2:30 p.m., and 4:00a.m. They show either, the Three Musketeers, or The Arabian Knights, and of course, Danger Island. Yeah that was a good time then. I miss them days, no bills, no cell phone, just little league, and pop warner.

  • Moppy elephant sweating his ass off under there.. 

  • Somewhere in America, there is someone who remembers seeing a carload of bizarre overgrown carnival animals on the Golden Gate Bridge...

  • Thanks Dmarko! Anytime Ive had a question about a video someone always steps up and tells me what I want to know!

  • I bet they were high as shit!

  • Bingo a sexy nigga.

  • Love that harpsichord.

  • I enjoyed that so much! Thank You! I really was a kid growing up in Philadelphia, PA and I used to come home to watch the Banana Splits.... Thank you for sharing!

  • Wow.... That made me realize what it was like to be a kid.... Thanks for sharing!

  • LSD

  • Coolest kids show ever.

    Name a better one I dare ya... ok I admit the Jacksons cartoons were pretty cool at the time and so where the Beatles cartoons...

    hmmmmm, I need to check 'em out...

  • I was a 10 year old boy again while watching this.

  • To Hear this song with my eyes closed I can still feel 7 again...eaisily! A great, beautiful song!~

  • still comes on boomerang, mon-fri 11am to Noon :D

  • I loved that - really brought back memories. Beautiful song, too. Thanks v. much. I adored the Banana Splits.....

  • @stevenpbrindle

    Glad you enjoyed it! A really fun video...

  • Couldnt agree more..... These were simple days where the world was a better place to live. This song has been with me since I was 7 years old. Never forgot it in 41 years..... I'm sounding like my father now but I dont care! Thanks you for posting this on YouTube.

  • @MrBrisey  hey mrbrisey...DITTO..im 41 too and i had this song re occuring in my mind since i very first heard it ,its brilliant and it was by pure chance i looked it up on here and BINGO (PARDON THE PUN) here it is BRILLIANT

  • Finally!!!After all of these years looking for this particular part I have found it!!! It has been the first time in 10yrs since I have seen this part!!! I remember seeing this back in the midnight early morning hours of Jan 1st, 2000 just after the Jetsons Marathon in the celebration of the Y2K

  • How I miss the days of Saturday morning 70's fun!

  • love this!precurser to the music video.wonderful days back when i was young.

  • Thank you so much for this. I remember this was the first show I saw on our first colour tv! I even remember this song and I must have been about 6 when i saw it in UK.

  • where did u get these?

  • This is from the Boomerang cable channel, marked by their annoying logo in the corner. Wish they'd put these out on DVD, they'd be an instant buy for me!

  • ...They are actually on DVD now;the first series is available from Warner Home Video.

  • @JFBridge Really I will look into it lol

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  • wish i was 10 again....................

  • Definitely a simpler time, when America was going strong, with awesome cars, good music and life wasnt as violent or complicated as today. We wont see any of our favorite TV characters driving a 1968 Chevrolet Impala convertible again!

  • @regency98us - SF was four years away from the Zebra Murders in '69, the Zodiac Killer was at large, and a spike in murder rates that wouldn't peak until the early 90s was starting (it has now decreased substantially.) Hundreds of Americans were dying every week in Vietnam. Pop music was *definitely* in better shape, though.

  • didnt the actors on the show sing this?

  • The Banana Splits were pretty badd-ass.

  • Richie adams co-wrote song and sang the song .....he also wrote there theme song n hoyt curtain did background music...

  • ;~; this reminds me of the 20th century ~blows nose~ TT ^ TT

  • this is my favorite song of all, takes me back to when i was a child and things were simpler .......

  • I LOVE this vid. Does anyone know who is singing, though?

  • @spacecadet1ful No idea. Haven't been able to find out who the actual musicians for these songs were. Most likely session musicians that Hanna-Barbera contracted with.

  • @spacecadet1ful the band banana splits sang this song they are just in costumes here....the lion is tigger in winnie the pooh now!!!

  • @spacecadet1ful Yeah......Fleagle. (jk)

  • @spacecadet1ful Ritchie Adams & Mark Barkan

  • Ritchie Adams and Tony Powers according to my sources, they also wrote the 'Tra la la' theme I think. Hope this helps.

  • @spacecadet1ful After listening to "Pity the Woman", it sounds like the co-writer of the song Mark Barkan.

  • @spacecadet1ful ...and does anyone know where we can find this to buy?

  • @itkapatanka It's on a cd called 25 All-time Greatest Bubblegum Hits - The Ultimate Collection. You can also get it on the Banana Splits dvd.

  • @spacecadet1ful written by Richie Adams and Mark Barkan; Orchestra arranged and conducted by Jack Askew

  • Definitely sounds like MIKE NESMITH's voice, and like a song by the former Monkee.

  • It does kinda sound like Nez but it is not Nez...we're HUGE Nez junkies and have everything he's ever done(even "Sunny Girlfriend" and "Different Drummer") and it's not him....according to Wikipedia the songs were sung by various artists, including Joey Levine, Al Kooper...even Barry White(who sung "Doin' the Banana Splits."). Google banana splits wiki and read about it

  • Lord, the songs they used to play on this show were AMAZING...

  • Heaven. Oh to re live the childhood of yesterday. How lucky we were. We now can only live them through you tube and our dreams. Thank God for you tube. To all Banana Splits and their fans everywhere happiness always. xxxxxxxxx

  • Beautiful video shot on a beautiful day in 1969! Those cars alone make this video a winner. And the fact it was shot in living color is a bonus! The '60s and the '80s were the two best decades!! Takes me back to the good ole days! Just seven years old back then -- thinking about Saturday mornings past...funny how time flies!

  • Anyone out there recognize the studio singers' voices? I want to say Ron Dante, but there's just something there that says "no".

  • I loved watching the Banana Splits when I was a kid, plus I was at those same placed they visited in San Fran as well. It's a shame Saturday mornings ain't what they used to be with all the cartoons and kids shows on. BTW, seeing all those old, big cars is a nice treat too.

  • i am so happy i didn't see that since i was little oooh what a pleasure!!! thanks thanks !!

  • the Banana Splits in the city of San Francisco. I'm in Heaven............ :).

  • San Francisco is my hometown

  • can you imagine looking out your window and seeing them? lol

  • Great Song thanx for posting this, these are "Happy Songs" of yesteryear as they all say reminds me of great memories of childhood dayz, sadly living in England, never had the dollars to go to San francisco, never seen Candlestick Park, never been able to see NFL or Baseball must be great must be a brilliant atmosphere

  • Dude it's "The Old" San Fran. The way it used to look. They should've had Herb Caen and Mayor Allioto drinking Martinis and Harvey Wallbanger's with Fleegle and Company at his resturaunt on The Wharf.

  • LOVE that song!! Wish they use that song in Disney world! Reminds me of Saturday mornings where I met Mickey.

  • Nice i remember watchin these guys in 1968 n 1969 also Man i 52 now man time past fast....so lets have a bananna split....also they were in cinc. ohio did most filmin n six flags of texas also....i know i have a cousin who work durin it and he has tickets pass n items

  • It's so good to hear this again - even at the ripe old age of 45, I still sneak at peek or two at The Banana Splits every Saturday morning on Boomerang!

  • Glad you enjoyed it!

  • You could get someone to do this now in similar costumes (A romp through the streets), although the car may have to be updated (Good luck finding a mint copy of the one in the video) playing this song to it and it would still feel the same as here; SF has lost none of that magic charm through the decades, and neither have the Splits...and yes, I also enjoyed your vid thoroughly, thanks!

  • Love this song. Reminds me of Saturday mornings as a child. Visited San Francisco last year to see some of these sights...

  • Ditto everything you said (except visiting San Francisco last year). My favorite Banana Splits song.

  • I wasborn and raised there. Watching this brings back memories.

  • Did it look the same as the video? It's been 8 years since I was in SF last...a lot of it looked the same, esp. the Wharf and Lombard Street

  • @darkmagickian Yeah right!  Glad you enjoyed it!

  • Yes I even had my photo taken under the 'Fisherman's Wharf' sign it was strange because I am from England, but because of the Banana splits it was like 'going home' !!

  • Yeah - when you consider the year, 1969, I wish some hippies would have stumbled upon these guys running through the streets!

  • I agree w/coasterboy..this one, "Gonna find a cave" are among my favorite splits songs. When I saw this as a kid, I knew they were in 'Frisco, so I naturally assumed they were walking around Haight-Ashbury in the scene where they got on the bus. I now know that wasn't true....but oooh, don't you wish they had!

  • thanks for posting these. They're great. No wonder our generation turned out so weird. Used to love this show and this and the cave song are among my favorites. Still have my Banana Splits album although it's in less than mint condition...kids and "toy" turntables.

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