Chicago's Cuddly Dudley Song by Jeannine

This is the only live version of the Cuddly Dudley song available today on the world wide web sung joyously by famous Chicago artist and friend Jeannine. Cudley Dudley was an idea Jerry Glasspiegel came up with in the middle of the night when he was thinking of a good promotion idea for his customer, The Chicago Tribune. Francis A. Schumacher, the then-home circulation supervisor for the Chicago Tribune, helped start the Cuddly Dudley promotion program.Roy Brown, a fixture on WGN's kid vid for decades, subsequently retrofitted the plush animal as a working puppet. He performed as the voice and puppeteer behind Cuddly for many years on "Ray Rayner and Friends", a classic morning show on WGN, which was also owned by the Chicago Tribune. The segment appeared weekly on Fridays near the end of the show, for the last 10-15 minutes. Ray would begin singing "The Cuddly Dudley Song" (to the music of "The Whistler and His Dog" by Arthur Pryor) and walk over to Cuddly's doghouse. Dudley would proceed to read jokes and display artwork submitted by local Chicago children. The big draw was getting ones name mentioned on air, as Dudley would always namedrop each submitter's name before the joke/artwork was read/ shown. Knock-knock jokes were a recurring theme. Ray would give a wonderful forced laugh after each joke. There were always adult ad-libs between Brown and Rayner, and Roy Brown often would get Ray to crack up if he was feeling particularly silly that morning. Cuddly Dudley also appeared on the Bozo the Clown show.

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[MGR1900]

I don't remember Cuddly Dudley. What year would that have been?

[GaryHultman]

Ray brought out Cuddly Dudley to open children's mail. Cuddly was voiced by Roy Brown, also Cooky the Cook from the Bozo Circus show. Ray's show was on in the 60's and 70's.

[GaryHultman]

Chauncey, was the never seen person who created the craft projects that Ray could never reproduce, with Elmer's glue all over his fingers he would always end up saying, "well, you get the idea"

[aReaganDesignee]

wow this brought back memories

[sonick808]

wow do I have fond memories of Cookie singing this in the early eighties. awesome!

[Godzie1]

@MGR1900 I don't even remember pamper's diapers on store shelves back then..Of course I remember The Flip Wilson show. He was funny! "But the Devil made him do it"! lol

[MGR1900]

@Godzie1 Ah, the year I was born. No wonder I don't remember it. I was too busy pooping my Pampers! I do remember Flip Wilson doing Geraldine though. How could you not remember that?

[Godzie1]

@MGR1900 Well I'm 52 now & had a Cuddly duddly dog & house at around 7 or 8? my guess is 1966. Loved that Ray Rainer show in the 60s. Use to watch it getting ready for school.

[seandkat]

OMG I had a Cuddley Duddley dog.

This was in the 1960, I think

[stevensinger]

I grew up in Elkhart, Indiana watching WGN and have never forgotten the words to that song. GREAT job! I could reminisce for hours about Ray Rayner, Bozo, Garfield, Ring Master Ned, Frazier Thomas, Family Classics, etc. For that matter, I think of watching the Sox and maybe even the Hawks on WSNS. Now I live in California and I'm heartbroken to learn that there are no clips of those shows. Oh well, thanks for the memories and Go Slippery Rock!

[Sweetchumpy]

Buns: What a beautiful voice! Wonderful, lovely performance! Brave soul. Oh, the Grandeur!

Chumpy: FGGGGHHAHAHAHddddaaayyyyuuummm­mmmmmmmm

THIS CHICK IS FIESTY.

I LIKE A WOMAN WHO KNOWS WHAT SHE WANTS.