CLASSIC TV - 1960s - Captain Kangaroo Show Open

Vintage classic TV kid's show Captain Kangaroo show intro open. Aired in the 1960s on CBS.

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Entertainment

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• VINTAGE
• CLASSIC
• TV
• KIDS
• SHOW
• CAPTAIN
• KANGAROO
• CBS

[X031]

what is the name of the song/music in the back ground? i sure remember watching him as a kid ;)

[musicom67]

@X031 Puffin Billy.

[gilgamess]

@X031 musicom67 is quite right, but I would like to add an apostrophe to the answer, which makes the title, "Puffin' Billy", because it refers to a train. It was composed by Edward White.

I much preferred this to the peppy, "Good Mornin', Captain" theme that they used later.

[musicom67]

@gilgamess Thanks for exposing my laziness ;-) I guess you didn't want anyone to think the song is about a Puffin (bird) named Billy, rather than an old steam locomotive that's puffin' and tootin' its airhorn.

[drewtbrown3]

My favorite show as a kid. Very fond memories. I loved the whole crew. Thank you for that trip down memory lane.

[cullmurr]

@OldsVistaCruiser Oh wow Kellogg's of Battle Creek, I'd forgotten all about that and the train ! Remember K-E double L, O double G, Kellogg's best to you !

[cullmurr]

Oh, boy, thank you for this ! It brought back a flood of memories ( and a tear or two, to my surprise) I'd forgotten about that crazy door and the way the Captain jingled his big key ring. oh yeah and those big pockets ! Thanks again.

[CuteCatFaith]

@carlmoore19 Wow, your response was so slow I forgot all about it. Must be the flicker rate or something from my computer screen.  Hope you are well.

[carlmoore19]

@CuteCatFaith Replying to remark about TV and the Internet for children (it was from cmans79tr7): At the risk of going off topic regarding the subject video -- Yes, we have to be fussy about TV and the Internet, because merely blocking them would block a lot of good material. I just wrote elsewhere in this video's forum about having done an electronic version of this very theme.

[carlmoore19]

@musicom67 I did an electronic version of this based on what I heard here on youtube. My version is on a web site which you should be able to locate readily using search words (no quotation marks): Carl Moore Music.

Once there, look for TV themes on main page.

[Highjack31]

COCO NUTT!

[SteveCarras]

@gilgamess

And it was in the old Chappell library. That was adopted by John Seely's Capitol Records [the same Seely whose staff'sand whose own's cues were in so many shows.] This theme was even used in 1989 by Pixar for "Knick Knack", the film that brought them to the attention of DIsney!