The COVID Collection - Part 8 of 8

Other Animals is the final episode in the 8 part series called COVID Kids and Companions where we celebrate a few of the positive things that came out of COVID as we serve up a virtual cornucopia of creature companions.  

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:15

I'll be your host for the next hour on the program that has been co-produced with Calgary. On a Christian Calvin, we recognize gratitude. My animal friend is a horse or a hamster or heritage, or maybe even spiders or snakes. What about them? Do they count? The fact is that any creature we choose to share our lives with, from hardvarks and zebras, has their own individual animistic tendency in showing their love, devotion, and trust in us as their human companions, and that each creates its own unique bond with us. So today we're going to serve up a virtual cornucopia of creature companions that hopefully will put your mind at ease. In this first set, you will hear Gayla Peavy with I Want a Hippopotamus and a three-dog night play Joy to the World, and Harry Nielsen sings Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear. And that just at the beginning. So first up, from their 1968 album Bookends, here is Simon and Garfunkel with a song about where it's all happening at the zoo.

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Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

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I do believe it. I do believe it's true.

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Just to find a fancy ramble to the two But you can take it across town bus if it's raining or it's cold.

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If you do know Something tells me it's all happening at the I do believe it. I do believe it's true.

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The monkeys stand for honesty, giraffes are instant, dear, and the elephants are kind live, but they're dumb like a tank dog, get to go to the cage, and a deep burrito, steep on the cat, a little bit, and the boat on the ribbons, just laughed, deep, and that's it on the water.

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I pursue the soothing, I pursue the pursuit, I pursue the I wanna hip on bottom musk for Christmas. Only I hip a bottom muscle too. Don't want a dog, no dinky tinker toy. I wanna hip a bottom muscle, play with and enjoy. I wanna hip a bottom muscle for Christmas. I don't think Santa Claus will might be you. Bring him through the front door. That's the easy thing to do. I can see me now on Christmas morning creeping down the stairs. Oh my surprise when I open up my eyes to see a hippo hero standing there. I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. Oh well, hippobotomus for two. No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses. I only like hip hopotomes, and hippobotomusses like me too. Mom says the hippo would eat me up a thin. Teacher says the hippo is a vegetarian. There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage. I feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage. I can see me now on Christmas morning creeping down the stairs. Oh what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes to see a hippo hero standing there. I want a hip-hop bottom bus for Christmas. Only a hip-hop-must to do. No crocodiles or rhinoceros. I only like hip-hop and sis, and hip-hop, muscles like me do Jeremiah was a good wrong was a good friend of mine Never didn't study a single word you say, but I don't think I'll take you to the wide O is that you have to walk the both people see you as I were the king of the world telling you what I do.

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Make it a friend to science. Simon Smith and the amazing dancing.

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A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a horse, of course. That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. R. Go right to the source and ask the horse. He'll give you the answer that you endorse. He's always on a stand, of course. Talk to Mr. L. Go yak it yak the streak and waste your time a day. But Mr. Ebb will never speak unless he has something to say. A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and this one will talk till his voice is horse. You never heard of a talking horse? Well, listen to this. I am Mr. Ed.

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That was the theme from Mr. Ed. The Talking Horse. Of course. A Palomino gelding named Bamboo Harvester, who, for a non-human actor, demonstrated some pretty amazing acting skill. Before that, you were listening to Simon and Garfunkel, Gayla Peavy, Three Dog Knight, and Harry Nelson. The second set continues with four more selections from our musical collection. The album Frog Trouble, produced by Sandra Boynton. George Turner sings Alligator Troll. That will be followed by Flanagan and Alan. And the performances reflected the experiences of ordinary people during the ordinary. This song is dedicated to the lovers of arachnids and elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder serpentees. Of course, this would be spiders and snakes. Here is Josh Turner, Flanagan and Allen, Barbara Streisand, and Jim Stafford.

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Well, I was born on a Friday in the Florida sun by the Kissimmee River. And before I was one, my mama alligator said to me with a smile, Let me show you how to walk in a particular style. You take a little bit of country handsome, slow rockin' roll. What you got for when is the alligator stroll? Okay, I hold my head up, high, I keep my feet on the ground. I never hurry, never worry. As I'm strolling around, I can keep a certain tempo that is lazy and sweet. And I don't need shoes, cause I've got alligator feet. Take a little bit of country and slow rock and roll. What you got going is the alligator stroll. I don't wanna fight, I don't wanna bite. I use my 75 teeth for a smile so bright. You can recognize me by my rose-colored shakes As I make my strolling way through the everglades I'm strolling Still strolling Yeah Oh, oh, bless my soul What we've got going is the alligator stroll Left, right, left, right I got a letter from my cousins in the great dismal swamp. Is it they wanna teach me their alligator stomp? So I'm strolling that direction in the way that I do. I hope to reach the Carolinas by the time I made it to if you like a little country hands, go rock and roll. You can follow right behind me with the alligator stroll. Put on your shades, looks good. Follow me. We're going left, right, left, right, give a Hollywood smile with those teeth so wide. Now stroll to the left, back, forth. Now we're strolling to the right, step south, step to north. Now we're strolling straight ahead in an alligator rope, and every now and then we do a little dozy doe. Hey, rock, roll rock, roll all the way to Carolina with the alligator. I'm in no hurry. Stroll. See you later. Alligator.

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Every Friday. Oh the phone is red Friday, so every Friday comes along. I get a day and soon as well.

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I dreamed last night that I was a tiger in the jungle. But I was a big fat tiger. So a lion killed me. And then I was an elephant. A great big elephant. There wasn't anything I couldn't do. Till they caught me and they brought me to a zoo. So I dreamed I was an alligator. Crocodile? No alligator. With a great big mouth. And four very funny little legs. Which are no good for dancing. So then I was a dancing bear. And I was doing my dancing where the bears danced. But I was sneezing. Cause I was a dancing polar bear. And it was freezing. Then I dreamed I was a giraffe. I looked so ridiculous, I wanted to laugh. But giraffes can't talk, so how can they laugh? Whoever saw a giraffe laugh? Then I woke up and I was not a tiger or an elephant. I was not an alligator. No alligator. I was not a dancing bear or a tall giraffe. I was only me and that's the way I'll be. Oh, that's the way I'll be.

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I enjoy being an oyster I remember when Mary Lou said you wanna walk me home from school I said Yes I do She said I don't have to go ride home and I would kinda like to be alone stone I said me to And so with the stroll Wound up down about swimming home She said Do what you wanna do I got to tell and found the frog In the water by all along Stupid Frog I don't like spider state And I don't wanna take love I don't like battles me And I don't wanna take the love me like I wanna be loved by you Well I think of that girl from time to time I call her up when I got a time I say hello baby She said ain't you cool Do you remember when and would you like to get together again till I see you after school I was trying so far Wow Most of my love was touching my stead Come on over here I was don't stand my guest still looking for something that's left out of bread Insta Let's make it perfectly clear I don't like spiders to stay and that ain't what it takes to love me I don't like spiders to stay and that ain't what it takes to love me like I wanna be loved by you and I'm gonna be unicorn of my favorite vocal bands. And you may wonder how do these guys follow that one? Well we dig deep into our library and offer up one of our go-to guys, Henry Mancini and his orchestra playing Baby Elephant Walk. And we're still not done, so we end this set with Barbara Cameron and the original Roadrunner theme. If you're on a highway and Roadrunner goes beep beep, just set aside or you might end up in a heap. Hey, let's have some fun. Bob to the beep with these ones. Here are Ray Stevens, the Irish Rovers, the Chipmunks, Henry Mancini, and Barbara Cameron.

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Well, as I was driving down the road one day, I met a pickup truck coming the other way. It hit a big chuck holding a pig, fell out on the blacktop. Well, that farmer didn't notice, kept cutting the jig. So I pulled over and I caught that pig. Threw him in my car and did a U-turn right in front of the highway cop. He flashed his lights and pulled me over to the side. By the time he'd finished reading me my rights, that farmer was long gone. Didn't have his license or his name. So I asked the officer, What'll it do? He said, Why don't you take that pig at the zoo? And I did, and you know we had so much fun. I'm gonna take him to a ball game. Kiss pig, hug the swine. Some of them are good friends of mine. I'm specially prone to those pollen china porkers. I'm both fun than a dog and smarter than a horse. You might find them a little coarse, but shoot, they ain't near as rude as some New Yorkers. Now that pig was a sight riding in my car, wearing a baseball cap, meeting candy bars. Folks would ask his name, he'd say oink, and they'd say, Howdy? Yeah, everybody knew he lived at my home, and I guess that's how he came to be known as Oink Stevens, the ugliest man in Davison County. Well, here a while back, things got real bad. You know, we almost lost everything we had. Old Oink lost a ham. Had to build him a little peg leg. But as good as that pig had been to us, heck, we didn't have the heart to eat him all at once. You know, there's some things more important in life than sausage. Kiss a pig, hug a swine. Some of them are good friends of mine. New York Shires and big old Red to Rockers. I'm more fun than a dog and smarter than a horse. And you might find them a little coarse, but they near strangers. Some of them punk rockers. Well, here a while back, I was sad to say, in the middle of the night, old oin limped away. Musta overheard us talking about the coming recession. Yeah, but he was my buddy, and he was my friend Wyatt. He was my breakfast every now and then, and he never done me no wrong or give me indigestion. Kiss a pig, hug a swine. Some of them are good friends of mine. I'm specially prone to those Ham Shire porkers. I'm more fun than a dog and smarter than a horse. And you might find them a little coarse, but shoot ain't near as rude as some New Yorkers.

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A long time ago when the earth was green, and there was more kinds of animals than you'd ever seen. They'd run around free when the earth was being born. What the loveliest of them all was the uniquen. There was green alligators and long-neck geese, some homte bag almonds and some chimpanzees. Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born. The loveliest of all was the unicorn. And he says, Stand back, I'm going to make it rain. He says, Hey, brother Noah, I'll tell you what to do. Build me a floating zoo. And take some of them green alligators and long neck geese. Some humpty bag combas and some chimpanzees. Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born. Don't you forget my unicorn? Old Noel was there to answer the call. He finished off making the arc just as the rain started falling. He marched in the animals to fight too. And he called out as they went through. Some humpty back camels and some chimpanzees. Some cats and rats and elephants, but lord, I'm so forlorn, I just can't see no unicorn. Playing silly games, kicking and splashing while the rain was pouring. All them sally unicorns, those green alligators and low legis. Some humpty bagels and some chimpanzees. Noah cried, close the door, cause the rain is pouring. And we just can't wait for no unicorn. The ark started moving, it drifted with the tides. Then unicorns looked up from the rocks and they cried. And the waters came down and sort of floated them away. And that's why you never seen a unicorn till this very day. You'll see green alligators and long neck geese. Some humpty bagamas and some chimpanzees. Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born, you're never gonna see no unicorn.

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Alright, you chipmunks. Ready to sing your song?

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I'll say we are. Yeah, let's sing it now.

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Okay, Simon. Okay. Okay, Theodore? Okay. Okay, Alvin. Alvin. Alvin! Okay.

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Okay, fellas, get ready. That was very good, Simon. Very good, Theodore. Uh Alvin, you're a little flat. Watch it. Alvin.

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Very good, boys. No, that's enough. Let's not overdo it.

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You can overdo it, we want to find out.

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Now wait a minute, boys.

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Just a minute.

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If you're on a highway, roadrunner goes deep, deep, just to decide on your mind and the penalties. Roadrunner, Roadrunner runs on the road all day.

SPEAKER_01 40:37

That was Ray Stevens, the Irish Rovers, the Chipmunks, Henry Mancini, and Barbara Cameron. In this series, we have learned about some of the very special qualities of our lifelong friends, our animal company. Loyalty. Thank you, Joe Little, for introducing this entire series. And if you like it, I can tell you Joe has several more gems in production that I've been getting lined up for us to share with you on Academy. To take us home today, we'll start the set with Louis Dreamer, Phil Harris, and Bruce Ryderman in their song I Wanna Be Like You from Walt Disney's The Jungle. As followed by singer, songwriter, and Canadian legend David Wilcox. He played with the great speckled bird, Ann Murray, Carl Perkins, and Charlie Rich. From his debut solo album, Out of the Woods, we'll play with pride, his big hit, Do the Bear Cat. To close the show, we present a song that asks a question that we humans have wondered about since we could wonder about things. Imagine if we could actually talk to the animals. From the original 1967 Doctor Doolittle movie soundtrack, Rex Harrison with his Academy Award-winning song, Talk to the Animals.

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Now I'm the king of the swingers, whoa, the jungle VIP. I've reached the top and had to stop, and that's what's been bothering me. I wanna be a man, man, cup, and stroll right into town, and be just like the other men. I'm tired of ogin's around. Oh, I wanna be like you. I wanna walk like you, chip talk like it. You see it's true, shoob-de-doo, and a b like me. Scooby-dooby doob can learn to be you, men too. Now here's your part of the deal, cuz. Leave the secret on me of man's red fire. But I don't know how to make fire. Now don't try to kid me, man, cub. I made a deal with you. What I desire is man's red fire to make my dream come true. Now give me the secret, man, cub. Come on, clue me what you do. Give me the power of man's red flower, so I can be like you.

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How to be like the days of the book the days of bones of a baby. What the button?

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I wanna be like you like you like you.

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Someone like me. Like someone like me.

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Had a talk with the chimney. He said, Hey, brother. If you want a thing that's hip, do the bear cat. Do the bear cat. Mm-hmm. That's the name of this song. Do the bear cat, take a little lesson, and you can't go wrong. Do the bear cat. Mmm, that's the way we like. Do the bear cat It's enough to make you wanna leave her home. It's a kind of sound that you can't leave alone. Enough to make you wanna get a bear cat of your own and make and go. To the bear cat late at night with the bear cat house. He's looking for you. George Washington. It's enough to make you wanna leave your home. It's the kind of sound that you can't leave alone. Enough to make you wanna get a bear cat of your own. And it can go. Do the bear cat. Do the bear cat. Put your hands on your hip, let your big bone slip. Do the bear cat in the song now.

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Do the bear cat Do the bad cat, give it up, yeah. Do the bear cat give it up now.

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Matthew, think what it would mean if I could talk to the animals. Just imagine it, chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee. Imagine talking to a tiger. Chatting to a cheetah. What a neat achievement that would be. If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree. I'd study elephant and eagle, buffalo and beagle, alligator, guinea pig and flea. I would converse in polar bear and python. And I would curse in throw and kangaroo. If people asked me, can you speak rhinoceros? I'd say of cossorus. Can't you? If I conferred with our furry friends, man to animal, think of the amazing repartee. If I could walk with the animals, talk with the animals, grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals. And they could talk to me. If I consulted with quadrupeds, think what fun we'd have. Asking over crocodiles for tea. Or maybe lunch with two or three lions, walruses, or sea lions. What a lovely place the world would be. Discussing Eastern art and dramas with intellectual llamas, that's a big step forward, you'd agree. I'd learn to speak in antelope, turtle. My Pekingese would be extremely good. If I were asked to sing in hippopotamus, I'd say Wynotomous and would. If I could parley with Pacy D. It's a fairy tale worthy of Hans Anderson or Grip. A man who walks with the animals, talks with the animals, grunts and squeaks and squalks with the animals. How an easy, just think of it.

SPEAKER_01 53:22

Thank you for listening to this. On behalf of your little, from our hearts to yours, stay safe and love the ones you're with. Peace.

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And what it means to you And what it means to me. Yeah. You just don't fit men, walking on the don't fit lane. You just don't fit men, walking on the don't be late. When all along you've been down, down, down on the radio Talking about the way it isn't the way they should be And what it means to you Yeah You're just a Dolphin man walking on the Dolphin Line You're just a Dolphin man walking on the Dolphin Line Stop singing your face in mind Every time I turn the television on your way and dancing on around On the video Like you got some show Yeah you just the Donkey Man walking on the Don't Fin You this Don't Fit Man walking on the Donkey Line