[TOMT] [TV SHOW] Weird 1970s Children's Show We Watched in 2nd Grade on a VTR.
I'm trying to identify the name and any information about a 1970s Children's TV show we watched in a classroom.
I was in first or second grade in the 70s when the teacher (maybe music class) brought in a VTR machine with a PBS-type children's show.
I'm fuzzy on the details on the show itself. I'm assuming it was a music education or children's activity type show. I remember there was a very pleasant (African American?) woman who hosted, narrated a story, played piano and sang. The lyrics may or may not have been French to the song. I seem to remember the host telling part of a story then illustrating the story by repeatedly singing this theme song.
"J'ai vu le renard" Link - http://tinyurl.com/2myyor
I also vaguely remember her singing a "please stand up" and "please sit down" command to the melody "Sol, Sol, ^Do" over V - V - I chord progression. This may be a different early TV show memory I'm confusing.
Since these shows were sometimes regionally produced, this was on the east side of Cleveland right around '77 or '78.
I remember the show as being creepy s in the same way the "New Zoo Review" or early psychedelic Sesame Street cartoons were.
Posted Jun 23, 2012, 11:20 PM UTC