[BlueLancer]

"Could be worse."

Kenny Roberts began a daily cartoon show on WNEM TV-5 in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1961, as "The Kenny Roberts Show" where he was known as "The Yodeling Cowboy." The popular black-and-white show featured Roberts singing and playing guitar as he hosted children in the studio, and presented cartoons. His best-known locally-performed song was "Cheer Up, Things Could Be Worse."

I was one of the kids in the studio in 1962 ... I remember him as "The Jumpin' Cowboy".

Cheer up! Things could be worse.
Cheer up! You've got no need to curse.
They said that I should cheer up,
That things could be much worse,
So I cheered up;
Sure enough ... things got worse.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Can’t say I ever heard of him (though I thought for a moment you were referring to Kenny Rogers). I’ll have to check YouTube for that song.

I was on the Roy Rogers kiddie show when I was maybe 5. About all I remember is that the lights were really hot.