Posted on 06/18/2016 5:28:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
King locally hosted “Romper Room” from 1966 to 1976. The program aired worldwide with different hosts in each locale.
During the show, King played learning games with children and urged them to be “Do Bees” who behaved well, not “Don't Bees” who played in the street or failed to clean their plates.
Each episode ended with King holding up a mirror-like frame and looking through it to name child viewers.
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Thank you..... Wow, what a history-changing story.
I always listened for my name and when she said it, I was positive she was talking to me.
Yeah, well, me and my juvenile delinquent best friend, Harold Womack, hisself, added a little bit about the planet Uranus to that and got ourselves thrown out of the school lunch line and marched to the Principal's office.
'Course, Harold had already corrupted "Little Miss Muffet", with pornographic suggestions about her relationship with the spider and murdered the one about Jack jumping over the candlestick and what it actually was that got burned.
We both could still hear the laughter from the lunch room, as the Principal readied the paddle, after giving us both the "Stern Look".
I had nothing good to say about Romper Room after that, but we were heroes for two, maybe three weeks.
Fame in grade school was fleeting, to say the least.
Are you sure your friend wasn't Andrew Dice Clay?
I remember it as...
“Romper, bomper, stomper doo, tell me, tell me, tell me do, Magic Mirror tell me today, which of our friends had fun with us at play?”
In my hometown of Spokane, it was “Ms. Fran” who was the local host. Met her when I was 6 or 7 at a local supermarket.
Yeah, just like that doll Sherry Lewis.
What about Engineer Bill? I won a Frisbee from him when he was at the Grand Opening of a Shopping Bag Grocery Store.
If I remember correctly, he was a Corporate Realty or Stock Broker in the San Fernando Valley after the Show ended.
Apparently, you couldn't tell because of shooting through an aquarium for the water effect...
"Diver Dan": "Frank D Freda. ... lived from 1936 to April 12, 2016..."
I hope the Barracuda is in good health!
Not as such.
"Baron Baracuda": "Ira Stadlen (January 16, 1924 – April 18, 2010), known professionally as Allen Swift, was an American voice actor..."
Nope, didn't know him personally, but Harold always said that Clay never had no original stuff...stole it all from him.
Could be, could be.
He also claimed Lewis Grizzard stole all his stuff, too, but I knew Lewis and he was much funnier than Harold.
Yes, Miss Sally! Remember the cardboard cars?
Condolences to family and friends of Mary Ann King.
I remember Diver Dan. Diver Dan, he lives by the sea...there was a mermaid and another bad fish named Trigger.
I was on Romper Room as a little puppy... but I do not remember the teacher’s name. I need to look for the the certificate.
I’m of the Miss Frances generation.
Oh My, me also. Sweet natured lady in black and white.
Wasn’t Miss Frances on Ding Dong School??
That red light-green light could get pretty funny.
Now that you mention it, yes. It’s hell to get old!
LOL!
Engineer Bill, Tom Hatten’s Popeye show, and Soupy Sales were our mainstays in LA.
If you remember Ding Dong School, then you probably also remember Crusader Rabbit and Winky Dink.
(Getting out of the way-back and way-WAY-back machine, now!)
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