flubadub

[carole crompton]

In Rialto, CA in the early 50's we sang:
> It's Howdy-Doody Time!
It isn't worth a dime....


Anyone remember the rest?
Also, the kids where my brother taught  high school in Everett, WA
always greeted him by saying, "Howdy-Doody, Mr. Moody" in the 90's.




On Friday, April 20, 2007, at 02:30  PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> It's Howdy-Doody Time!
> It's Howdy-Doody Time!
> Bob Smith and Howdy, too
> Say "Howdy Do!" to you
> Let's give a rousing cheer
> 'Cause Howdy-Doody's here
> It's time to start the show
> So, kids, let's go!
>
> IIRC, Flubabub was always addressed as and referred to as "Flubadub"
> and never as *"The"* "Flubadub." Not that it truly matters.
>
> When I was a kid, "Howdy-Doody" was, at least in Saint Louis,
> absolutely THE hippest show on TV, even taking into consideration
> that, locally, it literally had no competition in its time slot, being
> the first and *only* program to come on the air, right after the test
> pattern on our single TV channel, during the school-week. Each
> afternoon's show was reviewed - nay, relived! - on the following
> school day in every high school in the area. Mr. Bluster, even though
> he was the villain, was probably the most popular character at my high
> school. Everybody loved to (try to) imitate his manner of speaking,
> his bluster, so to speak. <har! har!>
>
> -Wilson
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> On 4/20/07, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> HDAS has a 1975 and a 1978 for "flubadub," a "flubdub" variant infl.
>> by the puppet "The Flubadub" on TV's _Howdy Doody Show_ who, in turn,
>> was inspired by the "Flubdub," character created by Eugene Field.
>>
>>   1999
>> http://groups.google.com/group/nyc.transit/msg/736729fcc948dbcd (June
>> 12) : The car steward...was a flubadub from the word go. He yelled at
>> us, but in all Russian, which we did not understand.
>>
>>   JL
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