Flubadub

[Jonathan Lighter]

The whippersnapper community will wish to know that all these Howdy Doody songs went to the tune of the 1891 supersmash, "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay!"

JL

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It's Howdy Doody time
The show's not worth a dime
So we turn to channel nine
And watch Frankenstein

That's the version I remember, from Louisville KY in the 1950's.

Now for a serious question:  are these two parodies independent inventions?  If not, then through what mechanism did a parody of the Howdy Doody theme song spread clear across the country in less than a decade?

    - Jim Landau  (the other JL)

:) said Tom, parenthetically

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