{"id":998,"date":"2006-06-21T00:07:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T04:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=998"},"modified":"2014-03-09T02:07:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T06:07:43","slug":"if-youre-feeling-whimsical-tubby-the-tuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/998\/if-youre-feeling-whimsical-tubby-the-tuba\/","title":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re feeling whimsical, Tubby the Tuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NRrrRMkcGcE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Audio link is gone so am placing the Pal instead, now online.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We used to have a trash copy of  Pal&#8217;s Tubby I was able to tape off some program years ago, but can&#8217;t find it anymore.  I went looking online today as H.o.p. was asking about it and found the audio, which H.o.p. also enjoyed and though it&#8217;s been years since he saw Tubby he kept asking when was the part with the frog.  When I was a child, it was the music  which won my heart (along with Tubby&#8217;s joy at finding <em>his<\/em> song) when I saw the animation on Captain Kangaroo, at the age of seven.  And I waited and waited for it to play again one day, which it did but I only caught a couple of seconds, then didn&#8217;t see it again for another thirty years.  But I never forgot Tubby.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Catch me, cried the little tune, &#8220;Catch me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Caught you!&#8221; cried Tubby<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh you&#8217;re sitting on me,&#8221; said the Little Tune.<\/p>\n<p>Poor Tubby picked up the flat Little Tune and tried to squeeze it back into shape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[clear]<\/p>\n<p>Poor Tubby, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Kaye also did a recording of Tubby, a portion of which is up at NPR, commemorating Pal&#8217;s creation upon his death at the age of 91 in 2002.  I prefer the Victor Jory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audio link is gone so am placing the Pal instead, now online. We used to have a trash copy of Pal&#8217;s Tubby I was able to tape off some program years ago, but can&#8217;t find it anymore. I went looking online today as H.o.p. was asking about it and found the audio, which H.o.p. also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,24],"tags":[284,128],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-everyday-stories","tag-music-2","tag-music-other-people-mademake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}