Bob Homme & Rod Coneybeare - The Friendly Giant - TV LP CBC CANADA CHILDREN'S

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Bob Homme & Rod Coneybeare - The Friendly Giant  Original first pressing on Dominion / CBC
Condition: Vinyl: VG+ has a few light scratches and a little pressing mark that doesn't affect playback Cover: VG - name written in black marker on top right corner. bottom left corner has a bend. other various creases.
Description: Label: Dominion ?– LPS 48505, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ?– LPS 48505 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Canada Released: 1970 Genre: Children's, Stage & Screen
Tracklist: A1 Tongue Twisters / Early One Morning / Betty Botter 12:17 A2 Concert For The Birds 12:50 B1 Mountain Music / She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain / Jack And Jill / On Top Of Old Smokey / Mountain Greenery 12:00 B2 Sea Fever / The Owl And The Pussycat / Sea Fever / Winkin' Blinkin' And Nod 11:35
About: The Friendly Giant was an American-Canadian children's television program that aired on CBC Television from September 30, 1958 through to March 1985. It featured three main characters: a giant named Friendly (played by Bob Homme), who lived in a huge castle, along with his puppet animal friends Rusty (a rooster who played a harp, guitar, and accordion and lived in a book bag hung by the castle window), and Jerome (a giraffe who's tawny with purple spots and pokes his head in the window). The two principal puppets of the CBC version of the show were manipulated and voiced by Rod Coneybeare. Originally in Wisconsin, they were manipulated and voiced by Ken Ohst.
The program started in 1953 on Madison, Wisconsin radio station WHA-AM, a station owned by the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Shortly thereafter, the show was moved to its sister television station, WHA-TV when it went on the air in 1954. Kinescopes of these shows were distributed to a few other non-commercial stations, and some of them made it to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto, Ontario. At the invitation of Fred Rainsberry, the head of Children's Television at the CBC, in 1958 Bob Homme moved the show to Canada, where it became a staple show for several generations of young viewers. In the United States, National Educational Television carried both WHA and CBC versions from 1953 until 1970, when NET ceded the network to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
The Friendly Giant was produced by Daniel McCarthy, who would later become the head of children's programming at the CBC.
The short, 15-minute show was perhaps most famous for its opening sequence. Each episode would begin with the camera panning to the left over a detailed model of part of a village, farm, harbor, city, etc as Friendly could be heard narrating and observing the goings-on in the town below. The pan would continue until it stops at the Giant's great big boot on the left coming into view at the edge of the village and Friendly would ask the viewers to "Look up?… waaaaay up!" and the Giant would thus invite everyone to come visit his castle, telling them that he'll meet them there after letting the drawbridge down and opening the front doors. The traditional tune "Early One Morning" would then be heard being played on harp and recorder, while the camera slowly zoomed into a model of the Giant's castle, the drawbridge slowly dropped down, and the medieval doors that says "Friendly Giant" opened wide in welcome as promised. Once inside, the Friendly Giant would put out miniature furniture for his viewers beside his feet (with only his feet and hands visible), saying, "Here we are inside, here's one little chair for one of you, and a bigger chair for two more to curl up in, and someone who likes to rock, a rocking chair in the middle." Then the camera would pan up, as the Giant gave his iconic invitation to "Now, look up, waaaaaay up, and I'll call Rusty... Rusty?" to which he would then summon his friend, Rusty the Rooster. Typically, Jerome the Giraffe would visit, poking his head in through a high window after being whistled for by Friendly. Rusty the Rooster, who lived in a book bag hanging on the wall by the window, would emerge and produce, from the bag, books to be read and other props, some seemingly larger than could fit in the bag.
The rest of the show focused on gentle, humorous chat between Friendly, Rusty, and Jerome, followed by a story or a musical performance. When extra instrumentation was needed, a pair of otherwise silent puppet cats and raccoons and a rooster — Angie and Fiddle, the Jazz Cats and Patty and Polly, the Raccoons with recorder and bassoon and Buster, a Rooster with electric bass guitar — joined in (puppeteered by Gustáv Hársfai (Sr) and Linda Keogh (Jr). Music for the show was composed by the show's harpist, John Duncan.
At the conclusion of a typical show, Friendly plays "Early One Morning" on his recorder, says goodbye to his friends and his viewers as he puts his miniature furniture away: "It's late. This little chair will be waiting for one of you, and a rocking chair for another who likes to rock, and a big armchair for two more to curl up in when you come again to our castle. I'll close the big front doors and pull up the drawbridge after you're gone. Goodbye. Goodbye." His hand waves goodbye as the camera zooms out and the castle's medieval doors are closed and the drawbridge is raised. As a silvery moon with a smiling face rises into the sky, a cow jumps over it as in the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle". Originally, other things besides the cow would appear in the sky such as a bird, Pegasus, etc. On occasion, often for episodes devoted to musical performances, episodes would take place during the night.
The shows were largely ad libbed, typically based around a one-page plot summary for each episode. This gave the show an added spontaneity uncommon to most children's shows, though the series was marked by a go-slow, gentle nature with naturalistic discussions between Friendly, Rusty, and Jerome, as though the friends were meeting and simply having a conversation as opposed to actually having a set storyline. The simple repetition of its main elements from show to show put it fundamentally at odds with the bolder, ever-changing nature of such shows as Sesame Street, but complemented Mr. Dressup, which was a similarly low-key children's series.
Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, The Friendly Giant launched a block of children's programming aired by the CBC each weekday morning.

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