Preschoolers learn about different jobs through musical
guessing games.
Shanna's Show is an interstitial Playhouse Disney/Disney
Junior series of shorts that aired from 2003 to the early 2010's.
Shanna's Show is currently accessible for free via Disney
NOW.
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This pancocojams post showcases a video clip of the theme song for The Shanna Show and a video clip of Shane's Kindergarten Countdown. These clips are from two Disney preschool children's television series.
This post also presents some information about The Shanna Show and Shane's Kindergarten Countdown.
The content of this post is presented for cultural and entertainment purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to the producers and all those who were associated with these series. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publishers of these clips on YouTube.
**** INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHANNA SHOW AND ABOUT SHANE'S KINDERGARTEN COUNTDOWN From https://qubowiki.fandom.com/wiki/Shanna%27s_Show "Shanna's Show is a short 1-and-a-half-minute segment that aired on Qubo during most commercial breaks. The segment focuses on Shanna, and the viewing audience at home has to guess who she is, such as a doctor, chef, firefighter, etc. Her animal friends, Dinah, Ducky, and Bear have three clues and Shanna gives them. At the end, Shanna's little brother, Shane, reveals the results with the animals. Their mom will call them for something pretty similar to the segment topic. Shane then says the catchphrase above, and the show and segment ends.
Note: This segment, followed by Shane's Kindergarten Countdown, was aired on the Qubo channel itself, along with Qubo on NBC, Qubo on Ion Television, and Qubo Kids Corner.
Original run on Qubo: September 24, 2005 - present
Amount of segments aired: 13
Status: Currently airing" -snip- Shane is Shanna's little brother. These segments "starred" Shane with his sister Shanna
**** LYRICS FOR THE SHANNA SHOW THEME SONG*
"My name is Shanna
It rhymes with banana
and this my friends is Shanna's showoyoyoyo....
I must confess you've got to guess; it's what I doooooo,
This pancocojams post provides information about the Canadian children's interactive animated series Bo On The Go!. Particular attention is given to that series' use of Ska for its theme song and for the background music for each of the episodes in this series.
In addition this post provides examples of Bo On The Go!'s creative use of language play featuring the word "bo", and its creative use of rhyming.
The Addendum to this post provides information about Ska music and showcases a YouTube video about that Caribbean originated music genre.
The content of this post is presented for cultural and entertainment purposes.
All copyrights remains with their owners.
Thanks to the creators of the "Bo On The Go!" series and thanks to all those who are/were involved with that series. Thanks also to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE "BO ON THE GO!" TELEVISION SERIES"
Excerpt #1:
From https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-GsApAlbiTDILDnxP1O7RA/about
" "BO ON THE GO! is an exciting, new, motion capture series for preschoolers. Through dance and fun activities, Bo promotes physical activity and a love of different forms of movement. Children at home will love Bo as she inspires, promotes and teaches about staying healthy and being active.
Bo is a positive, super-energetic and inquisitive young heroine who, along with her young friend Dezadore the dragon, or Dezzy as she likes to call him, encourages children at home to actively join her in a variety of movements that assist her on amazing adventures. Each episode is a mythic quest that presents challenges and obstacles that Bo must overcome. Along the way, Bo and Dezzy achieve victories and receive small rewards. Maximum Bo power!".
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Excerpt #2:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_on_the_Go!
" "Bo on the Go!" is a Canadian children's television show created by Jeff Rosen produced by Halifax Film, a DHX Media Company, in association with CBC Television. The show emphasizes the importance movement for children through a plot element called "Animoves," animations demonstrating specific body movements young viewers must learn in order to solve adventures highlighted in each program's storyline.
It is broadcast in Canada on CBC Television in the Kids' CBC programming block.[1] It is currently broadcast on 17 broadcasters around the world, in over 12 languages, including Spanish, French (retitled 1, 2, 3, Bo!), Italian, Greek, Arabic, Thai, Finnish, Hebrew, Portuguese, Turkish and Gaelic.
Overview
Bo lives in a castle with Dezadore the dragon. He is younger than Bo, and is naturally curious and often gets into trouble as he is not as physically adept as Bo. Bo's mentor on the show is Wizard. When she encounters challenges, he gives her advice and knowledge of how to achieve the quest at hand."...
Original network:CBC Television
Original release: September 3, 2007 – November 12, 2009"
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Notice the use of Ska music in the "Bo On The Go!" theme song and throughout this (and other) "Bo On The Go!" episodes. The Addendum below provides information about Ska music and a clip from a film about that music.
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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Bo On The Go Full Episodes - Bo and the Eager Beaver | 210
Bo on the Go!, Published on May 11, 2017
Bo On The Go Full Episodes - Bo and the Eager Beaver | 210
An industrious Eager Beaver has been finishing all of Bo and Dezzy’s building projects for them, taking away all their building fun! They creep Kitty-like across a wobbly card bridge, and Bunny-hop across some racetracks to find the Eager Beaver. They give him an Ever-Changing-Toy-Car-Kit, which keeps him busily building happily ever after!
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EXAMPLES OF "BO ON THE GO!'S "MADE UP" LANGUAGE USING THE SUFFIX "BO"
The Canadian animated children's series "Bo On The Go!" uses the word "bo" (pronounced "boh') as a name or nickname for the little girl who is the series' main character. "Bo" is also used as a name for "Bo Zone", the space that is cleared of toys where that character and her little dragon friend "Dezzy" ("Dezadore") can safely move. Bo also encourages all the viewers of these episodes to "get in their Bo zones, so that they also can move along with her and Dezzy.
Near the beginning of each "Bo On The Go! episode, the little girl Bo asks all of the children watching are they in their Bo Zone. Children are then asked to clear off their "bo zone" (remove toys in that space so that they have room to move safely.) In addition, at specific times within each episode a certain movement is proscribed (such as "galloping like a horse" or "hopping like a bunny"). At those times, children are asked to choose the best of three pictured "animoves" that fits the movement that is needed. Bo then asks those watching "Are you still in your Bo zone?" and encourages them to move along with her and Dezzy.
In addition to those usages, I've noticed these five additional ways that the word "bo" is used in the "Bo On The Go!" series as an element of a creative "made up" language:
1. "Bo" is used as a suffix in front of words beginning with the letter "b"
Examples: "Hi bo buddies."; "That was bo brilliant."; "Thanks a "bo bunch.", "and Let's bo boogie". ("Boogie" here means "dance").
2. "Bo" is used in the middle of certain words whose two parts rhyme:
Example: That was "super bo dupper"
and
3. "Bo" is used in the middle of rhyming or near rhyming words. Examples: That was "easy bo breezy"; That was "simple bo dimple".
4. "Bo" is used as a noun that describes a form of power (energy):
Example: "Maximum Bo power!".
5. "Bo" is used as a word in an example of scatting*.
Example: "Bo Bop A Diddie Boogie, Bo Buddies". (from 12:26 in the the embedded video given above, and also found in some other episodes of this series.)
* "In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all."... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing
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EXAMPLES OF THE USE OF RHYMING IN THE "BO ON THE GO" ANIMATED CHILDREN'S SERIES
The title "Bo On The Go!" is an example of the frequent use of rhyming that occurs in that animated children's series. Some other examples of rhyming that may occur in each episode of that series are:
1. "Hello Bo. What do you know?" (said by Magician, who along with Bo and Dezzy, is a recurring character in that series.
2. "When I count to three, move with me." - said by Bo to the children watching the episode.
3. "We made it through, thanks to you" -said by Bo ("through" refers to one of the two doors that Bo and Dezzy have to move through before they reach the third door where they have to solve some problem which is the focus of that episode)
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Here are three examples of the use of rhyming and/or the use of the "Bo" made up languages that are found in each episode of "Bo On The Go!"*. Each of these examples are said by the main character Bo:
1.
"When you move with me, you give me energy"
You make my power bands glow.
When you get on the go.
You're really helping me.
I can feel your energy."
2.
"We made it through, thanks to you.
It's bo boogie time.
Let's see what kind of bo boogie you can do."
[Bo and Dezzie do different contemporary dance moves and presumably children (and adults) watching the video also get up and "boogie"] Bo then says:
"That was a Bo brilliant boogie, bo buds!"
3.
[After Bo and Dezzie have solved the problem that they were faced with in that series, Bo says]
"We have time for one more bo boogie, the bo boogie-ist boogie of them all."
[Bo, Dezzie, and those watching the episode, dance again.]
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*The consistent format (structure) of Bo On The Go! episodes and the familiarity of their repeated scripts adds to the appeal of that series to pre-schoolsers (as evidenced by my 3 1/2 year old granddaughter who loves this series.
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ADDENDUM: SKA MUSIC
Here's information about Ska music:
Here's information about Ska music as well as a video about that music genre:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska
"Ska.... is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.[1] Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off-beat. Ska developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm & blues and then began recording their own songs.[2] Some suggest ska dates to earlier times, however. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. Later it became popular with many skinheads."...
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SHOWCASE EXAMPLE: This is Ska!
Stijn Biemans, Uploaded on Jun 8, 2008
This is ska, the authentic style! Just learn these basic steps and be amaze all your friends at the next ska party ;)
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Here are two comments from this video's discussion thread:
Bretxa, 2014
"someone can tell the original name of the song¿?"
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Reply
greenaum, 2017
"I don't think it is a song, just a generic copyright-free jam. It doesn't really go anywhere as a song. Just a bit of a groove for the ladies and gentlemen to ska along to, while the nice man explains the whole thing, uninterrupted by any singing or frequent trumpetry"
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/04/jamaican-ska-music-videos.html for the 2012 pancocojams post "Seven Jamaican Ska Music Videos (information, and examples)"
This post provides information about Sid The Science Kid and showcases three songs from that series along with lyrics and comments. I recently was introduced to the Sid the Science Kid songs as a result of watching that series with my three year old granddaughter.
My focus is on what I believe to be the Black cultural influences in those songs.
An Addendum to this post showcases a holiday video from that series.
The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those associated with Sid The Science Kid series and special thanks to the composers of these showcased songs. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this series and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE "SID THE SCIENCE KID" SERIES
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_the_Science_Kid
"Sid the Science Kid is an American half-hour CGI animated series that aired on PBS Kids from September 1, 2008 to March 25, 2013, with a total of 68 half-hour episodes produced over two seasons. The computer generated show is produced by The Jim Henson Company and then-PBS member KCET in Los Angeles, California using the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio. The show is produced by motion capture which allows puppeteers to voice digitally animated characters in real time.[2][3] Production began in the fall of 2008 with 42 half-hour episodes of Sid the Science Kid having been ordered. The series debuted on PBS Kids along with Martha Speaks on September 1, 2008,[4] with a two-year on-air commitment.[5] The original working title for the series was "What's the Big Idea?" and the central character, Sid, was originally named Josh.[6]
KOCE, the current primary PBS member for the Los Angeles area, began co-producing the show after KCET disaffiliated with PBS on December 31, 2010.
24-hour preschool channel Sprout began airing Sid the Science Kid on March 25, 2013.
Premise
The main character in the show is Sid, an "inquisitive youngster" who uses comedy to tackle questions kids have about basic scientific principles and why things work the way they do. He tries to answer questions and solve problems with the help of his classmates (May, Gerald, and Gabriela), Teacher Susie, and his family (his mother Alice, his father Mort, his Grandma and his baby brother Zeke)...
The conceptual content of Sid is based in national science learning standards, cognitive learning theory, and on the preschool science curriculum, Preschool Pathways to Science.[7]
Each week's episodes are built around a single scientific theme or concept...
Sid's mother is of African descent and his father grew up Jewish as noted in the Hanukkah/Christmas/Kwanzaa episode"...
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A video of Sid The Science Kid that episode is embedded below.
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SHOWCASE VIDEOS AND COMMENTS
Video #1. The Sid the Science Kid Theme Song! - The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company Published on Oct 23, 2014
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Lyrics: SID THE SCIENCE KID THEME SONG
Hey is this thing on?
Hey Sid, what do you say,
What’chawanna learn today?
I want to know why things happen and how,
And I wanna know everything now.
How does this thing work?
Why does that stuff change?
How does that do what it just did?
What's up with the sky?
Do you think i can fly?
The world is spinning and I wanna know why.
I got a lot of questions and big ideas, I'm Sid the Science Kid"
People who are more musically inclined than me might be able to expand on this statement, but all that I can say is that that I think that this theme song sounds to me like Hip Hop music.
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2. Sid the Science Kid - "I Love My Mom!"
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song lyrics:
"I love my mom!
(Un hun)
My mom is cool
(Un hun)
But now it's time
(Un hun)
To go to school!)
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I've come across several parodies of this song which have the ending changed to "now it's time to play in school", "it's time to get beaten up at school" and even "now it's time to shoot up the school".
With regard to what I consider to be the Black cultural influences on this song, notice the use of African American Vernacular English (i.e. My mom is cool." Also, notice the call & response structure of this brief song. Several commenters on this YouTube video's discussion thread noted that this song reminds them of a Hip Hop mixtape.
honey nut, 2015
"sid new mixtape be fire"
Lunatikkrazie azylum, 2016
"When's his mixtape gonna drop 🔥🔥🔥"
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In African American Vernacular English, something that is "fire" (or someone who is "on fire") is real hot (really good).
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Another commenter on that same discussion thread, unknowncreeper, wrote in 2016 "dude this kid spits straight barz". "Spits straight barz (bars) is Hip Hop lingo for "rapping really well".
WARNING: Although Sid The Science Kid is a children's animated series, a number of the comments on the YouTube discussion thread for this video and other related videos contain profanity and other content that is not suitable for children.
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Video Example #3: I'm Looking for My Friends! - Sid the Science Kid - The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company Published on Oct 23, 2014
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LYRICS: I'M LOOKING FOR MY FRIENDS*
Sid: I'm looking for my friends.
I'm looking for you.
There's Gabriela.
Gabriela: Watch what I can do.
Lah lah whee!
lah lah woo!
Oh, yeah! [Gabriela dancing]
Sid: Wow!
I'm looking for my friends.
I'm looking for you.
Hey, there's Gerald.
Gerald: Check out my moves.
Heh Heh. Ha Ha.
I'm a rock star! [Gerald dancing]
Sid: Coo!
I'm looking for my friends.
I'm looking for you.
Hey, there's May.
May: May I show you how I groove?
Bing by da da da (May laughing and dancing)
Yeah!
Sid: Groovy!
Gabriela, Gerald, and May: We're looking for our friends.
I'm looking for you.
Hey, there's Sid!
Sid: Did you hear the one about the kid who wanted to know everything about everything?
Gabriela, Gerald, and May: That's you!
Sid: Ah. You got me.
[Everyone in the group laughing, dancing, and saying random exclamations like "Yah da da da" and "Yeah".]
All: We're looking for our friends.
All look what we found.
We found each other.
Friends!
[ends with sounds of laughter]
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*Transcription by Azizi Powell from this video. Other video clips of this song may have slightly different lyrics. Additions and corrections are welcome.
Sid The Science Kid's "I'm Looking For My Friends" song reminds me of an adapted foot stomping cheer*. Sid begins each iteration of the song with the words "I'm looking for my friend" and one at a time each member of the group takes a turn showing how they dance. Sid's turn is different from the others as he talks and doesn't dance. The song ends with the entire group laughing, dancing, and singing together.
In contrast, "standard" foot stomping cheers begin with a group voice, followed by a soloist. After the soloist has her (or his) turn, the cheer begins from the beginning and the next soloist takes her (or his) turn. Each soloist turn is the exact same length of time. Some foot stomping cheers end with the entire group doing the same foot stomping movement as the soloist. This pattern continues until everyone in the group has one equal time turn as the soloist.
