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Edward George White (21 August 1910 – 1994) was a British composer of light music, [1] whose compositions including "The Runaway Rocking-Horse" (1946), "Paris Interlude" (1952), "Puffin' Billy" (1952) and the signature tune for The Telegoons (1963), became familiar as radio and television theme tunes.
The first theme song for Captain Kangaroo titled "Puffin' Billy" was used from the show's debut in 1955 until 1974. It was an instrumental piece of light music, written by Edward G. White and recorded by the Melodi Light Orchestra.
McCulloch made his last broadcast in 1965 and several other presenters were tried including Leslie Crowther.After BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 were launched, the show was renamed Junior Choice and simultaneously broadcast on both stations and Puffin' Billy was replaced by an instrumental version of the Seekers' hit Morningtown Ride played by Stan Butcher, from his 1966 album a His Birds and ...
The distinctive theme music was "In Party Mood" by Jack Strachey.This music, much like "Puffin' Billy", the theme to Junior Choice, has latterly been used frequently in other media as a signifier for 1950s Middle England, for example in a number of TV adverts and in the Comic Strip's parodies of the Famous Five, Five Go Mad in Dorset and Five Go Mad on Mescalin.
Puffing Billy Railway? fiveby 16:04, 24 March 2023 (UTC) That might be wikigenisis Captain_Kangaroo#Theme song. Could it be in the sense of 'arness a puffin' Billy and not a specific locomotive? A puffin' billy is a bloomin' steamboat, That's what it is. fiveby 16:39, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
She was often seen singing the end theme to this show. Shirlee Pufnstuf (performed by Sharon Baird, voiced by Joan Gerber impersonating a younger Shirley Temple) – A dragon who is H.R. Pufnstuf's sister and a famous actress. Max von Toadenoff the Great (voiced by Lennie Weinrib) – A monocled toad who works as a film director.
Puffing Billy Tournament, a board game convention focusing on train games; Puffin' Billy, a famous piece of light music by Edward White; Puffing Billy, military jargon for the M67 Immersion Heater; Puffing Billy, a short lived comic strip in The Beano about a fat boy called Billy; Puffing Billy, a vacuum cleaner constructed by Hubert Cecil Booth
This was the famous steam locomotive, Puffing Billy which first ran in 1813 and is now preserved at the Science Museum in London. Its success encouraged them to build a second engine Wylam Dilly, which is now in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. In the same year, his system for using a coupling between the wheels was patented.