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Before eating, they would recite the celebrated Romper Room grace: "God is great; God is good. Let us thank Him for our food. Amen." At the end of each broadcast, the hostess would look through a "magic mirror"—actually an open frame with a handle, the size, and shape of a hand mirror—and recite the rhyme, "Romper, bomper, stomper boo.
Perhaps you were remembering that L.A. Romper Room hostess Mary Ann King was mugged in a parking in December, 2003. She was 70 at the time, and sustained a broken arm, rib and punctured lung, plus the thieves stole a bag that contained the original Magic Mirror used on the Romper Room program.
The new lyrics inevitably rely on repetitive stanzas, such as Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" (which is devoted almost entirely to a woman from the original lyrics who is described as liking horses), [25] The Beach Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun" (where most of its lyrics are centered upon a hamburger stand, and eventually consist entirely of the word ...
It is the earliest known preschool series to be produced in the United States, predating Romper Room by a year. [2] The program was presented from a child's point of view. A 1953 magazine article reported, "Low-angled cameras see everything at Lilliputian eye-level, stories and activities are paced at the slow rate just right for small ears and ...
Miss Mary Ann Pedersen is mentioned in Romper Room#New York City as working in the "early 1970s". She also has her own Facebook page. The San Francisco section states that Miss Nancy worked up to 1969, but that doesn't necessarily mean the show stopped when she did. Clarityfiend 07:15, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
Betty Thompson (1934–1994) was a Canadian television presenter who spent most of her career at CKCO-TV in Kitchener, Ontario.She was seen throughout Canada as host of CTV's version of Romper Room, a children's programme produced at CKCO's studios.
Claster Television, Inc. was a Baltimore, Maryland–based television distributor founded in 1953 by Bertram H. (Bert) Claster and Nancy Claster (Goldman) as Romper Room Inc. [2] It was originally a producer of the children's show Romper Room, one of the first preschool children's programs.
From 1953 through 1981, the television show Romper Room's opening and ending featured "Pop Goes the Weasel" played on a Mattel's Jack-in-the-box. [ 68 ] In the golden age of the American Wrestling Association , The Crusher would bring a Jack-in-the-box to television interviews, winding the toy and singing "Pop Goes the Weasel" when the toy ...