I am a wonder, I am a wheeIf so, please email and let me know what it's from. It has something to do with a puppet, a record, kindergarten, and the 80s, but Google is failing me on this one.
I am known as Peabody
What am I like? Just look and see
Then you'll know me, Peabody
UPDATE: Google eventually did lead me here, where I found this very apt description of the puppet I'm remembering:
I think it was something to do with the Peabody Reading Scheme and another puppet called Peamoonie(?) He was the one that looked like Hitler in a baseball cap, had a magic wand and an awful song which, embarrassingly, I can still remember!
UPDATE II: Further obsessive Googling (have I mentioned that there is actual work that I should be doing?) revealed that his name was actually "P. Mooney," that he is part of a language program that is still in use, and that he looks something like the dude on the left below, although the puppet from my memory is a lot more like the puppet described above, with a much more bulbous head.
4 comments:
Hi,
In 1978 as a 6 year old I attended speech therapy classes at my primary school in Leeds, UK. I was quite a difficult little kid but remember sitting listening to a strange little puppet called Peamoonie that would pop up and start singing the Peamoonie song!! I googled the name having been reminded of it for some reason and came up with this blog! I remember once grabbing for Peamooine which must have been a bit of a shock for the speech therapist.. Strange what memories we retain, I can still remember the tune to the song!
:) This is what the Google is for.
I still remember the tune too!
Funny that we have the same memory even though I was growing up in Atlanta, Georgia (southern United States).
I remember P. Mooney, but I dont recall what he looked like, just that his name was p. mooney. I remember he had a friend named Zoeie, and she had a song that went something like "zoeie, zoeie. Zoeie knows what to dooooo."
I grew up in Montreal, and I remember this from Kindergarten; 1976 to be exact,lol!! I can still see the puppet in my mind.
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