{"id":27837,"date":"2014-11-13T11:51:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=27837"},"modified":"2014-11-13T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T17:00:01","slug":"throwback-thursday-harry-chapin-and-wonderama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/throwback-thursday-harry-chapin-and-wonderama\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Harry Chapin and Wonderama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I messed up my iPod and ended up with all my music in the cloud instead of on the device. (I don&#8217;t listen to music on my phone because I need the phone battery to send 50 billion emails a day and to play the Kardashian Hollywood game. We all have our priorities.) As a result, I&#8217;ve been going through my music and downloading whatever I need to listen to at the gym. This morning, I came across the 1974 song &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cat%27s_in_the_Cradle\" target=\"_blank\">Cat&#8217;s in the Cradle<\/a>&#8221; by Harry Chapin.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-s5r2spPJ8g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not a gym-appropriate tune, but hearing it again made me remember that I&#8217;d seen Chapin &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1981\/07\/17\/obituaries\/harry-chapin-singer-killed-in-crash.html\" target=\"_blank\">who died in a car crash in 1981<\/a> &#8212; perform it on television once. I felt sure that it was on the long-running kids&#8217; variety show <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wonderama\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wonderama<\/em><\/a>. During the years I watched that show, it aired on Sundays and was hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_McAllister\" target=\"_blank\">Bob McAllister<\/a>. Before teh Interwebs, in order to confirm this factoid, I would have had to hit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/microfiche\" target=\"_blank\">microfiche<\/a> at a library to scour old newspapers for any mention of Chapin&#8217;s guest appearance. Today, I just used <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/search-engine-self-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poodle<\/a> to confirm within seconds that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anyoldkindofday.com\/index.php\/Wonderama\" target=\"_blank\">Chapin and his kids were on Wonderama on Jan. 30, 1977<\/a>. Interesting to know that I barely recall what I did two days ago, yet I have a vivid memory of a show that went off the air in December 1977.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I looked up <em>Wonderama<\/em>, because once or twice I&#8217;ve had a song called &#8220;Kids Are People Too&#8221; stuck in my head for a day. Now I know it was the closing theme for the show.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UA8iC1niJ4E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I never thought of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shazam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shazam<\/a>-ing that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earworm\" target=\"_blank\">earworm<\/a> before. And, now that I think of Shazam the music identification app, I remember I used to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shazam!_%28TV_series%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shazam<\/em> the superhero television show<\/a>, which, like <em>Wonderama<\/em>, went off the air in 1977. There was a female superhero named Isis on that show; I liked her the best. I put up with <em>Shazam<\/em>&#8216;s Captain Marvel to get to Isis.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the opening credits.I like the anti-prejudice message from Isis that started this episode.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZ6ZDQZV9nA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I also like her headpiece! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I messed up my iPod and ended up with all my music in the cloud instead of on the device. (I don&#8217;t listen to music on my phone because I need the phone battery to send 50 billion emails a day and to play the Kardashian Hollywood game. We all have our priorities.) 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