This was the first theme song for TV that I ever wrote, Len Beadle and I wrote it and we recorded it with his then wife the Fabulous Jackie Lee it was great fun and I still love her version. Ron Roker
Ron Roker, thank you so much for this beatiful song. It has been in my head for most of my life. I must have been about 1 or 2 years old when this was aired on TV here in Nigeria, 1978, 79. I couldn't know the words then, just the word, Rupert, the colour of his clothing and the chorus part of the theme, Rupert, Rupert the bear... Fond memories of good times gone by..
I am 5 years old again. ❤❤❤. Thank you for being able to take me there. Delboy. 😀. Childhood innocence is to be treasured, & enjoyed, and create long lasting memories. But we have always existed in an imperfect world..
Thank you all so much for all the kind words you have written about the song my friend and co writing partner of the song Len passed away some time ago and I am sure he and Jackie would both have thanked you all too.
I watched this in 1970s before Islamic Revolution took placed in Iran. After revolution the TV stations never broadcast most of western cartoons including this version of Rubert. Now I am watching this and I remember all of good memories that I experienced in my childhood which vanished into thin air when Islamic Revolution happened.
Happy 100th birthday Rupert the bear, it's been 40 years since I've heard this theme tune, it still a great theme tune in my opinion, a good yesteryear cartoon still because it's not digitalised like so many are now.
The interior decor of the child's bedroom. The camera movements. The animations on the title slide. It is so typically 1970 (and no other year) that it hurts. A very iconic look and very much of its time.
Aw haven’t heard this in 40 odd years still love it ❤️my Dad bought the single for me when I was about 3 he said I always bounced on his knee when it came on telly 😢❤️
@@karenj9747 Actually, a couple of people have said they found this show to be scary which surprised me, but then children can be unnerved by innocuous things!
Rupert The Bear 0231am 18.6.22 where are the full episodes of this rupert the bear circa 1970...and why is 1970's kids' tv chock stock full with the weird spectre of death?
I loved this show when I was a child. Then they made it a cartoon and cgi? Bring back the puppets! Where can I find the originals?? Beyond precious! This generation stinks. Magic is gone 😔😢
Judy Bennett also presented Playtime on the old schools programmes and Christine Granville was a puppet operator on Gerry Anderson's puppet series. I have this on DVD.
In the early 80s we had a local Garage Punk rockband called The Peeping Toms .. amidst their set , the guitarist would burst into the opening tune - the place would erupt with 100 punks and crusties ( and a few yachties probably ) singing along " ROO-PERT , ROO-PERT THE BEAR " ! Great memories , love from the new forest pixies
Haha, brilliant! I knew an indie band in the early 90s that made a thrash-heavy version of the Rainbow theme a staple of their live shows. The crowd loved it.
I took mine into hospital with me when 2 or 3 in the early 70s and made the mistake of taking him into the bath with me. It was a tragic few days that followed, as I saw his rubber start to disintegrate until only the wire frame within remained :(
I grew up with the series, you cheeky little bastard! Just because you thought Raggerty was the stuff of nightmares doesn't mean to have to fucking spoil it for everbody, thoughtless fuckwit.
Thanks for this, I've searched before and couldn't find it only the modern version. Reminds me so of when I was little watching this and the Wombles. Thank you for sharing.
According to my mother, before the age of 5, there were only two times I smiled - for the original Sooty show and for this series. I can believe it. One of my most vivid memories at that age was watching the show and wondering why Badger was only ever shown as a head in the titles. I seem to remember deciding they must've made the titles before they'd finished making Badger and that they'd show Badger properly in a future program. I was really upset when they never did. Maybe if they ever make a future series with the puppets, they'll have a bit more respect. But, then, maybe I was the only child who cared that much.
Wow, I remember the theme song quite well, even though I never saw that adaptation! It was some VHS of a class singing songs including the Rupert when they see Rupert at a heritage railway. Edit: It was called A Day Full of Fun.
Did anyone else have the Bendy Toys Rupert which was in the intro? I used to imagine I was the kid in the bed!, Bendy Toys were all over the place when I was in primary school. I had Rupert and Bugs Bunny, and my older cousin had Pinky and Perky the pigs from the 60s TV show. I inherited one as a birthday present when I was about 5 because I loved them so much when I stayed over. Bendy Toys were basically a foam mold over a wire frame that you could bend into any position and it would pose for you! Can't believe many would have survived this long, mine didn't, but the loving memories endure!
if you haven't got anything nice to say about this classis children's series then shut the fuck up! I waited a long fucking time to get this on dvd...I've a good mind to twat you in the face with one of my heels!
I used to get creeped out by a thing called "poggles Wood". It always seemed so dark and scary.The animation was very jerky and nasty.Not sure if it was in colour as we had B&W TV which made it intensely....unsettling!. Also got nervy over Witchypoo in H.R Puffenstuff and that silver flute.
steve radford Pogles Wood!! I love that show! My next door neighbour when I was a little boy in the early eighties used to work on it!! That’s how I discovered it!!! ruclips.net/video/RlNR4ExOl6g/видео.html
Lol, it does look funny now as I'm almost 60 years old! For what's it's worth, I had a toy Rupert as a wee boy, all spongy and foamy😁 I eventually tore it to shreds.... Needless to say, I grew into a well rounded and very sociable adult! Thanks Rupert.
@@bumble1612 I had a rubber Rupert with a squeeker in it. The head kept falling off. Must have had it from around 1972. Still had it kicking around until I was around 10, I suppose - around 1979 -80 before it was thrown out. Never recall ever playing with it though.
It's funny how some things stay in the memory exactly as they were - I must've last saw this in 74 or 75 - I wasn't too keen on the show itself - preferring cartoons or claymation to puppets, but I liked the theme tune a lot.
It is all a bit creepy to be honest. the disembodied heads, the blank staring eyes. The orchestration of the tune is odd too with those triangle and metronome type wood block sounds, plus I think somewhere in there, bassoon. It is very effective and distinctive but like the credits just seems radioactive with oddness somehow.
This was released as a single, so it's longer than a normal intro - it's a mashup of the single with some video. But 1-1:30 isn't unusual for an intro.
No, as You usually only hear part of the Tune, used as the Opening Theme (or ‘Intro’) & the same piece (or a different part) for the Closing Theme (or ‘Outro’). But most Composers do write an entire Music Score for the Programme & quite often, You never get to hear the Theme, in it’s entirety. I think the duration of 2’:30” of quite a lot of Hit Songs, was based upon the length of Music, that would comfortably fit onto a 45 rpm Singles Recording Disc at that time. 🙂
In 2000, I bought a CD called The Persuaders! And Other TV Themes and this was on it. I remember being so fucking frustrated I couldn't get it that I burst into tears. Although I was able to get one complete episode on youtube three years ago, it was only the one. Well, a few days ago, I decided to go for broke and buy the complete series on dvd. By the way, the series began in 1970...not fucking 1967.
Funny you say that. Jackie Lee, the singer of this song (which reached no.14 in the UK charts in 1971) released a single called "Just Like a Man" in the late 60s, whose B-side, "I Gotta Be With You", became popular on the Northern soul circuit. Lee had such a rich voice.
@@Tiz604 "Lee decided to become a solo artist in 1965 and recorded 'beat' records until 1967. One of these releases, "Just Like a Man", reached the NME chart. The B-side; "I Gotta Be With You", became popular on the Northern soul circuit. Lee recorded this single under the name of 'Emma Rede' for EMI" - Wikipedia.
I loved the comic strip (Daily Express? can't remember) and the Annuals, but despise anything transferred to the screen, be it Rupert, Winnie the Pooh or any other. Sure, TV originals I'm good, but transfers from print, nah, leave them be on the page.
I never cared for the programme itself (I loved the Alfred Bestall Rupert annuals), but a friend of mine (rightly) drew attention to the impressive bass guitar playing on the theme song. I wonder who it was: Mo Clifton? Herbie Flowers? It's a soppy, syrupy song, but the arrangement is actually quite decent - probably a good deal better than the tune merits.
@@allisonleigh2395 you are both on your own there, I loved Raggedy. But only the old ones, the new one in 2007 was just dreadful, they made him an elf which was just dreadful.
This was the first theme song for TV that I ever wrote, Len Beadle and I wrote it and we recorded it with his then wife the Fabulous Jackie Lee it was great fun and I still love her version. Ron Roker
Ron Roker, thank you so much for this beatiful song. It has been in my head for most of my life. I must have been about 1 or 2 years old when this was aired on TV here in Nigeria, 1978, 79. I couldn't know the words then, just the word, Rupert, the colour of his clothing and the chorus part of the theme, Rupert, Rupert the bear... Fond memories of good times gone by..
Every composer dreams of composing a song that is unforgettable, and you did just that. Jackie sung it to perfection.
I am 5 years old again. ❤❤❤. Thank you for being able to take me there. Delboy. 😀. Childhood innocence is to be treasured, & enjoyed, and create long lasting memories. But we have always existed in an imperfect world..
These kids shows were magical🤗🎶👍. Long since gone now ....a distant memory that kids nowadays do not understand.
100% right
Love this theme tune sung beautifully by Jackie Lee what childhood memories
Thank you all so much for all the kind words you have written about the song my friend and co writing partner of the song Len passed away some time ago and I am sure he and Jackie would both have thanked you all too.
I watched this in 1970s before Islamic Revolution took placed in Iran. After revolution the TV stations never broadcast most of western cartoons including this version of Rubert. Now I am watching this and I remember all of good memories that I experienced in my childhood which vanished into thin air when Islamic Revolution happened.
Did they not care for Podgy Pig?
@@Ballykeith Pigs are forbidden to keep, watch, and eat per sharia law. No, I’m not kidding…
At least you got Rupert back in your heart … stuff the rigidity of religion eh …
@@Ballykeith… A guy speaks from the heart and you take the piss …
@@Ballykeith… A guy speaks from the heart and you take the piss …
I loved that as a little kid ... even though I'm 55 I can remember the visual intro and all the words to the song!.
Absolutely loved this show. And the theme tune is magical. Thank you
Happy 100th birthday Rupert the bear, it's been 40 years since I've heard this theme tune, it still a great theme tune in my opinion, a good yesteryear cartoon still because it's not digitalised like so many are now.
Oh god this takes me right back! 53 but that little girl has just come to the surface watching this 🥰
The interior decor of the child's bedroom. The camera movements. The animations on the title slide.
It is so typically 1970 (and no other year) that it hurts. A very iconic look and very much of its time.
From a time when children were children, and glad to be so.
Sorry, but I still love this song 50 odd years later 😊
Same!
From 1970! I watched it as a kid! How innocent life was! Sigh.
Aw haven’t heard this in 40 odd years still love it ❤️my Dad bought the single for me when I was about 3 he said I always bounced on his knee when it came on telly 😢❤️
Lovely story that, thanks
wonderful to hear this song again... takes me back to a more innocent & joyful childhood... ❤
I was born in 1966, this and catweazle were my favourite shows :-)
Me too and Catweazle is the earliest TV show I remember!
Same here, March 66 and this was the first show I can recall.
Vivid memories of putting my head down the side of the sofa and crying every time this came on.. even know I'm getting a bit teary for no reason haaa
Karen J this brings on good tears, melancholy tears. A time when life was simpler and we had our whole lives ahead of us.
Why did you cry??
@@Ballykeith goodness knows !? Kinda sad music ? Hahah No actual reason .. still cry for no reason 😆
@@karenj9747 Actually, a couple of people have said they found this show to be scary which surprised me, but then children can be unnerved by innocuous things!
There's something in my eye, dammit!
Excuse me while I hide away and weep copiously for half an hour.
Rupert The Bear 0231am 18.6.22 where are the full episodes of this rupert the bear circa 1970...and why is 1970's kids' tv chock stock full with the weird spectre of death?
I loved this show when I was a child. Then they made it a cartoon and cgi? Bring back the puppets! Where can I find the originals?? Beyond
precious! This generation stinks. Magic is gone
😔😢
Brenda Lang Network on air do the DVD's if you haven't found them yet.
networkonair.com/search?s=Rupert
I grew up with the cartoon but I do agree with you that they should bring the puppet series back, reair it.
Takes me back to when I was 5 years old....
This used to scare the crap out of me when I was young...still makes me feel funny watching this now and I'm 50!!!
Yes, it's terrifying. I totally agree with you 🤣
Judy Bennett also presented Playtime on the old schools programmes and Christine Granville was a puppet operator on Gerry Anderson's puppet series. I have this on DVD.
strange seeing this again after 40 odd years!
Good old Rupert 😊
Thanks for the memories. I used to watch this, and I'd have the annuals every year for Christmas.
Constable Growler. What a great name.
Thumbs up if you think aardman needs to make a series of this or at least repeat this series on Television.
In the early 80s we had a local Garage Punk rockband called The Peeping Toms .. amidst their set , the guitarist would burst into the opening tune - the place would erupt with 100 punks and crusties ( and a few yachties probably ) singing along " ROO-PERT , ROO-PERT THE BEAR " ! Great memories , love from the new forest pixies
Haha, brilliant! I knew an indie band in the early 90s that made a thrash-heavy version of the Rainbow theme a staple of their live shows. The crowd loved it.
Horror at it's best in some of the characters. Would not be allowed today. Still scares me as a 70s child 😮
Better times when this was on the t.v.
Welcome to Texas
Rupert the Bear
He is the bear
With a lot of hair
Why did he have so many adventures? I wish he'd just fuck off and die -chris O neil 😂
ive still got my bendy rupert i had when i was a child im now in my 50s
I took mine into hospital with me when 2 or 3 in the early 70s and made the mistake of taking him into the bath with me. It was a tragic few days that followed, as I saw his rubber start to disintegrate until only the wire frame within remained :(
Made by Bendy Toys in Ashford Common.........
I had a Rupert space hopper, his hands/paws were the handles lol. I used to hit my sisters over the head with it 😂
Thumbs up anyone who thinks that Raggety was the stuff of nightmares.
ive never ate beetroot since
He was the man!
Freaked me out everytime! Those disembodied heads are truly horrible!
I honestly thought he was adorable
I grew up with the series, you cheeky little bastard! Just because you thought Raggerty was the stuff of nightmares doesn't mean to have to fucking spoil it for everbody, thoughtless fuckwit.
Grandparents would get me the Rupert the Bear annual every Christmas in the 1970s, a joyous childhood for us all.
I had the Rupert and pig toys and they fell off the cabinet one night 😂
Rupert at 0.42: "It's time to keep your appointment with The Wicker Man!"
oh i was 7 now im 42 , still love it
The last line.....As a kid I always thought “ who the heck is Oliver?” 😂 ( .... and Olivers games)
😂😂😂
That's what's called a mondegreen 😁
Still have Rupert annuals. I’m 48
Thanks for this, I've searched before and couldn't find it only the modern version. Reminds me so of when I was little watching this and the Wombles. Thank you for sharing.
No problem. Thanks Nands.
loved this as a child,now on dvd
I remember watching reruns as a child in the eighties.
Yes, I think I saw it around 1980.
Loved this as a child ❤
57 and still love Rupert ...I have rubber bendy Rupert❤❤❤❤
According to my mother, before the age of 5, there were only two times I smiled - for the original Sooty show and for this series.
I can believe it. One of my most vivid memories at that age was watching the show and wondering why Badger was only ever shown as a head in the titles. I seem to remember deciding they must've made the titles before they'd finished making Badger and that they'd show Badger properly in a future program.
I was really upset when they never did.
Maybe if they ever make a future series with the puppets, they'll have a bit more respect. But, then, maybe I was the only child who cared that much.
Added to my channel's playlist 'Music for Bunking Off', over eighty songs to fill you with 70s nostalgia. 😊
SUPERB
Great throwback
Recuerdo esta serie a finales de los 70s en México por canal 13 XHDF regrese a mi infancia gran recuerdo.
Wow!! I never imagined kids in Mexico would be watching it too.
Was the theme tune sung in English or Spanish?
If in Spanish Id love to hear that.
So many memories 😁
what a song
Wow, I remember the theme song quite well, even though I never saw that adaptation! It was some VHS of a class singing songs including the Rupert when they see Rupert at a heritage railway.
Edit: It was called A Day Full of Fun.
Did anyone else have the Bendy Toys Rupert which was in the intro? I used to imagine I was the kid in the bed!, Bendy Toys were all over the place when I was in primary school. I had Rupert and Bugs Bunny, and my older cousin had Pinky and Perky the pigs from the 60s TV show. I inherited one as a birthday present when I was about 5 because I loved them so much when I stayed over. Bendy Toys were basically a foam mold over a wire frame that you could bend into any position and it would pose for you! Can't believe many would have survived this long, mine didn't, but the loving memories endure!
40 years on this terrifies me to my very soul - my mum use to leave me in front of the TV with on and would come back with me tears.. 5 stars creepy.
if you haven't got anything nice to say about this classis children's series then shut the fuck up! I waited a long fucking time to get this on dvd...I've a good mind to twat you in the face with one of my heels!
I used to get creeped out by a thing called "poggles Wood". It always seemed so dark and scary.The animation was very jerky and nasty.Not sure if it was in colour as we had B&W TV which made it intensely....unsettling!. Also got nervy over Witchypoo in H.R Puffenstuff and that silver flute.
You just can’t appreciate historical art
steve radford Pogles Wood!! I love that show! My next door neighbour when I was a little boy in the early eighties used to work on it!! That’s how I discovered it!!!
ruclips.net/video/RlNR4ExOl6g/видео.html
@barbara anne cortina what lovely turn of phrase you have.. Keep your heels on as I know they are the tools of the trade for hookers 🤖
Did anyone find the opening funny? With all their heads, it is just funny.
Lol, it does look funny now as I'm almost 60 years old! For what's it's worth, I had a toy Rupert as a wee boy, all spongy and foamy😁 I eventually tore it to shreds.... Needless to say, I grew into a well rounded and very sociable adult! Thanks Rupert.
@@bumble1612 I had a hand knitted toy of Rupert and Bill Badger.
@@bumble1612 I had a rubber Rupert with a squeeker in it. The head kept falling off.
Must have had it from around 1972. Still had it kicking around until I was around 10, I suppose - around 1979 -80 before it was thrown out. Never recall ever playing with it though.
@@ianbeale2527 Mine got to playing football once I got a bit older. No issues with his head here.
My childhood right there.
I like the cartoon in the 90's
These credits radiate "1970-ness" if there is such a thing (or perhaps 1969-ness). Hard to pin down but you know it somehow when you see it.
Why am I left feeling slightly melancholy?
Why am I tearing up? 😥
The intro song is amazing.
Watching this while eating a Farley's rusk 😊
It's funny how some things stay in the memory exactly as they were - I must've last saw this in 74 or 75 - I wasn't too keen on the show itself - preferring cartoons or claymation to puppets, but I liked the theme tune a lot.
I know what you mean, bring,s a tear to the eye
That's heresy! How dare you say that about a classic children's show? Time was when heretics were burned at the stake...pity that can't happen now!
What's the thing at 0:32? It used to scare me as a small child.
It is all a bit creepy to be honest. the disembodied heads, the blank staring eyes. The orchestration of the tune is odd too with those triangle and metronome type wood block sounds, plus I think somewhere in there, bassoon. It is very effective and distinctive but like the credits just seems radioactive with oddness somehow.
Does me still and I'm pushing 60 😕 any child of today would never believe what we had to endure 😅
The song charted high in the UK charts
Oh my gosh I'm a child again
childhood song
1970-1977
Are all old TV themes usually this long?
This was released as a single, so it's longer than a normal intro - it's a mashup of the single with some video. But 1-1:30 isn't unusual for an intro.
@@eddiecobbett Thanks. 1:30 is still long though. 2:17 for a TV show intro is just overkill, but this is a single so it makes sense.
@@donjwolf The intro was never that long this has been edited with the 7" single playing.
No, as You usually only hear part of the Tune, used as the Opening Theme (or ‘Intro’) & the same piece (or a different part) for the Closing Theme (or ‘Outro’). But most Composers do write an entire Music Score for the Programme & quite often, You never get to hear the Theme, in it’s entirety.
I think the duration of 2’:30” of quite a lot of Hit Songs, was based upon the length of Music, that would comfortably fit onto a 45 rpm Singles Recording Disc at that time. 🙂
In 2000, I bought a CD called The Persuaders! And Other TV Themes and this was on it. I remember being so fucking frustrated I couldn't get it that I burst into tears. Although I was able to get one complete episode on youtube three years ago, it was only the one. Well, a few days ago, I decided to go for broke and buy the complete series on dvd. By the way, the series began in 1970...not fucking 1967.
😎 😎 Al good 👍🖐️🏆🥉🥈🥇🎗️🇬🇧 Britains faverot 🐻 bear 🐻
Yup, with due respect to Pooh and Paddington.
His little flying car
What’s white and wears check trousers?
Rupert the fridge.
Brilliant :)
🥰
Didn't he have a flying car? I remember the song so much not the show?
Not sure, but the 1966 annual has him in a spaceship!
Iv just realised ... this could be a Northern Soul Track !...
Funny you say that. Jackie Lee, the singer of this song (which reached no.14 in the UK charts in 1971) released a single called "Just Like a Man" in the late 60s, whose B-side, "I Gotta Be With You", became popular on the Northern soul circuit. Lee had such a rich voice.
@@Ballykeith I'll dig that out and listen!
@@Tiz604 "Lee decided to become a solo artist in 1965 and recorded 'beat' records until 1967. One of these releases, "Just Like a Man", reached the NME chart. The B-side; "I Gotta Be With You", became popular on the Northern soul circuit. Lee recorded this single under the name of 'Emma Rede' for EMI" - Wikipedia.
Who else came here wondering where Newcastle fans got the theme for Philippe albert
The characters in this version look kinda creepy...
How they were meant to be - original no simulation.
Bro I have a Rupert bear plush that my grandad got me and it stairs at me at the middle of my room every night
I thought the 90s cartoon was pretty good. Never seen this take.
How dare they take out Tiger Lily! 😡
Made with Gerry Anderson's redundant puppet team after he moved onto live action like UFO
I loved the comic strip (Daily Express? can't remember) and the Annuals, but despise anything transferred to the screen, be it Rupert, Winnie the Pooh or any other. Sure, TV originals I'm good, but transfers from print, nah, leave them be on the page.
Dave And Chappers sent me here
I think the change to Rupert's fur color was for the better in the 90's
Referring to him as Rupert the Bear, rather than his name Rupert Bear, always pissed me off.
I never cared for the programme itself (I loved the Alfred Bestall Rupert annuals), but a friend of mine (rightly) drew attention to the impressive bass guitar playing on the theme song. I wonder who it was: Mo Clifton? Herbie Flowers?
It's a soppy, syrupy song, but the arrangement is actually quite decent - probably a good deal better than the tune merits.
Have to disagree. This song is class. Far more chordally adventurous than anyone could be arsed to do nowadays for a TV theme.
It sounds very much like Herbie Flowers on bass.
I'm the 1000th view Yayyyyyyyy :D LOL
Man, that thing is aggressively NOT cute.
Coachey song
This be great to come out to a ring if you was a pro boxer lol
i hate raggedy
Lol raggedy was a snitch 😂😂
@@allisonleigh2395 LOL!
@@allisonleigh2395 you are both on your own there, I loved Raggedy. But only the old ones, the new one in 2007 was just dreadful, they made him an elf which was just dreadful.