The 'Hood Songtime

 

You know those songs they show in between programmes on ABC Kids? Well, I've created a new interstitial series for ABC Me and ABC Kids - The 'Hood Songtime! Here's what the description will say on the ABC iView website:

"Delightful, bouncy and fun reggae covers by Asheba, set to joyful animations featuring your favourite characters from The 'Hood."

Almost all the songs are reggae covers of songs from the original Teletubbies, Play School: Through The Windows, Play School and Otis Day & The Knights by children's reggae artist Asheba, two of the songs, Loose Change and Three Little Birds, were performed by Joe Hall & The Treehouse Band and Cedella Marley. Garrangali, who composes the music for Me, You, And Transformers Cybertron, will do a cover of the Play School: Through The Windows song 'Aeroplane Song' in English, in a similar style to their song 'Sea Rights'.

• Loose Change - The gang enjoy a Summer day at the park with their friends and families.
• Kangaroo - The gang take an Australian outback tour and try to spot kangaroos. Bingo gets to hold Joey.
• Aeroplane Song - The gang pretend to fly like the planes they see in the sky and imagine flying with their airborne friends.
• Blowing In The Breeze - The gang play with things that blow in the wind, like pinwheels, leaves and laundry.
• Billy The Blue Tongue Lizard - The gang imagine they're in Izzy's storybook and pretend they are Aboriginal people trying to observe Billy The Blue Tongue Lizard's story.
• Good Morning - The gang take a walk along the road on the way to school and kindy and say good morning to their waking neighbours.
• Bump-A-Deedle - The gang and their friends and family dance to this bouncy reggae cover of Bump-A-Deedle in front of a colourful background, and Dad gets to show off his moves, impressing Mum in the process.
• Little Baby - A montage of images of the smiling faces of children from the Australian Native Nursery and the gang and their friends showing their own facial expressions and pulling funny faces set to this reggae cover of this Teletubbies lullaby. Dad has the habit of sticking his finger up his nose and pulling the funniest face ever pulled!
• Shama Lama - Calypso leads Bluey and her friends in a hand-clapping song game, which turns into a marching band and later into a conga line that Izzy and the other kids in her gang join in with.
• Handy Hands - From Auslan to shadow puppets, the gang and their friends and family, including their friends Sally and Possum, demonstrate how useful hands really are, as the gang clap out the rhythms to this jammin' Jamaican beat about - you guessed it - handy hands!
• Three Little Birds - On a sunny day, Izzy looks around at the places in the neighbourhood and imagines all the things she could do with her friends on such a fine day.