The S.O. is at an estate sale this morning. She awoke at the crack of dawn-the better to get stuff early. I rolled over with a muffled moan-and told her, "to have a good time! I’m sleeping in".
Ah but once it was not so. A long time ago and in a galaxy far away, the sun would come up on a Saturday, by virtue of being the only boy, I would wake up in the house, in my room, by myself. Quietly, I would pad down the steps and park my butt ever so close to the TV to watch: SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS!
Fortunately for me-my parents tended to be late sleepers on a Saturday-probably as a compensation for having to lose sleep on Sundays as they performed the thankless task of dragging all us kids to church. ( Fat lot of good it did them it would seem).
Anyway-its sheer joy this morning because with the S.O. gone, I can sit here and listen to some of my old music CD’s, without her whining about either content or volume. And, quite by accident, I stumbled across this one that my son had given to me about 12 years ago:
I don’t remember how he came to get it for me- but the first time I listened to it, I was hooked. The CD contains 18 really rocked out versions of theme songs for popular Saturday Morning Cartoons, including my personal favorite-The Underdog Theme done by the Butthole Surfers ( Yes, I have a weakness for punk rock and always have.) Turn up the volume!
It would have been a better video if they had just spliced in clips from the old Underdog cartoon.
When I first got it, I only liked about 40% of it-but now in the light of misty eyed reflection I’m up to about 80% that I like. Excerpts are here:
Who the heck were the Bugaloos anyway? The Spiderman theme by the Ramones is pretty cool though-as is the tricked out version of the Johnny Quest theme. I even like the HR Puff N Stuff song at the end:
Here is a bonus question ( prizes to be figured out later)-Who did the voice of Hong Kong Phooey? You know him-but I’ll bet you can’t remember his name.
Well, that’s that-I got to go cut the grass. We want to play golf tomorrow.
No cover of the Astro-Boy theme?
THANKS!
Its not on the album, but when I was 7, Astro boy was first up on the Saturday morning line up!