Anyone in their 50s remember this from primary school??

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I’m 58 and I remember putting on a play in primary school all about the wooden horse of Troy.

It had songs - it might have just been a series of songs now I think of it but there could have been spoken parts too.

Im assuming it wasn’t just our school but nobody I’ve ever met seems to remember it.

Only asking because the songs have been known to lodge themselves in my brain as ear worms from time to time 😁

The Exodus songs (Ramese, Nile-o...) are from this, BBC Watch. I still have the vinyl and in fact can still sing every word!

I remember my sister learning "Jonah, Jonah, listen to me Jonah" from Jonah Man Jazz. And watching Great Big Groovy Horse on the telly."Come, fly with me, across the Aegean Sea".

Nineveh city was a city of sin
The beat bands playing made a terrible din,
And the people all dancing rock and roll,
Well the Lord, when he heard it, said, “Bless my soul!”

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Oh, I remember it differently!

Noah Noah don't do anymore
Look out man there's a shark!
Oh ship ahoy there sailor boy
But he kept on building the ark,
Noah,
Kept on building that ark.

We did Chanticleer!

Was there a song by a dove in that one too or was that a different one? Maybe about Noah?

High fly
Peace in the sky
Ring sing
Joy do I bring

I definitely remember a dove but I don't know which play.

I remember it. It was a radio programme which came with song books. A particular favourite song of mine was about the Oracle. If I remember correctly, there was a lyric that went " When the midnight chimes begin to ring" in a minor key.
There was also the line " I distrust the Greeks even when they come bearing gifts".
I think we did this in our third year of Junior school when I was 10.
The next year it was about the first hot air balloon flight and had a song that started " Ta ra ah, boom de aye,
I don't know what to say".
I loved these singing classes.

I think we sang this in infant school. We put on a show of it.

It might please you all to know that the BBC still do this. Every year the put out a performance for schools with the music, scripts and enough parts for a class. Remember this if you ever moan about the licence fee.

I sang Jonah Man Jazz and Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo when I was at Junior School and have taught both recently to my y7 & 8 choir. They loved them!

When I was at school in the 1970s, you weren't allowed to be in the choir until 2nd year juniors (year 4) so I missed out on Daniel Jazz and haven't got round to buying the music. However, when I was in the infants in a different school we sang a musical about Hans Christian Anderson and I can still remember some of the songs:
I'm Hans Christian Anderson, I've many a tale to tell
But though I'm a ? cobbler I'd say I tell them rather well.
I'll mend your shoes and I'll fix your boots when I have a moment free
I'm a purple ? I'm a mountainside, I'm a quarter after three.

Thumbelina, Thumbelina, tiny little thing
Thumbelina dance, Thumbelina sing...

Will have to get googling!

Did they make that into a film?

Yes, it was called Hans Anderson (according to Google). The song "Inchworm" is possibly the most famous - I remember it being on radio 2 in my mum's car!

You might have been ill - or, as we see on here every year, some parents withdraw their children because 'they wouldn't like it' or because it would be in the evening and there were other children to look after/evening jobs.

I remember the Trojan horse one. I think it ended with a song that went something like this
A horse of wood
A horse of wood
Troy city fell because of a horse of wood

That sounds like a football chant!

@Malbecfan I remember Inchworm!

@WonderfulSmith no moaning from me - I think the BBC is excellent value for money. How lovely that they're still doing this.

The Lord he pondered a subtle plan
He looked around for a righteous man
Saw Jonah sitting neath a pineapple (?) tree
And the Lord He said that's the man for me.
A righteous man that I can trust
(Something Something) dust..
......
I'm certain sure, sure, sure he's the man for me.

Talk about memories unlocked!
We also did the Samson one, but I don't remember any of it

I definitely remember the Samson musical and a Noah’s Ark one.
Anyone remember Trig Trog?

Welcome Trig Trog come entertain us
Welcome Trig Trog come sing a song
welcome Trig Trog come entertain us we have waited far too long
clap your hands for Trig Trog (x2)
welcome Trig Trog come entertain us we have waited far too long

Also there was one about a boy called Ramoo? Something about him going through the jungle and then a bit about “hush, what’s that? A parrot yellow, red and green shrieks aloud and flies away”. That’s all I remember about that one 😁

We did the Sir Spence one too - it was called Sir Spence and a dragon called Horace. All the knights had names like Sir Spence, Sir Loin and Sir Cumference. I was a soldier!

Was that Time and Tune? You’ve just stirred a memory for me and I did some googling https://www.broadcastforschools.co.uk/site/TimeandTune
I remember doing the 81/82 programs - Aladdin, Child of the Dragon and Squeaker Squirrel Show

I think we might have gone to the same school…..the year before I arrived they’d all done Noah, “by 2, by 2, by 2, by 2// repeat endlessly”

We did Noah and Joseph.

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We did a musical about Rameses.

I am 60 and remember this. Weird question but this is such a clear memory for me too - was the school Beauherne?