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33-606: The home video series was launched with four Kidsongs "Music Video Stories" being announced at New York's Toy Fair in February 1986. "A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm" was one of those first four and has sold over 4 million copies and won the Vira Award. Each half-hour video featured around 10 songs in a music video style production starring a group of children known as the "Kidsongs Kids". They sing and dance their way through well-known children's songs, nursery rhymes and covers of pop hits from

66-412: A cat. The dog takes a cat. Hi-ho, the derry-o! The dog takes a cat. The cat takes the mouse (or rat). The cat takes the mouse (or rat). Hi-ho, the derry-o! The cat takes the mouse (or rat). The mouse (or rat) takes the cheese. The mouse (or rat) takes the cheese. Hi-ho, the derry-o! The mouse (or rat) takes the cheese. The cheese stands alone. The cheese stands alone. Hi-ho,

99-399: A child. The wife takes a child. Hi-ho, the derry-o! The wife takes a child. The child takes a nurse . The child takes a nurse. Hi-ho, the derry-o! The child takes a nurse. The nurse takes a cow. The nurse takes a cow. Hi-ho, the derry-o! The nurse takes a cow. The cow takes a dog. The cow takes a dog. Hi-ho, the derry-o! The cow takes a dog. The dog takes

132-412: A circle, holding hands while singing the first verse and moving around the player in the middle, who is designated as the farmer. When the verse is over they stop, and the farmer makes his choice of a wife (sometimes without looking). The wife joins him in the center for her verse, and this pattern is repeated through the verses until either the cheese or dog is selected, or only one person is left to become

165-691: A leading hobbyist brand. From 1942 to 1945, the production of model railroad products was suspended as the company participated in the manufacturing of precision measuring and mapping equipment for the U.S. Army and Navy in World War II . The company received the Army-Navy ‘E’ Award for excellence in production in 1945. After the war, they converted the plant back to the production of model railroading equipment. Launching in 1957, Mantua pioneered HO-scale model railroad “ready-to-run” die-cast locomotives. These products, also available as assembly kits, were sold under

198-670: A melody similar to " A-Hunting We Will Go ". From there, it seems to have been adopted throughout the United States, Canada (noted from 1893), the Netherlands (1894), and Great Britain; it is first found in Scotland in 1898 and England from 1909. In the early twentieth century, it was evident in France ("Le fermier dans son pré"), Sweden ("En bonde i vår by"), Australia, and South Africa. Like most children's songs, there are geographic variations. In

231-478: A new version of the television series was developed by Rosenstein and produced in conjunction with Chicago public television station WTTW for 30 minutes and distributed by American Public Television to public television stations nationally. The Kidsongs Television Show reached 89 percent of households by 1998. Many of the original Kidsongs videos were used in the public television series, along with new educational content and in-studio guests. The kids are joined by

264-460: Is popular in a number of languages. It is Roud Folk Song Index number 6306. Lyrics vary even within the same country. The following is a common version in the United States : The farmer in the dell. The farmer in the dell. Hi-ho, the derry-o! The farmer in the dell. The farmer takes a wife. The farmer takes a wife. Hi-ho, the derry-o! The farmer takes a wife. The wife takes

297-652: The Ideal Nursery line of dolls. In 1992, Tyco purchased the Illco Toy Company, bringing Illco's extensive line of toys based on the children's show Sesame Street to Tyco. In the mid-1990s, as a bigger toy company, company headquarters was moved to Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. It purchased the Matchbox brand of scale model cars, in 1992. In 1984 Tyco produced its own interlocking brick product, "Super Blocks". Super Blocks were compatible with Lego , and were made following

330-442: The "TYCO" name (for "Tyler Company"). Many TYCO and Mantua die-cast products, such as steam engines , are collector's items today. In the 1960s, TYCO changed its focus from train kits to ready-to-run trains sold in hobby shops and added HO-scale electric racing sets, or " slot car " sets. A wide range of slot cars and repair parts, track sections, controllers and accessories were also available. The slot car rage started in 1963. By

363-498: The '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s, all tied together by a simple story and theme. The TAVP/WBR/View-Master Video partnership (View-Master was acquired by Tyco Toys in 1989) produced sixteen Kidsongs videotapes. In 1995, WBR and TAVP bought out Tyco's distribution rights, then "Let's Put on a Show" and "Baby Animal Songs" were released in 1996 by WarnerVision Entertainment, another division of Time Warner . In 1997, TAVP acquired Time Warner's rights to Kidsongs , assuming sole ownership of

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396-502: The 1970s, TYCO shifted sales and marketing to a consumer-oriented, mass marketing focus. Eventually, the name changed to "TYCO Industries", under which name the company was sold in 1970 to Consolidated Foods during an era of corporate conglomerates . At this time, Tyco was headquartered at Moorestown NJ, where sets were assembled with imported models. As a division of what became the Sara Lee Corporation , Tyco continued to grow. By

429-453: The 1992 Tyco Catalogue used in industry toy fairs to sell and promote products to major retail buyers, the first 20 pages was consumed by their lineup of radio control toys for the year. These products and their manufacturing deal with Taiyo became so important that they took a significant ownership stake in the company, and began to strongly influence the features and design of the vehicles. This resulted in all Taiyo models, both those sold under

462-568: The 1993 catalog. Many of the Tyco model train products were subsequently manufactured by Mantua and by International Hobby Corporation (IHC). In 2001, Mantua stopped producing its model railroad lines and sold the business to the Model Power company, which continued to sell a few items such as steam engines and freight cars under its Mantua Classics brand. In early 2014, Model Power was acquired by Model Rectifier Corporation (MRC). The company continued to make

495-656: The Bay " ("Very Silly Songs"), "Jim Along Josie" ("Very Silly Songs"), " Five Little Monkeys " ("If We Could Talk to the Animals"), " BINGO " ("A Day with the Animals"), " Michael Finnegan " ("Very Silly Songs"), "We're Gonna Get Wet" ("Ride the Roller Coaster"), " Take Me Out to the Ball Game " ("A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm"), " Down by the Station " ("Play Along Songs"), " I've Been Working on

528-597: The Biggles. The hosts this season are Sergio Centeno and Tiffany Burton with the Biggles. Tyco Toys Tyco Toys was an American toy manufacturer. It was acquired by Mattel in 1997, becoming one of its brands. The company was established as "Mantua Metal Products" in Woodbury Heights, New Jersey , as a metalworks business founded in 1926 by John Tyler and family. In the 1930s Mantua began to manufacture HO scale model trains of die-cast metal and became

561-592: The Kidsongs Kids running their own TV show in a top 8 countdown-style show, featuring music videos from the Kidsongs home video series. It ran on network affiliates, primarily on Saturday mornings. The series aired for two years in syndication, then was rerun on The Disney Channel in 1990. It won the prestigious Excellence in Children's Programming Award from ACT. The 1987–88 series was titled The Kidsongs TV Show . In 1994,

594-617: The Mantua Classics line. (The locomotives are also available with DCC and sound.) In 2018, MRC sold its line of HO model trains to Lionel Corporation who slowly reintroduced the line under their own name. The Farmer in the Dell " The Farmer in the Dell " is a singing game, nursery rhyme, folksong, and children's song. It probably originated in Germany and was brought to America by immigrants. From there, it spread to many other nations and

627-499: The Railroad " ("Home on the Range"), "Raccoon & Possum" ("If We Could Talk to the Animals"), " The Farmer in the Dell " ("If We Could Talk to the Animals"), " Old MacDonald Had a Farm " ("A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm") The Kidsongs Television Show debuted on September 19, 1987, with 26 half-hour episodes distributed by Orbis Entertainment . The half-hour, live-action episodes featured

660-571: The River and Through the Woods ", " Footloose " ( Kenny Loggins ) , "Rah, Rah, Sis Boom Bah", " Catch a Wave " (The Beach Boys) , " Centerfield " ( John Fogerty ) , "You Know That You Can Do It" A compilation of songs from previous stories, initially only available from a Sealtest ice cream mail-in offer. After Billy Biggle lands in the kids' backyard, they reminisce about videos they've made; Billy can magically replay his favorites. Songs: " Down by

693-575: The Taiyo brand in Japan and worldwide, and those sold by Tyco changing from predominantly realistic models of actual vehicles (such as the 1988 Lamborghini Countach and 1989 Porsche 962) to less realistic products such as the 1994 Tyco Triple Wheels, 1993 Tyco Python, and 1997 Tyco Tantrum. In the 1990s, the company also branched out with other toys such as airplanes. It made a hit in 1991 with their Disney's Little Mermaid dolls that were released in conjunction with

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726-685: The United Kingdom, the first line is frequently changed to "The Farmer's in his den". The rhyme progresses through the farmer being in the dell or his den, his desire for a wife, hers for a child, its for a nurse, a dog, then a bone, and ending in: "we all pat the bone". Every player then pats the one picked as the bone. The "Hi-Ho, the derry-o" lyric is variously replaced with, "Ee-i, tiddly-i", in London, "Ee-i, adio", "Ee-i, andio", "Ee-i, en-gee-oh" or "Ee-i, entio", in Northern England, and "Ee-i, ee-i", in

759-684: The View-Master were transferred to the Fisher-Price division. On February 23, 2019, Terry Flynn announced that Tyco was now a registered trademark of his Harden Creek Slot Cars, LLC." Flynn also has the Life Like trademark for Slot cars. The Tyco model railroad business was bought back by the Tyler family in 1977, who revived them under the Mantua Industries brand. Tyco left the model railroad business after

792-454: The West Country. The Romanian language version is "Țăranul e pe câmp" ("The farmer is on the field"), but the "Hey-o" is replaced with "Ura, drăguţa mea" ("Hooray, my sweetheart"), and the last verses are: "the child has a nurse, the nurse has a cat, the cat catches a mouse, the mouse eats a cheese, the cheese is in a cask, the cask is in the garbage, the farmer to choose." The players form

825-573: The basic Lego patent's expiry in 1978. Lego attempted to halt the production of Super Blocks in a lawsuit, which was later won by Tyco in 1987. Tyco's musical toys of the late 1980s and early 1990s included the Tyco Hot Lixx and Tyco Hot Keyz, an electronic guitar and keytar respectively. Across the late 1980s and early 1990s, some of Tyco's most popular toys came from their Radio Control division, with over 100 different models manufactured primarily through their partnership with Taiyo RC (Japan). In

858-652: The derry-o! The cheese stands alone. One UK variant has "The nurse takes a dog"; it ends by clapping [patting] the dog. The rhyme was first recorded in Germany in 1826, as "Es fuhr ein Bau'r ins Holz". It was more clearly a courtship game, with a farmer choosing a wife, then selecting a child, maid, and serving man who leaves the maid after kissing her. This was probably taken to America by German immigrants, where it next surfaced in New York City in 1883, in its modern form and using

891-542: The fantasy characters Billy and Ruby Biggle and their magical friends from Biggleland. The Biggles help the children resolve their problems and concerns in a comforting, kind way. They address age-appropriate issues, such as not wanting to share, jealousy, friendship, telling the truth and patience. Seasons one through four of The Kidsongs Television Show totaled 96 episodes. It ran on public television for seven years, winning critical acclaim. Currently, fifteen episodes of The Kidsongs Television Show are available on DVD, and

924-536: The franchise. Later in 1997, TAVP entered into a distribution/production agreement with Sony Wonder , having admired Sony's revitalization of Sesame Street ' s home video and music products. TAVP and Sony Wonder co-produced four more titles: "I Can Dance!", "I Can Do It!" and two "Adventures in Biggleland" specials also broadcast in television syndication. In 2002, distribution rights migrated to Image Entertainment (later RLJE Films ), which continues to distribute

957-610: The mid-1980s, Tyco dominated the market in electric racing, also producing "slot trucks" known as US-1 Trucks , as well as radio-controlled vehicles. In the late 1980s and early 90s, Tyco expanded and diversified by acquiring several popular toy companies. In 1989, the company purchased the View-Master/Ideal Group, which brought to the company the View-Master line of stereoscopes , the Magna Doodle magnetic drawing toys, and

990-592: The movie. Tyco's Sesame Street line increased dramatically in popularity in 1996, when the plush doll Tickle Me Elmo became the most sought-after toy of the Christmas season. When Tyco was purchased by Mattel on March 27, 1997, it was the third-largest toy company in the United States . The brand survived into the 2000s and beyond as the Mattel "Tyco R/C" division, while much of the Sesame Street line, Magna Doodle, and

1023-556: The series is also available in its entirety on digital download through iTunes and Amazon Video. The hosts this season are Chris Lytton and Triskin Potter. The hosts this season are Christian Buenaventura and Alexandra Picatto (credited as Alexandra Palm). This is also the debut of Kidsongs' new mascots, the Biggles (though Ruby would appear in later episodes). The hosts this season are Aaron Harvey, Alexandra Picatto (credited as Alexandra Palm), and Lynsey Bartilson (only in two episodes) with

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1056-723: The videos have sold over 19.5 million copies. Songs: " Yankee Doodle Dandy ", "America's Heroes", " Home on the Range ", " I've Been Working on the Railroad ", " Oh, Susannah! ", " Deep in the Heart of Texas " ( Perry Como ) , " There's a Hole in My Bucket ", " Turkey in the Straw ", " If I Had a Hammer " ( Trini Lopez ) , " You're a Grand Old Flag ", " Living in the U.S.A. " ( Chuck Berry ) Songs: "It's Not If You Win or Lose", "Practice Makes Perfect", " Bend Me, Shape Me " ( The American Breed ) , " I Get Around " ( The Beach Boys ) , " Over

1089-475: The videos. Twenty-five Kidsongs "Music Video Stories" were released between 1986 and 1998, encompassing more than 200 public domain, covered, and original songs, and featuring a variety of topics that of interest to kids: animals, birthdays, the zoo, sports, summer camp, fantasy, vehicles and general silliness. 14 have been certified platinum by the RIAA, with 5 of them having sold more than 2 million copies. As of now,

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