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one of the ads had a hula girl pig dancing on a parade float. I was in love with her. I still have the little cardboard record of this song. it is my favorite song . I want my family to play it at my funeral. hooray!

This is great! Thanks for posting it :)

brilliant! simply brilliant! dig andy's tie!

This commercial is so straightforward! I wish all commercials were like that.

There were several of these Valleydale commercials, including a color version, but this is the one I remember from my childhood.

I think I'd better check my meds.......

I remember this one. There were several versions, including a color one, but this is the one I remember best. Gotta love pigs that will gladly do commercials for pork products. No loyalty to their own kind. LOL.

50 years later and he still creeps me out!

I remember this one vividly. There were several versions, including a color one, but this is the version I remember. I loved the pig with the trombone snagging the other two, but always wondered why they came out of the bell again without a WTF!?! look on their faces.

smokin'!

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So was he a Frog or a Gremlin

You did, you did?

Froggy delighted in tormenting Andy with his keen power of suggestion!

I'm 61 and I don't remember Smilin' Ed McConnell. Also, the froggy I knew had a deeper more animated voice than the one in this video. Even the puppet is different than this one. Froggy made a revolutionary out of me, to which I'll aways be grateful to him. PLUNK YOUR MAGIC TWANGER, FROGGY!

This commercial was mentioned in the "Yesteryear" column in today's Johnson City Press.

"Smilin' Ed's Gang" with Ed McConnell debuted on radio in 1943 and came to TV in 1950. At one time or another, all three networks -- NBC, CBS and ABC -- carried the show until Ed died in 1955. Retitled "Andy's Gang" and recast with gravel-voiced Andy Devine in the lead, the series retained Froggy, Midnight and Squeaky until being cancelled in December 1960. Froggy the Gremlin was great but I found Midnight the Cat disturbing as it appeared to be a dead REAL cat mechanically manipulated. Yech!

wow i remember this a kid growing up, i just saw one in color on TV just now made look to see if there was any on here.

Oh Goodness! I had an urge to Google Valleydale. I grew up in the South...and watched this commercial, in color I believe, so often as a kid and always have had this song in my head. It's here! How did you get it???

Oh Man, I remember this! He was sooooooo mean, and yet I loved him...lol how weird..lol

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Thanks for posting this! I was sure I was the only person around who remembers this (back from when I was about 5). Glad to see others remember it too.

HAHA!! I love this! My mom told me about this one from her childhood. FUNNY little tune! IM DEDICATIN THIS ONE TO MA!

The music goes zoom zoom The drummer goes boom boom And everybody shouts Hooray for Valleydale! Hooray for Valleydale, hooray for Valleydale Hooray for Valleydale, all hail it's Valleydale! Come on let's sing it loud We'll show the world we're proud "Cause Valleydale ham is the finest we can buy The ham is sugar cured, and hickory smoked just right Until the wood smoke puts a zing in every bite Valleydale sausage Valleydale weiners Valleydale bacon Zing zing zing zing, Valleydale

HA HA HA HA HA That was awesome!!

And I am the OTHER youtube user who remembers this show from the early 1950's - my all time favorite show... Hiya, Hiya, Hiya, Kids

Haha!! Cute commercial. That last time I saw was back in elementary school and I'm in my forties now. It reminds me of days of old. Thanks for posting it.

You'd be surprised how many boomer KZbinrs are out there, I too saw this show as a preteen and thought it was magnificent. You could get a Froggy in the local store in three sizes. I still have mine tucked away. If I want to retire, I'll put it on ebay....(LOL)

Hello there from Mexico. I really really love this commercial, English is my second language and because the wisss wisss effect in the sound is hard to understand some words in the song... I ask as a favor if somebody is able to post the lyrics of this jingle... THANK YOU GRACIAS!!! i wish to see more commercials like this on todays TV.

I must be older than anyone 'cause I remember when Smilin' Ed McConnell hosted the show! Sometimes I still greet my friends with "hiya kids hiya hiya hiya" and when I see or hear something I like, I don't say "sweeeet" I go "NIIIIIIIICE"!

mckinnons3: I'm another who saw the program when it first aired in the early 1950's. I loved it more than any of the other kids' programs back then. Seeing those Midnight the cat and Squeeky the mouse and froggie episodes now in surreally nostalgic.

He'll get his. The Ghoul will stuff him in a blender or something.

Thank you so very much. I've been waiting years for this ad to resurface. And carrying the theme and the marching pigs in my head in the meantime.

...Froggy is the best

Froggy is awesome

that frogs an evil bastard

I don't recall taking LSD before viewing this however I'm sure I must have.

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I am one of a very few youtube users old enough to remember this from the early 50's. My favorite part of the program was when some visiting "expert" would be giving a lecture and Froggy would put ridiculous words in his mouth. The bit always followed the same formula. Don't know why it was funny but it was

Why "infamous?" Back in college, it was the best entertainment in town, especially after lighting up a doobie.

The end times are upon us...

Andy Devine is so cool. There is a Jack Benny movie called 'Buck Benny Rides Again' w/Andy & exemplifies his unique acting ability, outside of routine westerns where he appeared as "Jingles". Midnight looks tranquilized and squeaky, well, who knows. Imagine watching this show on LSD?

"ANDY'S GANG" was filmed in color for a time (as was his predecessor, "SMILIN' ED McCONNELL AND HIS BUSTER BROWN GANG"), but only the black & white prints were generally distributed.

Aiyee...such is so!