WTTW Channel 11 - Children's Fair - "Villa Alegre" (Opening, 1981)

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@JeremyYost
@JeremyYost 9 жыл бұрын
This is what it's like to be part of Gen X. You're doing some work at the office, reviewing some schedules, and then the mind drifts off to "la la la la la la la la la la la la la Villa Alegre!", you remember a ferris wheel, and think "WTF?". No one around you is old enough to remember this show so you Google, "villa alegre ferris wheel song" and get all jazzed because someone posted it on KZbin.
@Samboy666
@Samboy666 9 жыл бұрын
live the dream my friend!
@NeluThat70sKid
@NeluThat70sKid 8 жыл бұрын
Who cares? Not only is this timeless, it's also WAY better than Dora the Explorer (even if I am 43, I could care less about the latter; if I had kids, it'd be a different story). Plus the cast really belts it with gusto singing the theme song :-)
@xavierxerxes1968
@xavierxerxes1968 7 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Yost LOL!!! Me and you both, bro! Me and you both.
@DevinParker
@DevinParker 7 жыл бұрын
So very true. That's exactly how I found my way here. Trying to remember what this TV show was had been driving me crazy for years. The music and the ferris wheel at night during the end credits was the only part I remembered with clarity; I couldn't even remember the name of the show. Watching this now, seeing the opening, the animated bits drawn in Mesoamerican styles...now it's all coming back.
@Alexthegreat27
@Alexthegreat27 4 жыл бұрын
Exactly ! Lol. Was so excited to also find 'Joya's Funhouse'. Used to come on channel 11 WPIX in NYC in the 70's...
@Vesper2112
@Vesper2112 10 жыл бұрын
That opening song has been stuck in my head for 40 years! LOL. I don't remember the show all that well beside the song and the bilingual nature, but pretty cool to breathe in some nostalgia.
@TitiGladys2
@TitiGladys2 6 жыл бұрын
Villa Alegre "Why I Like Me" (Full Episode): kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqKtk4KYfbCmaLM PlaylistSongs from Villa Alegre: kzbin.info/aero/PL60184F1AA3B1BC69 A selection of songs from the three LPs that Peter Pan Records released in 1975 featuring songs from the Villa Alegre television program.
@tejaswoman
@tejaswoman Жыл бұрын
​@@TitiGladys2do you by any chance have an updated link for the songs playlist? The one you put up 5 years ago doesn't work anymore.
@TitiGladys2
@TitiGladys2 Жыл бұрын
I guess the person who posted it either deleted the playlist or their account. I found another playlist...hope you find what you are looking for kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqKtk4KYfbCmaLM @@tejaswoman
@Nerval-kg9sm
@Nerval-kg9sm 5 ай бұрын
Me too. I was 10 in 1981. The song has persisted in my brain.
@traciealexander3470
@traciealexander3470 10 жыл бұрын
So cool to see all the comments. Like so many others posted, the theme song has stuck in my head for decades and I had no idea what the name of the show was. NO ONE knew what I was talking about when I tried to describe this show. I was screaming at the top of my lungs when I found this!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
@fueledbymusic3
@fueledbymusic3 9 жыл бұрын
MY GOSH!! Been 40 years the last time I saw the opening of the show. This was the ending as well. HELL YEAH! Totally remember those fireworks and that spinning wheel. Made me think of a Ferris wheel. MEMORY WAY COOL. The fireworks man!
@patrickmcgee8556
@patrickmcgee8556 2 жыл бұрын
im 52 and for some reason this popped into my head....have not thought of this in over 40 years
@jmaster38
@jmaster38 10 жыл бұрын
as a kid i used to sing the show's theme song around my house. it used to drive my poor mother crazy. "bah buh buh buh buh bah buh buh buh buh buh...VILLA ALLEGRE!"
@Ritchina40
@Ritchina40 10 жыл бұрын
Me too!!! Still remember the song. I used to watch it when I was 6. Frustrated me I couldn't understand half of it but still loved it.
@ChristopherSobieniak
@ChristopherSobieniak 10 жыл бұрын
Tammy McMillan We need more of that!
@mayhemjr.803
@mayhemjr.803 4 жыл бұрын
Such a catchy opening theme song. I've sung it since I was a kid. Now I'm 52 and still sing it.
@georgef551
@georgef551 3 жыл бұрын
I remember this show in the mid 70s, not understanding why I couldn't understand half of it, but can the other. The catchy theme song, and the amusement park (mostly the Ferris Wheel), is what I remember.
@Jennifer-jx8xg
@Jennifer-jx8xg 8 жыл бұрын
This used to come on after Sesame Street and 321 contact on PBS in the Washington DC area when i was a kid. I tried to learn Spanish from it even though most of it escaped me. Later when I took the language in college i got a compliment from the professor and he asked me how i learned to pronounce it so well itold him "Villa Alegre" lol
@leolongoria82
@leolongoria82 8 жыл бұрын
nice
@xavierxerxes1968
@xavierxerxes1968 7 жыл бұрын
Jennifer Elliott 321 Contact! Man, I loved that show, too. You guys are bringing back nostalgic memories here!
@pioneer1973
@pioneer1973 7 жыл бұрын
L Rod I kinda remember 321 Contact, didn't they have "The Bloodhound Gang"?
@xavierxerxes1968
@xavierxerxes1968 7 жыл бұрын
OMG! I remembered the Bloodhound Gang. LOL! You kinda think about what happened to those folks!
@ludmillaroman
@ludmillaroman 6 жыл бұрын
one of the bloodhound gang was in the warriors and in 48hrs. Marcelino Sanchez... (died of Aids).
@SerialGothQueens
@SerialGothQueens 2 жыл бұрын
A Gen X childhood classic, shown here in NYC on the local PBS station, channel 13, in the same block of programming with Sesame Street, and The Electric Company. I remember this show so vividly, especially the opening! For awhile, I thought I was losing it, because it seemed like so many of the people I grew up with didn't remember this show at all, but clearly there's plenty of us who do!
@speedformercy
@speedformercy 2 жыл бұрын
me too
@magnificentmuttley154
@magnificentmuttley154 Жыл бұрын
🎯 Right, esp those who were growing up in a bi-lingual environment. We could never forget _Villa Alegre._ For me it was Mon-Fri at 6 am, right before _The Electric Company_ & _Sesame Street._ 🏆Congrats, yours is a HQ station of PBS, alongside WGBH-Boston. For me growing up it was KERA Channel 13, Dallas-Ft Worth-Denton
@uh.laksmi6526
@uh.laksmi6526 Жыл бұрын
I am glad I am not the only one who remembered this show
@magnificentmuttley154
@magnificentmuttley154 6 жыл бұрын
Thank You Chicago Museum of Classical Television, for uploading Villa Alegre ! I searched for it years ago, before KZbin, by searching the archive of my local PBS station, and by writing to several other PBS stations in the 5 state gulf states region. Seems it wasn't important enough to them to store copies for themselves, or else what few shows they taped were lost Back in the 70s Villa Alegre came on early weekday mornings, right before Sesame Street, on PBS' KERA 13 in Dallas. Vegetable Soup and Big Blue Marble were two other kids' favorites of the time. I never thought I'd see it again. Thank you so much !
@rhonnesanelms8969
@rhonnesanelms8969 3 жыл бұрын
WOW!!!!! This show brought back so many wonderful memories. I would come home from school to watch it faithfully. It's so wonderful to observe the opening theme after not seeing it for four decades.😹💐😘
@utubin1988
@utubin1988 11 жыл бұрын
Oh My Goodness.........I have been singing this tune to people for years and no one ever knows what I'm talking about. This clip made my night - I'm going to watch it over and over and sing along like I did when I was little..Villa Alegre!
@Cantrice9
@Cantrice9 9 жыл бұрын
I am so amused and happy that I have FINALLY found this theme song that has been in my head for well over a year. I have been trying to find it....d'uh youtube,lol.
@Rassilon6
@Rassilon6 11 жыл бұрын
I completely forgot about this, but when I accidentally came across it on KZbin, it clicked; I absolutely remember that opening! Thanks for the memories.
@dixgun
@dixgun 6 жыл бұрын
So nice . So often in my head the opening credits, song and images . That animation and the music accompanying it also nice . 😊
@albertowen1025
@albertowen1025 9 жыл бұрын
I remember this so well! Watched it with my niece when I was in 7th grade, she wanted to learn a little Spanish. I could pick up on some of the words, but not fast enough back then like I do now. They had this wonderful Vowel Song on here that I can't seem to find...AA EE II OO Uuuuuuuu...loved it. Thanks for the memories!
@johnbrowneyes7534
@johnbrowneyes7534 3 жыл бұрын
The amazing 70s! Television's golden age!
@Mitchmon4
@Mitchmon4 3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking about this yesterday, but I could not remember the show. Neither could anyone around me. I thought I was going nuts. So glad I found this!!!!
@Mackeggan
@Mackeggan 8 жыл бұрын
I have done some research on this show. Unfortunately, there were legal battles during the 1980s that kept the show from being released to the public. At some point, there was a fire that destroyed the warehouse where the taped shows were being stored. I have not been able to find any episodes anywhere. I am hoping that someone will find some episodes on vhs that they recorded, and upload them. Not sure if any of this show still exists anywhere, exept in our memories. Loved it as a kid. One of the best theme songs ever.
@xavierxerxes1968
@xavierxerxes1968 7 жыл бұрын
Mackeggan I grew up as a child watching this show and have always remembered the theme song of the show. For some strange reason, today, I did a Google search just to see if I can find anything. Those were the yesterdays that I missed. I still love this show and it's great to know that we're not all the cheesy.
@xavierxerxes1968
@xavierxerxes1968 7 жыл бұрын
David T​ Ahhh! OMG!!!! Thank you for jogging my memory! Yes! I remember now! Thank you! Thank you!
@ludmillaroman
@ludmillaroman 6 жыл бұрын
Agapito!!!
@TitiGladys2
@TitiGladys2 6 жыл бұрын
Villa Alegre "Why I Like Me" (Full Episode): kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqKtk4KYfbCmaLM PlaylistSongs from Villa Alegre: kzbin.info/aero/PL60184F1AA3B1BC69 A selection of songs from the three LPs that Peter Pan Records released in 1975 featuring songs from the Villa Alegre television program.
@johnnastrom9400
@johnnastrom9400 6 жыл бұрын
That's heartbreaking. Hopefully, it will be discovered that the producer had back-up copies left in the vaults somewhere.
@josem.figueroajr.4532
@josem.figueroajr.4532 6 жыл бұрын
This song and the program bring back so many memories of the eighties for me. Does anybody else feel the same way as I do?
@julissakelker8905
@julissakelker8905 3 жыл бұрын
My husband has been absentmindedly singing this tune since we’ve been married 16+ yrs. He and his older brother went to a daycare in the late 70s possibly early 80s and this show was on frequently playing this bizarre yet catchy theme song. I told him that it was embedded in his and other citizens of Generation X’s brain stems by the government for reasons yet to be known.
@davidhoj
@davidhoj 2 жыл бұрын
romantic
@magnificentmuttley154
@magnificentmuttley154 Жыл бұрын
Well, if you look at PBS & public education as functions of the government, Id say the reason is that at one time there was a much stronger culture that cared about providing a good education. Here's the proof: _The Electric Company, Villa Alegre, Big Blue Marble, Vegetable Soup,_ & from CPT, _Trade Offs._ Actually I never thought I'd see Ontario's _Trade Offs_ again, but KZbin has a handful of episodes If you ask me, it is GenX & early Millennials who are the last to experience a rich public education, before the schools became dumbed down & eventually the political instrument of american so*ialism. A parent's only hope of keeping their child from becoming indo*trinated now is home schooling. Not even Na*i Germany dumbed its children down so bad
@cesardominguez
@cesardominguez 8 жыл бұрын
I vividly recall, how most of the actors, could interact and switching from English to Spanish and back, in a ZAP!!!
@jaimeg9156
@jaimeg9156 6 жыл бұрын
Yeah-- I I like the Hispanic/ American Culture and being able to speak "SPANGLISH"...
@blampfno
@blampfno 2 жыл бұрын
One of the catchiest ear bugs in the history of television, bar none.
@drawingart3407
@drawingart3407 6 жыл бұрын
If only the intro/outro Aztec animations still existed. My favorite animation was Energy. It started with an image represting the sun then morphed into two stars. A silhouette girl walked across the white backround when a cornfield was appearing and the background became yellow. The Aztec silhouette girl swung on a rope. The background noised were chilling but fascinating. The animation in this clip was cut short. I remember the background became blue and showed two men and a polar bear that would climb steps (chilling background music). This animation would show the earth which would morph back to the image we first see in this animation.
@ariostorios2144
@ariostorios2144 8 жыл бұрын
Brings back childhood memories. Just for the song alone I would watch the show.
@glennorange
@glennorange 10 жыл бұрын
I could listen to that song a bajillion times!
@johntapp7232
@johntapp7232 2 жыл бұрын
One time I thought I did!! I had an intracranial hemorrhage, and for some reason I was hearing this theme some over and over ad infinitum. I was even seeing things. It’s what you get when you have a brain bleed the size of a golf ball in your head!
@glennorange
@glennorange 2 жыл бұрын
@@johntapp7232 WOW!! When I came to from a coma induced by a subdural hematoma I heard U2 doing Where The Streets Have No Name from the super bowl after 9/11 over and over and over and over!
@mantis_monk
@mantis_monk 10 жыл бұрын
Oh man the memories! I loved this show so much! I'm emotional now :-(
@bricktothehead
@bricktothehead 10 жыл бұрын
I know what you mean. My brother and I would watch This show together.
@josem.figueroajr.4532
@josem.figueroajr.4532 6 жыл бұрын
Johnny Lynch I feel the same way as you.
@TitiGladys2
@TitiGladys2 6 жыл бұрын
Villa Alegre "Why I Like Me" (Full Episode): kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqKtk4KYfbCmaLM PlaylistSongs from Villa Alegre: kzbin.info/aero/PL60184F1AA3B1BC69 A selection of songs from the three LPs that Peter Pan Records released in 1975 featuring songs from the Villa Alegre television program.
@parlance1
@parlance1 12 жыл бұрын
I loved this theme so much. I totally forgot about the Children's Fair slide. Thanks for posting.
@sjdrifter72
@sjdrifter72 12 жыл бұрын
Finally! an actual clip of this show however brief.. I grew up watching this when I was a kid back in the 70's and it baffles me how there is hardly any footage or video of it considering it did run for a good many years. It's also a shame no episodes have been released on dvd, for I would surely buy it to relive my childhood.
@johnalvarezturner8313
@johnalvarezturner8313 2 жыл бұрын
One of the shows that helped learn English in the early 70s in Puerto Rico. Fond memories of this show.
@angelof2angels
@angelof2angels 4 жыл бұрын
I Loved Watching This Show When I Was A Kid, Still LOVE The Theme Song To This Day. And This Got Me Into Wanting To Learn Spanish Alot. Brings Back Wonderful Memories As A Child. WOW!!, A Hidden Gem In Our Childhood. Thank You For Posting This. Very, Very Wonderful. Thank You !!
@Fedge378
@Fedge378 5 жыл бұрын
I was sitting in my office and the song just popped in my head. I just had to look this up on KZbin and sure enough! Long live KZbin Lol
@FuzzyMemoriesTV
@FuzzyMemoriesTV 5 жыл бұрын
See, that's the thing - its not KZbin. If our museum hadn't found the videotape, transferred it to digital and made it available here, it wouldn't be here. So it's not KZbin. If KZbin didn't exist we would have our own stand alone website sharing the videos.
@Fedge378
@Fedge378 5 жыл бұрын
Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t mean to ignore your contribution - but you said it yourself, you uploaded it to KZbin, which is the first place I looked for it, that’s all. I certainly appreciate the time you took to make it happen though!
@FuzzyMemoriesTV
@FuzzyMemoriesTV 5 жыл бұрын
@@Fedge378 - No worries, I get what you're saying, it's just that it's not even just the fact that it was shared here - the important thing is that it was thought of as important enough to preserve from an dying videotape format. Otherwise it would in effect be lost forever. There's always a hope of sharing something if that something actually exists. :-)
@shrapmagnet
@shrapmagnet 2 жыл бұрын
70's child flashbacks- how did I end up here?
@StarchildMagic
@StarchildMagic 11 жыл бұрын
I've been searching for the intro to this show for years now. Never thought I'd see it again. I was very little when I watched the show, and I only vaguely remember the theme song. Thanks so much for posting this!!!
@malartsny
@malartsny 5 жыл бұрын
The design of this show was great. The clapboard, the animation, the Latin American themes, really interesting
@jim6820
@jim6820 8 жыл бұрын
Wow does this brings back fond memories. I remember that mime called MIMO. Never said a word throughout the series.
@troyhcheek
@troyhcheek 9 жыл бұрын
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I didn't remember the name of this show correctly and had never been able to track it down. I had just about convinced myself that I had imagined it.
@steve_22xy
@steve_22xy 26 күн бұрын
a favourite theme music from my childhood, glad i could finally find it
@briansky10
@briansky10 7 жыл бұрын
I remember this show so well. It used to air right before Sesame Street in my area. Villa Alegre was such a joy. The good old days of children's television.
@josem.figueroajr.4532
@josem.figueroajr.4532 6 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this program in New York when I was just an ankle biting rugrat. I'm 43 now, going on 44 in two months. Thank you for the memories.
@Samboy666
@Samboy666 11 жыл бұрын
As a kid I used the watch this program. It used to come on Saudi TV on Channel 2 in the 90s. I always liked the music at the begining. Iv been looking for this show for Ages and Finally I have found it. LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA VILLA ALEGRE!!!
@ramonawhitaker8447
@ramonawhitaker8447 9 жыл бұрын
I wish they would show this program now! so much better than ANYTHING from Nickelodeon or cartoon network. happy memories.
@ntsecrets
@ntsecrets 3 жыл бұрын
Holy crap I remember seeing this in the NYC area as a kid
@DemonWarp65
@DemonWarp65 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting, I wondered for years what this show was called.
@lilgiggler35
@lilgiggler35 8 жыл бұрын
I actually remember the segment shown at the end the animals done like Mayan drawings.
@frankresendez1928
@frankresendez1928 6 жыл бұрын
lilgiggler35 that part of the Mayan glyphs tumbling around, would blow my mind ! As a small child
@anamuniz-laguna5591
@anamuniz-laguna5591 4 жыл бұрын
This totally brought back some forgotten memory!
@jonscott623
@jonscott623 4 жыл бұрын
I remember the beginning song very well, but I don’t remember actually watching the show. Except the evolution animation is so familiar it’s like I watched it yesterday. I wonder if that animation has been shown in other places - other than this show.
@jrussellcase
@jrussellcase 7 жыл бұрын
That takes me back....waaaaaay too many years. We watched this in elementary school.
@annstillwell730
@annstillwell730 6 жыл бұрын
Loved this show as a kid.
@MsTexas73
@MsTexas73 11 жыл бұрын
This show and Hot Fudge used to come on EARLY on Saturday mornings. I got up at the crack of dawn to watch.
@chicagotom1643
@chicagotom1643 5 жыл бұрын
What a preachy show that was 😠
@bigsonny45
@bigsonny45 7 жыл бұрын
This came on very early Saturday mornings in Baltimore late 70s/early 80s right before battle of the planets. I remember because I was the only one up in the house and knew that soon my big sister would wake and I'd be locked in mortal combat for control of the only color TV for the rest of the morning! THE GOOD OLE DAYS!
@Jiltedin2007
@Jiltedin2007 8 жыл бұрын
I remembered this back in the Early 70's, in Los Angeles, on Mexican Television.
@DevinParker
@DevinParker 7 жыл бұрын
Same here - I was in Orange County in the early/mid-70s. I think I saw it on PBS, but I'm not 100% sure.
@BostonDroneGuy
@BostonDroneGuy 7 жыл бұрын
I remember watching in the 70s with my nana.
@Jiltedin2007
@Jiltedin2007 2 жыл бұрын
@@DevinParker I remembered this and Carrascolendas on KMEX - Channel 34. From the Early 70’s. It’s great to see that someone made English Versions of these Spanish Programs.
@whittierstrong1312
@whittierstrong1312 11 жыл бұрын
Oh, my gosh, I have been trying for literally *decades* to remember the show. All I could remember was a bit of the aesthetics and that it was about Spanish. I started a Facebook conversation to ask for help with the name, a friend suggested Villa Alegre, I Googled the name to verify, got this video, and voila! Mystery solved!
@jukingeo
@jukingeo 12 жыл бұрын
Wow! I actually remember this back in the day. I used to love the theme song. I don't recall the show lasting a long time, but it was interesting. Being a kid at the time I was always fascinated by the enormous rotating set with the ferris wheel :). I do recall the show coming on after Sesame Street though.
@tsntana
@tsntana 9 жыл бұрын
Going through the IMDb, I ran across some posts from a few surviving members of the show. One being from Kenia Hernandez Cueto, the older kid in the clip. According to her, Rene Cardenas (creator and executive producer) owned the rights to Villa Alegre. Since his passing, the series has stayed in a vault and the family hasn't touched it ever since. So it seems we won't see a DVD release, TV re-airing, or stream unless someone can persuade the Cardenas family to open the vault.
@briangallagher1147
@briangallagher1147 8 жыл бұрын
It would be nice if whole episodes did see the light of day. One does exist at the Paley Center in New York (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio). But a DVD release would work. The show is just as relevant today as it was 40+ years ago.
@ApertureZeroProductions
@ApertureZeroProductions Жыл бұрын
We have tried to bring it to market and do not have the funding. It’s sad and something I will work on.
@aidangamalieltayao3297
@aidangamalieltayao3297 3 ай бұрын
Sadly I heard the actress who played Maria passed away recently. Via con Diyos ma'am. Muchas Gracias from a Filipino who remembered.
@michaelbrown2220
@michaelbrown2220 5 жыл бұрын
I remember this so well!
@rickayvar
@rickayvar 10 жыл бұрын
I don't remember much about the show, but the theme song is something I can't forget
@joncoupal1457
@joncoupal1457 10 жыл бұрын
Cool! The sets were so awesome on that show. I remember it well.
@1Blastarr
@1Blastarr 11 жыл бұрын
I remember this show too, I use to watch it a lot as a kid. It came on, on PBS St. Louis on Saturdays if I remember correctly. There were so many shows I remember I'd love to see again. Funny, shows like these we never forget. (when we had hope)
@anamendibles4580
@anamendibles4580 6 жыл бұрын
I miss these shows.
@gordonsnell6735
@gordonsnell6735 7 жыл бұрын
I used to watch this show back.when I was a kid, I liked it 😊😊
@frankresendez1928
@frankresendez1928 6 жыл бұрын
I’ve been askin and wondering for about 44 years about villalegre, watching this as A child was amazing and so influential in positive way, I loved the Mayan drawings /Aztec that tumbled around with flute music, if I’m not wrong?
@jebeja
@jebeja 11 жыл бұрын
dangard88, I feel you as this was one of my all time favorites as well. Do everything you can to keep checking because those tapes, DVD's, etc. are out there, and I think at some of the children would get a real kick out of this.
@TnseWlms
@TnseWlms 2 жыл бұрын
I remember when two girls visit a fire station. The station gets a phone call from a woman who only speaks Spanish. The firemen don't know what to do until one of the girls volunteers, "I speak Spanish..."
@1979cl1
@1979cl1 11 жыл бұрын
I agree with you, I wondered all these years about this program and dearly missed it, somehow these video tapes has to still exist somewhere even if PBS should have them in their archives to make them available on DVD that would be nice because this would also bring back my childhood as well. This progrma ended in 1980 but still ran the episodes into the early 80's as i remembered.
@diegoderokha6799
@diegoderokha6799 Жыл бұрын
Deja tu like si eres chileno y conociste esto por UCV televisión en los 90s.
@dananola
@dananola 6 жыл бұрын
I am not a Spanish speaker but I remember singing every word of this opening accurately and with the same accent when I was a kid.
@MichaelMadrugada
@MichaelMadrugada 4 жыл бұрын
So Dope...They played this mornings at 6am in Los Angeles on KCOP I think.
@vampiregreg
@vampiregreg 9 жыл бұрын
Wow this show was so fun! I remember this as a kid. PBS RULED MY WORLD!!!
@Kdija89
@Kdija89 Жыл бұрын
Mine too. That's all my father allowed us to watch, although I loved it.
@captainfantastic9158
@captainfantastic9158 11 жыл бұрын
This show and Carrascolendas were my intros to the world of Spanish! And yours, too! (Uh, unless of course, you ALREADY spoke Spanish! =D ) Sesame Street gave us bits and pieces of the language, but these two were the real deal. I felt Villa Alegre had the better theme song, though, and, OMG, that parrot-dragon on the end of the director's sign! That brought it all back! I wonder which one of these girls I had a crush on when I was a kid? They're both so well-spoken!
@NeluThat70sKid
@NeluThat70sKid 12 жыл бұрын
Plus, additionally, It also HAS helped me better understand and appreciate the many similarities between Spanish and my paternal grandparents' Romanian....such great memories, thanks a bunch for the upload ;-)
@Nerval-kg9sm
@Nerval-kg9sm 3 ай бұрын
They are both Romance languages descended from Vulgar Latin. The main difference is that Romanian incorporated a huge number of Slavic words, so you get phrases that are half Latin, half Slavic, like 'forte dragutz,' meaning 'very cute.'
@RobertoLopezstudyis
@RobertoLopezstudyis 11 жыл бұрын
I remember this show when I was three years old living in New York in 1975 as well as the Electric Company and Carascolenda.
@matarilelirelon4235
@matarilelirelon4235 11 жыл бұрын
OMG memories!!
@vereen70
@vereen70 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing how no matter what race you are if you’re GenX this is indelible stuck in your mind. 😄…. and I still LOVE IT !!!
@1979cl1
@1979cl1 11 жыл бұрын
Exactly,, I also watched those programs Electric Company and Sesame Street too the same period of my childhood through out the 70's then when Villa Alegre entered the lineup I was happy to watch a bilangual program even though I continued to watch it through my teen years and into my early 20s supporting it since i was living in the Los Angeles area at the time but I always wondered the participants are up to now days, I drive to LA and reminds me of them and the program which is a far cry.
@zabadazidit
@zabadazidit Жыл бұрын
Who else watched this and Carrascolendas???
@cheapthrilll6323
@cheapthrilll6323 6 жыл бұрын
Totally forgot this. Remembered it immediately apon hearing the first few notes and seeing the rotating village.
@pbetftdi
@pbetftdi Жыл бұрын
This exists. I can now prove I wasn’t imagining it.
@TnseWlms
@TnseWlms 2 жыл бұрын
"Fernando's my name. Photography's my game. Let's boogie."
@NathanLeeJames
@NathanLeeJames 5 жыл бұрын
Whoa, I had this show mixed up with Carrascolendas! I mean, actually, I believe they showed us both of them in kindergarten back in 1980/81 in the RGV.
@NeluThat70sKid
@NeluThat70sKid 12 жыл бұрын
Wow, I've been searching high and low for this. I got my two-year Associate's degree in Spanish from college partly b/c of this, plus I was lucky enough to have a great Spanish teacher in my HS senior year (only to have most of my fluency in the language, unfortunately). However, then again, I'll always have a thing for the art, music, and history for all things Latin American....I DO have a Picasso replica in my bedroom with a colorful ceramic crescent moon from Disney Epcot Mexico next to it.
@progrockfan28
@progrockfan28 11 жыл бұрын
I too, recall this show, albeit the memories are fuzzy...this theme and opening sequence being one of them (as well as the ending credit roll, and a few scattered segments). Ran on my local PBS affiliate well into the 1980s ('84 at least) in reruns along with the old version of The Electric Company, and then followed up by Sesame Street. Those were my afternoons back in those days. The memories. :) Those episodes have to be in someone's vaults, somewhere.....
@eleazar_medellin
@eleazar_medellin 9 жыл бұрын
They had the best artists...
@7DARKHELLS
@7DARKHELLS 7 жыл бұрын
1:34 Pokeball! That image always shows up in a lot of shows.
@porousorificePilot
@porousorificePilot 7 ай бұрын
The intro. Song popped into my head today (about 10 times a year as it does) and it's just as I remember it but it seems slower than I remember many it's just me....
@bradhig
@bradhig 3 жыл бұрын
parts of that rotating set at the beginning look like they were made with tinker toys.
@JimGrey
@JimGrey 12 жыл бұрын
Wow, great to hear that theme again.
@lepoetress
@lepoetress 11 жыл бұрын
Me too (coming on after "Sesame Street". Loved this show. This show and "Sesame Street" are the reason I took Spanish from the 6th -12th grade.
@janellirving4625
@janellirving4625 6 жыл бұрын
I remember Villa Allegre!
@wraps777
@wraps777 10 жыл бұрын
Wish this was on DVD (or, is it, perhaps ?)...
@ih8utbe
@ih8utbe 5 ай бұрын
Grew up with this as a child. I speak much more Spanish now than when this was on. It was more a cultural tv program geared towards Spanish speaking children but anyone could watch it. Don't know if this is on dvd
@mick_c_horror_and_pop_culture
@mick_c_horror_and_pop_culture 5 жыл бұрын
Villa Alegre.....rocks!!
@LuvvyDuck
@LuvvyDuck 7 жыл бұрын
I loved this show!! :D
@polycarp55
@polycarp55 3 жыл бұрын
I loved this
@Akira625
@Akira625 4 жыл бұрын
It must’ve been well over 30 years since I last saw Villa Alegre.
@johntapp7232
@johntapp7232 2 жыл бұрын
Akita 625-Love your Avatar!! I remember seeing that guy on Sesame Street doing a counting number to some really neat music!! This was almost fifty years ago!! But he had the coolest most peaceful voice and the coolest moog playing in the background!!
@nycajulio
@nycajulio 12 жыл бұрын
There were two episodes I loved. One about safety and one about the human body. A song from that episode goes "I'm the heart. I'm a very important muscle. Pumping blood just to keep you alive."
@steeler360
@steeler360 5 жыл бұрын
I've been trying to explain this to people for years and never could find the intro people thought I was crazy making up my own show but here it is
@johntapp7232
@johntapp7232 2 жыл бұрын
Oh, I believe ya! I heard this theme song many times in the last two weeks after it had been decades. Take it from me-the GenXer with a subdural hematoma.
@timpriddy349
@timpriddy349 5 жыл бұрын
Good gawd I remember the theme.......dusting off a spot in the forgotten part of my brain
@johntapp7232
@johntapp7232 2 жыл бұрын
It literally took a small bloodbath inside my skull for me to remember it!!
@LogiChips
@LogiChips 4 жыл бұрын
Yo lo miraba en Perú doblado al castellano por canal 7 a las 6 de la tarde 🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪 😋
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