Fun Song Factory

Fun Song Factory
Genre	Children's Pre-School
Created by	Ged Allen
Starring	Aston Merrygold (as Cookie), Laura Hamilton (as Melody), Chris Till (as OJ), Kerry Newell (as Cal), Polly Parsons (as Paige)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	92
Production
Producer	Tell-Tale Productions
Running time	25 mins
Original release
Network	ITV Network (CITV/GMTV)

Fun Song Factory is a British preschool children's show on CITV aimed at youngsters. It was one of the first songs-based shows to be filmed in front of a live audience of children (following on from BBC Scotland/Scottish Television's The Singing Kettle) and is similar to Australian shows such as 'The Wiggles' and 'Hi-5'.

It was originally created in 1994 by Will Brenton and Iain Lauchlan, part of the Playdays production team, who later went on to create and produce The Tweenies, Boo!, BB3B, and Jim Jam and Sunny.

The first production was a sell through video filmed at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon, presented by Iain Lauchlan, Sarah Davison and Dave Benson Phillips. The video was a great success, and led to a second being filmed at Chicken Shed in North London, this time presented by Iain, Dave and Michele Durler.

All in all seven videos were shot, selling 750,000 copies in the UK before the series was commissioned by GMTV in 1998. The TV show was originally presented by Justin Fletcher, Katy Stephens, Karl Woolley, Alex Lovell and Dave Benson Phillips. This show was nominated for a BAFTA in 1998. The series also featured Aston Merrygold of JLS as Cookie.

Live Shows

• Fun Song Factory 1 (1 December 1994)
• Fun Song Factory 2 (5 January 1996)
• Party time at the Fun Song Factory (26 July 1996)
• The Fun song factory at Old MacDonald Farm (28 September 1996)
• Christmas Time at the Fun Song Factory (30 November 1996)
• Fun Song Factory - Fun and Games (24 September 1997)
• Fun Song Factory - Nursery Rhyme Land (5 November 1997)

UK VHS releases

VHS Title	Release Date	Episodes
Fun Song Factory Colours, Collywobbles, Hide and Seek (0585923)	14 September 1998	Colours, Collywobbles, Hide and Seek
Fun Song Factory Please and Thank You, Picnic Time, Helping (0585963)	26 October 1998	Please and Thank You, Picnic Time, Helping
Double the Fun at the Fun Song Factory (0419923)	22 March 1999	Birthdays, People Who Help, Sounds, Big and Small, Farm Animals, Numbers
Making Friends with the Fun Song Factory (0612613)	12 July 1999	Making Friends, Water, Senses
Fun Song Factory Music (0619963)	11 October 1999	Music, Creepy Crawlies, Wild Animals
Out and About Double Pack Fun Song Factory (0783623)	20 March 2000	Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Times of the Day, Letters and Words, Transport

UK DVD Coming Soon 2015-16 releases

DVD Title	Release Date	Episodes
Fun Song Factory GMTV Series Volume 1 (2EDVD0975)	15 June 2015	Birthdays, Sounds, Big and Small, Farm Animals, Numbers
Fun Song Factory GMTV Series Volume 2 (2EDVD0976)	13 July 2015	Please and Thank You, Picnic Time, Helping, Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Fun Song Factory GMTV Series Volume 3 (2EDVD0977)	17 August 2015	Colours, Collywobbles, Hide and Seek, Making Friends, Senses
Fun Song Factory GMTV Series Volume 4 (2EDVD0978)	14 September 2015	Music, Creepy Crawlies, Wild Animals, Times of the Day
Fun Song Factory GMTV Series Volume 5 (2EDVD0979)	12 October 2015	Transport, Water, Seasons, Letters and Words, People Who Help
Fun Song Factory GMTV Series 5 Box Set (2EDVD0990)	8 February 2016	Birthdays, Sounds, Big and Small, Farm Animals, Numbers, Please and Thank You, Picnic Time, Helping, Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Colours, Collywobbles, Hide and Seek, Making Friends, Senses, Music, Creepy Crawlies, Wild Animals, Times of the Day, Transport, Water, Seasons, Letters and Words, People Who Help
Fun Song Factory 1 (2EDVD0991)	4 July 2016	filmed at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon 1994
Fun Song Factory 2 (2EDVD0992)	3 October 2016	filmed at Chicken Shed in North London 1996

Fun Song Factory GMTV Series Episodes

• Birthdays 30 May 1998
• Sounds 6 June 1998
• Big and Small 13 June 1998
• Farm Animals 20 June 1998
• Numbers 27 June 1998
• Please and Thank You 4 July 1998
• Picnic Time 11 July 1998
• Helping 18 July 1998
• Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes 25 July 1998
• Colours 1 August 1998
• Collywobbles 8 August 1998
• Hide and Seek 15 August 1998
• Making Friends 22 August 1998
• Senses 29 August 1998
• Music 5 September 1998
• Creepy Crawlies 12 September 1998
• Wild Animals 19 September 1998
• Times of the Day 26 September 1998
• Transport 3 October 1998
• Water 10 October 1998
• Seasons 17 October 1998
• Letters and Words 24 October 1998
• People Who Help 31 October 1998

Fun Song Factory Songs in that episode

* Fun Song Factory:

• Fun Song Factory Opening
• If You're Happy and You Know It
• One Finger, One Thumb
• Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
• I Am the Music Man
• The Wheels On the Bus
• I Hear Thunder
• Sing a Song of Sixpence
• Hickory Dickory Dock
• Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
• Polly Put the Kettle On
• Little Bo Peep
• The Grand Old Duke of York
• Round and Round the Garden
• Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
• Hokey Cokey
• One, Two, Three, Four, Five
• Five Little Speckled Frogs
• Yellow Submarine
• Postman Pat Theme
• Sleeping Bunnies
• Peter Rabbit
• Tommy Thumb
• Two Fat Gentlemen
• Miss Polly Had a Dolly
• Incy Wincy Spider
• Wiggly Woo
• Ten Fat Sausages
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
• Five Little Ducks
• Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
• Cows in the Kitchen
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm
• Fun Song Factory Closing

Fun Song Factory 2:

• Fun Song Factory Opening
• We All Clap Hands Together
• Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
• This Old Man
• Be Happy
• Two Little Dicky Birds
• Slowly, Slowly
• This Little Piggy
• Oranges and Lemons
• Doctor Foster
• Little Miss Muffet
• Jack and Jill
• Hey Diddle, Diddle
• Old King Cole
• London Bridge
• Horsey, Horsey
• Down at the Station
• I'm Driving in My Car
• The Runaway Train
• Postman Pat Theme
• I'm a Little Teapot
• Pat a Cake, Pat a Cake
• Jelly On a Plate
• Five Chocolate Eclairs
• Five Currant Buns
• Teddy Bear's Picnic
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat
• A Sailor Went to Sea
• The Big Ship Sails
• Ten in a Bed
• Fun Song Factory Closing

Party Time at the Fun Song Factory:

• Rhythm of the Music
• Put Your Finger in the Air
• You Know You Have a Friend
• My Friend's Orange
• Do You Know the Muffin Man?
• Simple Simon
• Humpty Dumpty
• Aiken Drum
• Bobby Shaftoe
• Five Little Men
• Five Little Soldiers
• Five Little Mice
• Five Little Firemen
• I Can See a Rainbow
• How High Does a Fly Fly?
• Three Little Fishes
• Mousey Brown
• Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken
• Country Sounds
• Happy Birthday
• Dance With Me

The Fun Song Factory at Old MacDonald's Farm:

• Fun Song Factory Opening
• Do As I'm Doing
• How Do You Feel Today?
• Everybody Do This
• This is the Way We Polish the Pipes
• Come Down On the Farm
• I Went to Visit a Farm One Day
• When I Was a Lad in My Father's Farm
• I Can't Stop Tapping My Feet
• Horsey, Horsey
• How Now Brown Cow?
• The Caterpillar Song
• Baa Baa Black Sheep
• Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Pop Goes the Weasel
• Ride a Cock Horse
• Little Boy Blue
• Rub a Dub Dub
• One, Two Buckle My Shoe
• Five Little Ducks That I Once Knew
• Five Little Ducks
• Incy Wincy Spider
• I Have a Little Spider
• Five Little Chickens
• Five Brown Eggs
• The More We Are Together
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm
• Fun Song Factory Closing

Christmas Time at the Fun Song Factory:

• Deck the Halls
• Here We Come a Caroling
• We Three Kings
• Good King Wenceslas
• Away in a Manger
• Here We Go Round the Christmas Tree
• Five Little Reindeers
• Little Donkey
• Jingle Bells
• When Santa Got Stuck Up the Chimney
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
• Silent Night
• All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
• The Christmas Song
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Fun Song Factory - Fun and Games:

• Fun Song Factory Opening
• Copy Me Do
• Here We Go Looby Loo
• Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
• In and Out the Dusty Bluebells
• The Farmer's in His Dell
• There Was a Princess Long Ago
• I'm a Little Teapot
• Slowly, Slowly
• Two Little Dicky Birds
• Everybody Do This
• I Went to School One Morning
• Here We Go Gathering Nuts in May
• We All Clap Hands Together
• Sleeping Bunnies
• Here is a Box
• Five Little Speckled Frogs
• Postman Pat Theme
• Old King Cole
• Sing a Song of Sixpence
• BINGO
• The Grand Old Duke of York
• Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
• Hokey Cokey
• Fun Song Factory Closing

Fun Song Factory - Nursery Rhyme Land:

• Fun Song Factory Opening
• Polly Put the Kettle On
• This Old Man
• Sing a Song Of Sixpence
• Michael Finnegan
• Georgie Porgie
• Simple Simon
• Little Jack Horner
• Jack Sprat
• Jack be Nimble
• Peter Piper
• She Sells Seashells
• Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Jack and Jill
• Rub a Dub Dub
• Goosey, Goosey Gander
• There Was a Crooked Man
• Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain
• Tommy Thumb
• Two Fat Gentlemen
• Old Mother Hubbard
• There Was an Old Woman
• Old Woman Tossed Up in a Basket
• Do You Know the Muffin Man?
• Bobby Shaftoe
• Miss Polly Had a Dolly
• Doctor Foster
• Frere Jacques
• Oranges and Lemons
• Pop Goes the Weasel
• Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat
• Old King Cole
• The Grand Old Duke of York
• Fun Song Factory Closing

Birthdays

• Michael Finnegan
• If You're Happy and You Know It
• Five Little Candles
• Pat a Cake, Pat a Cake
• The Farmer's In His Den
• Happy Birthday
• Sleeping Bunnies

Sounds

• Cows In the Kitchen
• Oranges and Lemons
• We Can Play On the Big Bass Drum
• Walking Through the Jungle
• In the Middle of the Night

Big and Small

• You Know You Have a Friend
• Size Magic
• We Think Mice Are Rather Nice
• The Ant and the Elephant
• My Friend's Orange
• I'm the Same as You
• I Saw a Giant Walking

Farm Animals

• There's a Cow In the Kitchen
• Horsey, Horsey
• Five Little Ducks
• This Little Piggy
• Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick Chicken
• Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Old Macdonald Had a Farm

Numbers

• Ten Green Bottles
• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Four Wheels On My Wagon
• Five Little Ducks
• Ten In a Bed

Please and Thank You

• How Do You Feel Today?
• Two Fat Gentlemen
• Five Currant Buns
• I'm a Little Teapot
• Remember Please and Thank You
• Here We Go Looby Loo

Picnic Time

• Here We Go Looby Loo
• Ten Fat Sausages
• I Hear Thunder
• Jelly On a Plate
• Feeling Down Song
• If You're Happy and You Know It

Helping

• One Finger, One Thumb
• This Is the Way We Dust It Down
• We Went to the Kitchen
• I Can
• Gonna Help Fred Out
• Rhythm of the Music

Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

• Hokey Cokey
• Put Your Finger In the Air
• I Can't Stop Tapping My Feet
• Tommy Thumb
• Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Colours

• Ozzy Went to Paint
• These are All the Colour Moods
• Mousie Brown
• Yellow Bird
• The Colours Song
• I Can Sing a Rainbow

Collywobbles

• We All Clap Hands Together
• Incy Wincy Spider
• Wiggly Woo
• The Caterpillar Song
• If You're Scared
• Dance With Me

Hide and Seek

• How Do You Feel Today?
• We're Playing Hide and Seek
• I Have a Little Spider
• They'll Be Coming Through the Factory
• If You're Happy and You Know It

Making Friends

• Do As I'm Doing
• Everybody Do This
• We're Really Glad You Came
• One Finger, One Thumb
• Copy Me Do
• If You Want to Make a Friend

Senses

• Everybody Do This
• Country Sounds
• Put Your Hands In the Box
• Five Chocolate Eclairs
• Looking Through the Telescope
• The Senses Song

Music

• Music Man
• Come On Feel the Music
• When We're Singing
• It's the Music Box
• Rhythm of the Music

Creepy Crawlies

• There Are Lots of Creepy Crawlies All Around
• Wiggly Woo
• Ringo's Beetle Song
• Caterpillars Only Crawl
• Mrs Ladybird
• Insects poem
• Incy Wincy Spider
• Five Little Spiders
• The Minibeasts Song

Wild Animals

• I've Been All Around the World
• One Elephant Went Out One Day
• A Crocodile Swam in the Water
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain
• Look After the World
• Down in the Jungle

Times of the Day

• What Shall We Do When the Clock Strikes Eight?
• Eggs and Bacon
• We Went to the Factory
• The Jam Sandwich Song
• There Was a Princess Long Ago
• Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

Transport

• The Runaway Train
• Horsey, Horsey
• Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer
• The Wheels On the Bus
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat
• Yellow Submarine

Water

• Open and Shut
• Wash Your Dirty Hands
• Down Comes the Rain
• This is the Bread that Jay Makes
• Five Little Ducks That I Once Knew
• Five Little Speckled Frogs
• Bobby Shaftoe
• A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea

Seasons

• Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
• Seasons Come and Seasons Go
• The Wind poem
• Five Little Snowmen
• The Spring Song
• Doctor Foster
• The Sun Has Got His Hat On

Letters and Words

• SALLY
• Splash
• Five Little Speckled Frogs
• Peter Rabbit
• Monkey ABC

People Who Help

• This Old Man
• Uncle Bill
• Five Little Firemen
• Miss Polly Had a Dolly
• Stop, Look and Listen Before You Cross the Road
• Dingle Dangle Scarecrow

External links

• Fun Song Factory at itv.com/citv