Kukla, Fran and Ollie - Here We Are [Soundtrack]

Kukla Fran and Ollie (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 2, 1999)
• Original Release Date: October 19, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: DRG
• ASIN: B00001T3JP
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #556,267 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Here We Are

2. Mr. K and Mr. O

3. My Love Loves Me

4. Roses

5. A Good Good Boy

6. Try to Remember

7. A Little Mistletoe

8. Rill Tilly Rill Bob

9. Deck the Halls

10. Poor Little Christmas Tree

11. Kuklapolitan Christmas

12. Make the New Year Your Good News Year

13. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?/Fran You're Beautiful

14. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby

15. I Feel Pretty

16. Spring Is Here

17. A Fellow Needs a Girl

18. Girls Were Made to Take Care of Boys

19. First Love

20. Look to the Rainbow

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Memories are made of this, November 11, 1999

By 

F. Behrens "Frank Behrens" (Keene, NH USA) - See all my reviews
(HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Kukla, Fran and Ollie - Here We Are (Audio CD)

In the early days of live television, less was necessarily more and it was fabulous. Can you picture a children's show that was on screen three times a week--Monday, Wednesday, Friday--from 7:30 to 8:00 p.m. that featured a very nice woman (Fran Allison) and two featured hand puppets (a dragon Kukla and a red-nosed being called Ollie) with a few others of their sort? The human spoke to the puppets, they sang duets and trios--and it was wonderful. No violence, no subtext of adult "meaning," no computer generated beings. It was just plain human. Memories are made of this and DRG has recorded some of them for those of us who remember this show on a nostalgic time-tripping "original soundtrack recording" called <Kukla, Fran and Ollie: Here We Are> (44901). Possibly the first in a projected series, this album contains 23 examples of songs heard on that show that started in 1947. Some are spoofs, some are "straight" renditions of favorites such as "Try to Remember" and "Look For the Silver Lining," and all are charmingly done. The target audience should be all of us that either grew up with this show or had children that did--and--by gum--the tiny tots of today who just might be fascinated to hear humans and "puppets" join in merry songs that do not assault the ears or incite bloody revolution in the playpen. Good fun for young and old.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars its not the best of, but can beggars be choosers?, July 6, 2000

By 

Jonathan Lapin "fletcher rabbit" (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Kukla, Fran and Ollie - Here We Are (Audio CD)

these recordings are from the period of the early 1970s pbs series, which while enjoyable did not represent the true best of kfo. some of them are enjoyable, some merely serviceable, but one would wish that rca would re-release the classic recordings made in the 1950s, which were still available as recently as the 70s on the camden label.

if you are a fan of the kids, you will want to own this collection; if you are only exploring this -- the greatest "children's" show of television's golden age, you might do better to hunt down a friend with access to the real stuff.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE GREATEST ALBUM EVER ASSEMBLED, November 8, 2007

By 

Gold Dust Orphans "Ryan Landry" (Boston, Ma. United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Kukla, Fran and Ollie - Here We Are (Audio CD)

IGNORE ALL IGNORAMUSES. PUT THIS ALBUM ON AND ACCEPT IT FOR WHAT IT IS. A BRILLIANT PIECE OF ART.

IF YOU LIKE GREY GARDENS YOU WILL LOVE THIS!

ANYONE WHO DOESN'T AGREE NEEDS TO HAVE THIER FAT HEAD EXAMINED.