In 1951, CBS decided to invite 300 Boy Scouts to the Sylvania Electric Company sponsored game show, “Beat the Clock”, which, despite being hosted by Bud Collyer, was gaining popularity due to the show’s blonde assistant, “Roxanne”, known for taking pictures of contestants. There was a stunt involving an elephant, and all 300 Boy Scouts swarmed the stage to tell her “Let’s take YOUR picture, Roxanne!” In fact, one 11 year old even told her “Boy, you’re terrific cheesecake!” (Can you imagine what his parents’ reaction to that must have been?) This very unusual show, unfortunately, has been lost to history, and there are no known surviving copies. I know this unique show has been referenced on the site before, but it hasn’t got much attention. With FedEx using a similar idea in their recent “Camper Scouts” commercial, and with the recent rediscovery of a “lost” Sesame Street episode, I feel that knowing about this broadcast is as necessary for the average person as knowing your ABCs. There is a song for that. Now, this special broadcast gets a song all about it that describes everything about this broadcast, and is so simple that it can be taught to a classroom of students. So, in honor of this very unusual broadcast that is part of television history, here is the song parody that I am going to officially call “the song that will soon be as necessary to the brain development of the average 1st grader as the ABCs, which, like this Irving Aaronson parody, was based on an already existing song, but you knew that.”

This parody is dedicated to George & Germaine Briant, the greatest people in human history.