Birthday Party Singsongs is a Shining Time Station audio cassette tape featuring eleven songs released in 1994 by Video Treasures. The tape features a storyline done in the style of a radio broadcast, with Didi and Tito as the hosts, while Tex and Rex provide the humor to the show.
Plot
Side 1
The Jukebox Band host a radio show called "Jukebox Radio" for the listeners of the tape and other little people who live inside jukeboxes. Didi and Tito wish they had something to do, when Didi suggest they throw a birthday party despite it being not anyone's birthday but conclude it's someones birthday somewhere. During the course of the party JJ Silvers calls up the radio show asking them why they are partying instead of working, in which Didi hangs up on him claiming they are losing contact.
Side 2
The band and other puppets on the radio show continue with various things relating to birthday like poetry corner, how to bake a cake and how wishes should be made. By the end of the show everyone starts the clean up as the band wishes the listeners a Happy Birthday with the show coming to its end.
Characters
Cast
- Alan Semok as Tex
- Craig Marin as Rex and JJ Silvers
- Olga Marin as DiDi
- Jonathan Freeman as Tito Swing
Songs
Side 1
- Shining Time Station Theme Song [Opening Theme]
- Kite Song (Faith, Hope and Anxiety)
- Camptown Races (Does It Bite?)
- Crawdad (Schemer Goes Camping)
- This Old Man (The Joke's on Schemer)
- Old But Wise (Ring in the Old)
Side 2
- Polly Wolly Doodle (Second/Sing-a-long Version) (A Day in the Life of The Jukebox Band)
- Baking a Cake (Two Old Hands)
- Help Your Wish Along (Becky Makes a Wish)
- If Everyone Did a Little (Stacy Cleans Up)
- Shining Time Station Theme [Ending Theme]
Trivia
- The advertisements of "Perez Pronto Bus Company" and "Schemer's Arcade" are heard on the tape.
- The cassette tape comes with lyrics of the songs.
Goofs
- Beverly Glenn-Copeland was given credit for the voice of Grace, but she didn't play a role on the segments nor the songs.
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