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"Kiddie a-go-go, that's your thing
Never too young to dance and scream
Doing the Freddie, swim and frug
Where the action is, that's the groove
You're growin' up, you're growin' up, you're growin' up, you're growin' up"
- from Kiddie A-Go-Go theme song by Raymond Jaimes
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The full hour-long blast (yes, with commercials intact) of preteen dancing madness that Stax laid on me sent me reeling. The hostess was a tiny blonde woman dressed in harlequin outfits who called herself Pandora. She would banter, Kukla, Fran & Ollie-style, with an assortment of hand puppets telling awful jokes, lip-sync the show's jaunty. Farfisa-driven theme song (see lyrics above), shill for Mickelberry's meats and Wanzer's milk, and exhort the little ones as they awkwardly but enthusiastically shimmed along to the latest releases. The first episode on the tape included the New Colony Six appearance, while the second featured a promotional film for The Cowsills' "Rain, The Park, And Other Things."
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