Big Block SingSong | |
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Genre | |
Created by | Warren Brown Adam Goddard |
Directed by | Warren Brown |
Voices of | Adam Goddard Stacey Kay |
Composer | Adam Goddard |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 4 |
No. of episodes | 89 |
Production | |
Animator | Warren Brown |
Running time | 2 minutes |
Production company | Goddard/Brown |
Original release | |
Network | CBC Kids |
Release | 28 August 2012 – 2017 |
Big Block Singsong is a Canadian children's animated musical television series and group created by Warren Brown and Adam Goddard. [1] They are best known for their regular series of animated music videos which have aired as interstitial programming on channels such as Disney Junior in the United States, Nick Jr. in the UK, ABC Kids in Australia and CBC Kids in Canada since 2012 [2] and as the winners of the Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020 for their album Greatest Hits, Vol. 4. [3] It is directed, designed, and animated by Brown and composed and sung by Goddard.
They received two previous Juno Award nominations at the Juno Awards of 2016 for Greatest Hits [4] and at the Juno Awards of 2018 for Greatest Hits, Vol. 3. [5]
The duo has also produced songs about letters and numbers for TVO Kids under the name ABC Singsong, under which they received two more Juno nominations at the Juno Awards of 2021 for Letters and Numbers [6] and at the Juno Awards of 2022 for Words Words Words. [7]
Each episode features a different block shaped character, based on a real life thing, (e.g. an animal, a person, or even a concept or idea) singing a song, either about themselves, or what they do. They sing original songs in many different musical genres.
In total, the show ran for 4 series with 89 episodes.
Season | Episodes | Originally released | ||
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First released | Last released | |||
1 | 24 | 2012 | 2012 | |
2 | 25 | 2013 | 2013 | |
3 | 20 | 2014 | 2015 | |
4 | 20 | 2016 | 2017 |
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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1 | "Monkey" "Two-Banana Day" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
It’s a two banana day for a monkey. | |||||
2 | "Sleep" "Good Sleep" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Take a trip on the sleepy train and have dreamy dreams. | |||||
3 | "Hair" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Hair shaped like a horse? Of course. | |||||
4 | "Happy" "We're Happy!" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Everybody has a happy side! | |||||
5 | "Teeth" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Teeth are fantastic and they never go out of style! | |||||
6 | "Noses" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Everybody knows what a nose is. Do you? | |||||
7 | "Sad" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
We’ve all worn a frown and that's okay. | |||||
8 | "Octopus" "Octopus Pete" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Have you ever seen a fancier creature than Octopus Pete? | |||||
9 | "Bat" "Upside Down, Hanging Around" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
A bat is just hanging around upside down. | |||||
10 | "Big Foot" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Big Foot has some astronomical feet! | |||||
11 | "Mad" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Feeling mad? Get ready to cool it down. | |||||
12 | "Eat" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Eat, eat, eat to feel good all day long. | |||||
13 | "Frog" "Would You Come To The Pond?" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Come and see a frog’s pond. You don’t want to miss it. | |||||
14 | "Moose" "In The Park" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
A moose really, really, really likes going to the park. | |||||
15 | "Good" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
A fellow is having a good day and you will too. | |||||
16 | "Owl" "Peekaboo" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Peek, peek, peekaboo! A boo boo boobity boo! | |||||
17 | "Fruit" "15 Kinds of Fruit" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
So much fruit and so little time! | |||||
18 | "Brave" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Be brave because salad can be scary sometimes. | |||||
19 | "Ears" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Hear all the sounds that his ears hear. | |||||
20 | "Colourful Day" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Yellow? Hello! Join a colourful artist on his colourful day. | |||||
21 | "Farmer" "Around The Farm" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Around the farm, a farmer is doing his thing. | |||||
22 | "Spider" "Opposites" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
Find out where a spider sits in his world of opposites. | |||||
23 | "Robot" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
A robot has lots of questions and he’s come for answers. | |||||
24 | "Different" "We Are Different" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2012 | |
An unlikely pair is totally cool with their many differences. |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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25 | 1 | "Princess" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Watch out bad guys! She’s a princess in an electric pink dress. | ||||||
26 | 2 | "Counting" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Need advice on how to count? This is the cyclops you want to call! | ||||||
27 | 3 | "Space Friends" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Beautiful friendships happen in space. | ||||||
28 | 4 | "Slug" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
He’s a slug, not a bug. Let’s keep that straight. | ||||||
29 | 5 | "Fun" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
You can’t beat fun! | ||||||
30 | 6 | "Magician" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Feel the magic! | ||||||
31 | 7 | "Chef" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
You’ll never guess what this chef puts in the soup. | ||||||
32 | 8 | "Caveman" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
His name is Dave and he lives in a cave. | ||||||
33 | 9 | "Junk Food" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Watch out for the junk food fever! | ||||||
34 | 10 | "Cowboy" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Can you be a cowboy without a cow? | ||||||
35 | 11 | "Germs" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Let’s just say these germs like to get around. | ||||||
36 | 12 | "Time Traveller" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Travel through time with this time travelling troubadour. | ||||||
37 | 13 | "Super Duper" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Stan is a super duper guy! | ||||||
38 | 14 | "Dog" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
This doggy dog is the finest pet you’ll ever meet. Woof, woof. | ||||||
39 | 15 | "Skills" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Think everyone has a skill? These guys sure did. | ||||||
40 | 16 | "Pirate" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Treasure is this pirate’s ticket to the good life. Too bad he can’t find it now. | ||||||
41 | 17 | "La Tee Dah" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Time to stand at attention and pay respects to the land of La Tee Dah. | ||||||
42 | 18 | "Beats" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Serving up a batch of tasty beats. | ||||||
43 | 19 | "Moustachios" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Mucho macho muchachos with moustachios. | ||||||
44 | 20 | "Technology" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Thank you technology from the bottom of our laser pants. | ||||||
45 | 21 | "Better Way" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Let’s all find a better way to work it through. | ||||||
46 | 22 | "Clown" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
It’s not easy, but someone has to be the clown. | ||||||
47 | 23 | "Wilderness" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
You love the wilderness if your best friend is a tree. | ||||||
48 | 24 | "Rock & Roll" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
She’s got a rock & roll attitude! | ||||||
49 | 25 | "Here We Go" | Warren Brown | Adam Goddard & Warren Brown | 2013 | |
Anything can happen and it just might. |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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50 | 1 | "Move It" | TBD | TBD | 2014 | |
Stand up! Stand up! Get up and go! | ||||||
51 | 2 | "Underwater" | TBD | TBD | 2014 | |
Come along on an underwater sea adventure. | ||||||
52 | 3 | "Give A Little" | TBD | TBD | 2014 | |
Give. Share. Feel the smiles! | ||||||
53 | 4 | "Try" | TBD | TBD | 2014 | |
Anything is possible, you just have to give it go! | ||||||
54 | 5 | "Abominable Snowman" | TBD | TBD | 2014 | |
It’s phenomenal being abominable. | ||||||
55 | 6 | "Better Together" | TBD | TBD | 2014 | |
We're better together than apart. | ||||||
56 | 7 | "Astronaut" | TBD | TBD | 2014 | |
This astronaut is so far out in space! | ||||||
57 | 8 | "Birthday" | TBD | TBD | 2014 | |
Birthday! Birthday! Celebrate the day that's all about you! | ||||||
58 | 9 | "Chickens" | TBD | TBD | 2014 | |
Bawk! Bawk! Bawk! Chickens! | ||||||
59 | 10 | "Spectacular" | TBD | TBD | 2014 | |
Leap into a bowl of awesome-sauce. He’s spectacular! | ||||||
60 | 11 | "Eyeballs" | TBD | TBD | 2015 | |
Eyeballs! It’s getting googly! | ||||||
61 | 12 | "Waiting" | TBD | TBD | 2015 | |
Sometimes the wait time is the great time. | ||||||
62 | 13 | "Toes" | TBD | TBD | 2015 | |
Toes are just so cool. | ||||||
63 | 14 | "Gorilla Gorilla" | TBD | TBD | 2015 | |
These gorillas are some fancy fine fellas! | ||||||
64 | 15 | "Family" | TBD | TBD | 2015 | |
Shake that family tree! | ||||||
65 | 16 | "Amazing" | TBD | TBD | 2015 | |
When you do your best, you’re amazing! | ||||||
66 | 17 | "Cat" | TBD | TBD | 2015 | |
Love him! Love him! Love him! He’s a cat. | ||||||
67 | 18 | "Loud" | TBD | TBD | 2015 | |
L-O-U-D! Everybody get loud! | ||||||
68 | 19 | "Vikings" | TBD | TBD | 2015 | |
Everybody needs a viking. | ||||||
69 | 20 | "Shapes" | TBD | TBD | 2015 | |
Shapes are everywhere! |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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70 | 1 | "Bee" | TBD | TBD | 2016 | |
This bee is a lover, not a stinger! | ||||||
71 | 2 | "Wizard" | TBD | TBD | 2016 | |
He's a whiz at everything, well, except wizardly things. | ||||||
72 | 3 | "Share the Care" | TBD | TBD | 2016 | |
Share the care here, there and everywhere! | ||||||
73 | 4 | "Cows" | TBD | TBD | 2016 | |
These cows are on the loose and looking to raise the roof! | ||||||
74 | 5 | "What's Up" | TBD | TBD | 2016 | |
If that’s what’s up, he’s down with that. | ||||||
75 | 6 | "Bears" | TBD | TBD | 2016 | |
Let’s hear it for the bears! | ||||||
76 | 7 | "Activate" | TBD | TBD | 2016 | |
Recharge your batteries and activate! | ||||||
77 | 8 | "Imagine That" | TBD | TBD | 2016 | |
Think of what could happen when we all think together. | ||||||
78 | 9 | "Turkey Turkey" | TBD | TBD | 2016 | |
You gotta believe! | ||||||
79 | 10 | "Tidy Up" | TBD | TBD | 2016 | |
When things get messy, you gotta get clean. | ||||||
80 | 11 | "Butterfly" | TBD | TBD | 2017 | |
Mysterious and miraculous changes happen right before your eyes. | ||||||
81 | 12 | "Alien" | TBD | TBD | 2017 | |
Blast off on a super fantastic intergalactic tour! | ||||||
82 | 13 | "Nice" | TBD | TBD | 2017 | |
Forget rough or rude, being nice is her thing. | ||||||
83 | 14 | "Duck" | TBD | TBD | 2017 | |
It's a quack attack. You better stand back! | ||||||
84 | 15 | "King of the Jungle" | TBD | TBD | 2017 | |
This king of the jungle wants you to know just how kingly he can be. | ||||||
85 | 16 | "Hello" | TBD | TBD | 2017 | |
Discover what you might find by saying hello. | ||||||
86 | 17 | "Time" | TBD | TBD | 2017 | |
What time is it? Time to watch this video! | ||||||
87 | 18 | "Questions" | TBD | TBD | 2017 | |
Answers to questions that really make you think! | ||||||
88 | 19 | "Monsters" | TBD | TBD | 2017 | |
Do you like monsters? These monsters sure do. | ||||||
89 | 20 | "Dance" | TBD | TBD | 2017 | |
Time to dance! |
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