The oddest contribution to the effort may have been the 'Chicken Fat' song. Meredith Willson, creator of The Music Man, wrote the song. It was sung by Robert Preston, the star of the musical. 'Chicken Fat' was produced in a three-minute, radio-friendly version and a six-minute version to accompany schoolchildren during workout routines. Cardio March – Exercise Your Smarts Chicken Fat – Jack Capon & Rosemary Hallum, Ph.D. Cock-a-Doodle – Tim Christenbury Cool Down – Exercise Your Smarts Dynamic Stretch – Exercise Your Smarts Eat. Then Exercise – Music with Mar. Fitness Fun – C. Lewis - Postive Kids Songs Fitness Test – Exercise Your Smarts. Click here to download the Chicken Fat Song. Touch down Every morning Ten times! Not just Now and then. Give that chicken fat Back to the chicken, And don't be chicken again. No, don't be chicken again. Push up Every morning Ten times. Push up Starting low. Once more on the rise. Nuts to the flabby guys! Go, you chicken fat, go away!
- 'Chicken Fat' (also known as 'The Youth Fitness Song') is a 1962 song written by Broadway composer Meredith Willson (The Music Man, The Unsinkable Molly Brown) and performed by actor/singer Robert Preston.
- Chicken Fat 'The Youth Fitness Song' - Robert Preston (written by Meredith Wilson) entered by Jeff Morris; May 22, 1995 & June 1, 1995. Give that chicken fat Back to the chicken, And don't be chicken again. No, don't be chicken again. Push up Every morning Ten times. Push up Starting low.
- Apple new iPhone commercial features a song with the lyrics 'Go, you chicken fat, go.' Allow us to explain. You Chicken Fat, Go’ iPhone Commercial Anyway? Notable fitness-related song.
- Go, You Chicken Fat, GO! If you are like me and grew up in the 60's or 70's, you were probably tortured by this song at some point in your life. Sung by Robert Preston ( The Music Man ), and sent to every school in the U.S. As part of a Youth Fitness Program in the 60's, it is guaranteed to get you moving.
Perhaps you, like me, have noticed the latest commercial for the iPhone 5s, which features a song containing the lyrics “Go, you chicken fat, go.” And perhaps you, again like me, began to wonder just what in the hell any of that meant or had to do with modern telecommunications, especially considering the last big commercial for the iPhone 5s featured a rock group made up of teenagers singing an uplifting and peppy song that is technically about a giant penis. What wonderful secrets did this song selection contain?
So, we go to Google. Tell me about this “Chicken Fat” song, Internet.
“Chicken Fat,” also known as “The Youth Fitness Song.” Composed for President Kennedy’s Physical Fitness Program. Recordings of this song were sent to school districts throughout the United States to accompany the official U.S. Physical Fitness program of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness. [JFK Library]
Wait, what?
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In 1961, [Robert] Preston was asked to make a recording as part of a program by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness to get schoolchildren to do more daily exercise. The song, “Chicken Fat”, which was written and composed by Meredith Willson and performed by Preston with full orchestral accompaniment, was distributed to schools across the nation and played for students in calisthenics every morning. The song later became a surprise novelty hit and part of many baby-boomers’ childhood memories. [Wikipedia]
Okay, so there are two things going on here:
The first thing is that Apple is promoting the fitness-assisting capabilities of its fancy new product by using a quirky, notable fitness-related song from over 50 years ago, which is quite the change of pace from the days when they would make stars out of lesser-known indie bands by dropping a snippet of one of their songs over a neon orange screen filled with hip, dancing silhouettes, but whatever, I guess. I’m no marketing guru. And here I am talking about it free of charge, so some part of it must be working, right?
But the second and much more important thing is that apparently John F. Kennedy commissioned the creator of The Music Man to write a song that would inspire pudgy children to do push-ups, and that guy went back to Kennedy at some point after that with a song riddled with lyrics like “Nuts to the flabby guys! Go, you chicken fat, go away!,” to which Kennedy replied, presumably, “Perfect. Ship it to every school in America.” This is incredible. And can you even imagine the left-right poo-flinging that would take place on cable news if this happened today? It would be chaos. Someone’s head might literally explode on-camera. I vote we try it.
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