From the description on YouTube:
When we discovered video mash-up artist John D. Boswell, aka melodysheep, on YouTube, we immediately wanted to work together. Turns out that he is a huge Mister Rogers Neighborhood fan, and was thrilled at the chance to pay tribute to one of our heroes. Both PBS and the Fred Rogers Company hope you like John's celebration of Fred Rogers' message.
If you like this video, please support your local PBS station.
Okay I am not even sure exactly WHY but this made me tear up to the point that I had to stop the video to wipe my eyes more than once. So much for Gryphen earning man points today!
I have said it before, but it bears repeating, Fred Rogers is my all time favorite Christian.
I seriously doubt we will ever see his like again. But my, what a gift he left to all of us!
Update: I am sorry that some of you did not enjoy the video, I found it delightful.
Of course I know that all of you like Mr. Rogers, whether this mashup is your cup of tea or not, unlike Fox News who thought he was an evil, evil man.
Thank you Gryphen. I teared up too. What a guy!
ReplyDeleteLove, love, loved Mr. Rogers. We sure do need him. Congressmen are mean and vicious now. They would have attacked Mr. Rogers if he had leant his support for PBS in this day and age.
ReplyDeleteOk now I'm tearing up. That was absolutely lovely, thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this.
ReplyDeleteNo!!! Totally GROSS! As the parent, the most wonderful thing about Mr. Rogers was his wonderfully soothing voice. Granted, as an adult it drove me nuts, but my children loved it. He calmed everyone. This is so absolutely awful it made my teeth hurt!
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, Anon 6:47pm.
DeleteThe music is loud and horrid, so I couldn't hear much of what Mr. Rogers said.
I wasn't thrilled with the music either, but Fred was a gift to all of us. He was on everyday when my 2 girls were growing up, along with Sesame Street. I hate to think whats on now, that was 15 years ago. You are right saying Fred was a "true" Christian, he was the best educator. I esp loved the field trips.
ReplyDeleteThis is glorious!
ReplyDeleteI miss him like I miss my father.
ReplyDeleteGet rid of the music and you have the most humble human ever to grace my family’s life. Oh how I long for the days when Mr. Rogers settled my little girls with his gentle expression of life.
ReplyDeleteI loved this. Thank you Gryph. I don't understand AT ALL why people think the piano music was loud and horrid. Maybe you should turn down your speakers or get some better ones! I've hooked up my computer to the stereo system and it sounded great to me. In fact I found it SOOTHING.
ReplyDeleteMy kids grew up with Mr. Rogers so therefore I did too. I'm sending them all this link.
I can imagine Fred Rogers snapping his fingers and smiling to this song in the garden of my mind.
ReplyDeleteLoved it: Philosophical and fun!
ReplyDeleteExcellent!
ReplyDeleteWe miss you, Mr. Rogers.
Maybe it's a difference in speakers, or a generational thing, or just simply different tastes in music.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely adored it! What a beautiful tribute to a wonderful personality and educator. I grew up with Mr. Rogers, and I'd like to think that somewhere, he's seeing this and smiling.
My husband was in Vietnam and our sons were toddlers when Mr. Rogers first came into our lives. I hear his voice and I am in the Sixties all over again. Fred Rogers did a good thing.
ReplyDeleteLoved it--music and all. We were never big Mr. Rogers viewers in our house (we ran more to Thomas the Tank Engine), but there's something so very safe and sane and comforting about the show. As the person uplist said, Fred Rogers did a good thing.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure he's St. Fred Rogers.
ReplyDeleteWTF is Fox News' problem?
Either it's St. Fred Rogers, or there is no God.
DeleteSee an article about him that makes it abundantly clear, not by telling you, but by showing you:
http://www.pittsburghinwords.org/tom_junod.html
Thank you!!! I grew up with Mr. Rogers...and Sesame Street and Electric Company. I miss that guy!
ReplyDeleteI've bought my daughter some DVD collections of the best of Sesame and Electric Company...now I'm off to search for Mr. Rogers!
His voice takes me back..to the much simpler time then. I wonder what he would say about the things that happen today? The bullying, the lack of common decency and courtesy, the disrespect, the continued intolerance of those different from us.
Now why on earth does Fox News have a beef with this man???
Thank you for posting this!!
Fred Rogers is the exception. This was one show I allowed my kids to watch because he had heart and humanity, love and acceptance, yet didn't inject God nor religion into the "mix".
ReplyDeleteI don't think this mash up was offensive to his memory at all. I think it's introducing him to a whole new audience, and that's not a bad thing.
What a truly loving and compassionate man. And Fred was, too!
Thanks for sharing this, Gryphen.
Thank you. It was very nice. I was a fan of Mr. Rogers, Not so with the evil Fox & Friends.
ReplyDeleteDelightful, I'm sharing!!
ReplyDeleteFox channel is against ANYthing that encourages thinking thoughts other than the ones they are programming their viewers to have.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. Loved it.
ReplyDeleteFred Rogers was such a gentle, loving, and kind man as well as an ordained Presbyterian minister. And his mom knitted many of those sweaters he wore on the show!
(For more factoids, go to http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/06/mr-rogers-was-an-ordained-presbyterian-minister/)
I loved it. And I love him.
ReplyDeleteDo do you remember before he passed away stomach cancer....he had done an interview wiht NPR....they asked him if he ever played the piano. He said that he played it still, especially when he was sad. He said the the other day he came home & played the piano for a long, long time because he had a tummy ache.
So gentle. So sweet. I'm tearing up just thinking about him.
Wonderful!!
ReplyDeleteI loved this! Thank you so much for posting it. I remember seeing Mr. Rodgers in interviews outside of the neighborhood and he was always so very open to people and things that were different. And, in line with his philosophy, different is good. It was a wonderful lesson then, it's a valuable lesson now. I think he would have loved the music. Thanks again, Gryphen, you made my morning!
ReplyDeleteIt makes me sad to think that anyone would not like this video. Mr. Roger's message is one of loving-kindness. He's been gone for a while now, and I'm certain that there are children who don't know who he is or what he has to say. I think it's wonderful that someone put it into a beat that kids can understand and enjoy.
ReplyDeleteIf only we really WERE neighbors to each other.
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
It's a neighborly day in this beautywood,
A neighborly day for a beauty,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you,
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.
So let's make the most of this beautiful day,
Since we're together, we might as well say,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor?
Won't you please,
Won't you please,
Please won't you be my neighbor?
My kids weren't too enthused about Mr. Rogers, but as a mother of three little ones, I enjoyed the calmness and kindness he imparted. Often I would watch his program by myself.
ReplyDeleteWhen my son was little, he told me he had to write a paper in class for his teacher about his hero. So I asked him who he wrote about and he said, "Mr. Rogers, because Mr. Rogers always has a wonderful day in the neighborhood."
ReplyDeleteMy little boy is now forty. And the tears running down my cheeks watching Mr. Rogers again after all those years is because of the love and gratitude I feel towards Mr. Rogers. He was a good man. And my son loved him so much. My son did not have his father in his life, but Mr. Rogers was there as a male role model and a friend. I will be forever grateful for Mr. Rogers.
Thanks, Gryphen.
What I love about this video is it relects the kind of education I had as a child which promoted curiosity, information and learning. Now kids in some places are told science is a bad thing and their thinking and creativity are stunted. This combined with the defunding of schools is horrifying to think about and are a very bad sign for the future of our country. In the past if a child was raised in a home with backwards thinking they could still learn to think at school. That safetynet is being destroyed.
ReplyDeleteI loved this so much! I grew up with Mr. Rogers and I miss him still :)
ReplyDeleteI had breakfast with Mr. Fred Rogers at a National Early Childhood conference in 1980. He sat beside me and we talked for nearly 2 hours. He was the most gentle, caring, intuitive, funny, intelligent, forward-thinking educator I have ever met. We talked about how the microwave and TV remote were going to change the "tenacity" of children..and you know what? He was right!
ReplyDeleteKids have no tenacity anymore.