(NBC Saturday Mornings, 1957 - 1958;
Syndicated, 1966)
[This series was a spin-off from "Howdy Doody" where the
unusual animated films were aired in 1956...
Stop motion clay figures were animated in this series of
adventures which were originally hosted by Bobby Nicholson
who had played Clarabell and Cornelius Cobb...and later
the host was Pinky Lee; the animation was produced by
Art Clokey who called it "Pixillation"; it was later
called "Claymation" by others who used a similar stop-
motion technique; Clokey also used it to produce a 1962
children's religious series called "Davey And Goliath";
Gumby was a strip of clay who looked like a strip of gum;
his horse was named "Pokey" and had a dog named "Nopey"
if it sounds a bit "dopey", that's because it was :-)
It was revived for a syndicated run in 1966; and they
even attempted "Gumby -- The Movie" in 1995 which was
ambitiously titled "Gumby I" but there never was a need
for a sequel, "Gumby II"...at least not yet...:-)]
[BMI title variation...
aka: "Open and Close Theme Gumby";
aka: "Gumby E T"]
Composers: William G. ("Bill") Loose (ASCAP/BMI) and
John Seely (ASCAP/BMI)
[professional name of Seely John Gilfilen]
1978 Publisher: Sam Fox Pub. Co., Inc. (ASCAP)
2001 Publishers: WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
c/o Warner-Chappell Publishing Co.
of Los Angeles;
2002 Publishers: [for current Title, Publisher and Licensing
information regarding this THEME...
contact Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) and
the American Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers (ASCAP)]
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[Art Clokey was also the stop-motion animator who created
the character and produced the films]
Composer: Arthur C. ("Art") Clokey (ASCAP)
1978 Publisher: [not listed in the 1978 ASCAP Index of
Performed Compositions]
2001 Publisher: [listed without publisher in the
2001 ASCAP ACE repertoire database]
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