SONGS OF ANIMALS … CREATURES OF THE EARTH Show date: Sunday, May 3, 2015

Show time: 3:00pm Desserts following show

Silent Auction: Bidding closes shortly after the show

We’re … as happy as a clam can be …as snug as a bug in a rug … as fine as frog’s hair … as busy as a bee … because this year’s Variety Show’s theme is all about ‘Animals / Creatures of the Earth’! Don’t be the black sheep of the family … Sign up today to be IN the Variety Show! Sing…sing with a large group…play an instrument…have a band of instruments… write a short skit from Old MacDonald’s farm! Sherry Johnson is our accompanist that afternoon, and can be yours for your number. Find your music on line … or through Ward-Brodt (music store in Madison). There are several books of music in our church music storage room. Just ask Jan! PLEASE sign up on this year’s Variety Show poster BEFORE Sunday, April 5. Listed are several songs/movies with Animals … Creatures of the Earth in the title …ideas to get your brain in gear. Your act/skit/song must about the theme … Lions, Tigers, and Bears! Oh, my! Get your group (large or small) or your self organized AND decide by Easter Sunday, April 5! Ask someone new in the church if they’d like to be a part of the show. Encourage someone who hasn’t been at any previous shows to give it a try this year and, of course, come to the show! Rehearse on your own, get your props together, and have fun doing it. There will be a one-and-only rehearsal (which will include the finale song that everyone will sing) for everyone to attend. It will be a run-through of the entire show, from beginning to end. It will allow you (and your group) to rehearse with the microphones, tweak your ‘positioning on our stage’, practice with an audience of TV performers. This rehearsal will be Saturday, May 2 at 9:00am (the day before the show). ANY questions or comments please get in touch with me, Jan Rutkowski, at home (849-3306), at church (849-7322), or on my cell phone (213-1848).

YOU have such ‘animal magnetism’ to be in this year’s Variety Show … on Sunday, May 3!

CREATURES OF THE EARTH - ANIMAL SONGS / DANCES / MOVIE SUGGESTIONS A Horse With No Name – America

Albatross – Fleetwood Mac

Ants Invasion - Adam & The Ants

At the Zoo – Simon and Garfunkel

Baa, baa, Black Sheep

Baby Elephant Walk – Lawrence Welk

Bad News Bears (movie)

Barracuda – Heart

Beast of Burden – Rolling Stones

Ben (the rat from the movie ‘Ben’) – Michael Jackson

Blackbird - The Beatles

Boll Weevil song – Brook Benton

Bugs Bunny (show)

Butterfly Kisses – Bob Carlisle

Bye, Bye, Blackbird – Rosemary Clooney

Cat And Mouse - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (movie)

Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent

Cat's In The Cradle - Harry Chapin

CATS (the musical)

Chameleon - Herbie Hancock

Chicken Dance

Chicken Fried - Zac Brown Band

Count your Blessings instead of Sheep – song in ‘White Christmas’

Coyote - Joni Mitchell

Crazy Horses - The Osmonds

Crocodile Rock - Elton John

Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road – Loudon Wainwright III

Disco Duck - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots

Dixie Chicken – Garth Brooks

Dog & Butterfly – Heart

Duck Soup (movie)

Eye of the Tiger – Survivor

Feed the Birds – song from the movie ‘Mary Poppins’

Flight of the Bumblebee

Fly Like an Eagle – Steve Miller Band

Fly Robin Fly – Silver Convention

Fox on the Run – Sweet

Foxy Lady – Jimi Hendrix

Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer - Elmo & Patsy

Groundhog Day (movie)

Hey, Hey, We’re the Monkees! - theme song from TV show

Hippopotamus song

Honky Cat - Elton John

Hound Dog (You Ain’t Nothing But …) – Elvis Presley

Huckleberry Hound (show)

Hummingbird – Seals and Crofts

Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran

I Am The Walrus - The Beatles

Inky Dinky Spider (The Spider Song) – The Kids Next Door

Jaws (theme song)

Jitterbug (dance)

Karma Chameleon – Culture Club

Kung Fu Panda (movie)

La Cucaracha

Lion King (movie)

Lonely Goatherd – Julie Andrews (Sound of Music)

March of the Penguins (movie)

Mary Had A Little Lamb - Sarah Hale

Me and You and a Dog named Boo – Lobo

Mickey Mouse Club … M I C K E Y M O U S E

Mockingbird – Carly Simon & James Taylor

Muskrat Love – Captain and Tennille

Night Owl – Little River Band

Old MacDonald had a Farm – of course, ANIMALS GALORE!

Pepino, the Italian Mouse – Lou Monte

Pink Panther Theme – Henry Mancini

Planet of the Apes (movie)

Puff the Magic Dragon – Peter, Paul, and Mary

Puppy Love - Paul Anka

Roar – Katy Perry

Rockin' Robin - Michael Jackson

Rocky Raccoon - The Beatles

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry

Save a Horse, (Ride a Cowboy) - Big & Rich

See you later, Alligator – Bill Haley & the Comets

Snakes on a Plane (movie)

Snoopy vs. the Red Baron – The Royal Guardsmen

Snowbird – Anne Murray

Spanish Flea – Herb Alpert

Spiders And Snakes - Jim Stafford

Teddy Bear (Let Me Be) – Elvis Presley

The Ants Go Marching One by One, Hurrah, Hurrah

The Cat Came Back – Sonny James

The Chipmunk Song - The Chipmunks

The Doggie in the Window – Patti Page

The Eagle and the Hawk – John Denver

The Fox (What Does the Fox Say) - Ylvis

The Frog Prince - Keane

The Hippopotamus - Flanders & Swann

The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens

The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro) - Herb Alpert

They Shoot Horses Don't They? - Racing Cars

Three Little Pigs - Green Jelly

Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport - Rolf Harris

Tiger Rag - The Mills Brothers

Top Cat (show)

Turkey In The Straw – Traditional

Walk the Dinosaur

What's New Pussycat? - Tom Jones

When Doves Cry - Prince

When I See An Elephant Fly - Cliff Edwards

When the Red, Red Robin comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ along – Al Jolson

White Horse - Taylor Swift

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (movie)

Who Let The Dogs Out - Baha Men

Why Do Girls Love Horses? - Adam Ant

Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones

Wildfire (the horse’s name) – Michael Martin Murphey

Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart

Yellow Bird – The Arthur Lyman Group

Yertle The Turtle - Red Hot Chili Peppers