Raffi backstage "Why don't we do a little bit of singing just before we go on? Shall we?"
Raffi playing his guitar backstage "How bout..?"£
Raffi, Dennis, Nancy, and Bucky
Raffi, Dennis, Nancy, Bucky, and Mitch
"That was really nice." "Time for the show!" " "Oh ok great! Let's do it!"
The audience on the balcony
Raffi and the Rise and Shine Band in the hallway
A white hat boy in the audience
Bucky, Raffi, Nancy, and Mitch
Troubadour Records Presents
A Devine Videoworks Production
Presenting The Greatest Raffi in All The World!
Raffi and the Rise and Shine Band
Bucky blowing his whistle
"Here's a song about a little donkey with an unusual name."
Nancy's hands playing the keyboard
Notice that the shot of the audience is mirrored
The same shot of the audience also mirrored, but with different panning
"Thank you so much, thank you very much."
"It's an entirely different song"
"and it tells a different story."
"Mother ducks said: "Quack, quack, quack, quack!""
"Would you like to make the sound of the mother duck?"
"Okay, let's try it now. I'll say "Mother Duck says" and you can make the sound, okay?"
"Quack, quack, quack, quack"
"But only four little ducks came back"
Raffi singing about four little ducks
"Quack, quack, quack, quack!"
Raffi singing about three little ducks
Raffi singing about two little ducks
"Quack, quack, quack, quack"
Raffi doing a quack motion
Raffi singing one little duck
"Quack, quack, quack, quack"
Raffi singing about sad mother duck
"And all of the five little duckies came back"
"It's hard to stop once you start, isn't it?"
"Quack, quack, quack, quack."
"I like that one with a happy ending, too."
"Before we go any further, I'd like to ask you a couple of personal questions so that I can get to know you a little bit."
"How many of you like to eat apples? Let me see your hands up."
"How many of you like to go bowling?"
A little girl holding a Tummi plush bear from
Gummi Bears"How many of you had a bath today?"
"I have a song all about the joys of having a bath."
"Ba, ba, ba, bubbly bubbles"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, silky bubbles"
Raffi, the audience, and the bubbles
Mitch's hands playing the lap steel
"Ba, ba, ba, bubbly bubbles"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, silky bubbles"
"I think I'm gonna need your help on this next one, which is all about some apples and some bananas."
"I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas"
"Oh, I like to ate, ate, ate, aaples and banaynays"
"I like to ate, ate, ate, ate aaples and banaynays"
"I like to eet, eet, eet, eeples and beneenees"
"Oh, I like to ite, ite, ite, iyples and bininiys"
"I like to ite, ite, ite, iyples and bininiys"
"I like to ote, ote, ote, oapples and bononos"
"I like to ote, ote, ote, oapples and bononos"
"I like to ute, ute, ute, uupples and bunuunus"
"I like to ute, ute, ute, uuples and bunuunus"
Raffi mouth trumpeting and Bucky using sound effects
The others pointing to Bucky hitting a high hat cymbal
"I like that one. Thank you."
"For your listening pleasure, we have una cancion en español. A beautiful song in Spanish. All about the great love of colors. This is called "De Colores". 1, 2, 3, 1."
The classical Nylon guitar
Mitch, Bucky, Raffi, and Dennis
"Thank you. Gracias. Thank you."
"I'm gonna put the guitar down for a while."
"I want to come over and have a closer look at you."
"I think I'll just walk on over."
Another little girl and her Cabbage Patch doll
"Hello, hello, how are you? Good."
"Look at your beautiful faces."
"Are you having a good time?"
"Well, if you're happy and you know it,"
"If you're happy and you know it and you really wanna show it"
"If you're happy and you know it, moo like a cow"
"Let me hear that again."
"That's mooooo-sic to my ears."
"Moooo-ving right along."
"I know a terrific song with a Caribbean beat that we can sing together."
"This one's got bananas in it, too."
"And I'll sing my lines and you can sing yours. Alright?"
Bucky playing the conga (Notice that the sunlight background is seen during this pre-filmed shot)
But in the next shot, it is not there.
"You're sounding wonderful. Let's hear it for you."
Raffi clapping and whistling
"I like to sing for you a lullaby en Francais."
"This song in French is called "
Fais Dodo," which means go to sleep."
Little Girl #2 and her Cabbage Patch doll
"Let me see you with a little baby in your arms"
"and let's rock that baby back and forth like this"
"while we sing it. Shall we?"
"Let me see that little baby, that's it."
Raffi and the band humming
"Let me see your twinkling stars out"
"And we can sing this one very quietly together, alright?"
"That's a nice tune. It's good to sing things quiet together, too, isn't it?"
"I have an idea. How would you like to sing me a song?"
"Hey What A Great Time in Daytime. But Now It's Nighttime"
"Alright. Maybe my band could play along with you while you sing." (The background is light.)
"Shall we try that?" (The background is dark.)
"Is that the amazing adventures of Morph? Do You Like It? You Do? Yes"
"You probably know this one, too."
"You sure know a lot of songs."
"Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the dance portion of our program."
Another little girl and her teddy bear
"This one's all about the girl who came from France"
"who didn't know how to dance."
Raffi's other foot hopping
"Boys and girls, I'd like you to sit back
"and get comfortable for this next one." "What's Going on over There. Hmm. AHA! LIKE ME AND YOU!
"Because I'm going to sing it all by myself, especially for you."
A little girl and her big brother
"In many countries around the world, there are children whose names may be different than the names you know."
"In this song, you have a chance to listen to the names of children from around the world."
Like Me and You (Notice that Dennis is playing the six-string bass instead of the four-string one.)
"I know a song about a beautiful whale."
"Shall we sing Baby Beluga together?"
"A one and a two and a three and a four and."
"Thank you. Thank you very much."
"It's time to shake the sillies out, folks."
"So let me see your body wiggle loose a little bit like this."
"I like to shake my cheeks loose like this."
"Let me hear you do that."
The audience shaking their cheeks
"Oh, and let me see if the band is ready for shaking, okay?"
"They're always ready for shaking."
"Are you ready to shake?"
"A humongous noisy stretch!"
Raffi and the audience stretching while screaming
Raffi stretching upside down
Mitch playing an electric guitar solo
Mitch's Red American Vintage Stratocaster electric guitar
Mitch holding the Red American Vintage Stratocaster electric guitar's tremolo arm ("Join us now.")
"I thank you all for singing with me today. In fact, I think we should give a big hand for how all of you have sung. Let's hear it for you."
Raffi clapping and whistling
"I'd also like to thank... my friends in the band who sing and play with me."
"On the bass, Dennis Pendrith."
"On the drums, Bucky Berger."
"On the piano and keyboards, Nancy Walker."
"And on the number of stringed instruments, Mitch Lewis."
"Our last song is actually three songs rolled into one."
"Bye-bye, everyone. God bless you."
"BRAVISIMO! HA HA! WHAT A GREAT SHOW!"
"We want Raffi! Okay Team. Shall We?"
"YEAAAAAAAAAAA! We want Raffi WE WANT EGGS! WE WANT EGGS! WE WANT EGGS!"
Raffi and the Rise and Shine Band back on stage
"Thank you so much, thank you."
"I like to sing you a song that I wrote with my wife
Debi. And, you know, over the years, Debi has helped me tremendously with the work that I do, and writing songs is one of the ways that we work together."
"And this one is called "Everything Grows"."
"One and a two and a three and a..."
Mitch playing the harmonica
Mitch playing a harmonica riff
Raffi and Dennis in the credits
Raffi and the Rise and Shine Band in the credits
Raffi and Nancy in the credits
The Rise and Shine Band in the credits
Mitch, Dennis, and Bucky in the credits
Raffi backstage in epilogue
Raffi and the Rise and Shine Band backstage in epilogue
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