Gallery[]
Screencaptures[]
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 and Dennis
Raffi, Dennis, and Nancy
The Markham Theatre
A Raffi poster
Raffi, Dennis, Nancy, and Bucky
Raffi, Dennis, Nancy, Bucky, and Mitch
Raffi and the Rise and Shine Band singing The More We Get Together backstage
"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
Raffi and Nancy
Title card
Starring Raffi
Mitch and Dennis
Nancy and Bucky
Presenting The Greatest Raffi in All The World!
Raffi and the audience
Raffi
Raffi sitting down
"Hello, boys and girls."
"Hi, moms and dads."
"Grandmas and grandpas."
"Two, three, four."
Raffi and the Rise and Shine Band
Raffi mouth trumpeting
Raffi scat singing
Bucky blowing his whistle
"Here's a song about a little donkey with an unusual name."
Nancy's hands playing the keyboard
Nancy playing the organ
Mitch's acoustic guitar
The chimes
Dennis, Raffi, and Mitch
Mitch, Raffi, and Nancy
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."
"You probably know the song about the six little ducks."
"I got a song about"
"five little ducks."
"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?"
"Mother Duck said"
"Quack, quack, quack, quack"
"That was wonderful."
"But only four little ducks came back"
Raffi singing about four little ducks
"Quack, quack, quack, quack!"
Raffi singing about three little ducks
"Mother Duck said"
"Quack, quack, quack"
"Quack"
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
"Mother Duck said"
"Quack, quack, quack"
"And all of the five little duckies came back"
Bucky quacking
Nancy quacking
Dennis quacking
Raffi quacking
Mitch quacking
"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."
The audience
"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 did."
"Me, too."
"Me, too."
"I have a song all about the joys of having a bath."
"1, 2, 3."
Raffi mouth trumpeting
Bucky playing the kazoo
Mitch playing the kazoo
"Ba, ba, ba, bubbly bubbles"
The white hat boy
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, silky bubbles"
The bubbles
Raffi, the audience, and the bubbles
Raffi and the bubbles
Mitch's hands playing the lap steel
"Ba, ba, ba, bubbly bubbles"
The white hat boy
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, silky bubbles"
Raffi mouth trumpeting
Nancy playing the kazoo
Dennis playing the kazoo
"Thank you, thank you."
"I think I'm gonna need your help on this next one, which is all about some apples and some bananas."
Raffi mouth trumpeting
"I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas"
"Oh, I like to ate, ate, ate, aaples and banaynays"
"Bananays?"
"That's right."
"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"
Raffi mouth trumpeting
"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
Raffi mouth trumpeting
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
Bucky, Raffi, and Dennis
Raffi and Bucky
"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. Hi, hello."
Raffi in the audience
"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,"
"clap your hands"
"clap your hands"
"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"
"Moo."
"I tricked you."
"Mmmmmm."
"Let me hear that again."
"Moo."
"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.
Raffi bowing
"Thank you very much."
"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
Raffi humming
"Thank you."
"Let me see your twinkling stars out"
"and shining brightly"
"just like this."
"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.)
"THAT WAS A HOOT!
"Is that the amazing adventures of Morph? Do You Like It? You Do? Yes"
"Marvelous."
"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 red shoes
Raffi dancing
Mitch playing the banjo
Raffi's foot hopping
Raffi's other foot hopping
"HEY!"
Raffi bowing
"Thank you."
"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."
"Two, three, four."
Like Me and You (Notice that Dennis is playing the six-string bass instead of the four-string one.)
Raffi and the world
"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."
Raffi scat singing
The white hat boy
Raffi mouth trumpeting
"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."
"That's it."
"Let your arms fall."
"Give a leg a shake."
"I like to shake my cheeks loose like this."
Raffi shaking his cheeks
"Let me hear you do that."
The audience shaking their cheeks
"That's it. Alright."
"Oh, and let me see if the band is ready for shaking, okay?"
Dennis playing the bass
Bucky playing the drums
Nancy playing the piano
"They're always ready for shaking."
Mitch
"Are you ready to shake?"
Raffi yawning
The audience yawning
"MY EARS!"
"A humongous noisy stretch!"
Raffi and the audience stretching while screaming
Raffi stretching upside down
"Play it now, Mitchell."
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."
"Thank you so much."
"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!"
"We want Raffi!"
Raffi returning on stage
Raffi and the Rise and Shine Band back on stage
"Thank you so much, thank you."
"Let's hear it for us."
"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
The end credits
"Thank you so much."
"My love to you all."
Raffi in the credits
Raffi and Dennis in the credits
Mitch, Bucky, and Raffi
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
Mitch, Dennis, and Bucky in the credits
Dennis and Bucky
Raffi backstage in epilogue
A thank you message
Raffi and the Rise and Shine Band backstage in epilogue
A blue background
Text about Raffi's records, tapes, and CDs
Text about Raffi's videos
Text about Raffi's books
Endboard
Original Scenes[]
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Original scene un-mirrored
Promotional Material[]
Video Gallery[]
1988 VHS cover
1988 VHS back cover
1988 VHS spine #1
1988 VHS spine #2
1988 VHS top
1988 VHS tape
1988 VHS label
A&M VHS
A&M VHS back cover
A&M VHS spine #1
A&M VHS spine #2
A&M VHS top
A&M VHS tape
A&M VHS label
8M cassette
8m cassette back cover
1993 MCA VHS cover
1993 MCA VHS spine
1993 MCA VHS back cover
1993 MCA VHS tape
Rounder VHS cover
Rounder VHS back cover
Rounder VHS tape
DVD release
DVD back cover
DVD disc
DVD booklet
Amazon cover
iTunes cover
Video poster
The video in the Rounder poster
The 2005 DVD on Raffi Renaissance
Promotions[]
Disney Channel promo
DVD Menu[]
DVD Menu
Song Selection Menu #1
Song Selection Menu #2