My Week with Sprout Music: The Good Night Show

 

The Good Night Show has sure had a lot of songs - well, not as many as The Sunny Side Up Show and The Let's Go Show, but still quite a lot. Let's take a look at it today.

Back in the early days with original host Melanie Martinez, the above video contains the song used before craft segments. Hey, guess what? Let's make a craft, OK/what a great way to wrap up the day/And who better to help us out/Than a grownup, or a Big Sprout? An instrumental of the song was often heard, both in links and promos, even after the INFAMOUS Martinez PSA scandal in 2006.

Martinez also created the "Welcome" and "Goodnight" songs, which had the same lyrics, which themselves were also used in the 2009 show opening. We don't have a video of her singing the Welcome Song, but we have one of the Goodnight Song (see above). I wonder if she ever did sing it, did they ever do the good___ thing Nina and Star did. 

According to Tim Burns, 2009 show opening, which was probably the same as the Goodnight Song, was inspired by the Beatles. (source)

This is Leo. He was the guest host in 2006. His actor was previously on a similar show to Good Night. Now, I'm not going to name names - but it was about a bear who lived in a house that was blue, and sang and danced a lot. Back to Leo. His Welcome and Goodnight songs were different from the ones we're familiar with.

"Ready for Bed" was a song that always played in the second-to-last link. Star would sing this song while brushing his teeth and washing his face, accompanied by clips from Sprout shows and blocks and footage of real kids (or should I say Sproutlets).

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is a classic children's song set to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Ah Vous Dirai-je Maman, also used for the Alphabet Song and Baa Baa Black Sheep and using lyrics from a Jane Taylor poem called "The Star." The song, with altered lyrics and a new verse, was sung by Nina and Star during "Sproutoscope" segments. The Sproutoscope was a telescope the duo would look through stars, constellations, and Sproutlets' artwork with shown to them by Lucy the Firefly.

"Let's Make Something New" was a song sung by Nina and Star and used for craft segments. The song, along with the crafts themselves, was dropped in 2011 with the sixth season, although Goodnight Garden season reruns aired until 2012.

Speaking of Season 6, the "Clean Up" song was sung by Nina and Star starting with that season as they would clean up the You and Me Tree.