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Reading Rainbow Season 1 Episode 15

Ty's One-Man Band

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AIRED: 6/24/83

LeVar is ready to find music everywhere, and he does. This show includes the animation "Onomatopoeia." Lou Rawls reads the story of Ty's One-Man Band, about a man who teaches a boy how to make music using household items.

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This Reading Rainbow episode truely is a musical classic; one of the best ones I remember watching since childhood.

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By markdoublea84, Jun 17, 2008

In this classic episode of Reading Rainbow, LeVar believes there's music in everything from birds singing to spoons tinking against tin cups. You can find music in almost anything at all, especially your own body and voice. I would say that Steve Horelick, who provides and directs the music for Reading Rainbow, realy is a one man band himself.

My very favorite part was the "Onomatopoeia" song. I know that song by heart, and I love listening to and singing all those words like "pop," "crunch," "fizz" and "slurp."

I was lucky to find this episode on video, because I haven't seen it in such a long time. "Ty's One Man Band" is my #1 recommended Reading Rainbow episode to all fans of this show. Let that music inside of you ring out!moreless
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LeVar Burton	Host
Tina Fabrik	Theme Singer (telecasts of 1983-1998 only)

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Lou Rawls	Narrator	Guest Star
Ben Vereen	himself	Guest Star
Steve Horelick	himself	Guest Star

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QUOTES (2)
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- LeVar: Whether you play a homemade kazoo or a fancy grand piano, whether you're an electronic wizard or an old-fashioned one-man band, whether you play jazz, rock, salsa or your mother's pots and pans, I'm sure there's lots of beautiful music down deep inside you. And it doesn't matter how you play the music, whether you use your fingers, your feet, your voice or by turning on the radio. The only way to make real music is with your heart.
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- LeVAR: (Rapping)
  If you like Ty and his one-man band,
  Try some other books that are in demand.
  Bet they'll turn you on--Suit you to a "T"--
  But you don't have to take it from me.
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- Segments of this episode appeared as bonuses on the DVD, Music, Music, Everywhere.
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- Featured Books:
  
  Ty's One-Man Band by Mildred Pitts Walter
  Making Musical Things by Ann Wiseman
  The Amazing Bone by William Steig
  The Bandsa by Diane Walstein
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- This episode was released on VHS along with "Perfect the Pig".
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- This episode features Ben Vereen singing "It Sounds Like Music To Me", choreographed and directed by Sammy Dallas Bayes. Vereen had yet to portray Mayor Ben on Zoobilee Zoo.
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