I have more music for you today on Fisher Price Friday. It's the Hey Diddle Diddle Double Screen TV Music Box #196. That is a long name! Not to be confused with Mary Had a Little Lamb Double Screen TV Music Box #195 (1965-1968) which is the same size but yellow instead of turquoise. Both are designed for children ages 2-6. My 3 year old loves it!
Made from 1964-1970 this "tv" music box is a realistic looking television shape with knobs, antenna and screen. The large knob winds the music box and the two smaller knobs make clicking noises. The top of the antenna has a yellow wooden bead on it.
It has a turquoise and white plastic body and a white wood base and plays "Hey Diddle Diddle" while drawings of familiar nursery rhymes pass by.
The box has an extra feature of having a "peek-a-boo" screen on the top of the box. This smaller screen is closer to the size of the familiar "radio" toys and also has drawings going by as the music plays.
Each side of the music box has the same lithograph of the cow jumping over the moon, spoon running with the dish, cat and the fiddle, etc. Basically everything in the Hey Diddle Diddle nursery rhyme!
There was an alternative version made only in 1964 which had Mother Goose, Mary and her Lamb, a school, boy, girl and a castle.
But not as happy as this little girl!
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Wow. What a beautiful box. While many see this toy as a scary figure or eerily creepy, I see the box as a pleasant remainder of the past. My "Hey, Diddle, Diddle!" Fisher Price music box was my mothers when she was just a baby. However, unlike your box, hers has a slow tone, dull colors, and the stickers that were once on the side and the top are torn off. I feel that it has almost reached it's end. While yours radiates 'new-ness' and happiness, my mothers seems to radiate a slow, sad yet happy jingle of what it used to be. The "Hey, Diddle, Diddle!" Boxes are forever a reminder of what used to be. Thank you for sharing it with the world.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas present in 1964.
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