Chicken Fat, Also Known As The Youth Fitness Song. Composed for President Kennedy’s Physical Fitness Program

Touch down
Every morning
Ten times!
Not just
Now and then.
Give that chicken fat
Back to the chicken,
And don't be chicken again.
No, don't be chicken again.

Push up
Every morning
Ten times.
Push up
Starting low.
Once more on the rise.
Nuts to the flabby guys!
Go, you chicken fat, go away!
Go, you chicken fat, go!

Chicken Fat, also known as “The Youth Fitness Song.” Composed for President Kennedy’s Physical Fitness Program. Recordings of this song were sent to school districts throughout the United States to accompany the official U.S. Physical Fitness program of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness. Composed by Meredith Willson, performed by Robert Preston: Sort of a "Music Man For Kids!" except your gym teacher was making you do push ups and sit ups to the music. Even looking back across a span of almost 50 years, exercising to this song remains as one of the Great Humiliating Moments of my grade school experience.

You can find out more about the whole Presidential program here, or go here for the entire lyrics as well as an MP3 of the song. (via)

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The asset at the JFK Presidential Library was moved since this 'blog entry was made. You can play the Shockwave Flash recording at http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/9s-yJbLYuUyLS7_xlNTuLw.aspx

It can also be found at YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFofqe26t-4, complete with alternating images of the record label and a vintage record player, just like I remember from the early 1960s in public school. The recording was released in 1961 the same year I finished first grade.

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