When I first watched Christmas at the fun song factory Here we come a caroling was new to me! Along with a few others but Here we come a caroling is a traditional Christmas carol.
I believe that the videos that were filmed in 1996 were Fun Song Factory 2, Party Time, Old MacDonald's Farm and then the last one of that year was Christmas at the Fun Song Factory which must have been done in October or something like that due to Iain Lauchlan and Will Brenton starring in Belgrade's Christmas pantomime in Coventry in November 1996 and the other presenters were busy doing things over Christmas so they wanted to do the last show of that year before November as they had a busy Christmas ahead.
The Seasons episode of The Fun Song Factory was originally shown on Saturday 17th October 1998 the other episodes broadcast that month were Transport on the 3rd, Water on the 10th and Letters and Words on the 24th October 1998 and that was the final episode broadcast there was no episode on the 31st October 1998 and the next Fun Song Factory episode was broadcast two weeks later on Saturday 7th November 1998.
I love Christmas songs and I love the Fun Song Factory 😊my favourite song was Santa got stuck up the chimney because Dave Benson Philips sang it and I love twinkle twinkle little star too ❤️😊and I love Justin singing the songs in the season episode 😍😊❤
The music in this is all midi sequenced. All sounds came mainly from a Roland SC-88 Sound Canvas and some of the pad type sounds came from a Roland JV-1080. The JV-1080's Flying Waltz and one of it's music box patches are used in the scene where Santa visits the factory. Back in the day I thought it was a Roland SC-88vl and maybe it was because both the SC-88 and 88vl use the exact same sounds, the only difference is that the SC-88vl is a smaller sound module and the SC-88 uses the same casing type as the SC-88 Pro whereas the SC-88vl uses the same case as the SC-55 ( of which was used in the first Fun song factory live show ). At respite I remember calling out that the music was done on a Roland SC-88vl even though most of the staff had no idea what I was talking about! I always knew the factory's moving instruments was an illusion. I found the wah wah trumpet in the GMTV series and Tweenies very convincing though ( and maybe that was a real trumpet as I think Graham Pike possibly hired session musicians and played actual guitars ).
So the 1998 re-release has the same cover as the original 1996 version but also has Seasons as a bonus? For some reason I thought it was only the 2001 re-release that included Seasons as a bonus?
