Smokey the Bear Song- Eddy Arnold (1952) 

I live in vernal ut and we are known for the dinosaurs that have been dug up around her and we have a dinosaur museum and before I lived here when I was a kid we still had family here so we would come to visit once a year and go to the dinosaur museum and they had a packet with a dinosaur hunting licence and this sing and a picture of smokey to color and a booklet about who smokey is and how he came about I thought it was the best thing I ever got u couldn't wait to get one !!

Well, it ain't necessarily ALL gone. We can still look this stuff up here on RU-vid & certain TV channels have that stuff (if u have DirectTV. I dunno what other providers have)

People mock stuff we had in the 1980's too. It drives me crazy.

If it was not for our times, there would not be today! It was our times that shaped our world and these things will always be around for us to still enjoy if we seek them out. We can teach our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren about games we played as a game and you never know they might just like some of those games. Remember Red Light Green Light, Simon Says, Tag (You're it!), Dodgeball, Hopscotch, Jacks, Four Square, Hide and Go Seek, etc? The things of the past I love, as it was a simpler time with less stress for children. Sadly technology has made life more stressful for our children. I went back to college and found that because of our technology things were more complicated for our college students! More demands and responsibilities than we had back in the 1980's and 1990's! Then the colleges wonder why children of today's day and age commit suicide. Sadly the year I went back a girl committed suicide on the college campus. Too many demands that make up too much stress for our students today! Honestly I feel lucky to have lived when I had and grew up when I did. They can make fun of our time all they want, because I know it was the best of times. I have owned a cellular phone since 1989 and honestly I see them as long leashes! No, privacy of time for ourselves as it used to be. Remember what company was in existence before it was Verizon? I do, it was US West Cellular, which I miss! I thought that the new company who bought it was named Horizon, until I saw their name in writing a few weeks later. Lol I hated Verizon back then! So let us remember, never forget and share our childhood experiences with our family's new generations. You never know, they just might like some of the things from our days. I love the things of my father's time from as far back as the 1930's till I was born. One day things of today we all will be making fun of, but we must remember without those things we would not have the things we have of today! Remind these young generations of this for those things of our days paved the way for us to have things of today! I am proud of it! Don't let them forget it!

It's still taught it to my kids because of my childhood 👍

DreamDancer82 we ‘90s kids don’t care about the mocking cause we had the best decade to ever exist!

I'm 30, and totally agree about the world being broken. I'm truly envious that you got to grow up in the time you did. Things are beyond messed up now.

We learned it from commercials in the 60's & 70's in South Dakota!

I'm 12 but I wish I was there

still have mine

Smokey taught me to love nature 70 years ago,Right on Smokey

happy bday

I never seen my dad because he got shot in the head before I've seen him

No confusion.

I’m a Forest Service brat and I’m the same! Except it was Smokey Bear but it is still Forest Fires...

He's sad because he knows it's supposed to be "Smoky Bear" but his corporate overlords are forcing him to sing the incorrect "Smoky the Bear" instead.

@@TitoRigatoni oof

Not really they used “the” to maintain the rhythm of the song.

Green Acres was Eddie Albert.

Not really they used “the” to maintain the rhythm of the song

It doesn't matter his real name is smokey bear

Stupid that they changed name and song!

He will ALWAYS be Smokey THE Bear to me! 🐻 Which means it's also Easter the Bunny 🐰 and Santa the Claus 🎅! 😀🙂😄😎🤠

Eddie Albert, "Green Acres," and Eddy Arnold, "Smokey the Bear," are 2 different men.

was anyone injured

@@BrainFreezeMC I am not sure. That fire was HUGE though and burned forever.

Yep.

Not Mandela effect, the company just decided to change the name

Actually, the name was never changed. It was "Smokey Bear" from the beginning. The "the" snuck in because it worked better in a song and stuck in people's minds. (You can look it up on the U.S. Forest Service website - "The story of Smokey Bear").

Exactly! got to love these nay sayers coming up with excuses of why THE bear is false. I don't understand why people fight and ignore that the mandela effect is real. And it always was THE bear

Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins they also wrote Frosty the Snowman

welcome to the Mandela Effect... history has literally changed... it was THE Bear... always... reality keeps changing...

Yep!

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It's actually Smokey Bear. This song was created with "the" put in because it fit better for the rhythm. This song then confused people essentially, so a lot of people put in the "the" when the bear's name truly is only Smokey Bear. It had to be corrected for people not long after. If you don't believe it, just look it up and do some research.

@@BoomDipity not just this song.. going back to the 50s and 60s it was also the tv ads, little golden books, dell comics, and records all titled 'smokey the bear' . i remember as a kid back in the 60s people saying 'smokey the bear', i never heard anyone once say "smokey bear" back then. anyway thanks i will check it out when it was corrected.

BoomDipity - He called you out- Smokey The Bear!!

I’m just glad Smokey did not smoke.

Hahaha my aunts ex husband always argued that it was Smokey Bear and not Smokey the Bear. I always sang it Smokey the bear as a kid and he would yell at me. "It's not easter the bunny. It's not santa the Claus. Why do you say Smokey the bear?!"

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