"The Camp Out" Closing Music

When I began writing the first Jabloo cartoon, "The Camp Out", I knew I wanted the incidental music at the end of the episode to be slow and soothing – typical kids' sleepytime music. The piece needed to be more serious than the lively theme song. So, this weekend I opened GarageBand and just started plunking down notes. Within about an hour, I had the song down, and after a couple more hours' tweaking I'm really happy with the end result. It's got the warm, cozy, childlike feeling I wanted.

Here it is - it's nice when something comes out effortlessly and exceeds your hopes. I wish that happened more often, but hey – I'm grateful that it happens at all.

Jabloo, Jabloo - Theme Song

A few weeks after I started developing Jabloo, I wrote and recorded the theme song to help give me a push creatively, and to keep up the momentum of this then-burgeoning project. The song came together pretty quickly, but it's been a year and I'm still happy with it. It has the simplicity I was looking for, and still conveys the concept and feeling of the project. It's also proven to be adaptable as incidental music, which is great since I plan to use variations of the song in each episode.

The song was recorded on my MacPro using GarageBand, though I'm now using Logic Pro, so I'm sure it'll get an upgrade (and maybe some real, non-MIDI drums) at some point. Here's the song itself, followed by the lyrics - and you can even hear each character speak their own name in the bridge.



Jabloo, Jabloo

(kids:)
Jabloo, Jabloo,
That means I am one of you
Jabloo, Jabloo,
Jabloo

Jabloo, Jabloo,
Think of all the things we'll do
Jabloo, Jabloo,
Jabloo

(narrator:)
When your room is feeling gray
And all your friends are far away
We've got a story you can jump into

So step on up and come inside
Grab a seat and take a ride
With

(Moco:)
Moco

(Burr:)
Burr

(Sham:)
Sham

(Yubi:)
Yubi

(Galoo:)
and Galoo!

(kids:)
All in...

Jabloo, Jabloo,
Think of all the things we'll do

Jabloo, Jabloo,
That means I am one of you
Jabloo

That means I am one of you
Jabloo

That means I am one of you
Jabloo

music and lyrics © 2007 Jabloo Productions, L.L.C.