David and Marianne Dalmour used the song as first track of their LP "Introducing David and Marianne Dalmour.” The British pop singer Cilla Black recorded the song for her 1966 studio album Cilla Sings a Rainbow; the album title and cover sleeve were both inspired by the song. And John Lennon, who affectionately referred to Merbreier as "Captain Fred," the bridge commander in the Beatles' animated film, And Nepalese sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who climbed Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary. Merbreier's wife was delighted by all the stars but had a special affection for Peter Falk, the rumpled-detective star of TV's "I was not surprised that they died on the exact same day of the exact same disease: Alzheimer's," writes Merbreier. In the last few weeks, he has been distributing to the media a paperback version of his 2014 Kindle book, When he passes away, he wants to make it easy for journalists to select highlights from his TV career to include in postmortems of his days on the Ark. The other night, I dreamed we had a typical married couple's argument and I thought, 'Gee, if I'm gonna spend eternity with her, I can't be arguing with her. TWENTY-ONE YEARS after he left the high seas of local television, Captain Noah is thinking about his final voyage. Captain Noah sings us a rainbow. Well, that's thoughtful, I tell Merbreier. "They sent in their felt-tip and crayon works and pencil-scribbles on 'canvases' of shirt-cardboards, shopping bags, flattened shoe boxes, food-stained lunch-bags, and in one case a decorated piece of plaster cast from a broken leg," writes Merbreier. She had been the cohost of the TV show, its puppeteer, and the love of Merbreier's life. Black's second album was a commercial success, charting at #4 on the UK Album Chart.

That's how I've come to be at Shannondell, the retirement complex in Audubon, where Merbreier lives alone in a big, sunny apartment in a mid-rise building. Due to popular demand, Black regularly performed the song in he… And there was a 9-year-old future celebrity named Jonathan Leibowitz, a trumpeter with the Kids Jazz Band from East Orange, N.J., who followed Merbreier all over the set the day the band played on the show. He counters that he is at great peace, happy to be "antisocial" at the retirement complex, where he's nonetheless well-known and held in deep affection. His book of memories only bobs on the surface of his years on the fictitious seas, but it captures Merbreier's sense of fun and purpose, a mission that was elevated every time a celebrity visited his show. Due to popular demand, Black regularly performed the song in her live concert tours of the 1960s and 1970s. Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades. In 2004 Delta Goodrem sang the song in a TV advertisement for Tourism Australia that aired in many countries. Suffice to say that his gloriously puffy sideburns are gone, his shock of white hair has thinned. And then he'd thank Merbreier for ending every episode of "Be good to one another," Captain Noah told his young friends. But I don't want to wait until he's gone to share his memories with readers. Williams' version was also the closing theme song for the Philadelphia children's TV show, Captain Noah and His Magical Ark. God wouldn't like that at all, in heaven!' He stays in close touch with his only child, Pam, who lives in London with her two children and four grandchildren. The song has been used to teach children names of colours. At 89, my odds are greater." She wrote music for films, acted, and created conceptual record albums—encompassing poetry, jazz, chamber pop, and art songs. But Merbreier clearly relished more the "everyday stars" he met as a local celebrity. "I have dreams about her, where I meet her on the other side of the door. For a man who was mobbed for decades at parades, in restaurants, when he was out shopping or attending public events, the quietness of life these days must seem odd, I say to Merbreier. But he is handsome and courtly in meticulously pressed trousers and an elegant blue sweater, and his comfortable home is stunning. Merbreier does not want this column to be about the "slumped-over, forgetful old man" he says he has become, so I won't dwell on his peskier age-related infirmities. "He had personality. He relies on a walker to move around his apartment. And the special-needs kids he had on his show so that able-bodied viewers would see that kids are more than their disabilities.

" I think God would readily forgive any spats Merbreier got into.

Its walls are covered in beautiful artwork (including his own), and every corner and cabinet is crowded with mementos. "I buried Pat with her sailor's hat.

Along with Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Sesame Street, and The Electric Company, Captain Noah was must-see TV for the elementary-school set. "I liked him," writes Merbreier. (To roller-skate down Memory Lane, grab a Kleenex and go to Merbreier has outlived most of his former TV colleagues and friends, so obit writers may be at a loss to find people able to give a rich accounting of his life. "I miss her every day," he says. "At my age, you know you're closer to death than when you were 49," says the 89-year-old captain, a.k.a. (I lost count of all the miniature arks.) David and Marianne Dalmour used the song as first track of their LP "Introducing David and Marianne Dalmour.” The British pop singer Cilla Black recorded the song for her 1966 studio album Cilla Sings a Rainbow; the album title and cover sleeve were both inspired by the song. This is where I lived with Pat.

"I Can Sing a Rainbow," also known as "Sing a Rainbow," is a popular song written by Arthur Hamilton.

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