Today we take a step back through the theme songs of the 1970s and listen to “Woobinda”! The children’s television series Woobinda (Animal Doctor) is a co-production with German with Australian television, filmed in 1968, about a widowed veterinarian, John Stevens, then renamed with the name of Woobinda, an Aboriginal word meaning tender of animals.The Italian version of the theme song was composed by Riccardo Zara in 1978; the song became very famous, even more so than the Australian series for which it was made! Perhaps some “child” of those years will still treasure the 45 rpm in which Zara himself, together with Le Mele Verdi, sang about the adventures of Woobinda, the mythical veterinarian who worked to cure animals and save them from hunters.
There in the Australian desert two hunters spy on
Two sheep and a kangaroo playing with each other.
One rifle shoots and wounds the baby kangaroo
who remains lying on the ground calling out to those who will save him
Woobinda, help me
Woobinda, hurry up
Woobinda if he sees you the hunter will run away
Woobinda, make haste
Woobinda, go after him
So he will learn not to shoot animals”
Here is the first part of the lyrics of what will be one of the first animal rights theme songs in TV series history!
Below is the italian theme video
