“Barney & Friends” music director Bob Singleton didn’t heat everybody’s coronary heart along with his catchy tunes.
Singleton appeared on the brand new podcast “Generation Barney” and recalled receiving demise threats from individuals who hated the songs he made for the kids’s TV collection.
“When I was nominated for a Grammy, a local talk radio station said, ‘Hey, this is great.’ Then someone called in and said, ‘I wish I could get my hands around the neck of that guy. I would just, I would really like to take him out,’” Singleton stated, per Folks.
He went on, “My email address was out there, and I was getting people sending me emails … that [were] threatening me and my family with horrible, horrible death and dismemberment and terrible things.”
Singleton referred to as the demise threats “frightening,” and revealed one among her haters even confronted her about disliking her music in particular person.
“I remember going to a luncheon once and they’ve got us sat at a table,” she defined. “I said I had been the music director on Barney and this one guy — and I’m sure he was well-meaning — said ‘Wow, my kids loved you but I just wanted to kill you.’”
“In that moment, I have to think, ‘Okay, is this somebody that I need to watch for in the parking lot,’ you know?” Singleton added. “Or is he just, is that just his way of going ‘My kids liked it, I didn’t’. So it was awkward.”
“Barney & Friends” was about America’s favourite purple dinosaur and aired from 1992 to 2010.
The collection was based mostly on “Barney & the Backyard Gang,” which Singleton labored on because the music director for its closing season in 1991. He was then in control of the music on the primary three seasons of “Barney & Friends.”
For producing the present’s debut album “Barney’s Favorites, Volume 1,” Singleton was nominated for the Finest Musical Album for Youngsters on the thirty sixth Annual Grammy Awards in 1994.
Selena Gomez, who received her begin on “Barney & Friends” alongside Demi Lovato, regarded again on the childhood position in 2018.
“It was amazing to be able to be 7 years old and experience that. It was wild,” the “Only Murders in the Building” star stated in an interview with BBC Radio.
Gomez additionally revealed that she tried to make a forged reunion occur a couple of years earlier however was informed she “couldn’t be on the show [because] I’m not in the right union.”
Lovato, 32, informed Howard Stern final 12 months that she “got teased at school” for being on “Barney” at age 10.
“I don’t remember what they teased me for,” she continued. “I just remember going home from school and my mom saying, ‘You’re laughing all the way to the bank.’”
