Where did Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Green Jeans first meet?
The Waring’s group had a regular, and well-received, weekday radio gig, where Brannum first met Bob Keeshan (the future Captain Kangaroo), who was an employee at the station. See below for full story… Hugh “Lumpy” Brannum is best known as Mr. Green Jeans, the farmer and animal lover who played sidekick to Captain Kangaroo. The duo, and a number of other regular “guests” including Grandfather Clock and hand puppets like Mr. Moose, were watched by several generations of children as the Captain Kangaroo television show ran from the mid-’50s through the mid-’80s, making it one of the longest-running children’s TV series ever. As Mr. Green Jeans, Brannum introduced a different live animal each episode and taught children about caring for the earth while talking about farming. But before this well-known stint, Mr. Green Jeans was Hugh Brannum, the jazz musician, and Uncle Lumpy, a children’s storyteller in the late ’40s and early ’50s. Hugh Brannum was born on January 5, 1910, in rural San
