Its 10 am do you know where your children are?

March 14, 2006 6:48 AM

RandomQuestionFilter: Where have I heard the lyric "Its 10 am do you know where your children are?"

Because I have heard it somewhere and I'm stuck as to thinking where, and its driving me nuts as to what song the lyric is from.

posted by 13twelve to Media & Arts (17 answers total)

Google search: ten "do you know where your children are" lyric.
posted by Jairus at 6:51 AM on March 14, 2006

Response by poster: I swear I did this!
posted by 13twelve at 6:52 AM on March 14, 2006

Well I always heard it right before the evening news, but it was 10 pm, not 10 am.
posted by Julnyes at 6:56 AM on March 14, 2006

I've never heard this before, but it reminds me of the manpage for crontab.

       # run at 10 pm on weekdays, annoy Joe
       0 22 * * 1-5   mail -s "It's 10pm" joe%Joe,%%Where are your kids?%

posted by handee at 7:09 AM on March 14, 2006

I've heard it sampled enough that I can't pin it to a song, but the samples on "As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2", track 26 are:

"Do you know where your teenager is at five o' clock in the morning? The after hours club. The clubs attract thousands of Chicago area young people. Some say they come looking drugs, dirty dancing, and pounding, pounding techno music."

"It's 5AM do you know where your children are? Well things have changed, today the question for parents is it's 10AM, do you know where your children are?"
posted by I Love Tacos at 7:20 AM on March 14, 2006

I'm with Julnyes, this is (originally, at least) a PSA type announcement. I don't hear it anymore, but I'm in DC now and originally from NY. We used to hear it at 10pm, on one of the local affiliates

And yes, 10pm, rather than 10am
posted by poppo at 7:26 AM on March 14, 2006

It used to run just before the 10:00 news on WNEW, Channel 5, in New York before it became Fox's flagship channel in the late 80s.
posted by Saucy Intruder at 7:54 AM on March 14, 2006

I love tacos, that's 'Hand to Phone' by Adult.
posted by The Jesse Helms at 9:08 AM on March 14, 2006

The local NBC affiliate would start (end maybe) the 11pm news with "It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?" (It's been like 20 years since they've used it)
posted by jeversol at 9:36 AM on March 14, 2006

i seem to remember that channel 13 in grand rapids used to say something like this on their late night news cast in the 70s ... it was one of those things that was all over the country and became a cultural catch phrase, long before samplers
posted by pyramid termite at 9:59 AM on March 14, 2006

It's 10am, I think it's Dan Rather and you've probably heard it on Samantha Fu's 'Theme From Discotheque' which as I Love Tacos says is on As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 and is just Soulwax recording under a different name.
posted by ninebelow at 10:56 AM on March 14, 2006

A Calvin and Hobbes strip: At night, Calvin climbs out of his window, walks down the street to a payphone and calls his dad, asking: "Hey, dad! It's 10 p.m. Do you know where I am?"
posted by ollsen at 12:12 PM on March 14, 2006

The still use it on the FOX 5 channel in NY before the 10pm news.
posted by daninnj at 12:19 PM on March 14, 2006

Another vote for Soulwax - it also features on Radio Soulwax 27, as listed here. What a great sample - I'm not sure about it being Dan Rather though ninebelow, particularly if - as daninnj says - it's used on Fox (he was the anchor for CBS).
posted by The_Partridge_Family at 12:25 PM on March 14, 2006

It's not done by Soulwax. It's on the original Adult track. Hand to Phone. Great track, btw.
posted by zpousman at 12:51 PM on March 14, 2006

Response by poster: So, Soulwax as Samantha Fu made the tune "Theme From Discotheque" from a sample of the lyrics from a track by Adult called "Hand to Phone" (later Soulwax under the name 2 Many Djs sampled their sample onto the Radio Soulwax album) ?


Straight forward then.

2 Many Djs used to be a song they'd play on the 100s of Conversation Intercom/Much Against Everyones advice tours that Soulwax did.
posted by 13twelve at 3:00 AM on March 15, 2006

Of course the PSA was 10pm. BUT if you remember a 10am, it sounds, for all the world, something like Frank Zappa would put in a song. Followed by some comment on the questionable quality of public schools.
posted by Goofyy at 5:00 AM on March 15, 2006