Good Old Days is a 1930 instrumental tune written by Leroy Shield that became the theme song for Hal Roach's Our Gang shorts, later known as The Little Rascals. The piece was originally written as score for a prison schoolroom scene in Pardon Us, Laurel and Hardy's first feature film, and Roach asked Shield to provide a lasting theme. It first heard as the opening and recurring theme in the Our Gang short Teacher's Pet in October 1930. The tune then remained the theme for nearly every Roach Our Gang comedy, with a few exceptions such as 1934's Mike Fright and 1937's Our Gang Follies of 1938. NBC's Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten even set lyrics to the melody. In 1938 Roach sold the Our Gang unit to MGM, which used a different theme arranged by David Snell. The Good Old Days was revived by The Beau Hunks on the 1995 album The Beau Hunks Play the Little Rascals Music, and the tune also appears in Universal and Amblin's 1994 film The Little Rascals.
