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| Music by | Al Piantadosi |
| Lyrics by | Felix A. Feist |
| Date | 1910 |
| Source | The Echo (musical) |
The song "Skid-dy-mer-rink-adink-aboomp (Means I Love You)," known to most as "Skinnamarink," originated in the 1910 Broadway musical The Echo, a comedy production by Charles Dillingham.
While the show closed after a few months, the song endured, and was repopularized in the 1950s by Jimmy Durante. In the 1980s, the song's chorus became synonymous in Canada with children's entertainers Sharon, Lois & Bram who, after featuring the song in every episode of their CBC program The Elephant Show, started another series called Skinnamarink TV.
Spellings of the title include "Skid-dy-mer-rink-adink-aboomp," "Skiddy-Mer-Rink-A-Doo," "Skinamarink," "Skinnamarink," and the original, "Skiddamarink."
In an installment of Ernie's Show and Tell, during Episode 3980 of Sesame Street, Ernie asks his friend Zaj to sing a song. Zaj chooses "Skinnamarink," which Ernie doesn't know.
In an "Animated Nursery Rhyme" segment, produced for YouTube in 2019, Grover, Elmo, Abby, a cow named Vera (voiced by Leslie Carrara-Rudolph), and two cats (voiced by Carrara-Rudolph and Matt Vogel) sing the song as "Skidamarink." (YouTube)