Bob Singleton said he received e-mails “threatening me and my family with horrible, horrible death and dismemberment and terrible things.”

Barney & Friends musical director Bob Singleton has revealed he received multiple “horrible” death threats over the infectious songs featured in the show.The children’s show, which was led by a singing purple dinosaur named Barney,

One of the things kids loved — and parents perhaps tolerated — about Barney & Friends were the catchy tunes the purple dinosaur and his friends would sing. Believe it or not, the songs about friendship,

There were certain things, certain messages that people would send that were pretty threatening,” Bob West shared.