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Road Trip: “Great Kids’ Songs”

You can go on the rest of that fishing trip with the incomparable Taj Mahal on a new CD collection from Music for Little People called 20 Great Kids Songs.

Children's Games

Children’s Games

This pensive music was composed by the famous harpist Marisa Robles. It’s from her Narnia Suite, which she wrote in 1991 — over a decade before the release of the movie based on C. S. Lewis’s classic, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

The Deighton Family for the Road

The Deightons were the darlings of the accoustic folk rock busking world during the 1980s and 90s, offering an eclectic mix of old timey and contemporary music, played by the Deighton parents, as well as all of their four children.

Green Gorilla, Monster, and Me

Green Gorilla, Monster, and Me

You can build a very aerobic morning, or afternoon, or evening in your house around this song alone. It’s called, as you might guess, “Dance Around,” and it’s on the new Ralph’s World CD called Green Gorilla, Monster & Me .

Rize

That's Tommy the Clown from Los Angeles, who is featured on the compelling documentary, RIZE by David LaChapelle.

Little Yogi’s Daydream

That’s Wai Lana, the creator of a number of yoga CDs and DVDs for children and their parents. This soothing excerpt is from a CD called Little Yogi’s Daydream.

Animal Playground

That’s Wai Lana, the creator of a number of yoga CDs and DVDs for children and their parents. This soothing excerpt is from a CD called Little Yogi’s Daydream.

Satie and Dali

That’s the opening for Erik Satie’s first Gymnopidie for piano. It was a very experimental piece to have written at the time, during the late 1800s, though it was one of the tamer things that Monsieur Satie composed during his career at the front of the avant guard in France.

Harry and the Potters

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Harry-and-the-Potters.mp3 Author Cat Tosenberger Air Date 7/18/2007 Harry and the Potters Transcript The new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie opened last weekend, but you won’t be hearing this “Phoenix Song” in the film. Brief Sound Clip: It’s from the CD, Harry and the Potters and the Power of Love, […]

Good Music for Little Guys

That’s a few measures from John Phillip Souza’s rousing “Stars and Stripes Forever” from a new CD called Good Music for Little Guys, a compilation of classical pieces.