Music
So Early in the Morning
We have just listened to the grandchildren of the legendary singer and musician, Robert Clancy of the legendary Clancy Brothers.
Greasy Kids Stuff
If you’re tired of hearing the same old, same old, super-sweetly processed children’s music played by grown men dressed up as lip-syncing pirates, then just maybe your family is ready for the music you’ll find on Greasy Kid Stuff 2 a genre-blurring compilation of — well, let’s call them — children’s songs with techno, grunge, punk, club, and retro sounds.
In Utero: Music For My Baby
That’s part of the lovely Andantino from Claude Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor. You can hear the rest of this gentle reverie on a new CD called In Utero, for parents and their as yet unborn but still attentively listening little ones.
Caribbean Playground
We’re in the Caribbean today, listening to Marlene Dorcena, the Haitian-born singer, with a traditional folksong about a Panama hat that keeps falling off a man’s head. This delightful tune is on a new CD compilation from Putumayo Kids called Caribbean Playground.
Catch the Moon
That’s Lisa Loeb, singing about “Butterflies” on her new CD for children, Catch the Moon.
Tolkien Week, Symphonically
By any chance does this sound a little “hobbity” to you? It’s from the final movement, called “Hobbits,” of Johan de Meij’s Symphony No. 1, which was inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and which premiered in 1988, some 30 years after the Ring books had been published.
Armenian Lullabies
You’re hearing one of the haunting songs from a new CD called Armenian Lullabies, which features the voice of Hasmik Harutyunyan, signing acapella and with the accompaniment of the Shoghaken Ensemble.
Grandfather’s Greatest Hits
That’s the Grammy-award winning artist, David Holt, with a smidjin of one of his mountain music classics, “Little Log Cabin in the Lane,” from his Grandfather’s Greatest Hits.
“Down in the Backpack”
That’s the New England singer and storyteller, Bill Harley, with a tune that will resonate for most kids, their folks, and their teachers about the object that has become a presence in schools today– much to the chagrin of parents and pediatricians.
Shel Silverstein’s Underwater Land
That’s Pat Dailey with the opening of the title song for a CD called Underwater Land. It’s a collection of poems by the late Shel Silverstein, set to music and sung by Dailey and others.