Music
Picture Book Artists
That’s the opening for Erik Satie’s first Gymnopidie for piano.
Noisy Lullabies
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Noisy-Lullabyes-A-Music-Review.mp3 Author Rosie Russo Air Date 7/21/2004 Noisy Lullabies Transcript Here’s Rosie Russo with some unlikely music to help an infant fall asleep: noise. Well, not just any noise. It’s those ambient sounds that fill the background of our lives, and babies’ lives, too — that’s called “white noise.” Here’s […]
Creole for Kidz
That’s Terrance Simien with part of his moving “Song of a Creole Slave,” followed by Louisana Senator Donald Cravins’s narration that explains the music and life of the creoles of Louisiana. It’s on a CD called Creole for Kidz.
Dan Zanes’ Sea Music for Father’s Day
That’s Dan Zanes, Barbar Brousal, and Cynthia Hopkins with the sea shanty “Strike the Bell” from the CD, Sea Music.
A World of Happiness
Betcha wanna know where you can find the rest of this new song by Deborah Harry. It’s on a compilation CD called A World of Happiness.
Michel Gondry’s “I’ve Been 12 Forever”
That’s one of the most inventive people working in video and film today, the French director, Michel Gondry.
Hey, Mister Spaceman
That’s the Byrds with the chorus from their hit “Hey, Mr. Spaceman.” It’s on a new CD for kids with the same title and a dozen songs about the goofy joys and strange preoccupations that some of our popular singers and song writers have had about outer space and its possible inhabitants.
Even Kids Get the Blues
That’s 10-year-old Anneli Blume with a little from the title song from a new CD from Re-Bop Records, called Even Kids Get the Blues.
Mother’s Day, In Song From Africa
That’s the incomparable Floxie Bee the Hikosso Queen, with the beginning of one of the most popular songs from Nigeria, and indeed from all of Africa — “Sweet Mother.”
Latin Playground
That’s the incomparable Mexican singer Lila Downs and friends with the chorus from a Mayan nonsense song, “Hanal Weech” (hah-nal weech) about a romance that won’t work because one of the couple thinks the other smells like an armadillo.