Music
Animal Crackers
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Animal-Crackers.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/25/2007 Animal Crackers Transcript How’s this for a buzz of toe-tapping nonsense, from the Wee Hairy Beasties on their CD, Animal Crackers, from Bloodshot Records. Brief Sound Clip: We’d better stop there, or the Ragtime Duck will have us all unpacking our kazoos to play along […]
“Sing Along with Putumayo”
If you’re starting to pull together those loose ends for a family car trip this summer, you might want to consider packing a copy of this new CD compilation, Sing Along with Putumayo.
Soothing Sounds for Baby
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Soothing-Sounds-for-Baby-Music-Review.mp3 Author Jaimy Mann Air Date 6/19/2007 Soothing Sounds for Baby Transcript My newborn, like most babies, calms when she hears the vacuum, but the music that stimulates her is by Raymond Scott. When she first heard this, at two weeks old, it was as if codes in the electronic […]
Daddies Sing Goodnight
That’s Townes van Zandt with a chorus from “Hey Willy Boy” — a song about the seasons that he wrote for his son, Will — from a CD called Daddies Sing Good Night.
The Runaway Bunny
That’s Brooke Shields with the opening words from Margaret Wise Brown’s 1942 The Runaway Bunny, set to an original score here by Glen Roven, the Emmy award winning composer.
When I Was Young
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/When-I-Was-Very-Young-music-review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/25/2007 When I Was Young Transcript Nonsense, we know, is a fine art, and some of the very best of it is served up with a good bit of blarney, like Len Graham does in this traditional Irish song. Brief Sound Clip: This is […]
Rockabye Baby!
That’s Michael Armstrong performing a glockenspiel, mellotron, and vibraphone version of the Eagle’s famous “Hotel California,” on a new series of CDs called Rockabye Baby! from Baby Rock Records.
Oyasumi–Goodnight
"Sakura, Sakura" that describes their beautiful (and all-too-fleeting) flowers. Listen closely, and you can hear the blossoms falling.
African Children’s Choir
That’s the African Children’s Choir with their glad spin on the ancient African saying, “It takes a village to raise a child.”
Singing Along with John Lithgow
That’s John Lithgow with the chorus for the famous Jimmy Durante number “Inka Dinka Doo.” It’s on a new CD of upbeat sing-along songs for kids and their families called The Sunny Side of the Street.