Music
Jack Johnson’s Curious George
It’s passing strange and a minor miracle in the annals of music for children’s films that this totally irresistible set of soul-tapping, acoustic delights would be teamed up with the new animated film version of those classic children’s stories about the irrepressible little trickster, Curious George.
Banana Slug String Band
That’s just a little tune about six-legged insects from “No Bones Within.” It’s on one of the band’s nine CDs called Singing in Our Garden.
Suni Paz Sings Songs for the Playground
That’s Suni Paz, the well known Latin American singer, with part of “Llega la Manana,” a song about waking up and getting dressed, and going to school — in short, about a day in the life of a kid.
Dan Zanes Rocks
That’s Dan Zanes and the Rocket Ship Singers with Frank Loesser’s old standard, “Bushel and a Peck” from the CD, Rocket Ship Beach.
One World, One Kid
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/One-World-One-Kid-Music-review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/10/2006 One World, One Kid Transcript Here’s an idea for a children’s world music radio program. Let a child make the selections and introduce the songs, as six year old Skyler Pia does on a new CD called One World, One Kid. Brief Sound Clip: […]
World Party
It’s from a new CD from Music for Little People called World Party. And it takes the family from Morocco to New Zealand, from the Caribbean to Central Asia.
The Songs of the Pogo
Walt Kelly was one of the masters of American nonsense. His much loved, hilariously cryptic Pogo comic strip first appeared in 1949 and was in American papers even after Kelly’s death in 1973.
Music for the End of Time
The title of Bryant’s book is borrowed from Messiean’s best-known work, the “Quartet for the End of Time,” which he wrote while in a prison camp for French soldiers captured by the Nazis during World War II.
Chinese Lullabies
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chinese-Lullabies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/9/2006 Chinese Lullabies Transcript Some of the most visually beautiful films are coming out of China these days, and so is some of the loveliest music for children. Here’s a little from the beginning of a song from the Guangdong region called “Hammock Hanging […]
The Golden Dreydl
That’s the familiar theme from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker,” dancing to the sound of the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra on a CD called The Golden Dreydl.