Music
Tropical Lullaby
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Tropical-Lullaby.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/23/2005 Tropical Lullaby Transcript It’s carnival time on the islands of the Caribbean, and after all the parades and the feasting and the dancing, it’s time for lullabies, those cante hundos or soul songs that adults sing to children, and other loved ones. You […]
Valentine’s Day with the Beatles
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Valentines-Day-with-the-Beatles.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/14/2005 Valentine’s Day with the Beatles Transcript It’s Valentine’s Day, a day for flowers, and chocolates, and, of course, for observations about love — like eight-year-old Dave who says, “Love will find you even if you are trying to hide from it. I been […]
Video Game Music
You’re hearing a little from a performance of the Super Mario Brothers’ theme song. While much of the press on video games deals with their play capacities or their incredible graphics, the music that accompanies the games is about to take center stage, and kids and adults alike are going to be begging to see the concerts.
An Ellabration
That’s Sweet Honey in the Rock with part of an a capella tribute to Ella Jenkins, who’s been called “The First Lady of Children’s Music.”
The Floppy Sleep Game
If you have a little one who just doesn’t want to go to sleep, you might try putting on The Floppy Sleep Game a new “bedtime relaxation CD” by Patti Teel from Dream Flight Productions in Santa Barbara.
Maurice Sendak’s Pincus and the Pig
That’s Maurice Sendak, who wrote the libretto and narrates this Klezmatic version of Sergei Prokofiev’s classical standard. Sendak has renamed it Pincus and the Pig, and the music is provided by the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra.
A Child’s Garden of Soul
That’s Archie Bell and the Drells, asking everyone to “Tighten Up”. It’s National Drum Month, and a good time for some music for kids that has a real beat to it.
King Tutankhamen
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/King-Tuts-Wonderful-Things.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/5/2004 King Tutankhamen Transcript In early November of 1922, Howard Carter, made one of the most famous discoveries in archaeological history, that of the tomb of the boy king, Tutankhamen. As Carter peered through the small opening he and his crew had dug, into […]
Dan Zane’s Parades and Panoramas
That’s Dan Zanes with a campaign song for Abraham Lincoln from the 1860 presidential race. It’s on a new CD called Parades and Panoramas.
Ninna, Nanna
That’s Montserrat Figueras singing the Berber lullaby, “Amazigh,” from an amazing recording of ancient and modern cradle songs called Ninna Nanna.