Robin Hood Festival
That’s Roger Miller, playing the Dukes-of-Hazard-style minstrel Allan a Dale, with one of the songs from the 1973 cartoon version of Robin Hood.
E.B. White
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/EB-White-No-Bunk.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/12/2004 E.B. White Transcript In the opening minutes of the film version of E. B. White’s first children’s book — Stuart Little ( the prequel to film, Stuart Little 2, that’s in theaters next next week) Mr. and Mrs. Little go to an orphanage and end […]
Just a Peep at Peep
That’s the theme song, sung by Taj Mahal, for Peep and the Big Wide World, a new animated television show for preschoolers that is meant to introduce them to some basic scientific ideas and practices.
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.
The Art of Maurice Sendak
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Art-of-Maurice-Sendak-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/10/2004 Art of Maurice Sendak Transcript It’s Maurice Sendak’s birthday today, and the award-winning playright Tony Kushner, Sendak’s friend and collaborator (on the recent picture book, Brundibar), has offered a remarkable present for the occasion: The Art of Maurice Sendak, 1980 to the Present. This large, […]
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.
Report Cards
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Report-Cards.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/2/2004 Report Cards Transcript It’s the end of the school year, and that means: report cards. Remember how just the sight of a stack of those neatly-folded, buff-colored cards, waiting on the corner of our teacher’s desk, could send shivers of expectation through the […]
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.