Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Two-One-Thousand.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/30/2007 Two One Thousand Transcript If we were counting like we used to do for tag, today we would have reached that milestone: two one thousand — shows, that is. When we began producing Recess! seven years ago, we didn’t know if we would still be […]
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.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Pulling-the-Strings.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/26/2007 Pulling the Strings Transcript Tomorrow is National Puppetry Day, and though we don’t think about it much at all, a puppet has probably played an important role in our lives — especially our young lives. Several generations of American children have grown up […]
“Sakura, Sakura” that describes their beautiful (and all-too-fleeting) flowers. Listen closely, and you can hear the blossoms falling.
That’s the African Children’s Choir with their glad spin on the ancient African saying, “It takes a village to raise a child.”
This is the melancholy first notes for Young Andersen, a new film from Denmark about the teenage years of Hans Christian Andersen, who was born this week in 1805.
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.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jane-Goodalls-Roots-and-Shoots.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 3/27/2007 Jane Goodall’s “Roots and Shoots” Transcript You could say that Jane Goodall’s great adventure began in 1936 when she was two years old, and her father gave her a stuffed animal — a chimpanzee named Jubilee after a real […]
That’s Jerry Garcia and David Grisman with their nonsense song, “Hopalong Peter.” It’s on a new CD called Bright Spaces 2, a compilation of songs from growing artists who are redeveloping that new/old genre that’s called family music.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Spring-Awakenings.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/21/2007 Spring Awakenings Transcript Spring arrives today and, with it, all sorts of stirrings. One of them is a new production of an 1891 play by the German dramatist, Frank Wedekind. It’s called Spring Awakenings, and it’s about a group of teenagers who are coming […]