Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mother-Goose-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/2/2006 Mother Goose Day Transcript It was Mother Goose Day yesterday — a cause for celebration in many towns across the country, where parents push brightly decorated baby carriages and strollers and pull wagons loaded with children dressed in their May finery or in […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Charles-Perrault.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 1/10/2002 Charles Perrault Transcript Charles Perrault, born in Paris in 1628, had an active life. He first became a lawyer, but growing bored with that, he became chief clerk in one of the city offices and then Receiver-General of Taxes for the city of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mother-Goose-1719.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/18/2001 Mother Goose’s Mysterious Melodies Transcript December 18, 1719: Thomas Fleet of Boston publishes Songs for the Nursery, or Mother Goose’s Melodies. You can find this bold statement in various almanacs and daily calendars and, if this is true, this publication would be the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Bob-Dylan.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 5/24/2001 Bob Dylan Transcript When people talk about Bob Dylan, Mother Goose does not usually enter the conversation. But it could be that there is an important connection between Dylan’s lyrics and the songs and stories of childhood. In 1991 he recorded This Old […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Merriam-and-Mother-Goose.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/11/2001 Eve Merriam’s Inner City Nursery Rhymes Transcript In 1969, Eve Merriam published a collection of verse entitled, The Inner City Mother Goose. The book was a series of Mother Goose parodies of biting criticism of some our society’s most difficult problems; violence, racism, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/L-Frank-Baum.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/15/2000 Frank L. Baum Transcript It’s the real wizard of Oz’s birthday today. Born in 1856, L. Frank Baum was the frail son of well-to-do and indulgent parents who lived on an picture book, gentleman’s farm near Syracuse, New York. Growing up, Baum always […]
That rapped up version of the classic nursery rhyme is from a wonderful CD from Music for Little People called “Toddlers Sing”–something good to fill your house with during young people’s poetry week.
You’re hearing a little from one of the most recorded pieces of modern classical music, Ravel’s “Bolero”–though the French composer, who was born today in 1875, might be a little surprised to hear it played on a toy piano.