Tag: Music Review
The Broadway Kids’ “Hey! Mr. D.J.”
That’s the Broadway Kids with John Lennon’s “Imagine” on a new collection, called “Hey Mr. DJ!”
“Seussical” Review
That’s David Shiner as the Cat in the Hat, along with the chorus line from the musical, “Seussical,” which made its appearance on Broadway a couple of years ago and has now arrived in CD form.
Listen to the Storyteller
That’s Winton Marsalis with the opening from the story, “The Fiddler and the the Dancin’ Witch,” about a little boy named Simeon who’d rather play his father’s magic fiddle than almost anything else.
This Land is Your Land
You’re hearing Danny Glover reading from the Langston Hughes poem, “The Kids In School With Me.”
Little Happy Campers
That’s the title song for “Little Happy Campers, The Girl Scouts Greatest Hits,” volume 6, from Melinda Carroll and Legend Productions in Hawaii.
African Playground
That’s the Ugandan singer, Samite, with the beginning of a song about a teenager who is starting feel like he should be leaving childish things and jumping up to manhood.
James Galway’s Music for Children
There’s far too little in the world of children’s music that is gentle, soothing, and yet demanding and sophisticated.
“Pictures at an Exhibition”
That’s the familiar theme from Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.
“Under the Green Corn Moon”
That’s Lorain Fox singing a traditional Aztec lullaby, “Tu Tu Teschcote,” from a truly remarkable collection of Native American lullabies called “Under the Green Corn Moon: Voices of Native America,” from Silver Wave Records.
“For the Kids”
That’s Steve Page and Ed Robertson singing “La La La La Lemon” from For the Kids, a compilation CD, a portion of the proceeds from which go to benefit the Save the Music Project.