Tag: Music Review
To the Beach with Rolf Zuckowski
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/To-the-Beach-with-Rolf-Zukowski.mp3 Author Jennifer Coenen Air Date 6/23/2005 To the Beach with Rolf Zuckowski Transcript Children love music and adults love music, but they rarely enjoy the same music. Rolf Zuckowski, a musician in Germany, bridges that musical generation gap. Anyone who has either grown up or parented in Germany during […]
Marlo Thomas and Friends, Thanks & Giving
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Marlo-Thomas-and-Friends-Thanks-and-Giving.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/3/2005 Marlo Thomas and Friends, Thanks & Giving Transcript If you grew up with Marlo Thomas’ classic 1972 recording, Free to Be You and Me, and were waiting for a sequel, here it is — with Sheryl Crow to start things rolling: Brief Sound Clip: […]
Mouth Sounds
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mouth-Sounds.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 7/27/2005 Mouth Sounds Transcript Even though it’s summer, and we have several months of recess, here’s a pop quiz. What do all of these have in common?: Brief Sound Clip: You’d be right if you guessed that they’re all made by the human voice […]
Mary Had a Little Amp
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mary-Had-a-Little-Amp.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/20/2005 Mary Had a Little Amp Transcript If you’re tired, truly tired, of most of what’s marketed as children’s music, that’s usually “dumbed down”and hyper-actively sillied up to fit a very limited idea of what kinds of music children can and will listen to, […]
Mother’s Day Lullabies
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Songs-for-Mothers-Day.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/6/2005 Mother’s Day Lullabies Transcript It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday. The American holiday began in 1907 in Philadelphia, as a way to remember a mother who had passed away, and it has become since then an occasion to honor all mothers. On a CD […]
Zen Baby
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Zen-Baby-review.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/30/2005 Zen Baby Transcript Zen Baby is the title of a new CD of music to soothe the awakening nerve endings of young children and, I can’t help but think, the frazzled nero-receptors of their parents, as well. Here’s a little from the opening track, […]
Smoosh
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Smoosh.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/18/2005 Smoosh Transcript There’s nothing really new any more about the phenomenon of kids playing rock “n”roll. It’s in the air all around them, and it’s part of the world and its rhythms that they’re tuning themselves to. But every once in awhile, a […]
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 […]
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.