Comments on: Children’s Music that Doesn’t Make Me Want to Puke

By: Bananas

Bananas — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:27:05 +0000

I personally love O, Mickey, Where Art Thou (but also any kind of bluegrass), Mary Had A Little Amp, Sandra Boynton’s Philadelphia Chicken, Wiggly Wiggly World, and The Planet Sleeps. But it was all over when I discovered the 1940’s XM station that we have via directv…we all love that. Another, more obscure, and odder group is The Ben Gunn Society, which can be found on napster, for instance, is very quirky.

By: LB

LB — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:21:25 +0000

Yay for the “Tractor Tractor” song!

By: duchess

duchess — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:03:54 +0000

Z is still young, so we own the music in this house still. I will have to be prepared for when we have to make the switch to kid music…

Neither of us really listen to “current” music, so our radio station is permanently on the classic-rock station. That helps solve the problem of finding repetitive music. Z loves Honest Bob (yay!), TMBG, Beck (no idea how that happened), and the Beatles. Every Sunday morning, Z listens to “Brunch with Beatles” so he is familiar with a lot of the songs to the point where when we heard “Baby you can drive my car” at the supermarket, he said to me, “car! song!”

By: Limax

Limax — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:46:03 +0000

We still do see Laurie’s videos occasionally on Noggin. She’s not the only one doing videos these days… so she’s not shown as often. We take it as a special treat whenever we see her. Our kids, 7 and 9, still watch Noggin before bedtime because it’s one of the only ‘kid frinedly’ channels that late at night.. the other being PBS Kids Sprout, which drove all four of us up a tree.

You find a lot of CDs out there with kids singing, and they always sound slightly off-key. Some are better than others, but thank you for more suggestions! (Although my kids insist on listening to TMBG and SoVoSo right now…)

By: Stephanie Files

Stephanie Files — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:07:29 +0000

Ok, I know it’s bizarre, but try to take a listen to Baby Beatles. My cousin lived in California (we were in Virginia at the time) when our first son was born. She told us there was a whole series of “Baby…” music. Baby Elvis among them somewhere. Anyway, we never did find them anywhere, but Baby Beatles has made it through all my sons. It’s real instruments, but they are specifically chosen to be the tones that baby’s hear and respond to the best. There’s nothing quite like hearing “We All Live in a Yellow Submarine” sound like a music box.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:09:41 +0000

They might be giants albums No! and Here come the 123’s are fantastic. the album here come the ABC’s is ok but not as good.

By: Joyous

Joyous — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:51:08 +0000

Yes, I second the Veggie Tales comment!!

By: Cher Klosner Lane

Cher Klosner Lane — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:39:02 +0000

Okay, I have to chime in here…I know a lot of the children’s music out there is god-awful, which is exactly the reason why we created “Stardust” - a 2-disc lullaby collection for all ages, by Cher & Gene Klosner and Audible Chocolate Productions.

Quick description: Rich male and female vocals accompanied by authentic instrumentation (performed symophony, conservatory and jazz musicians) - none of that awful synthesizer sound!!Stardust is getting great reviews - visit http://www.StardustLullaby.com for soundclips, reviews and to view our new animated video, “Seepy Sams” - I swear, it won’t make you want to puke

Cher Klosner Lane

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:17:23 +0000

Veggie Tales. Anything Veggie Tales. I’m 25 years old, I do not have children, and I will still listen to my Veggie Tales CDs on occasion.

The movies are pretty fantastic, too.

I mean, where else are you going to get morally-themed vegetables singing songs like “I Love My Lips” and “The Water Buffalo Song”?

By: Misty

Misty — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:39:12 +0000

Joyous: There’s a great video on YouTube about the making of Blue Moo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SndImf2Nq-M

I’m totally sold!