Childern's Music Collection

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  • Release Date: 03/17/1998
  • Sales Rank: 17,799
  • Label: SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
  • UPC: 093074504321

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Childern's Music Collection

1LISTENRiding in My Car (Car Song) / Woody Guthrie 1:49
2LISTENMary Mack / Ella Jenkins 1:56
3LISTENAll Around the Kitchen / Pete Seeger 1:59
4LISTENHa Ha This A-Way / Leadbelly 1:33
5LISTENMerrily We Roll Along / Lord Invader & The Calypso Orchestra 4:11
6LISTENMiwoe Nenyo / Willie K. Amoaku 2:14
7LISTENPole Pole / Ella Jenkins 4:46
8LISTENDreams and Youth / Langston Hughes 0:54
9LISTENWhy Oh Why / Woody Guthrie 3:26
10LISTENI Had a Rooster / Pete Seeger 3:51
11LISTENOksn / Ruth Rubin 1:33
12LISTENSur le Pont d'Avignon / Alan Mills 1:05
13LISTENBenjamin Franklin / Illinois School Children 0:19
14LISTENLos Pollitos/The Chicks / Suni Paz 1:12
15LISTENTwinkle, Twinkle Little Star / Ella Jenkins 1:13
16LISTENABC's / Ella Jenkins 0:55
17LISTENAnimal Alphabet / Alan Mills 2:10
18LISTENWhoopie Ti-Yi-Yo / Cisco Houston 1:31
19LISTENLa Vibora de la Mar/Serpent of the Sea / Mexican Children 1:05
20LISTENWolf Song and Turtle Song / Irene Poolaw 0:50
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There are over 200 children's recordings in the Folkways catalog. This is not just a smart collection of 26 of the best items from that body of work; it's also folk music that adults might actually listen to for pleasure, at least for part of the time. There are kids' songs, or at least songs that are fun for kids to sing, from such folk giants as Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Cisco Houston, and Woody Guthrie; Guthrie's "Riding in My Car (Car Song)" is a particular hoot. But there are also tracks from far lesser-known performers, such as children's music specialist Ella Jenkins, and, most importantly, a smattering of cuts from singers of several different continents. There's calypso from Lord Invader, African folk from W.K. Amoaku, Yiddish folk from Ruth Rubin, and selections from Puerto Rican and Mexican artists, not to mention poems by Langston Hughes. It's a fine way to help give kids a multicultural musical grounding without being doctrinaire in the least. Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

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