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"I've talked before about Elizabeth Mitchell's first CD for kids, You Are My Flower. It's a great little CD. If there were any drawbacks to the CD, it was that it was too short (less than 25 minutes)"... (read full reviews)
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"There are those kids' albums that sound like they're specifically geared toward, well, kids. The best of these get into the kids' worlds, their hopes and fears. The worst talk down to kids, way too"... (read full reviews)
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"Pity the preschool children's musician. Forced to play the same set of familiar songs at least some of the time, yet Raffi (and before him, Ella Jenkins, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and Woody Guthrie)"... (read full reviews)
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"I bought this for my two boys, 5 and 2 years, and they love it! My husband and I love it too! The story is so much fun and music is great, reminds me of my parents music when i was little. I'm going"... (read full reviews)
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"This CD is fantastic! I had not listened to many of these songs since I was a child. I forgot how much fun and beautiful they are. Dan has done a great job of arranging the music to modernize them a"... (read full reviews)
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"This is one of me and my son's 2 favorite Cd's. Great great songs, some we know some we don't. I like how at the end they review the types of musical intruments that have been played throughout."... (read full reviews)
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"How could Trout Fishing, who this listener first heard in Shreveport, LA at Enochs 20 years ago, produce a fabulous CD for children? What sort of time space continuum must exists for this band to be"... (read full reviews)
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"I wouldn't be here if not for Elizabeth Mitchell. Not in a "here on this planet" manner of speaking, but here, writing about music for kids and families. A web forum’s random note suggesting her kids'"... (read full reviews)
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"The idea of a concept children's album is probably a bit too difficult to pull off. There aren't many I'm familiar with (John McCutcheon's quartet of seasons-related CDs is an exception). Concept"... (read full reviews)
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"The short review of Catch That Train!, Dan Zanes’ 2006 release and his fifth album specifically for kids and families is that it's like his previous family music album, but more so -- more musically"... (read full reviews)
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"Family Dance is billed as being by "Dan Zanes and Friends." By inserting the "and Friends" part in there, the listener gets the impression that he or she, too, could gather their own friends round the"... (read full reviews)
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"I initially approached Frances England's 2006 debut album Fascinating
Creatures as if I was playing a game of "spot-the-influence." Did I hear Elizabeth Mitchell (who recorded a low-key and lo-fi"... (read full reviews)
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"Melanie Dill released her first record, Alphabet Parade in 1998. As you might expect from the title, there are a number of alphabet-related songs on the CD, most notably the parade itself, which over"... (read full reviews)
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"After hearing his debut kids' CD Stomp Yer Feet!, I saddled the Seattle-based musician Johnny Bregar with perhaps an unfortunate tag -- the next Raffi. I considered it a compliment, thinking of"... (read full reviews)
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"Of all the well-known children's music artists currently recording, Laurie Berkner has made the most effort to rescue toddler/pre-school songs from the detritus of many years of neglect. She does this"... (read full reviews)
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"An increasingly popular approach to recording kids' CDs is packaging the CD with a book. In some cases, like Philadelphia Chickens and Rhinoceros Tap from Sandra Boynton or Bed, Bed, Bed by They Might"... (read full reviews)
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"Originally released in 1961, Sam Hinton's Whoever Shall Have Some Good Peanuts is a classic beloved by many families. In August, Smithsonian Folkways re-released the album (for the first time on CD)"... (read full reviews)
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"The folksinger Woody Guthrie was a prolific songwriter. Best known as the composer of "This Land is Your Land," Guthrie wrote and wrote and wrote. (Billy Bragg and Wilco combined to make two enjoyable"... (read full reviews)
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"Melanie Dill released her first record, Alphabet Parade in 1998. As you might expect from the title, there are a number of alphabet-related songs on the CD, most notably the parade itself, which over"... (read full reviews)
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"Elizabeth Mitchell helped found the rock band Ida with her husband Daniel Littleton. Unlike children's artists who have given up their "adult" careers or artists like They Might Be Giants, who are now"... (read full reviews)
