This video for "A Song About Ferrets" from Karen Potje's 2008 jazz-folk disk (with a hint of country) Can't Help But Love You, Baby is a mix of Eric Herman's "The Elephant Song" and Rocknoceros' "Trying To Write a Song." That's not a bad pair of songs to be reminded of. Perhaps not quite in either song's league, but definitely amusing enough.
Karen Potje - "A Song About Ferrets" [YouTube]
Video: "All My Friends Are Insects" (from Yo Gabba Gabba!) - Weezer
You know the deal -- if I can't embed a video here, I don't like to post it. Why post something with just a couple lines of text and a link?
But I'm willing to make an exception if the video's pretty awesome, and the Yo Gabba Gabba! video for "All My Friends are Insects" as performed by Weezer, the creation of which we noted here a few months back, is pretty awesome. It was on the Nick YGG site last night, but was gone this morning, apparently because Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive. Oh, well, good for them -- go watch it.
It misses the complete awesomeness of Steve Burns' "I Hog the Ground" video, but by just a hair. Also amusing: the raging discussion of how earthworms are not insects.
I dunno. Doesn't bug me.
Video: "Is It Really Any Wonder?" - Renee and Jeremy
Is there another pair of voices in kids music who blend as sweetly as Renee and Jeremy? I submit to you the answer is no. This is one of the sweetest songs from C'mon, but if they sat around at home and sang the phone book, I'd listen. (Also, note: the last time they did this, Jeremy's hair was much shorter.)
Renee and Jeremy - "Is It Really Any Wonder?" - [YouTube]
Video: "I Found Love" (Yo Gabba Gabba) - Trembling Blue Stars
This isn't a new Season 3 video from Yo Gabba Gabba -- it's actually from Season 1. And the song itself -- "I Found Love," done by Trembling Blue Stars -- is actually more than 40 years old. But it's newly available on YouTube, and it's so dreamy (with animation so lovely) I couldn't resist posting it.
Trembling Blue Stars - "I Found Love" (from Yo Gabba Gabba) [YouTube]
Plus, a bonus video after the jump which, though it might seem odd at first, actually does tie to this first video.
Video: "Rock Paper Scissors" - Dean Jones
Your lesson for today, courtesy of Dean Jones, the title track from his excellent Rock Paper Scissors disk. (Bugs me, though, that only four of the six possible outcomes are shown on that blackboard.)
Dean Jones - "Rock Paper Scissors" [YouTube]
Video: "Itsy Bitsy Spider" (Live) - The Boogers
There is nothing complicated about this live rendition of "Itsy Bitsy Spider" from the Chicago-area band The Boogers.
Unless you count the 360-degree horizontal spin of the camera near the end. Could make you throw up if you watch this on IMAX, I suppose.
Ralph Covert describes this song as being about "existentialism" -- Crusty B (Paul, the lead singer and guitarist) prefers the phrase "de-termination and perserverance." Which I guess means the same thing, no?
The Boogers - "Itsy Bity Spider" (Live) - [YouTube]
