Frances England has written me a song.
OK, she's written you a song.
You, there in the back with the Danish? Song for you, too.
Explanation? England's written "Oh, How You've Grown" and offered the tender song on her website for free as part of her Holiday Family Creative Challenge. Not only can you download the mp3, you (that is, the non-commercial you) can use it as the soundtrack to your own family holiday scrapbook -- she's calling at an "end-of-the-year visual postcard." You can see England's own video here -- sepia makes everything more nostalgic.
Frances England - "Oh, How You've Grown" [YouTube]
Video: "Counting on a Friend" - The Bazillions
The Twin Cities' The Bazillions just keep cranking out one great video after another from their album Rock-N-Roll Recess. After a series of animated videos from EG Design, they've taken a completely different tack for the video from "Counting on a Friend."
It's a stop-motion animated video from EG Design.
(I mock, but it's just as cool as its predecessors.)
The Bazillions - "Counting on a Friend" [YouTube]
Video: "Bartleby Finkleton Will Not Take a Bath" - Steve Weeks
Steve Weeks' album Dandelion is a fine collections of tall tales and songs of scoundrels. One such scoundrel is Bartleby Finkleton, recalcitrant bather. The video for Weeks' song "Bartleby Finkleton Will Not Take a Bath" has been around for awhile, but so what? It's got a couple things I like, which is enough:
1) Weeks playing a real guitar while standing up in a bathtub in the middle of a room.
2) The putative Finkleton playing a cardboard guitar while standing up in a dumpster.
Steve Weeks - "Bartleby Finkleton Will Not Take a Bath" [YouTube]
Video: "Say Hello to My Hippo" - Todd McHatton
I don't want to say too much about this psychedlic animated video for "Say Hello to My Hippo," the first video from Todd McHatton's Galactic Champions of Joy so as not to ruin it for you if you've never heard the song.
Suffice it to say, I think if Justin Roberts' imaginary rhino were to run into Todd McHatton's hippo at a party, I think he (the rhino) might soon find himself looking at his cellphone and making up imaginary text messages from an imaginary friend in an imaginary emergency and head for the door.
Todd McHatton - "Say Hello to My Hippo" [YouTube]
Three Circus Songs for Kids: Mates of State / Kitty Wolf / Ralph's World
Why not? Here are a couple of circus-related songs for kids. Neither of them are "Miss Mary Mack," nor do they feature elephants jumping over the fence, but your kids may enjoy 'em. In any case, watching them is free, unlike your local Cirque du Soleil show.
The first video comes from Mates of State with another song from TV show Yo Gabba Gabba!. It's called "Circus Town," and while the embedded video is merely an extended excerpt, it's fun enough to include here.
Mates of State - "Circus Town" (excerpt from Yo Gabba Gabba! [YouTube]
Video: "Tofurky Song" - Joanie Leeds and the Nightlights
While I'd argue that this isn't quite the classic kids' music Thanksgiving song we've all been waiting for, Joanie Leeds' "Tofurky Song" is probably as close as we're gonna get to the classic kids' music vegetarian Thanksgiving song we've all been waiting for. Cute turkeys.
Joanie Leeds and the Nightlights - "Tofurky Song" [YouTube]
