Artist: Hullabaloo
Song: "Dad Upside Down"
Album: Raise a Ruckus
Description: "Collage" spells backward just spells "egalloc." Erm, that makes no sense. Animation by Tonia Senoo.
Source: YouTube
"Sing Loud!" - Melissa Green
Artist: Melissa Green
Song: "Sing Loud!"
Album: Sing Loud!
Description: There's not too much about the title track from Green's forthcoming (July 31) album or its video that would mark it as being "kids' music." Maybe the lyric, "stomp stomp stomp." Or, in the video, Green dancing, apropos of nothing really, between two large pieces of construction equipment. But it is a shiny, shimmery piece of kid-friendly pop with a chorus designed to lodge in the brains of all who hear. And the video is polished to match.
Source: YouTube
"The Happy Happy Whistling Song" - Billy Kelly
Artist: Billy Kelly
Song: "The Happy Happy Whistling Song"
Album: The Family Garden
Description: Whistling! Dancing! Music! General craziness!
Source: YouTube
"Grassy Grass Grass" - Elizabeth Mitchell
Artist: Elizabeth Mitchell
Song: "Grassy Grass Grass"
Album: You Are My Little Bird / Little Seed
Description: This video is actually a couple years old, made for HBO Family and Classical Baby: The Poetry Show. But now with the impending release of Mitchell's Woody Guthrie tribute Little Seed, it's getting a new push. Lovely computer-generated collage work.
Source: YouTube
"Summertime" - Orange Sherbet
Artist: Orange Sherbet
Song: "Summertime"
Album: Delicious
Description: Why, yes, it is the first day of summer. So why wouldn't you post the delightfully animated parade of summertime fruits accompanied by the San Francisco band's playground chant?
Source: Vimeo
"The Hero in You" - Ellis Paul
Artist: Ellis Paul
Song: "The Hero in You"
Album: The Hero in You
Description: Ellis Paul performing his song mixed with news footage of a wide variety of heroes (Einstein! Ali! Ballerinas!). The footage of Paul looks nice but the kids'll have more fun playing "spot the hero."
Source: YouTube
"Gotta Get Up" - Sugar Free Allstars
Artist: Sugar Free Allstars
Song: "Gotta Get Up"
Album: All on a Sunday Afternoon
Description: Toy Story meets Claymation meets a groovy wake-up song. Also features Jack Forman from Recess Monkey and Shawana Kemp from Shine and the Moonbeams (no mini-Jack or mini-Shawana in the video, sadly).
Source: YouTube / Original post
"Stompy the Bear" - Caspar Babypants
Artist: Caspar Babypants
Song: "Stompy the Bear"
Album: Hot Dog!
Description: One part knitting, one part animation, several parts awesome. If I introduced Chris Ballew to Charlotte Blacker, can I take an itty-bitty amount of credit for the resulting video?
Source: YouTube / Original post
