Artist: Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke
Song: "Favorite Names"
Album: Rise & Shine
Description: Wake up or you'll miss the animated cameo by a famous personage. Waking up to this song is not a difficult thing to do.
Source: YouTube
"More Moles" - Caspar Babypants
Artist: Caspar Babypants
Song: "More Moles"
Album: Hot Dog!
Description: Another beautifully minimalist video -- this time for the call-and-response song feature Visqueen's Rachel Flotard -- from Chris Ballew and his daughter Josie. Here's my (free) tip for revenue generation -- sell those individual sketches for, like, $5 apiece. I'll take the happy sun.
Source: YouTube
"Man Gave Names" - Aaron Nigel Smith
Artist: Aaron Nigel Smith
Song: "Man Gave Names"
Album: Welcome to the Village
Description: Yes, there are kids, presumably from Smith's "One World Chorus," who are monkeying around, helping Smith out on the song (see what I did there?). But the real reason to watch are the puppets who remind listeners of the guest artists Laurie Berkner, Lucky Diaz, and Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, but not in any legally infringing way.
Source: Vimeo
"Fall" - Orange Sherbet
Artist: Orange Sherbet
Song: "Fall"
Album: Delicious
Description: The next in the band's series of seasonally-appropriate food raps. The bounty is here! (Two or three days early, even.)
Source: Vimeo
"Chicken Soup Ballad" - Ben Rudnick & Friends
Artist: Ben Rudnick & Friends
Song: "Chicken Soup Ballad"
Album: Love Is a Superpower
Description: Personally, I find the enthusiasm the animated leftovers have for being made into a soup a little confusing -- should they be accepting their sacrifice quite so joyfully? -- but the song (and video) moves along nicely.
Source: YouTube
"I Want to Push Buttons" - Lunch Money
Artist: Lunch Money
Song: "I Want to Push Buttons"
Album: Original Friend
Description: A live recording, though not "live" (no screaming/twirling/dancing kids jumping up front) of the most t-shirt-y band in kids music. (I say that with much, much affection. The t-shirt and jeans look of the band is part and parcel of who they are and I wouldn't want them any other way.)
Source: YouTube
"Crazy Crazy Dinner Lady" - Nick Cope
"Make Me" - Big Bang Boom
Artist: Big Bang Boom
Song: "Make Me"
Album: Because I Said So
Description: In the time-honored tradition of videos featuring a band acting goofy and being entirely unrelated to the song, the North Carolina band goes to a children's museum and has fun. I really, really like the song, though. So that's why it's here.
Source: YouTube
