Artist: Rocknoceros
Song: "Gravity"
Album: Dark Side of the Moon Bounce
Desription: Going way back in the kindie time machine for this one, off Rockno's fine second album. Not sure what the spinning (and singing) fork is all about, but I like it anyway.
Source: YouTube
Artist: Angie Engelbart (PLAY music)
Song: "Camping Paper Story"
Album: N/A
Description: It's a craft, it's a song, it's a video. Though nicely sung by Angie Engelbart, I don't expect the video itself to capture a child's attention for repeated views. Done live, however, I can imagine the origami story song by Anne Kelly-Saxenmeyer would be fun for a storytime.
Source: Vimeo
Artist: Debbie and Friends
Song: "Hangin' Around"
Album: Story Songs & Sing Alongs
Description: This is one of the most singularly educational songs in recent kids music and while the video (pre-Debbie's association with Planet Sunday) isn't super, it's an effective match for the lyrics.
Source: Vimeo
Artist: Umigo (feat. Bootsy Collins)
Song: "Rocketbox"
Album: N/A
Description: Once you get past the beginning of this cartoon, which explains why Bootsy Collins would be singing about telling time (Umigo -- the concept, not the character -- is actually funded by a government grant designed to teach kids 2 through 8 mathematic principles), you get to a funky song featuring Bootsy Collins singing about telling time.
Source: Vimeo
Artist: The Flannery Brothers
Song: "Banana on the Head!"
Album: N/A
Description: I like the song -- it's very simple, minimal almost. But it's the video, in which a few dozen urban residents are willing to have themselves be filmed with bananas on their head, that makes this a low-key delight.
Source: YouTube
Artist: Cat Doorman
Song: "Whistling Song"
Album: The Cat Doorman Songbook
Description: Recorded alongside a story, and as part of a series of videos, for Oregon Public Broadcasting (here's "Turn Around" and "Madame Claire"), it's a very direct, simple but elegantly filmed version of the jazzy original.
Source: Vimeo
Artist: Ellis Paul
Song: "Jackie Robinson"
Album: The Hero in You
Description: With the release of the Jackie Robinson biopic 42 this weekend, Boston folk troubadour Ellis Paul's tribute to the Brooklyn Dodger who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball gets a timely video that, in very newsreel-y fashion, provides a basic introduction to this American hero.
Source: YouTube
Artist: Dean Jones
Song: "Snail Mail"
Album: When the World Was New
Description: Dean Jones gets funky with his bad self (and, er, a guinea pig, a banana, and Tim Sutton from Ratboy Jr., who directed the video) in this shout-out to the U.S. Postal Service. From the forthcoming Dean Jones album.
Source: YouTube
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