Alastair Moock - A Cow Says Moo - A Cow Says Moock
Alastair Moock - Two Mommies - A Cow Says Moock
Brendan Taaffe - Well May The World Go - Little Boots
Buck Howdy - Home on the Range - Pete Seeger Trib
Caspar Babypants - Itsy Bitsy Spider - More Please!
Caspar Babypants - Robin on a Wire - More Please!
Charity And The JAMband - Get Your Booty Out of Bed - Party Like a Twinkle Star [[Disc 1] - Party]
Charity And The JAMband - Row Row Row Your Boat - Party Like a Twinkle Star [[Disc 1] - Party] Charlie Hope - I'm Me! - I'm Me! (A Collection of Songs for Children)
Charlie Hope - Train Song - I'm Me! (A Collection of Songs for Children)
Daisy Mayhem - If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out - Ranky Tanky
Daisy Mayhem - They All Ask'd For You - Ranky Tanky
Dan Bern - Trousers - Two Feet Tall
Dan Zanes & Friends - I Won't Grow Up - 76 Trombones
Dan Zanes & Friends - The Inch Worm - 76 Trombones
Dean Jones featuring the Felice Brothers - Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here! - Rock Paper Scissors
Dean Jones featuring the Felice Brothers - Sing Like a Sparrow - Rock Paper Scissors
Earthworm Ensemble - Bear and Dog - Earthworm Ensemble
Earthworm Ensemble - We Are Birds - Earthworm Ensemble
Haley Bonar - Beautiful You - Sing With Me
Haley Bonar - Sing With Me - Sing With Me
Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke - 18 Wheeler - Rise And Shine
Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke - Rattling Can - Rise And Shine
Laura Freeman - Look In A Book - Somersault Season
Los Lobos - Heigh-Ho - Los Lobos Goes Disney
Pete Seeger - Shenandoah - American Favorite Ballads Volume 1
Ralph's World - All About Bob - All Around Ralph's World
Ralph's World - The Robot Looked At The Stars - All Around Ralph's World
Renee & Jeremy - C'mon - C'mon
Renee & Jeremy - Mama Papa Love - C'mon
Sarah Lee Guthrie and Family - Go Waggaloo - Go Waggaloo
Stan Ridgway & Pietra Wexstun - Bring It On In The House - Silly Songs For Kids, Vol. 1
Stan Ridgway & Pietra Wexstun - Spider's Web - Silly Songs For Kids, Vol. 1
The Deedle Deedle Dees - Little Red Airplane - American History + Rock-n-Roll = The Deedle Deedle Dees
The Deedle Deedle Dees - Tres Muralistas - American History + Rock-n-Roll = The Deedle Deedle Dees
The Jellydots - Adventure Quest! - Jelly Jukebox
The Jellydots - O-Bounty - Jelly Jukebox
The Telephone Company - What Am I Gonna Do With This Baby - Panda Brain!
The Verve Pipe - Wake Up - A Family Album
They Might Be Giants - Meet the Elements - Here Comes Science
Uncle Rock - You Look Good in the Rain - The Big Picture
Various Artists - Humpty Dumpty - The Youngster Parade - House of Mercy Kids' Album, Volume 1
Various Artists - Oh Susanna - The Youngster Parade - House of Mercy Kids' Album, Volume 1
Uploaded: February 27-ish. Played randomly. Due to Internet broadcasting regulations, songs listed in alphabetical order.
Radio Playlist: Lullabies March 2010
"Kounandi Déni" - Abdoulaye Diabate African Lullaby
"Monkey River" - Caspar Babypants (Here I Am!)
"August Lullaby" - Central Services Presents... The Board Of Education
"Goodnight Child" - Chuck Cheesman A Family Songbook
"Hush Little Baby" - Dan Zanes The Fine Friends Are Here
"Sweet Rosyanne" - Dan Zanes & Friends Catch That Train!
"Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)" - Dixie Chicks Home
"Fais Do Do" - Elizabeth MItchell & Lisa Loeb Catch The Moon
"You & Me" - Frances England Family Tree
"Beautiful You" - Haley Bonar (Sing With Me)
"Isle au Haut Lullaby" - Mae Robertson & Don Jackson All Through the Night
"My Bonnie" - Music Together Bongos
"Harvest Moon" - Neil Young Harvest Moon
"Shenandoah" - Pete Seeger American Favorite Ballads Volume 1
"Goodnight, Irene" - Raffi The Corner Grocery Store
"I'm Not Tired" - Ralph's World (All Around Ralph's World)
"Is There Really Any Wonder" - Renee & Jeremy C'mon
"Brush Your Teeth Blues #57" - Sarah Lee Guthrie and Family Go Waggaloo
"Old Friends [Live]" - Simon & Garfunkel The Concert In Central Park
"Goodnight Children Everywhere" - Sixpence None The Richer For The Kids
"Thank You and Goodnight" - Uncle Rock The Big Picture
"Go To Sleep" - The Verve Pipe A Family Album
"Gymnopedie No. 1" - Yutaka Sado; Lamoureux Concert Orchestra Bedtime Beats
Uploaded: March 2nd-ish. Played randomly. Due to Internet broadcasting regulations, songs listed in alphabetical order by artist.
Video: "A Song About Ferrets" - Karen Potje
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]
Check Out That New Logo!
Hopefully you're seeing a fancy new logo up there at the top of the page and down a bit along the right-hand side of the link bar. Isn't it pretty? I think so (though I probably need to increase the resolution a bit).
When I first started thinking about getting a professionally done logo to replace my own poorly-crafted one, for a variety of reasons the first name that came to mind was that of Brandon Reese. I knew there was a lot of talent in the kids music field -- Billy Kelly, for example, or Kevin Kameraad, not to mention musicians with a nice eye for design, such as Frances England. But Brandon was definitely my first choice.
You're probably familiar with Reese's work -- he's designed album covers for Lunch Money and The Jellydots, not to mention a bunch of games and other stuff for eeBoo. (And I interviewed him a little more than a year ago.)
He has a sense of whimsy and play along with a strong design sense, two things I wanted to convey with this new logo, and I think he nailed it. That logo on the right is what I like to think of as the main logo, the one that if I were to sell all sorts of stuff would be plastered all over it. (Anybody need a men's organic t-shirt?) But it's got a very portrait orientation and sometimes I'm all landscape-y, so Reese designed a second logo that incorporated part of that first logo...
Anyway, I'm very happy with the logo. Thanks to Brandon for taking some pretty vague design concepts and turning them into something with a virtually no fuss. If you want to learn a little bit more about the design process for this logo and Reese's next projects, read on...Crowdfunding, Part 2: Matt Clark Kickstarts His Project
Two or three weeks ago, Jim Cosgrove, AKA Mr. Stinky Feet made a splash in the kids music world by announcing he was "crowdfunding" his next album by asking for supporters to pledge money toward the costs of recording, producing, and distributing the next album. Cosgrove's views on why he went this route are essential reading for kids musicians. He also noted that he hadn't previously heard of Kickstarter, a site which helps musicians (and countless others) do the same thing.
One major difference, though, between Cosgrove's approach and Kickstarter's is that Cosgrove's going through with the project regardless. (In fact, I'm pretty sure he's starting recording this week.) But if a person seeking Kickstarter help doesn't reach the required amount, they receive squat.
So let's hear it for Portland, Oregon's Matt Clark, who's established the first genuine kids music Kickstarter project. That's right, if you go here, you can be part of another crowdfunding experiment. $3 gets you 1 mp3; $5 gets you 2, and so on. My favorite level -- $50 gets you (among other things) 3 chances to name the new disk.
Clark's debut, Funny Little Fella, was a nice little disk -- here's hoping he gets the $3,000 to have round 2 see the light of day.
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.
