American Folk Game & Activity Songs for Children

Pete Seeger | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 2000)
• Original Release Date: January 25, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Smithsonian Folkways
• ASIN: B00003OP49
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #58,229 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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This is old-school interactive entertainment in all of its organic glory. This charming release combines a pair of classic Pete Seeger LPs: 1953's American Folk Songs for Children and 1962's American Game & Activity Songs for Children. Featuring an ebullient Seeger, his sprite banjo, and a collection of time-tested favorites, this set will get your kids (and yourselves) up and dancing, singing, playing, frolicking, skipping, promenading, and most importantly, smiling. The notes include lyrics as well as playtime suggestions. Sure, this is anachronistic fun in a digital world, but it's fun nonetheless. Not for curmudgeons. --Marc Greilsamer

Product Description

Kick off your shoes, tap your feet, and clap your hands along with Pete Seeger, whose contagious performances have introduced generations of children to the richness of traditional American music. Accompanied by his banjo, Pete Seeger presents 22 songs for young children that the whole family will enjoy. Extensive notes include lyrics and some instructions for dance. Especially for children 3 to 7. 59 minutes Winner of the 2001 Early Childhood News' Director's Choice Award Winner of the Parents' Choice 2000 Audio Classic Award

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent compilation at the right price., August 5, 2003

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"mumofheather" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

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This is an album with many songs, that's true, and my child loves it! She asks for it by "Pete Seeger music" and we sing most of her favorites together such as "I know a little girl".
Countless hours of good music that I don't mind playing and playing again. It has a booklet with the songs and explanations that help to understand a past that we've forgotten or didn't know.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of Fun!, January 15, 2008

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Clayton A. Peak (Palmyra, MO) - See all my reviews
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This disk is a delight for children as well the young at heart. The songs are fun and singable. The acompanying booklet contains the words to every song, so that you can sing along. The booklet also includes motions and/or other activities to go along with a few of the songs. This disk is a great way to introduce young children to the wonderful heritage of American folk music. Adults will enjoy it as well.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A bit too much? How are you listening?, June 26, 2000

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M. J. Smith (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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I never thought I'd be less than enthuiastic about something from Pete Seeger ... but it wasn't necessarily a brillant idea to merge two LP's on a single CD. If you listen straight through, the songs will start blurring together - too much of the same good thing.

However, if you select several tracks - any tracks, they may be your whim of the day - you will find the normal excellent performance of Pete Seeger - and an excellent selection of folk music. For example, his "Jim Crack Corn" (many of us learned it as "Jimmy Crack Corn") is a varient with enough difference in the musical rhythm that anyone would note the difference ... a step towards showing children that folk music doesn't have a "right text". And pieces perhaps too well known to children when this material was record, e.g. Here We Go 'Round the Mulburry Bush, get melded into medleys ... again showing that folk music is already known without wasting a lot of precious LP space on it.