Can A Jumbo Jet Sing The Alphabet?

Hap Palmer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 1998)
• Original Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hap-Pal Music
• ASIN: B00000I6UA
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,180 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #38 in Music > Indie Music > Children's Music > Children's Educational

Track Listings

1. 'Round the World With Ways To Say Hello

2. Alphabet in Motion

3. What Could You Use?

4. Can a Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet?

5. Shapes That Surround You

6. Jig Along Shapes

7. Everybody Dance?

8. Take Me Out to the Ball Game

9. Letters in the Blender

10. Boogie Down and Cruise

11. The Bean Bag

12. Tug-A-Tug to Twenty-Two

13. Fun With the Rhyme Time Band

14. Action Fraction

15. Motion Memory Good-Bye Game

16. Good-Bye My Friends

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Hap Palmer is a master of entertaining and teaching children with music. Can a Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet? overflows with fun songs that will have your child dancing along while he or she encounters themes such as vocabulary, shape recognition, problem solving, spatial awareness, numbers, and cultural diversity. Included in the liner notes is an extensive teaching guide, which lists skills and concepts, vocabulary, lyrics, suggested activities, variations, and follow-up questions for each song. These notes are a great resource for daycare or school instructors as well as parents, and, when implemented in moderation, can add another dimension to the listening experience. Palmer's original songs are diverse in style and are accompanied by strings, percussion, woodwinds, keyboard, vocalists, and even a children's chorus. --Tami Horiuchi

Product Description

Can A Jumbo Jet Sing The Alphabet? Songs for Learning Through Music and Movement.

Young children learn best by doing. These songs invite active involvement in developing vocabulary and mastering a wealth of skills and concepts. The joy of moving generates enthusiasm to learn about numbers, shapes, letters, phonics, creative problem solving and cultural diversity.

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Customer Reviews

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Can A Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet?, January 24, 2001

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Melanie Gerrald (Landenberg, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Can A Jumbo Jet Sing The Alphabet? (Audio CD)

I am a volunteer storyteller for two year olds at the local library. After story time we danced to "Everybody Dance" and "The Bean Bag". The children and the parents were so excited when we finished that they broke out in cheers! I'm ordering my own copy of this CD today and so are a half dozen other parents and caregivers!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars These aren't your run-of-the-mill songs!, April 12, 2005

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Melanie Wilson "mongoliamel" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Can A Jumbo Jet Sing The Alphabet? (Audio CD)

I am always looking for innovative Childrens Music CD's and I was excited to fall upon this real gem. As you can tell from the title, Hap Palmer has a great sense of humor and imagination. I like music CDs that don't have the same ol' kid songs that we all know and have heard again and again. Instead, I like exposing my children to a lot of fun new songs. Not only are they more interesting to listen to, but I love to see how fast their great little memories can learn these new songs. You get everything in this CD! Part of the songs are pure fun and the other part mix fun with learning.

Some of the great fun songs include the title song "Can a Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet," "What Could a Bean Bag Be," and "The Compost Bin." His learning songs teach shapes, sound blends, and rhyming. I love "Letters in the Blender" and "Fun with The Rhyme Time Band" as well as "Jig Along Shapes" and "Action Fraction."

As you can see from reading the titles, these aren't your run-of-the-mill songs. Hap Palmer has a great talent at creating songs that are interesting to listen to and fun to dance with. This hour long CD is definitely worth it and will quickly become your family's favorite tunes! --Denise Steele-Darnell

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly Awarded Early Childhood Music Pioneer, January 10, 2004

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T. Carlsen - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Can A Jumbo Jet Sing The Alphabet? (Audio CD)

Hap Palmer has been honored with many awards for his music for young children. He is a pioneer of pairing movement and music, and integrating basic educational ideas into music. His music interests me as a parent.

So my family and I have made a point of listening to his music, mostly by loan through our local library. Unfortunately, we do not like his musical style or voice very much. Most of his albums are not singable or melodic. I praise Palmer for making music that is good for childen and not like most commercial "junk food" children's music products that are on the market, but we just don't like most of his songs.

"Can a Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet" is one of the exceptions. The songs are interesting and fun to listen to. We like this CD. Plus, the messages are good for children, like most Hap Palmer albums. Thumbs up!

RECOMMENDATION: I suggest that parents start with CD's by Raffi. Then consider this CD. Hap Palmer's music is especially valuable if you use it to interact with your child, such as moving and thinking. Palmer's music is quality.