Customer Reviews

Child's Celebration of Song

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This album brings together some of the best artists which make the songs seem new, even though some of them are the same songs I listened to when I was a child. There are no duds here. Each song is enjoyable and you will find yourself singing them even when your child isn't around. This album has excellent sound quality, just as you would expect from James Taylor's and Kenny Loggins' adult albums (I have the CD). I will definitely be buying other albums by "Music for Little People" based on my enjoyment of this album.

This is one of our 2 year-old daughter's favorite CD's and it's also satisfying for adults as well. There are some old and popular favorites that I remember from being a child (Puff the Magic Dragon, Skip to my Lou, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Bannana Boat song...) and some songs new to me, but that we all love: Sweet Honey of the Rock's Little Red Caboose and James Taylor's Jelly Man Kelly are especially beloved. It also lends itself well to dancing. A good buy.

This CD is essential to my family's morning routine. If we listen to it on the 20-minute drive to preschool, we arrive singing and laughing and in a wonderful mood. If not, the boys are shrieking and hitting each other in the backseat while I bellow at them from the front. What magic did Music for Little People capture on these tracks? We have other wonderful albums, but none that captivate a 5-year-old, a 20-month-old and Mommy quite like this one. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Terrific, engaging, not too "elevator music." 1st 13 tracks are the best, but the Doobie's lyrics on Winken, Blinken and Nod are unintelligible and Paul Simon's St Judy's Comet is boring. Everything else is great! I recommend as a great gift.

This is one of the best children's music CD's you can buy. We have owned this CD for almost three months, and our children love a handful of the songs. You would have a hard time finding these songs anywhere else.

About half of the songs are very good. One outstanding song is "Baby Beluga" by Raffi. "Puff" and "Garden Song" are instant classics, too. And a handful of the songs are not so good. It's a matter of taste.

In that respect, this CD is similar to "A Child's Celebration of the World," which has a handful of outstanding songs and a few clunkers. But both CD's are much better than the commercial music on the market. Your children will like these CD's.

I also STRONGLY recommend anything by Raffi, such as "Singable Songs for the Very Young" or "In Concert With the Rise and Shine Band." Raffi's music is the best children's music of all time and highly recommended by educators.

I can't tell you how many times that I have listened to this CD and I STILL love it!! My 3 year old daughter asks me to put it in our van's CD player every time we go somewhere and she sings at the top of her lungs! She LOVES "Puff the Magic Dragon" and Danny Kaye's "The Ugly Duckling". We even went out and bought the video of "Hans Christian Andersen" so she could WATCH him sing that one! She gets really lively for "The Banana Boat Song". This is just plain fun! Even my 14 year old son - who is just TOO COOL - gets in on the action. I recommend this to everyone!

This album is quite a compilation of favorites, time-tested songs performed by adult-popular artists of great musicianship. Kids start life new, so you can never go wrong with classics like these no matter how much the songs age.

I noticed that many reviewers were thankful in particular that this is a CD that remains enjoyable to them as adults while their kids play it over and over again, because of the excellent songs and top musicianship--these qualities are definitely missing from lots of kids music.

However, I can wholeheartedly recommend one artist whose music is rich in texture and variety, singable and is just as much fun for parents as kids; the underexposed Skip West has put out two stellar albums, 'Blue Sky City' and 'All Around the World', chock full of original songs to delight and expand little minds while having the musicianship and depth to keep parents sane on the 7th listen of the day. Enjoy :^) You can thank me later, hee hee.

I enjoy listening to this CD over and over with my infants. The songs are wonderful and tuneful for the most part. I skip This Old Man, which is better on other albums, and tire of The Ugly Duckling. My kids like "dancing" to Skip to My Lou. Hey Daddy, House at Pooh Corner, Garden Song, Wynken, Blynken and Nod, St. Judy's Comet, Jelly Man Kelly are favorites.

I enjoy the music in the Child's Celebration series. All the tunes are well selected and my baby and I like them. But sometimes I feel that the tunes were chosen more because the songwriter was open to releasing that particular song for the collection, not because it was the best. Some of the tunes appear on more than one of the records in the series, which I feel is a bit of a cheat. Also, it is very annoying that you don't get a song sheet. Part of the idea is to sing the songs with the kids, and I don't always know the words. For a couple of extra cents, they could print the lyrics.

We bought this CD about a year ago, and have played it continuously since then. It is very good in comparison to other music we have received or bought. At first, I didn't like all the songs on the collection, but now have come to appreciate all of them. My child loves listening/bopping to it, and it will do the trick of calming her down. The only bad points are that you have to send for the lyrics (still haven't managed to do that), and "Jelly Man Kelly" plays too softly.