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A Child's Celebration of Soul

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This is such a great disc that I enjoy listening to it even more than my son. Every child should have the pleasure of owning this. I plan to buy this for friends. Who doesn't like James Brown, Aretha and the Jackson Five?

A terrific collection of soul favorites of the 60's and 70's, my baby and I have lots of fun carpet dancing to this CD. Unlike many other Music for Little People CD's where the songs have been completely redone, there are only a few changes to a couple of songs - "updated" with a little hip-hop. Otherwise, the songs are as you remember them.

Keep your dancing shoes on because you and your little one(s) will dance all night with this CD on. All I need to do is hit play and my son is bopping all over the room. Enjoy great tunes from Ike & Tina to the Jackson 5.

Keep your dancing shoes on because you and your little one(s) will dance all night with this CD on. All I need to do is hit play and my 2 yr. old son can't stop bopping. Enjoy great tunes from Ike & Tina to the Jackson 5.

Keep your dancing shoes on because you and your little one(s) will dance all night with this CD on. All I need to do is hit play and my 2 yr. old son can't stop bopping. Enjoy great tunes from Ike & Tina to the Jackson 5.

All of these songs are good but half of them are out in left field as far as being choice picks for kids. Taj Mahal is an obscure choice compared to the better known and much more tuneful Tops and Temptations and they put 2 Taj Mahal songs on the CD! Why not pick My Girl by the Temptations which is an excellent choice for a children's song--simple beautiful, singable lyrics. Otis Redding's Dock of the Bay is a far better choice than Chain Gang and why not choose some music by Martha Reeves, like, how about Nowhere To Run--kids can really relate to the lyrics in that song. The producer picked Friendship Train by Gladys Knight when her great song Dancing In The Street has much more soul. And, what the heck is Beautiful Morning by The Rascals doing on a soul album? If they wanted to show that white bands could have soul too then why pick that song? A much better choice for a white band that sounds black is K.C. & The Sunshine Band which had a white lead singer with mostly black musicians and backup singers. Finally, this bust of a CD has only 45:35 of music--a massive rip-off. Leib Ostrow, the producer, doesn't know squat about soul or kids.