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Eat Every Bean and Pea On Your Plate

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Eat Every Bean And Pea On Your Plate from the creative works of Daddy A Go Go (aka John Boydston). Providing a fun selection of music from rock and roll, punk, alternative, and classic rock for a superb interest for children ages 5 and older, Eat Every Bean And Pea On Your Plate offers young listeners exciting songs including: It's a Kids' World (3:43); For Those About to Walk, We Salute You (3:58); Cryin' in the Dugout (3:42); Irritation Man (3:00); Blitzkrieg Bop (Kids' Beat Bop) (1:57); Hang Up and Drive (3:41); To Sir with Love (instrumental) (2:26); Pink Floyd Saves Hugh Manatee (4:10); Dads Who Rock (3:06); Listen to the Flower People (2:22); I Never Twang For My Father (instrumental) (2:08); The Guy Who Couldn't Make a Rhyme (6:26); and the title track Eat Every Bean and Pea on Your Plate (2:44). This outstanding CD is to be given high praise and strong recommended to parents of young children for its creative and unique musical styling and diversity.

I have worked with Daddy Boydston on the packaging for all 6 CDs but only last month had the pleasure of seeing the band live! Wow! Dad and the kids were really rockin. Get the CDs, and then go see and hear them when they come to your town!

A funny thing happens when you hear Daddy a Go Go for the first time, whether it's on this disc or any of the four preceding it: You can't help but wonder with mounting incredulity and a creeping sense of indignity how it is that this dude's not huge. John Boydston, who writes and records all his songs somewhere in the recesses of his crawling-with-kids suburban home is a master of the ridiculous. Between carpool rounds and hockey drills, he dreams up songs about pink flamingos named Floyd (get it? Pink Floyd?) who get tangled up with manatees called Hugh (Hugh-manatee, from the song "Pink Floyd Saves Hugh Manatee"), impossibly exasperating siblings ("He'll bother you more than a 25-pound mosquito/He'll scare you more than a broccoli burrito," from "Irritation Man"), and the losing-est baseball team since Billy Bob Thornton mixed it up with the Bad News Bears ("Cryin' in the Dugout"). Where his true brilliance emerges, though, is in his jangly, loose-limbed, California-sunny rock-pop. The Jammys don't have a kids' music category yet, but that's only because they haven't taken Daddy Boydston for a spin in the station wagon. Anybody with kids over age three ought to line up at the buffet table. - This Review written by Tammy LaGorce, Amazon.com