Customer Reviews

Funny 50's Silly 60's

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I ran across this recording in an obscure music catalog and, since my children were ready for something more than Raffi, I ordered it. They loved it! We spent many trip hours in the car singing along at full volume. It was the best holiday present they got that year and eight years later (even though the children are now teens who shop in the alternate section of the music store) we still bring it along on vacations which require automobile travel. This is definitely a must-have classic for kids.

This is better than the garden variety music CDs aimed at kids these days. As many of you know, those Elmo songs (among others) really drive you nuts, but when these get stuck in your head, they aren't bad! And they come from a time when music had a more fun element, before my time even, but so much fun you won't mind singing them with your kids. I have, since the purchase of this CD, searched out other CDs by the Rebops and they are all wonderful. My friends agree and I think you will too.

I bought this when my daughter was only 2 and is now over 3 and we both still love it. It's great on road trips or around town for those "errand days." It cheers everyone up!

My kids (5 and 7) LOVE this. Original hits by original artists that are upbeat and fun. Only wish they included the Monster Mash and I would give it 6 stars!

My husband and I remember these songs when we were kids and found it fun and funny to share with our granddaughter. It is amazing to listen to a two year old sing the witch doctor and purple people eater and jump and dance to the music.
Lots of fun and memories.

Admittedly, I did not read carefully and therefore it didn't register with me that this was a CD of remakes of the originals. Would have greatly preferred the original versions. But our 14 month old doesn't know the difference -- she dances along to the songs regardless. I think I was just so relieved to find a kids CD that wasn't being sung by a lot of irritating little children that I jumped at it. Too many of these things are children singing. And when they don't pronounce things correctly or have a lisp or whatever, I'd rather my kid not listen to the songs because she'll learn to pronounce things incorrectly. With a Southern mother and a New England father, she'll have problems enough as it is (grin). It does have a decent variety of songs, and I recognize most of them from listening to my parents' records when I was a kid. I was torn between whether to give it 3 or 4 stars because our daughter definitely likes the music, and the lower rating would just be because it would make for easier listening for us if they were the original versions. Overall, it's not a bad CD for the money.

My two elementary age kids love this music. We always have singing and laughing in the car and its fun to hear the old kid songs I grew up to.

My kids prefer the "real" versions of these because we also have them on CDs, but this isn't bad as far as remakes aimed at kids go. At least it beats Kids Bop.

This cd is pretty good in it includes some good and hard to find funny songs. They are not the original singers though which makes some of the songs much less enjoyable - just not sung very well. Overall though this cd is pretty good and worth buying.

this is on re-bop why do you think they call their record compy re-bop well they threw out the recordings that made the songs a hit of couse witch doctor was writen
and sung by ross bagdasarian sr. who died at age 52. these recordings are all new
and amazon should drop the price on it. it should cost much less than 14.99 .

Ever since I was 3, I have had a constitutional aversion for the "Name Game." Whenever I heard this idiotic piece, I would flee from wherever I happened to be because I just could not tolerate it. "Name Game" is irritating, stupid, annoying and has nothing in creation to recommend it. I feel the same way about that stupid chewing gum on the bedpost song.

I would have rated this one 4 stars, but including those two monstrosities cost this cd points.