Product Details

• Actors: Richard Scarry
• Directors: Tony Eastman
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, SECAM, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Random House Video
• VHS Release Date: August 17, 1993
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302777283
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,393 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

A painless way of learning a few things about shapes, numbers, letters, opposites, and good manners, Best Learning Songs Video Ever is an engaging treat for young kids who love music. The story finds Huckle Cat and his buddies putting on a backyard variety show that draws the entire town as an audience. With Huck as master of ceremonies and Lowly Worm as stage manager, the children of Busy Town entertain their families and friends with tunes about the fundamentals of an education. Besides Hilda Hippo's ABC song, there's Oly Owl's melody about shapes, and Alex and Anna's song about opposites. There's much more, including a couple of golden oldies such as "If You're Happy and You Know It." A real winner. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

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202 of 203 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A sweet video that enchants toddlers, October 28, 2002

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Louis Rios (Kansas City, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Richard Scarry's Best Learning Songs Video Ever! (DVD)

First of all, it's useful to know that there are two sets of "Richard Scarry" videos available, each produced by a different company: Cinar/Polygram/USA Films offers a video series called "The Busy World of Richard Scarry", and Sony/Random House has a set of videos named like "Richard Scarry's Best (fill in the blank) Video Ever". There are notable differences between them.

The "Busy World of...." series consists of episodes from an actual television series, although I don't know what network originally carried it. It's kind of bland and generic kids TV, and it sorely lacks the Richard Scarry charm. Not recommended.

Our family much prefers the "Best...Video Ever" home video series. This series features simple storylines and really sweet, catchy songs that both preschoolers and parents enjoy even after multiple viewings. "Best Learning Songs" is probably our favorite because it covers such a variety of subjects. The story is extremely simple: Huckle and friends put on a show in their backyard. Their show consists of gently educational songs about the alphabet, counting, shapes, opposites, common courtesy, etc.

On the downside, the animation is pretty primitive, the image quality doesn't improve from VHS to DVD (we now own both), and the price could be better for a 30-minute program. But those charming, educational songs really carry the day, and both of our kids were completely entranced by this series of videos while they were preschoolers.

99 of 99 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This really is the Best learning video ever!, October 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Richard Scarry's Best Learning Songs Video Ever! [VHS] (VHS Tape)

My two year old son has lots of videos and I hesitated to get a Richard Scarry video because my son seemed to prefer real life children as opposed to animation. He's not into Barney (thank goodness) and really doesn't watch any of the "educational" children's T.V. programs so I'm always trying to find videos that he can learn something from and enjoy. Well I was thrilled when we watched this video for the first time. The children's voices are very clear and they enunciate everything very well and they just couldn't be any more precious. My son loves this video and actually has tried to sing some of the songs along with the video which is great because up til now he hasn't done much talking. The songs are very cute and easy to learn and they are not annoying at all like some children's videos. They teach so many things, including ABC', counting to 10, shapes, manners, opposites. I can't say enough good things about this video. If you're looking for a video that your child will love, and learn from without even realizing it, this is the one video you must get. I wish I had gotten it sooner, instead of spending my money on other so called learning videos that my son only watches twice and then gets bored. This is a must have video!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent teaching tool...very entertaining, September 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Richard Scarry's Best Learning Songs Video Ever! [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Our 1 year old thoroughly enjoys this video. We rented it for him and now we're buying it. The characters are very likeable, the songs are catchy, and the lessons taught (ABCs, numbers, manners, opposites) are done so in an easy-to-understand manner. I definitely give this video "2 thumbs up"!