Sing America

The Broadway Kids | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 22, 2000)
• Original Release Date: August 22, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Lightyear
• ASIN: B00004WF2X
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #389,362 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. City Of New Orleans

2. California Dreamin'

3. The Boy From New York City

4. Take Me Home, Country Roads

5. The Presidents Song

6. Americana Medley

7. This Land Is Your Land

8. California Girls/Surfin' USA

9. Amazing Grace

10. America

11. I've Been Everywhere

12. New York, New York

Editorial Reviews

From Parents' Choice®

Young veterans of such Broadway shows as Les Miserables, The Lion King, The King & I, The Sound of Music and more turn their vocal talents to a musical U.S. tour, from "City of New Orleans" and "California Dreamin'" to "New York, New York." In folk, country, rock and showtune style, the kid troupers sing traditional American folk and patriotic songs, Neil Diamond's "America" and a musical list of all the Presidents. A 2000 Parents' Choice® Approved winner.

Reviewed by Lynne Heffley, Parents' Choice® 2000

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Broadway Kids Arrangement Needs More Solos..., October 6, 2000

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"rainyskies" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sing America (Audio CD)

I adore The Broadway Kids. I absolutely love talented children's voices. It is the most soothing sound on earth to me...well, I really like the sound of rainstorms too, and water tapping on my window as an icycle melts...but whatever...the Kids are to me as pleasant as anything I have ever before in my life heard.

I have a bit of critique regarding the album "The Broadway Kids Sing America". First the song selection is wonderfully varied, even if a couple of tunes are somewhat 'Country'. If the Kids sing them...I LOVE the songs no matter the genre.

BUT! Whoever it is that arranges the individual songs needs to pay very close attention to this next comment. We who love and adore The Broadway Kids might also like choruses and choirs, but quite frankly many great children's choruses and choirs sound a lot alike.

With The Broadway Kids, each young singer is originally selected from a rigorous audition process because each one has an EXQUISITE singing voice. His or her vocal range is staggering, and the tremolo is usually spine-tingling. Pitch is perfect. Dialect is cuter than buttons, and the vowel expression especially of the youngest singers is too precious for mere words to describe.

Unfortunately this is too often a CHORUS or CHOIR version. It is still at all times georgeous of course, but we listeners who cherish prodigal children's voices are subsequently forbidden from hearing the unbelievable beauty inherent in each of these young performers. From the most beautiful voices we want long solos within each song. My favorite Broadway Kid of all time is Lacey Chabert when she sang "The Girl I Mean To Be". And my next favorite Kid song is "Castle on a Cloud". Both of these songs still bring tears to my ears. And after sharing each song with a dozens of people, I still find a strong desire to share them with even more people.

There are a thousand good children's choirs in America. But there are preciously few individual prodigal child performers.

We want most of all to hear the single heavenly voice crying out so tenderly that our hearts stop beating for a few moments...until our favorite Kid's vibrato finally wanes and we can again breath.

In spite of only a few goose-bumping solos within this Broadway Kid's music CD, I highly recommend this selection to anyone who adores highly talented children's voices or who have children of their own with which to share beautiful things.

I would have given this music CD a 4.8 out of 5 stars, but Amazon.com doesn't allow that.

Buy it...you'll LOVE it!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Would've been five stars...., November 21, 2000

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Madeline Vincent (SC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sing America (Audio CD)

This is a great album, the first cd my husband, two-year-old daughter, and I have all agreed on. My only complaint concerns the song selection, which reveals, I think, the cultural bias of the producers in that 4 of 12 songs are either about New York or California. There are so many wonderful songs about other parts of the country, not to mention great patriotic songs that could have been included. On the other hand, some of the song selections are inspired. And the Kids, as always, are fantastic. So my complaint is not so much with what's on the album, as what's been left off. Nevertheless, I still highly recommend this cd, especially for people, like us, who get tired of Barney cd's in the car and want good music that a wide range of ages can enjoy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You Need to Give This CD a Chance. It's Great!, September 20, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Sing America (Audio CD)

My seven year old loves singing Patriotic songs and the Broadway Kids; so of course I purchased this when I first saw it. The songs weren't what I expected, and my daughter wasn't very taken with it "at first." But songs like "I've Been Everywhere" and "Good Morning America" are now her favorites, and she likes the familiarity of the other American standards. The CD is full of geography and the song about all the presidents sneaks some history in too. Can't go wrong with a CD kids like and they learn from too.