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Through Children's Eyes: Little Folk Songs for Adults

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My mother played this LP for us when we were children. We listened over and over. When I had my children, my brother bought the CD for them--and I was thrilled. Although primarily a children's record, some of the nuances of the songs can only be appreciated by adults. This album remains fresh and enjoyable to all regardless of age and number of times it is replayed.

For years we didn't know that Grace Darling really existed. She is memorialized in a cemetary in Northern England.

My parents bought the original LP for my siblings and me back in the early 1960s, and of course we played it until it wore out.

I still have that LP (though from hundreds of times on the turntable the scratches make it look as if it was used as a toboggan). This album MADE our childhood. I looked in vain for many, many years until I found it on CD in 1996.

Upon listening to it for the first time in almost thirty years, it brought tears of joy to my eyes. All those familiar, warm, and utterly innocent songs of childhood sounded as fresh and wonderful as they did the first time. Buy copies for all the kids--and adults!!--in your life. You won't regret it.

If only music for kids were so wonderful today! This album is on my all-time TOP-TEN list--of ANY genre or artist. Simply superlative!!!

My Dad bought this album when I was in grade school (early 1970's) and my brother and I would listen to it constantly. He recently sent me the CD, and I was thrilled to have it again. The music has withstood the test of time, and My children are enjoying it, too. The children's vocals on this album are a musical inspiration to my own kids, and are a wonderful complement to the three distinctive voices of Lou, Alex and Glenn. We love the stories told in classic folk songs such as "The Ballad of Grace Darling" and "The Whaling Song". The last song is a moving arrangement of "America The Beautiful" and "This Land is Your Land" in which Glenn's "America The Beautiful" Beautifully weaves around the children's "This Land is Your Land." This song alone makes the album a "must have". I highly recommend this album to all parents!

One of the best children's albums of the sixties, and perhaps the best folk album for kids ever produced. I loved it when I was seven. I still do.

The format is so simple and straightforward that I'm surprised it hasn't been attempted more often (although Peter, Paul, & Mary have tried something vaguely similar). Lou Gottlieb is the perfect MC (he will always be missed), and the soaring sounds of the original Limeliters remain the standard to which everyone else is still compared.

i am echoing the words of the other reviews. this music brings wonderful memories of my childhood when my mom used to play the old vinyl album over and over while we sang together. her album is now scratched and worn as she still plays it for her elementary school classes. she was so excited when i told her i was sending her the cd. i ordered my own copy and am now teaching all the songs to my 2-yr-old son. i know he'll enjoy them as much as i did. this music is timeless.

The Limeliters were and are terrific performers (and, I understand, pretty terrific people, as well) who've never really made a bad album. This was my introduction to them as a boy, and it's still their best album. I'd all but worn out my old vinyl copy over the years, so you can imagine how thrilled I was to see it reissued on CD. The songs are infectuious and fun at any age: "Grace Darling," "This Train," "I Had a Mule," and my particular favorites, "Morningtown Ride" and "The Whale." Whether you have kids or not (I don't), this album is still great fun, and I guarantee, whatever mood you're in, you'll feel better once you've finsihed listening to it. In short, move over, Raffi and Sharon, Lois, and Bram! You don't even come close to the Limeliters.

The subtitle of this album (recorded Christmas 1961) is "Little-folk songs for adults". It's as if the children's choir acommpanying the Limeliters, wre trying to tell the audience: "see the world through our eyes - we love fun and intelligent music, too."

My mother (a true Limeliters fan) bought this record when I was 3 years old in 1963, and it really stuck with me. I now own that same LP, along with the rest of my mother's 10+ Limeliter/Glenn Yarborough records.

When I first played the lullaby "Morningtown Train" for my 10-month old adopted daughter, I completely lost it - an incredible tide of emotion. She seemed to really connect with the music and started dancing to it.

It's a shame that folk music (then an anachronism) has fallen from our pop culture. This trio from San Francisco were very talented, witty and quite popular at the time.

I recommend this CD very highly to parents.

I loved this (it was an album then) CD from childhood. Then my children's childhood. And now, my grandchildren's childhood. That's how much I have enjoyed this music over the years. Each generation has loved it also. It is my standard baby gift and everyone who receives it says the same thing, "This is great."

Not only is the music wonderful, but most of the songs have a message that the kids (and adults) pick up on very quickly. Buy it - you won't be sorry.

I'd never heard of the Limeliters until a friend bought the CD and it appeared in a Shared Purchases/Amazon Friends email. After poking around at the sound clips I thought it might be interesting. When they say it's for adults, they are absolutely right. Unlike so much of what you buy for kids, this doesn't cause pain when the songs get stuck in your head. They're fun folk songs you won't mind singing along to, acting out and generally being silly with. At this point, I might like it even more than my son.

loved the Limeliters in college, wore out two records with the children...now for the grandkids it's CD's...there is not a bad song in the bunch... great sing-a-long songs...and I still know the words all these decades later!!...a beloved album...don't miss this one.