Awesome Non-Kid Music That Kids Won't Hate

The Bottle Let Me Down: Songs for Bumpy Wagon Rides

This CD has music that is meant to celebrate Mom a more...3 points

This CD has music that is meant to celebrate Mom and Dad's last remaining shreds of coolness. So parents, reclaim your listening rights! Includes 26 songs for children and adults everywhere. It includes tracks from Kelly Hogan, Alejandro Escovedo, Robbie Fulks, The Waco Brothers, and a singing cat! Includes songs such as: Hinky Dinky Dee, On Top of Spaghetti and I Am My Own Grandpa.3 points

House Party

For parents, listening to Dan Zanes provides not o more...2 points

For parents, listening to Dan Zanes provides not only instant Raffi relief, but also the warm sense of belonging to the right crowd. On each disc he trots out a posse of cool friends like Sheryl Crow, Suzanne Vega, and Lou Reed and he delivers his openhearted lyrics with the rare roots-rocker's gift for stirring grace into grit. It would seem that the release of his fourth record, House Party would be ripe for a backlash--how long can the hokey conceit of a bunch of aging groovsters banging out....2 points

Singin' in the Bathtub

In John Lithgow's most memorable roles, he's playe more...2 points

In John Lithgow's most memorable roles, he's played the outsider: the transsexual former football player in The World According to Garp, the alien in Third Rock from the Sun. On Singin' in the Bathtub, he puts the same aspect of his character that's made him successful in those roles--the slightly-out-of-touch wonder at the obvious--to work on 14 children's songs. Backed by a big band (and the occasional banjo or musical saw), Lithgow takes on topics from multiple births (the Alice in Wonderland...2 points

Smithsonian Folkways Children's Music Collection

26 songs, play-party games, and poems selected fro more...2 points

26 songs, play-party games, and poems selected from over 200 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and Folkways Records present a panorama of music performed for and by young children. Includes notes, song texts, and a complete list of recordings for children. Well-loved songs and unexpected treasures from Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Langston Hughes, Ella Jenkins, Suni Paz, Pete Seeger, and others.2 points

Night Time

Just as adult authors from Isabel Allende to Clive more...2 points

Just as adult authors from Isabel Allende to Clive Barker are writing kids' books these days, rock & roll artists (remember Jerry Garcia and David Grisman's 1993 recording Not for Kids Only?) are reaching out to the younger set. Thank goodness, we say... and scoot over, Barney. Festival Five Records is the children's music label founded by Dan Zanes, former lead singer of the Del Fuegos, where he hopes to capture "the sound of a neighborhood band on the front stoop playing tunes after dinner for...2 points

At the Bottom of the Sea

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Choo Choo Boogaloo

Take a spicy Cajun tour through Louisiana's bayou more...2 points

Take a spicy Cajun tour through Louisiana's bayou country on Choo Choo Boogaloo! The musical scenery includes foot-stompin', two-steppin,' finger poppin' zydeco emblazoned with hot guitar licks, sassy accordion, and a dash of blues thrown in for good measure. Traditional titles, including "Get on Board," "Iko Iko," "Little Red Caboose," and "Cotton Fields," have been well adapted to zydeco style, while "Crawfish Song," "Mardi Gras Mambo," and "Give Me a Squeeze, Please" are right at home in this...2 points

Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child

This classic from Woody Guthrie has a hypnotic app more...2 points

This classic from Woody Guthrie has a hypnotic appeal in its simple approach.2 points

Rainbow Connection

You haven't heard "Say Say My Playmate" more...2 points

You haven't heard "Say Say My Playmate" until you hear Willie sing it.2 points

Parades and Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected by Carl Sandburg

I love this collection from Carl Sandburg's Americ more...2 points

I love this collection from Carl Sandburg's American Songbag way more than the kids do.2 points

Nora's Room

Jessica Harper combines reggae-inflected music wit more...2 points

Jessica Harper combines reggae-inflected music with warm vocals and clever lyrics.2 points

You Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song

Ella's best-selling record has international songs more...1 point

Ella's best-selling record has international songs that encourage singing and rhythmic participation. Recommended for early education by Teachers Magazine. Did You Feed My Cow?, This Train, Sifting in the Sand, Cadima, Shabbat Shalom, and others. "Will surely delight the young.1 point

No!

Hitch up your I-Pods, egg-headed hipsters of the f more...1 point

Hitch up your I-Pods, egg-headed hipsters of the future: They Might Be Giants, the out-there band that files its sound under the banner of "Can't We All Just Get Along" is speaking your language. What they're saying is No!, but in a way that's weirdly welcoming, especially to anybody who's over 3 and has a hard drive. No!'s computer enhancements (animation, games, and a sing-along scroll bar) don't assign the strictly audio experience to the so-what pile, but at certain moments they seem necessa...1 point

Nueva York!

Children's favorite Dan Zanes follows his 2007 Gra more...1 point

Children's favorite Dan Zanes follows his 2007 Grammy Award winning CD Catch That Train with a collaboration with Latino musician friends from New York. These family songs, all sung in Spanish, represent various styles including son jarocho, cumbia, aguinaldo, bailecito, nueva canci¢n and merengue. Featured guests include: Lila Downs, Daphne Rubin-Vega, The Villa-Lobos brothers, Marc Ribot and Afro-Colombian roots ensemble La Cumbiamba Eney%u201A.1 point

Family Dance

this is the follow up to the acclaimed "rocke more...1 point

this is the follow up to the acclaimed "rocket ship beach" cd. it's the hip handmade sound of dan zanes and his friends bringing acoustic and electric guitars, fiddles, drums, harmonicas, mandolins, accordions, banjos, tamborines, and voices together for a mixture of traditional and original songs that can be danced to or just listened to depending on the occation. this is 21st century folk music made with the whole family in mind. special guests include Rosanne Cash, Loudon Wainwright lll, The....1 point

Snack Time

Multi-platinum recording artist Barenaked Ladies w more...1 point

Multi-platinum recording artist Barenaked Ladies will release Snacktime, a collection of 24 original children's songs through their imprint label Desperation Records. "Our collective kids now outnumber the band more than 2 to 1," explains vocalist/guitarist Ed Robertson. "We set out to make a record that would be entertaining for them %u2026 not strictly a children's record, but a record that children would really enjoy. Our kids are into all kinds of music. Making the focus about what...1 point

Rocket Ship Beach

music is in the air. it's alive and it's here for more...1 point

music is in the air. it's alive and it's here for everyone. if you can play an old song, you can write a new song. make it a family parade, all around the kitchen cock-a-doodle-doodle-doo. or how about a family band? on the front steps, in the back yard, in the park, on the sidewalk, in the basement. if you can brush your teeth, you can play tamborine. if you can tell a joke, you can sing. festival five records is the sound of a neighborhood band on the front stoop playing tunes after....1 point

Ants Wear Underpants

Original music flavored with folk and rock, blues more...1 point

Original music flavored with folk and rock, blues and jazz--written and performed with humor and soul for the enjoyment of children and adults alike.1 point

Wiggleworms Love You

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Animal Crackers

These Wee Hairy Beasties--Cyril the Karaoke Squirr more...1 point

These Wee Hairy Beasties--Cyril the Karaoke Squirrel (Jon Langford), Marjorie the Singing Bee (Kelly Hogan), Monkey Double Dippey (Sally Timms), and the amazing musicians of Devil in a Woodpile--firmly believe that "kids' music" NEED! NOT! BE! UNLISTENABLE! In fact, their dance-with-ants-in-your-pants blend of back porch country blues, hippity-hop country, and wiggly old-timey swing is bound to please any child or adult--OR any insect, amphibian, reptile, mammal or other creature within earshot....1 point

For the Kids

An all-star cast has joined forces to produce a wo more...1 point

An all-star cast has joined forces to produce a wonderful CD and, if that weren't exciting enough, a portion of the proceeds will help restore music education in the U.S. public school system through the VHI Save the Music Foundation. Clever new renditions of familiar Muppets and Sesame Street tunes abound, but Semisonic's Dan Wilson, ex-Del Fuego artist Dan Zanes, Toad the Wet Sprocket's Glen Phillips, and Bleu wrote songs for this album, and Tom Waits's lullaby "Bend Down the Branches," origin...1 point

Hear & Gone in 60 Seconds!

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Family Time

Family Time is Ziggy Marley s third solo album and more...1 point

Family Time is Ziggy Marley s third solo album and first full-length offering especially for children and families. Marley produced the album with legendary producer Don Was, known for his Grammy®-winning work with such artists as Bonnie Raitt as well as with his own hit-making group, Was (Not Was). With original songs newly-composed by Marley himself, the album features a variety of family and friends as guests including Rita Marley (Ziggy s mother), Cedella Marley (sister), Judah Marley (daugh...1 point

Big Round World

2008 Grammy Award Nominee For Best Musical Album F more...1 point

2008 Grammy Award Nominee For Best Musical Album For Children!!! The most wide-ranging CD from TFIA's 30-year career includes a stirring homage to Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. From breezy island vibes and rock & roll to cool jazz and bluegrass, TFIA celebrates our Big Round World with wit and wisdom. "They embody a kind of goofball gestalt at odds with the sugary-sweet format of so much other music for the younger crowd." -- New York Times 1 point

Infinity

Trout Fishing in America records are the musical v more...1 point

Trout Fishing in America records are the musical version of face licks from floppy-eared hounds--it doesn't get much friendlier than this. InFINity, the duo's 10th album and their fifth for kids, carries forth the warm, wet tradition. Here, Ezra Idlet and Keith Grimwood cast their nets far and wide, reeling in tunes that range from folk to Cajun to general kid stuff to a Shaft-meets-Charlie Brown brand of funk, as Grimwood aptly puts it. The result is a fun, musically faultless wackfest, which,....1 point

Here Come The 123s [CD/DVD]

The GRAMMY® - winning rock legends, THEY MIGHT BE more...1 point

The GRAMMY® - winning rock legends, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS returns with their 2nd Children's album. Follow up to the smash hit album, HERE COME THE ABCs, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS returns with the CD + DVD of HERE COME THE 123s! This 2 disc set features 24 Brand New Songs PLUS an entire DVD of Music Videos that complement the songs on the CD.1 point

Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Led Zeppelin

Close the doors and put out the light. This evenin more...1 point

Close the doors and put out the light. This evening, your child's journey consists of a delicate dreamscape woven in the heavens and forged by the hammer of the gods. Although Led Zeppelin's music was rooted in blues and hard rock, an element of fantasy was always present. On this album, Led Zeppelin's most extraordinary songs have received the lullaby treatment. Hasn't it been a long time since your baby rock and rolled?1 point