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Title: Toddlers Sing Storytime
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Description: EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Join host Jerry Butler and some of history's greatest doo-wop performers from the '50s and '60s as they celebrate five decades of vocal magic. Recorded live May 11 and 12, 1999, at the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Pittsburgh, PA.

VOLUME 1
Only You & Great Pretender - The Platters
Come Go with Me - Del Vikings
Since I Don't Have You & This I Swear - Jimmy Beaumont and the Skyliners
Earth Angel - Penguins
Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler
16 Candles & Worst That Could Happen - Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge
Long, Lonely Nights & Little Girl of Mine - Lee Andrews and the Hearts
Heart and Soul - Cleftones
There's A Moon Out Tonight - Capris
Blue Moon - Marcels
My True Story & What Time Is It - Jive Five
Just to Be With You, Oh Rosemarie & Guardian Angel - The Legends of Doo Wop
That's My Desire & The Closer You Are - Earl Lewis and The Channels
VOLUME 2
Speedo, Zoom & Gloria - The Cadillacs
Unchained Melody & Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) - Golden Group Memories
Look in My Eyes - Chantels
Maybe - Arlene Smith with the Chantels
Sincerely & Ten Commandments of Love - Harvey and the Moonglows
For Your Precious Love - Jerry Butler and Pure Gold
Sunday Kind of Love & Life Is But a Dream - The Harptones
I Only Have Eyes For You & Lovers Never Say Goodbye - The Flamingos
Stormy Weather - The Spaniels
Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight - Spaniels, ensemble
Gloria Medley - The Cadillacs, The Legends of Doo Wop, Golden Group Memories & Earl Lewis and the Channels








Toddlers, like most anybody, appreciate being put in touch with music that connects them to their peers, and that's precisely the point of Toddlers Sing Storytime, the third release in the Music for Little People label's Toddlers Sing series (following the debut and Playtime). The CD culls classics like "Hot Cross Buns," "The Three Little Kittens," and "The Owl and the Pussycat," but dry recitations don't cut it here. The approach, rather, is to let a handful of frothy toddlers run with this stuff, often to hilarious effect. "Yolking," for instance, about Humpty Dumpty's famed fall cracks the kids up, and instead of passively pondering the location of the wayward pup in "Oh Where, Oh Where (Has My Little Dog Gone)," they take a breather toward song's end to set up a silly search party. Along the same lines, the little girl who breaks into "Baa Baa Black Sheep" confounds her fellow singing toddlers by intimating, adorably, that the sheep in question may in fact be pink, and the Muffin Man, always sort of a mysterious figure, finally gets a formal introduction by the young fellow who tackles his namesake tune. Each performer defies expectations on these ditties, but the English-accented tot who takes on "The Grand Old Duke of York" deserves special mention for his determined tone, as does the sweet-voiced singer of "Bow Bow (On My Violin)." Otherwise, the kids' off-the-cuff banter, sublime in its silliness, is this record's main selling point; it's bound to make 2- to 4-year-olds feel like flies on the wall at a play group for particularly precocious, fun-loving friends. --Tammy La Gorce

REVIEW
Another in the series of songs sung by real tots. Adorable voices singing nursery rhymes may rapidly wear a bit thin to adult ears, but pint-sized listeners will be fascinated by their peers' spirited conversational asides and lively renditions of "Itsy Bitsy Spider," "Jack and Jill," "Six Little Ducks," "Muffin Man," "Wee Willie Winkie," etc.

Reviewed by Lynne Heffley, Parents' Choice® 2001 -- From Parents' Choice®



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Format: CD
EAN: 0081227665722
Genre: Pop
Artist: Music for Little People
No Of Discs: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
Record Label: Music For Little People

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