I am in the enviable position to be subjected to kids music all day some of it good most of it garbage. We were scrolling through On Demand kids music videos the other day and stumbled onto this guy, Dan Zanes and a song called "Night Owl." My 2 year-old loved it right away now my 4 year-old has taken a liking to it too. We got them the whole CD for Christmas and it's a really well done, folksy, hip collection of kids tunes some he wrote and some cool covers. So if you, like me, have had it up to your eyelids of goofy, lame kids tunes you should check out Dan Zanes' "Night Time."
Anyone else have some good suggestions? Other than the obvious Garcia-Grisman CD
Re: For those with young kids
PostPosted:Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:52 pm
by High Peaks
Dan Zane is great. My kids love him.
Garrison keillor from Prairie Home Companion has some books w/CD's out there that my daughter loves
I'm brand new to this club, being a dad that is, and appreciate the recommendations. I'll be sure and post what I find as time goes by.
Re: For those with young kids
PostPosted:Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:08 pm
by keirweir
My son is all about upbeat barn yard style kids tunes. He is a twirler and he is only 18 months!
He is into the imagination movers too
Re: For those with young kids
PostPosted:Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:17 pm
by Grateful Dad
My son loved Tom Chapin (Harry's brother) when he was a toddler. Tom plays guitar and banjo very well and his songs are interesting.
Funiculi Finicula is an awesome kid song too. My younger one hums it often.
Re: For those with young kids
PostPosted:Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:36 pm
by tcsned
I also like David Weinstone - his song "Grumpy" has made it into our acoustic sets if there's kids there - a lot of them know it from Nick Jr. - we found a Pete Seeger kids CD that's cool. There's one out there that I heard back before I had kids that Sam Bush played on but I can't remember who the artist's name is.
Re: For those with young kids
PostPosted:Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:41 pm
by erock
I'v had the dan zanes album for awhile.
let me suggest Medeski Martin and Wood, let's go everywhere.
and if you don't know who MMW is, do yourself a favor, and pick up a few of their other albums
oh it is a kid's album, and they used some of their kids for the lyrics in the songs, The kid loves it, and i love it because I am not listening to "move it move it" for the 1000th time
Now that they're all BIG (9 & 11) they like daddy's band ... you know nothing beats your kids asking you "Is that you or the real Dead?"
Re: For those with young kids
PostPosted:Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:43 pm
by Pete B.
Our daughter was into Raffi as a kid. She is 7 now (2nd grade) and is in to everything from "Everybody Dance Now" to pretty much anything by "The Chipmunks" or iCarly (Miranda Cosgrove).
This one sounds great with a Jerry style MuIII rig:
Re: For those with young kids
PostPosted:Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:37 am
by vwjodyme
growing up in maine we all loved this guy. looks like he is still putting out new stuff.
Re: For those with young kids
PostPosted:Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:03 am
by oconnors_35
Yeah, Dan Zanes is cool!
I have his CD "Catch That Train"..... my kids love it and I even listen to it sometimes, he played at a Halloween Party in Boston and I had him sign the CD after I purchased it,
I told him I use to see his old band "The Del Fuegos" back in the day!
I have two boys age 2 and 4 and they also like "the Fresh Beat Band" on Nick Jr.
and they are both obsessed with anything that has to do with "Thomas the Tank Engine" ..... so I have a CD of Thomas Songs too.
SeanO
Re: For those with young kids
PostPosted:Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:41 am
by tigerstrat
Norton Buffalo...
Bluegrass goes over great with my littlun... Django/Stefan Hot Club stuff is worth a try, or big-band like Duke, Basie, Goodman
I love the orchestral music from classic old cartoons... 30's-50's Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, Felix, Looney Tunes...
Its never too early for the giants of classical music: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky...
Re: For those with young kids
PostPosted:Thu Jan 06, 2011 11:28 am
by oconnors_35
[quote="tigerstrat"]
I love the orchestral music from classic old cartoons... 30's-50's Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, Felix, Looney Tunes...
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"Tom and Jerry" often have some good music too!
SeanO
Re: For those with young kids
PostPosted:Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:32 pm
by tcsned
yeah, we've got a bunch of classic Chuck Jones & Walt Lantz WB cartoons on DVD - my kids are warming up to them - Bugs Bunny also helps them with carrot consumption
I also just remembered the CD that Sam Bush played on that I liked so much - it's David Holt "I Got a Bullfrog" - this is a great one too.
Re: For those with young kids
PostPosted:Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:48 pm
by 1960strat
The Grateful Dead of course!!
So i am a fan of Mesa Boogie on facebook and they had a link of Alterbridge (not a fan of them) on Leno using their amps. I am playing the clip and my 3 year old asks if they do Fire on the Mountain.
