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NURSERY RHYME BLUES: MUSIC BY, FOR AND ABOUT KIDS
Rock the cradle, with music by, for and about kids—but hip enough for children of all ages. Swing Mother Goose in jazz, blues and country; plus animal tales in rock and funk. Join us for a visit to the Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp and hear the next generation of New Orleans musicians. Also, The Imagination Movers drop by to talk about going from a birthday party conversation to the next big sensation in kids’ music.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Straight No Chaser live recording at Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp
- Ya Ya Lee Dorsey
Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection, Arista - Lady Madonna Fats Domino
Fats is Back, Bullseye - Rock 'n' Roll Simmon Tree Maggie Sue Wimberly
Memphis Bells: The Women of Sun Records, Bear Family - Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Kermit Ruffins
New Orleans Playground, Putumayo Kids - The Muffin Man Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz for Kids: Sing, Clap, Wiggle, and Shake, Verve - Instrumental: Cake Walking Babies Sidney Bechet
Runnin' Wild, Blue Note - Shortening Bread Abner Jay
recorded live at Folk Masters concert 1993, - Talkin' Guitar Doc Watson
Sings Songs for Little Pickers - Live!, Alacazam! - Barnyard Dance Martin, Bogan and Armstrong
Barnyard Dance, Rounder - Storybook Ball Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band
Greatest Hits!, Vanguard - Nursery Rhyme Blues Merrill Moore
Boogie My Blues Away, Bear Family - Oh! Susannah June Carter
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music, Columbia/Legacy - I've Been Working on the Railroad Johnny Cash
The Legend, Columbia/Legacy - The Railroad Cars are Coming Dan Zanes
Parades and Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected by Carl Sandburg, Festival Five - Instrumental: Skip To My Lou Peter Seeger, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Washboard Band: Country Dance Music, Folkways - Skip to My Lou Lead Belly
Sings For Children, Smithsonian Folkways - Brown Girl in the Ring Lord Invader
Calypso in New York, Smithsonian Folkways - Children's Song (That Old Man) Thelonious Monk
Monk, Columbia - SEGMENT: Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp
Listen
HOUR two
- Open Bed: When You Wish Upon a Star Dave Brubeck Quartet
Dave Digs Disney, Columbia/Legacy - Mary Mack Lilly's Chapel School recorded by Harold Courlander
Negro Folk Music of Alabama Vol.6: Ring Game Songs and Others, Folkways - Patty Cake, Patty Cake Fats Waller
If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!, Columbia/Legacy - School Days Dizzy Gillespie
School Days, Savoy - Mockingbird Inez Foxx
Island 40, Vol. 2: 1964-1969, Rhythm and Blues Beat, Island - Bo Diddley Bo Diddley
His Best, Chess/MCA - Mr. Rabbit Paul Westerberg
Stereo, Vagrant - Instrumental: "Fox Chase" Elizabeth Cotton
Shake Sugaree, Smithsonian Folkways - Mouse on the Hill Warner Williams
Blues Highway, Smithsonian Folkways - Polly Wolly Doodle Leon Redbone
Folk Playground, Putumayo Kids - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (Song of the South) Louis Armstrong
Disney Songs the Satchmo Way, Walt Disney - Yes! We Have No Bananas Louis Prima
Jazz for Kids: Sing, Clap, Wiggle, and Shake, Verve - I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song) Los Lobos
Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films, A&M - Instrumental: In 3's Beastie Boys
The In Sound From Way Out!, Capitol - INTERVIEW: Imagination Movers
Listen - Old McDonald Had a Farm (Part 2) Rufus Thomas
Funky Chicken, Stax - They All Ask'd for You The Meters
The Very Best of the Meters, Rhino - End Bed: Sleepwalker's Lullaby Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant
Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming Guitars of Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant, Razor & Tie
