Track Listing

1. I Got Shoes
2. African Numbers 20 [English]
3. Tama Tama Tamali
4. Little David, Play on Your Harp
5. African Numbers 12 [Japanese]
6. Freedom Now
7. Run Molly Run
8. Young and Positive
9. African Numbers 8 [Swahili]
10. Deep Blue Sea
11. Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me
12. African Numbers 10 [French]
13. Somagwaza
14. Freedom Train
15. African Numbers 16 [Spanish]
16. Down the Road I Be Going
17. Look! Look! The Sun Woke Up
18. Spirit Lullaby

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10432 in Music
• Released on: 1994-04-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

From Parents' Choice®
To say Sweet Honey in the Rock sings à capella is an understatement; they are a vocal orchestra, using voices like instruments to create multi-layered music. Moving from traditional African songs (Tama Tama Tamali, Somagwaza), the album also includes African-American spirituals (I Got Shoes, Little David Play on Your Harp) and contemporary originals from rap (Young and Positive) to lullaby. Here is rich invigorating listening.

Customer Reviews

What a wonderful CD to give as a present!
I love giving this cd as a gift, to teachers or childcare providers, or new moms. It's kids' music you can stand to hear over and over (and some of us know just how rare that is), and feel good about exposing kids to traditions and musical concepts they might not otherwise encounter. We listen to the numbers songs in the car, we sing the shoo-fly song when we go walking--it's been a gift to my little family to have these songs added to our lives.

Sweet Honey in the Rock is Fantastic!
Although folk isn't a style a music much heard by anyone but its devotees, there can be some real treasures in this section. Sweet Honey in the Rock is one of them. As a young teenager, I find that this music doesn't fit into the "fuddy-duddy" image that young people today think of as Folk. Sweet Honey provides you with cool, soulful tunes, with beat and fire to spare. Try listening to "Young and Positive", and see if that doesn't bolster your self-esteem. The complex harmonies appeal to me especially, since I am a singer, but to the uninitiated ear, they are pure ecstasy. This is a rare and amazing gem in the soup of today's music!

no skip overs
being the mother of 8 children it is hard to please everyone (ages 18 to newborn)in the car at the same time. this cd is one of the few cds we have that we do not skip over songs. we love this cd.