Track Listing

1. Bought Me a Cat
2. Jim Crack Corn
3. Train Is A-Coming, The
4. This Old Man
5. Frog Went A-Courting
6. Jim Along Josie
7. There Was a Man and He Was Mad
8. Clap Your Hands
9. She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
10. All Around the Kitchen
11. Billy Barlow
12. I Know a Little Girl
13. I Want to Be a Farmer
14. Skip to My Lou
15. Candy Gal
16. Ring Around the Rosy/Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush/London Bridge
17. Shoo Fly
18. Liza Jane
19. Pig in the Parlor
20. New River Train
21. Yankee Doodle
22. Jolly is the Miller

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #109458 in Music
• Released on: 2000-01-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Album Description
Kick off your shoes, tap your feet, and clap your hands along with Pete Seeger, whose contagious performances have introduced generations of children to the richness of traditional American music. Accompanied by his banjo, Pete Seeger presents 22 songs for young children that the whole family will enjoy. Extensive notes include lyrics and some instructions for dance. Especially for children 3 to 7. 59 minutes Winner of the 2001 Early Childhood News' Director's Choice Award Winner of the Parents' Choice 2000 Audio Classic Award

Amazon.com
This is old-school interactive entertainment in all of its organic glory. This charming release combines a pair of classic Pete Seeger LPs: 1953's American Folk Songs for Children and 1962's American Game & Activity Songs for Children. Featuring an ebullient Seeger, his sprite banjo, and a collection of time-tested favorites, this set will get your kids (and yourselves) up and dancing, singing, playing, frolicking, skipping, promenading, and most importantly, smiling. The notes include lyrics as well as playtime suggestions. Sure, this is anachronistic fun in a digital world, but it's fun nonetheless. Not for curmudgeons. --Marc Greilsamer

From Parents' Choice®
Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger entertained children in the 1950's and '60's with these traditional folk and activity songs and his warm affability, light, melodic voice and sprightly banjo seem as fresh today as then. Offering a sense of America's music-making, barn-dancing pioneer past, this playful anthology includes such evergreen classics as "Jim Crack Corn," "Frog Went A-Courting," "Skip to My Lou," "Shoo Fly," and "Jim Along Josie." A 2000 Parents' Choice® Classic.

Reviewed by Lynne Heffley, Parents' Choice® 2000

Customer Reviews

Excellent compilation at the right price.
This is an album with many songs, that's true, and my child loves it! She asks for it by "Pete Seeger music" and we sing most of her favorites together such as "I know a little girl".
Countless hours of good music that I don't mind playing and playing again. It has a booklet with the songs and explanations that help to understand a past that we've forgotten or didn't know.

Lots of Fun!
This disk is a delight for children as well the young at heart. The songs are fun and singable. The acompanying booklet contains the words to every song, so that you can sing along. The booklet also includes motions and/or other activities to go along with a few of the songs. This disk is a great way to introduce young children to the wonderful heritage of American folk music. Adults will enjoy it as well.

A bit too much? How are you listening?
I never thought I'd be less than enthuiastic about something from Pete Seeger ... but it wasn't necessarily a brillant idea to merge two LP's on a single CD. If you listen straight through, the songs will start blurring together - too much of the same good thing.

However, if you select several tracks - any tracks, they may be your whim of the day - you will find the normal excellent performance of Pete Seeger - and an excellent selection of folk music. For example, his "Jim Crack Corn" (many of us learned it as "Jimmy Crack Corn") is a varient with enough difference in the musical rhythm that anyone would note the difference ... a step towards showing children that folk music doesn't have a "right text". And pieces perhaps too well known to children when this material was record, e.g. Here We Go 'Round the Mulburry Bush, get melded into medleys ... again showing that folk music is already known without wasting a lot of precious LP space on it.