 | Baby Loves Jazz: Go Baby Go! by The Baby Loves Jazz Band
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.98 Downtown NYC indie jazzers (Steve Bernstein, John Medeski, Sharon Jones etc.) create fun, wildly funky & soulful jazz for kids.
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 | The Adventures of Maya the Bee (A Story in Jazz) by Nancy Harrow
Buy used from: $42.55 Lovely jazz story in song. Soundtrack to a great little off-broadway show done with puppets.
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 | Mary Poppins by Julie Andrews
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.99 I think my daughter loves this more than her parents sometimes.
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 | Catch That Train! by Dan Zanes & Friends
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.98 The latest from the greatest kids entertainer
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 | House Party by Dan Zanes
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.77 Dan Zanes is great for many reasons, such as creating multicultural roots music that connects children to old song traditions
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 | Family Dance
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.00 And changing the notion that kids music had to be endured by adults rather than enjoyed by the whole family
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 | Rocket Ship Beach
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $2.75 And making album after album of great, catchy songs
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 | Night Time by Dan Zanes
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.00 And having lots of really cool guest artists
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 | Let It Dee
Buy used from: $13.85 A mix of superb indie children's songs and a few out-of-place rambling relationship songs.
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 | Widdecombe Fair by David Jones
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.99 Great traditional rough-edged English folk music with a refreshing lack of preciousness
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 | The Backyardigans by The Backyardigans
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $8.85 Evan Lurie is a master of all styles and these songs are totally infectious and groovy. Cowboy hip-hop anyone?
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 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $3.29 All children love the Beatles
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 | Rubber Soul (1990) by The Beatles
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $2.92 Drive my car! Beep beep! Yeah!
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![Help! [UK]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31JCXHRNYXL._SL75_.jpg) | Help! [UK] by The Beatles
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $1.99 Help! Jump up and down!
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 | Lazytown by Various Artists
Buy used from: $21.00 Sugar rush children's Icelandic Euro-Disco of the best kind
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 | SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Album by Various Artists
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $5.83 Clever, silly, entertaining songs. There's something wrong with you if you don't love Spongebob.
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 | Putumayo Presents: French Playground by Various Artists
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.99 Terrific multi-national francophone kids music with a leaning towards jazz hot and chanson styles
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 | Sesame Street Platinum: All Time Favorites (Blister Pack) by Sesame Street
Buy used from: $8.92 The best Sesame Street CD
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 | Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music
Buy used from: $29.00 Could do without Aerosmith & a couple of the other duets, but most of this is wonderful
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 | Muppets From Space: The Ultimate Muppet Trip - Music From The Motion Picture
Buy used from: $4.47 Great funk & disco soundtrack from this excellent kids movie
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 | So Para Baixinho, Vol. 2 by Xuxa
Brazilian children's music that kids cannot resist. My daughter has learned to sing in Portuguese by lsitening to these. Get the DVDs too.
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 | Xuxa Solamente Para Bajitos by Xuxa
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $7.42 More Xuxa
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 | Un Monde Parfait by Ilona Mitrecey
Buy new: $55.99 / Used from: $26.21 French Euro Disco sung by an 11 year old. Go to her website to watch free animated videos. Kids adore this.
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 | She Like Electric by Smoosh
Buy used from: $0.98 2 sisters aged 10 & 12 make great, punchy lo-fi pop
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 | Putumayo Kids Presents: Caribbean Playground by Various Artists
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $8.98 Wonderful selection of Caribbean songs (soca, reggae, zouk, bomba etc.) from many different islands
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 | Songs I Heard
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.55 Songs from Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and other classic children's movies. Harry's best and most creative record. Very New Orleans-y
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 | Chinese Lullabies by Beijing Angelic Choir
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.19 Great for soothing kids at bedtime.
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 | Jazz for Kids: Sing, Clap, Wiggle and Shake by Various Artists
Buy used from: $7.89 Ella and others sing swinging jazz for kids
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 | Classic Disney: 60 Years of Musical Magic by Disney
Buy used from: $100.00 Maddeningly sequenced, but all the good Disney songs are here.
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 | You Are My Sunshine
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $9.44 Mellow and enjoyable for all. We particularly like the dubby version of the ABC song with the melody from "Johnny Too Bad".
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 | Treasures of Operetta
Buy new: $26.98 / Used from: $46.30 They like to sing along and pretend to be opera singers. My daughter thinks that princesses are singing on this record.
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 | Trojan Box Set: U.K. Hits by Various Artists
Buy used from: $14.95 *Wonderful pop reggae classics from the 60's and 70's. "Montego Bay" is very popular in our house.
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 | The Bottle Let Me Down: Songs for Bumpy Wagon Rides by Various Artists
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.59 *Generally excellent alt-country for kids from Chicago's Bloodshot Records (despite turkeys from the usually dependable Robbie Fulks & Alejandro Escovedo). The song "Cheese, Peas, Pickles, and Bananas" will become an anthem in your home.
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 | Ta-Dah by Scissor Sisters
Buy used from: $2.95 *I defy any child not to dance to this
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 | The Disco Years, Vol. 1: Turn the Beat Around by Various Artists
Buy new: $13.96 / Used from: $2.83 *Children love disco and rightly so.
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 | The Disco Years, Vol. 2: On the Beat by Various Artists
Buy new: $13.96 / Used from: $2.99 *Children love more disco and rightly so.
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 | Come and Get It by Rachel Stevens
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $4.94 *Three or four disco pop gems on this that 4 year olds love
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 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Once More, with Feeling by Various Artists
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.07 *Children like show tunes
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 | The Stiff Records Box Set by Various Artists
Buy used from: $58.99 *Punky, poppy, ska-ish, girls with squeaky voices, Madness. They love it!
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 | Blessed Are the Sick by Morbid Angel
Buy used from: $11.86 *Strangely, very young children find death metal enormously funny. My children call it "monster music" and leap around like loonies. The rather unpleasant and "inappropriate for children" lyrics are, fortunately, uninteligible.
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