I don’t remember much about the music I listened to as a kids.
There were nursery rhymes for sure–including The Farmer in the Dell, and Pop Goes the Weasel.
Plus there was that one cassette(!) with animal songs. Something with the chorus: “It’s so good to BE BE BE a BEAVER!”
In the transition between cassettes and digital music, I lost track those songs. I also ended up listening to more instrumental music than song lyrics.
My kids love listening to music now, though–especially my oldest. And they want music they can sing along to!
At first, we stuck with the classics, like Raffi and We Sing. Still, we’ve discovered a few Indie artists that we also enjoy.
I shared these recommendations in my monthly newsletter a couple weeks ago. But, I wanted to share them here too.
I’ve linked to their albums on Amazon to make it easier for you to find them. We use Google Play, though, and some of the albums are available through other streaming services.
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Musical Favorites:
Just as a heads up: these musicians also have albums for adults. I haven’t listened to all of their music, but the albums mentioned here are kid-friendly.
- Chuck Cheesman’s Dancing With No Shoes On is the one my kids
really like . . . well, dancing to! It’s a fun collection of mellow rock mixed with some other styles.
- Mr. Aaron’s albums Maximum and All My Friends are Giants mix up goofy songs with high energy music. My oldest seems to have found his theme-song listening to them, “When I do it, I do it MAXIMUM!”
- Mister G.’s Chocolalala is a bouncy bilingual English-Spanish album. Be sure to check out Mister G.’s other children’s albums, including Los Animales and ABC Fiesta. You can also listen to him sing the lyrics from his picture book Senorita Mariposa on Youtube, below:
Do you have any albums that your kids love listening to? Let me know, so we can check them out!
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