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Sing A To Z
''Sing A to Z'' is the tenth album by children's entertainers Sharon, Lois & Bram, originally released in 1990. Releases The original release was in 1990 under Elephant Records in Canada, and under A&M Records in the United States. It featured the trio in the middle with an alphabet border. In 1994, Drive Entertainment re-packaged the album after it won the Parent's Choice Award and Elephant was added to the front cover. In 2004, Casablanca Kids Inc. released the album but reverted to the original cover design. 1990 (Elephant Records/A&M Records) Cassette/CD/Video 1994 (Drive Entertainment) Cassette/CD/Video 2004/2005/2008 (Casablanca Kids Inc.) CD/DVD Home Video & DVD To promote the album, Sharon, Lois & Bram went on tour across Canada and the United States. A 50-minute video was made featuring Sharon, Lois & Bram on stage in Stratford, Ontario on their Sing A to Z Tour. It was re-packaged and re-designed for the Drive Entertainment release as well. When Casablanca Kids Inc. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mairzy Doats
“Mairzy Doats” is a novelty song written and composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston. It contains lyrics that make no sense as written, but are near homophones of meaningful phrases. The song's title, for example, is a homophone of "Mares eat oats". The song was first played on radio station WOR, New York, by Al Trace and his Silly Symphonists. It made the pop charts several times, with a version by the Merry Macs reaching No. 1 in March 1944. The song was also a number-one sheet music seller, with sales of over 450,000 within the first three weeks of release. The Merry Macs recording was Decca Records' best-selling release in 1944. Twenty-three other performers followed up with their own recordings in a span of only two weeks that year. Meaning The song's refrain, as written on the sheet music, seems meaningless: :''Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey'' :''A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?'' However, the lyrics of the bridge p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skidamarink
"Skidamarink" or "Skinnamarink" is a popular preschool sing-along song from North America. Originally titled "Skid-dy-mer-rink-adink-aboomp" or "Skiddy-Mer-Rink-A-Doo", the initial version of the song was written by Felix F. Feist (lyrics) and (music) for the 1910 Broadway production ''The Echo''. Since the title is , it h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down In The Valley (folk Song)
"Down in the Valley", also known as "Birmingham Jail", is a traditional American folk song. It has been recorded by many artists and is included in the ''Songs of Expanding America'' recordings in Burl Ives' six-album set ''Historical America in Song''. The verses mentioning "Birmingham Jail" refer to the Birmingham, Alabama, City Jail which was well-known in the mid-1920s, although the reference was often omitted in later versions. Guitarist Jimmie Tarlton claimed to have written the lyrics in 1925 while he was jailed in Birmingham for moonshining. It was first recorded by Tarlton and his partner Tom Darby on November 10, 1927, in Atlanta, Georgia, for Columbia Records. According to one biographer of the folk musician Lead Belly, he performed it for Texas Governor Pat Neff at the Sugarland Penitentiary in 1924. The ballad is played in the time signature. Lyrics vary, as with most folk songs. For example, sometimes the line "Hang your head over, hear the wind blow" is rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
"Tzena, Tzena, Tzena" (), sometimes "Tzena, Tzena", is a song, written in 1941 in Hebrew. Its music is by Issachar Miron (a.k.a. Stefan Michrovsky), a Polish emigrant in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel), and the lyrics are by . History Miron, born in 1919, left Poland at the age of 19 in the late 1930s, thus avoiding the Holocaust. In 1941, while serving in the Jewish Brigade of the British forces, he composed the melody for lyrics written by Chagiz. The song became popular in Palestine and was played on the Kol Yisrael radio service. Julius Grossman, who did not know who composed the song, wrote the so-called third part of "Tzena" circa November 1946. After hearing Pete Seeger performing ''Tzena'', with The Weavers as backing, Gordon Jenkins made an arrangement of the song for the Weavers with English lyrics. The Jenkins/Weavers version, released by Decca Records under catalog number 27077, was one side of a two-sided hit, reaching No. 2 on the Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Sunny Side Of The Street
"On the Sunny Side of the Street" is a 1930 song composed by Jimmy McHugh with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Some authors say that Fats Waller was the composer, but he sold the rights to the song. It was introduced in the Broadway musical '' Lew Leslie's International Revue'' starring Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence. Ted Lewis did the first recording of the song in 1930 (Catalog #2144-D), followed by Harry Richman (Catalog # 4747) and both enjoyed hit records with the song. Other notable recordings Having become a jazz standard, it was played by Louis Armstrong, the Nat King Cole Trio, Dave Brubeck, Earl Hines, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Erroll Garner, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum, James Booker, Count Basie, and Lester Young. The Louis Armstrong version was recorded in the key of C major, but it has been recorded in a range of keys; Ted Lewis recorded it in D major and Ella Fitzgerald in G major. Cover versions date as far back as 1930, when Layton & Johnstone released t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hush, Little Baby
"Hush, Little Baby" is a traditional lullaby, thought to have been written in the Southern United States. The lyrics promise various rewards to the child for remaining quiet. The simple structure allows more verses to be added ad lib. It has a Roud number of 470. History and traditional versions Like most folk songs, the author and date of origin are unknown. The English folklorist Cecil Sharp collected and notated a version from Endicott, Franklin County, Virginia in 1918, and another version sung by a Julie Boone of Micaville, North Carolina, with a complete version of the lyrics. A version recorded on a wax cylinder around 1929–35 in Durham, North Carolina by James Madison Carpenter can be heard online via the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Alan Lomax recorded several varying traditional renditions of the song in the southern United States in the 1930s and 40s, including from the traditional singer Texas Gladden. All of these versions differ melodically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Name Game
"The Name Game" is a song co-written and performed by Shirley Ellis as a rhyming game that creates variations on a person's name. She explains through speaking and singing how to play the game. The first verse is done using Ellis's first name; the other names used in the original version of the song are Lincoln, Arnold, Tony, Billy, Marsha, and Nick. History Written by American singer Shirley Ellis (who based the song on a game she played as a child) and Lincoln Chase, Ellis's recording, produced by Charles Calello, was released in late 1964 as "The Name Game". The record scored third on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and fourth on the magazine's R&B charts during 1965. The record was re-released in 1966 and again in 1973. A R&B singer for 10 years before that success, Ellis was also successful with "The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap)" (#8 pop and #16 R&B), and "The Nitty Gritty" (#8 on the Hot 100 and #4 on the Cash Box R&B chart). Ellis performed on then-major television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When The Ice Worms Nest Again
"When the Ice Worms Nest Again" is a humorous Canadian folk ballad. History The song originated in northern British Columbia and the Yukon, possibly during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. It was first published in the ''Yellowknife Prospector'' in 1939, which claimed that the song was written in 1919 by four men working in the Yukon. Scottish-Canadian poet Robert W. Service also published a ballad with this name in '' Twenty Bath-Tub Ballads'', 1939, claiming that he had written the song in 1911; however, Service's ballad is significantly different from the traditional lyrics. There are many other versions that exist. It has become the theme song for silver miners in Cobalt, Ontario and fur trappers in The Pas, Manitoba. Theme The song describes a romance between the narrator and a "husky dusky maiden" in the Canadian Arctic. The "ice worms" referenced are not actual ice worms (genus ''Mesenchytraeus''), which the original authors probably would not have known existed. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon, Lois & Bram
Sharon, Lois & Bram (also known as Sharon, Bram & Friends, Sharon & Bram or Sharon & Randi) are a Canadian children's music group founded in Toronto, Ontario, 1978. The group's original lineup consisted of Sharon (née Trostin) Hampson, Lois Ada (née Goldberg) Lilienstein, and Bramwell "Bram" Morrison. Group formation Sharon Hampson, Lois Lilienstein, and Bram Morrison began their singing careers as individuals, and met while performing for the "Mariposa in the Schools" program. The three performers quickly discovered that they shared a common philosophy about creating quality music for people of all ages. In 1978, with $20,000 borrowed from family and friends, they recorded their first album '' One Elephant, Deux Éléphants'', released by Elephant Records and distributed by A&M. The folk-style album, with its eclectic musical mix, became one of the fastest-selling children's albums ever produced in Canada.Patch, Nick. "Playing in the park with Sharon, Lois and Bram". ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim LaFave
Kim LaFave (born 12 January 1955) is a Canadian children's book illustrator and artist. LaFave started his illustration career in media before his first children's drawings appeared in the 1981 book ''The Mare's Egg''. From the 1980s to 2000s, his drawings appeared in over 40 children's books. As an artist, LaFave painted landscapes, boats and snow from the 2000s to 2020s. He also was a member of ''Eleven Equal Artists'' during the 2010s. For his illustrations, LaFave won the 1988 Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration and 1989 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award for ''Amo's Sweater''. As a nominee, LaFave received additional Governor General's nominations in 2001 with ''We'll All Go Sailing'' and 2004 with ''A Very Unusual Dog''. From 2008 to 2011, LaFave received nominations for both of these awards with ''Shin-chi's Canoe'' and ''Fishing With Gubby''. Early life and education On 12 January 1955, LaFave was born in Vancouver, British C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skinnamarink TV
''Skinnamarink TV'' is a children's television show created by Richard Mortimer. The series originally aired on The Learning Channel programming block on Ready Set Learn in the United States and CBC Television in Canada. It was created by Lynn Harvey and Richard Mortimer (Twist Productions) for Skinnamarink Entertainment in association with Craftsman & Scribes Creative Workshop, The Learning Channel, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Plot It starred Sharon, Lois and Bram and two new characters C.C. Copycat, a sarcastic blue feline played by Dwayne Adams, and Ella Acapella, a young female elephant, played by Tikka Sherman. The show mocked the life of an actual television station. It included many skits and musical bits with Sharon, Lois & Bram acting as many different characters. Along with Ella Acapella and C.C. Copycat, Sharon, Lois & Bram operate a fictional TV station called ''Skinnamarink TV''. The name comes from the song Skidamarink which closed the trio's ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
