children

[bombinthebeehive]

eyeball skeleton

[user_333]

How timely. I'm in the middle of making a CD for my godson (3) and his brother (5). They fired the opening salvo, actually -- this summer they (well, probably their parents) made me a CD of stuff from their parents' collection that they like. Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, Art Brut, stuff like that.

[user_3544]

John Zorn´s Music For Children (Music Romance Vol. 1) ..
Good stuff ..

[kristop]

[user_658]

Anything by Thelonious Monk or Charles Mingus....

[fearandpanic]

or Charles Mingus....

Anything other than 'Let My Children Hear Music'!

[mshiflet]

i like Lullatone - Nobukazu Takemura-ish sine wave lullabyes - and think kids could really get into his work. my wife actually used some of it when doing a children's yoga workshop last year. And there's Takemura himself.


With regards to the other end, I actually saw a compilation album a while back with several artists' children performing on their equipment, but I couldn't find it despite various google keyword combos.

[michael]

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[fearandpanic]

Sofia Gubaidulina - Musical Toys: Fourteen Piano Pieces for Children (1969)

[user_911]

The Raymond Scott "Soothing Sounds" series is great for babies and toddlers.



Totally great zone-out electronics and synths that babies LOVE.

I got Vol. 2 for my niece a couple of months ago.

Hot jamz, yo.

[Yii]

Lol Coxhill and a Batch 'o Youngins - " I Am The Walrus"

[bryan]

I was gonna mention..

Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba

Every time I listen to it I think of childhood - those plinky naive melodies and delirium.



Anyways... when I was a kid "C is for Cookie" was my jam.

[kristop]

The Raymond Scott "Soothing Sounds" series is great for babies and toddlers.



Totally great zone-out electronics and synths that babies LOVE.

I got Vol. 2 for my niece a couple of months ago.

Hot jamz, yo.

i got the whole set on LP before we had out little guy. totally hot jamz!

[user_911]

i got the whole set on LP before we had out little guy. totally hot jamz!

So tell me...does Raymond Scott really sooth the savage baby?

[fearandpanic]

Nancy Dupree & schoolchildren from Rochester, New York, Ghetto Reality (early 70s).

This one is pretty interesting, Dupree writing the arrangements and accompanying the children on the piano in school-recital style. The arranged parts are understandably a little stiff and four-square, but the singers and their personalities come into their own in their spoken and sung solo parts, which they wrote themselves.

[surfer]

My son who is 1.5 years old loves music. Anything really. As soon as I head over to where the stereo is, he gets super excited. He also tries to reach up and twiddle the knobs and grab CDs. His favorites in the past year include:


I actually grew up listening to Spike Jones and his City Slickers, this was the first album I ever remember owning. My son loves the Horse Race William Tell Overture.


Muscially, the strongest of the Schoolhouse Rock series, even I dont get tired of these songs, Bob Dorough is a pop melody genius.


Nobukazu Takemura - Child and Magic. Mesmorizing.

Bright, catchy, percussive, sing-a-longs. The trumpet at the beginning of You Can Get It If You Really Want brings a smile to Evan's face every time.

The best of a spotty Putomayo series. Just a great fun set list:

1. Choo Choo Ch'boogie - Clifton Chenier
2. They All Ask'd for You - The Meters (This is a great song, so much fun!)
3. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner - Kermit Ruffins
4. Second Line - Charmaine Neville
5. Skip to My Blues - Buckwheat Zydeco
6. Ya Ya - Lee Dorsey
7. I Like It Like That - Chris Kenner
8. Whole Lotta Lovin' - Fats Domino
9. Ain't Got No Home - Clarence "Frogman" Henry
10. Row Row Your Boat - Dr. John
11. When the Saints Go Marchin' In - Hack Bartholomew


Fun, Pete Seeger has a few children's CDs out. This one is very good.


Bright and percussive.

Also, anything by Bach, Mozart. The Indestructible Beat of Soweto series he loves, including Soweto Never Sleeps. They Might be Giants and Barenaked Ladies both have CDs for children that are tolerable.

[anwandter]

Adriana Calcanhotto 'Partimpim'; it's brazilian music intended for kids; there is a DVD with a concert from this disc, where the musicians show how to make all the curious sounds, my children love it...

[Stevo]

first one that comes to mind is
Stark Reality's covers of the Hoagy Carmichael set of songs for children.

followed by The Shaggs' Philosophy of The World, since the Wiggins were adults when they cut Own Thing.

also Denardo Coleman's presence on his dad's late 60s work
& The Jackson 5

[fearandpanic]

also Denardo Coleman's presence on his dad's late 60s work
& The Jackson 5

Great ones.

What about Beenie Man, The Invincible Beenie Man, 10 Year Old Boy Wonder. "Woman A Labba" especially, backed by a sparse Bunny Lee dancehall production.

[einklavier]

I babysit a lot (for kids maybe ages 2-7) and they seem to love drone music, I always bring my music when I babysit (mostly to avoid the whole "Mozart makes kids smarter" craze that inevitably most of the parents subscribe to), a recent favorite is my Michael Northam Authomnal 2003 CD, lots of high and low drones there. Webern hasn't been as popular, except when I play it on the piano. So really, as long as it's not too exciting or is too dynamic (loud-quiet-loud-quiet), then it's fine.