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These 26 songs, play party games, and poems selected from over 200 outstanding recordings for children on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and Folkways Records present a panorama of music performed for and by young children.  If you have never heard of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings or Folkways before, this collection will reveal a whole world of sound; if you have heard some already, you will still be delighted by the breadth and variety of this collection.  Includes notes, song texts, and a complete list of recordings for children.

Label:                        SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS

Release Date:         03/17/1998

Format:                    CD FULL LENGTH

Track Listing:
 

1.   Riding In My Car (Car Song) - Woody Guthrie

2.   Mary Mack - Ella Jenkins

3.   All Around The Kitchen - Pete Seeger

4.   Ha-Ha This-A-Way - Leadbelly

5.   Merrily We Roll Along - Lord Invader & The Calypso

6.   Miwoe Nenyo - W.K. Amoaku

7.   Pole Pole - Ella Jenkins

8.   Dreams / Youth - (with Langston Hughes)

9.   Why, Oh Why - Woody Guthrie

10.  I Had A Rooster - Pete Seeger

11.  Oksn - Ruth Rubin

12.  Sur Le Pont D'Avignon - Alan Mills

13.  Benjamin Franklin (Jump Rope Rhyme) - Illinois Sch

14.  Los Pollitos - Suni Paz :: Chicks, The - Suni Paz

15.  Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - Ella Jenkins

16.  ABC's - Ella Jenkins

17.  Animal Alphabet Song - Alan Mills

18.  Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo - Cisco Houston

19.  La Vibora De La Mar, A - Mexican Children :: Serpe

20.  Wolf Song / Turtle Song - (with Irene Poolaw)

21.  Bedbug - Arna Bontemps

22.  Skip To My Lou / Four Pence A Day - (with Pete See

23.  Hey, Coal Miner - Larry Long/Mrs. Side's 6th Grade

24.  Among The Little White Daisies - Jeanne Ritchie

25.  Old Bell Cow - New Lost City Ramblers

26.  One Grain Of Sand - Pete Seeger (excerpt)