Dan Zanes + Friends - Rocket Ship Beach
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Artist: Dan Zanes + FriendsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2002-07-30
Music Label: Festival Five Rec.
Soundtracks:
- Polly Wolly Doodle (with Sheryl Crow)
- King Kong Kitchie (with the Wonderland String Band)
- Bushel and a Peck (with Donald Saaf and the Rocket Ship Singers)
- Go Down Emmanuel Road (with the Sandy Girls)
- Goodbye Old Paint
- Father Goose (with Rankin' Don and the Rocket Ship
- Keep on the Sunny Side (with the Wonderland String Band)
- Erie Canal (with Suzanne Vega)
- Buckeye Jim
- Brown Girl in the Ring (with the Wonderland String Band and G.E. Smith)
- Hello (with Barbara Brousal)
- All My Friends Live in the Woods (with Simon Kirke)
- Weather Report (Sophie and Emma)
- Mole in the Ground
- On the Sunny Side of the Street (with Rankin' Don and Donald Saaf)
- Sidewalks of New York (with a cast of thousands)
- Over the Rainbow (with Donald Saaf)
Music reviews of Rocket Ship Beach
Music Review: Dan Zanes ... Great Childrens Music!
Rating: 4 Stars
Started watching him on Sesame Street and then The Disney Channel, and my daughter was really into him. So we listened to his music, and went to one of his concerts (awesome!). The music is true, clean, and no "Barney-Wiggle" annoyances. Introduces the kids to various instruments Guitars, Drums, Accordions, etc.
The songs contain a very catchy beat for adults as well, and Father Goose takes nursery rhymes to a whole new level.
Dan Zanes offers a musical taste for all genres.
And thank you Dan Zanes and Friends and Amazon for going DRM Free!!!
Better Quality, Play Anywhere... DRM Free!
Description of Rocket Ship Beach
music is in the air. it's alive and it's here for everyone. if you can play an old song, you can write a new song. make it a family parade, all around the kitchen cock-a-doodle-doodle-doo. or how about a family band? on the front steps, in the back yard, in the park, on the sidewalk, in the basement. if you can brush your teeth, you can play tamborine. if you can tell a joke, you can sing.festival five records is the sound of a neighborhood band on the front stoop playing tunes after dinner for a family dance. festival five records is the sound of a group of 9 and 10 year olds singing a sixty year old broadway song in the basement of a 150 year old row house. it's the sound of a 40-year-old dad on a blue porch singing a 400 year old story song about a frog that marries a mouse. when you feel that music in the air, try to catch as much as possible.
Dan Zanes, lead singer of the 1980s roots-rock band the Del Fuegos, didn't need to enlist the high-profile help of pals Sheryl Crow and Suzanne Vega to produce a crowd-pleasing kids' record, but he got it anyway. On Rocket Ship Beach, where traditional tunes such as "Polly Wolly Doodle" (with Crow) and "Erie Canal" (with Vega) mingle in loosey-goosey, just-for-the-fun-of-it fashion with originals such as the plucky "All My Friends Live in the Woods" (written by Bad Company buddy Simon Kirke), Zanes exhibits the same plugged-in exuberance that gave his former band its unpredictable zing. Besides the no-amateurs instrumentation, which includes Zanes on guitar, lap steel, banjo-mandolin, and studiophone, and G.E. Smith on banjo-mandolin and guitar as part of a kickin' string band that performs the classic "King Kong Kitchie," plus a cluster of others, what stands out most about this 17-track funfest is its draw-you-in friendliness. Pitching in with the pros (who also include dancehall rapper Rankin' Don--he delivers the gruff stuff on "Father Goose" and "Sunny Side of the Street") are family friends such as the gang of West Indian babysitters turned vocal group the Sandy Girls, who give it up to impressive, get-you-boogying effect on "Emmanuel Road," and a kindergarten class that contributes, adorably, to "Sidewalks of New York." All told, this is way hipper than most kids' records and it also razzle-dazzles with its packaging--Rocket Ship Beach arrives in a chunky, colorful board-book illustrated with sweet, fantasy-fueled beachside scenes by banjo player and Zanes's brother-in-law, Donald Saaf. --Tammy La Gorce
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