Hap Palmer - Early Childhood Classics - Old Favorites With A New Twist
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Artist: Hap PalmerPerformer: Hap Palmer
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-02-01
Music Label: Hap-Pal Music
Soundtracks:
- Itsy Bitsy Spider
- Pat-A-Cake
- I'm a Little Teapot
- Old Mac Donald
- Touch Your Toes To Your Nose
- Circle Songs: The Mulberry Bush, Ring Around the Rosy, Hokey Pokey
- Open Shut Them
- One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
- Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
- Bingo
- The Elephant
- I'm Glad I'm Me
- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
- The Wheels on the Bus
- Good-bye Song
Music reviews of Early Childhood Classics - Old Favorites With A New Twist
Music Review: LOVE this CD!
Rating: 5 Stars
We LOVE this CD, my 2 year old daughter included! Hap Palmer's voice and singing are perfect for children, and the music itself - instrumentation, arrangements, etc - is the best I've heard on any children's CD. The production quality is excellent, too. The song selection is great (my daughter loves to sing along), and I like the creative twists and additional verses. This CD has been great in the car, and I highly recommend it to any parent of young children!
Description of Early Childhood Classics - Old Favorites With A New Twist
Here is a joyful collection of all time favorite activity songs for young children. Hap Palmer's unique renditions preserve the charm and simplicity of traditional songs while adding new, original lyrics and melodies to extend and enrich the familiar classics.The simplicity and repetition of these songs guarantee active participation by encouraging children to sing and move with the music. While having fun and participating actively, children develop motor and musical skills and learn about animals, counting, identification of body parts, and phonics. As children sing along, responding to the imagery and humor of the lyrics, reading readiness is also enhanced. Alliteration and rhyme develop a child's ear for the sounds of language - an important pre-reading skill.
These songs are developmentally appropriate for the very young child - infant to 5 years. However, the familiar melodies and contemporary arrangements also elicit surprisingly gusty participation from first and second grade students. A variety of musical styles adds new life to well known songs with swing, blue grass, country, classical, rock, pop, and blues arrangements.
Fifteen songs are presented with vocal interpretation. The sequence is then repeated instrumentally providing opportunities for singing along and creating new lyrics using children's ideas. The instrumental selections also familiarize children with the sounds of a variety of musical instruments including piano, bass, drums, guitar, violin, viola, cello, trumpet, trombone, tuba, French horn, saxophone, flute, English horn, accordion, and a variety of percussion instruments such as conga drums, bougaraboo drum, ouiro, shaker, wood block and tambourine.
The instrumental versions of each song can be used in the following ways:
1. After children have learned words with the vocal version, they can sing along hearing only the music.
2. Children can create their own lyrics and sing the song using their ideas.
3. The music can accompany sessions in movement exploration and creative movement.
Suggestions for activities and variations are not limited to those presented in this guide book. There are endless possibilities awaiting your creative impulse.
Hap Palmer may be best known for his vocal contributions to the hugely popular Baby Songs video series, but parents of 2- to 5-year-olds, particularly those with a sturdier than average educational bent, will find a lot to love on Early Childhood Classics: Old Favorites with a New Twist. This release rids itself of tiresome attempts to turn performances of simple songs like "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" into minor personal masterpieces and instead injects its de rigueur dose of creativity directly into familiar lyrics. For instance, while there's the usual cow and pig on Old MacDonald's farm, we're also introduced to Henrietta's House, where there's a cat, Zebediah's zoo with its tiger, and the puppy in Pamelina's pet shop. Similarly, instead of the usual "Pat-a-Cake" cliffhanger, where the cake's put in the oven and that's all she wrote, we get to hear the ding-ding-ding when it's done and layer on the frosting. The sequence of songs is repeated instrumentally after Palmer's interpretations to allow for sing-alongs and the dreaming up of more new lyrics--a useful device for caregivers who think like teachers (those who don't, though, can make use of clever movement and activity suggestions in the liner notes). Each song's wordplay and simple rhymes are catchy enough to fall into the can't-fail category when it comes to enhancing vocabulary, phonics, and vocabulary skills, and the surprise lyrics lend themselves nicely to attentive listening. Early Childhood Classics delivers old-fashioned fun in a satisfyingly unsplashy way. --Tammy La Gorce
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