Hap Palmer - Turn On The Music
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Artist: Hap PalmerPerformer: Hap Palmer
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-09-15
Music Label: Hap-Pal Music
Soundtracks:
- Turn On the Music
- Backwards Land
- If I Had Wings
- When Things Don't Go Your Way
- Amanda Schlupp
- Clown Song
- Hurry Up Blues
- Amazing
- When Daddy Was a Little Boy
- Francie Had a Football
- You Can Do It
- Amos the Alligator Dude
- Zany Zoo
- The Summer Slumber Party
- Billy Blotsky's Birthday Bash
- Friends
- Helping Mommy in the Kitchen
- Chomping Gum
- Halloween Hanukkah Christmas Ghost
- Teddy Bear Ball
- Turn On the Music (Instrumental)
Music reviews of Turn On The Music
Music Review: Hap Palmer does it again!
Rating: 5 Stars
If you like other Hap Palmer albums, you will like this CD. It has a generous number of catchy tunes that you will find yourself singing all day long, despite your best efforts to get them out of your head. The songs have the signature Hap Palmer upbeat style, along with clever lyrics that are relevant to daily life with a small child.
The stand-out song on the album is "Amazing" - a lovely tune in the same vein as "What a Miracle." Other memorable songs include "Helping Mommy in the Kitchen," "Backwards Land" and the title track. Several of the songs address important issues like self esteem ("You Can Do It"), being true to yourself ("Francie Had a Football"), and dealing with frustration ("When Things Don't Go Your Way"). Still others tug at the hormonal heartstrings of us recent post-partum moms ("When Daddy Was a Little Boy," "Amazing" again). The remaining songs are just pure fun.
Give it a few listens to get the tunes imprinted into your brain - you'll be glad you did!
Description of Turn On The Music
Celebrate the ten year anniversary of Hap Palmer's TURN ON THE MUSIC with the expanded version this Parent's Choice Gold award winning recording. Formerly a compilation of eleven songs drawn from two recordings - BACKWARDS LAND and ZANY ZOO, this expanded version contains all the songs from these recordings plus the Turn on the Music theme song. With a total of twenty-one selections (over 57 minutes of music) the expanded version of TURN ON THE MUSIC is two great recordings in one value packed CD or cassette. Share with children the excitement of language and help them improve word comprehension and powers of imagination with these lively lyrics and memorable melodies. The songs are written from a child's point of view: what a child wishes, feels and imagines. The lyrics deal in a thoughtful and humorous way with the joys, challenges and conflicts children experience in their growing years. Parents' Choice Gold Award winner. Ages 5-12. A booklet with lyrics, activities, and questions to encourage interaction between children and adults comes with each CD.Hap Palmer's aesthetic is a strongly educational one. That said, he rarely is dogmatic. Instead, he makes a strong case for the physical enactment of songs--that is, the involvement of kids through games and sing-alongs. Turn on the Music began as a video of the same name and here lives on quite successfully as a series of 21 songs that pivot on the funniness of reversed meanings ("Backwards Land"), unconditional acceptance of other kids ("Francie Had a Football"), and workaday thrills around the house ("Helping Mommy in the Kitchen"). In the accompanying liner booklet there's a great map of the CD and suggested activities, with rules of games and ideas for extending the educational mission of the songs well beyond the CD. Palmer's got an ingenious idea for educating kids, and it shows here as well as anywhere in his catalog of releases. --Andrew Bartlett
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