John Lithgow With Bill Elliott & His Orchestra - Farkle and Friends
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Artist: John Lithgow With Bill Elliott & His OrchestraEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-06-18
Music Label: Kid Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Animal Crackers In My Soup
- Marsupial Sue
- The Bandshell Right Next To The Zoo
- I'd Rather Lead A Band
- I Got Two Dogs
- Carmencita
- The Hippopotamus Song
- The Remarkable Farkle McBride
- The Wrong Note Rag (with Bebe Neuwirth)
Music reviews of Farkle and Friends
Music Review: Farkle Rocks
Rating: 5 Stars
My 3 year old really enjoyed this one (she has most of the books). Especially #5 My 2 Dogs- we have listened to it at least 100 times in the past month!!! I even find myself singing along.
Some people gave this cd a bad review but I totally disagree; John has done it again with his awesome voice and corky tunes!
Description of Farkle and Friends
The exuberant new album FARKLE & FRIENDS is a child's guide to the orchestra with a difference. In this self-produced CD, John Lithgow performs with a full-scale symphony orchestra. Several of the songs are originals that he co-wrote with conductor Bill Elliott. Among them is "The Remarkable Farkle McBride", the acclaimed symphonic version of the Simon & Schuster best-selling children's book of the same name. Narrated and sung by John, the colorful piece illustrates the individual instruments of the orchestra and then brings them all together for a rousing finish. Elsewhere the orchestra backs John with lively waltzes,'30s Hollywood swing, thumping marches, and sizzling salsa. Also featured are old favorites such as "Animal Crackers In My Soup", Irving Berlin's "I'd Rather Lead A Band", and Leonard Bernstein's "Wrong Note Rag", a duet that John sings with guest Bebe Neuwirth.One listen to Farkle & Friends confirms what anyone who caught an episode of TV's 3rd Rock from the Sun might've suspected: Not only is John Lithgow a born entertainer, the kind who gives off a great big whiff of Broadway no matter what stage he's tripping across, he's also curiously more kid than grown-up. Farkle, named for Lithgow's bestselling 2000 book about a musical child prodigy who tosses aside one instrument after another, whirls kids 2 and up (plus their parents) around a nine-song playground of Danny Kaye-inspired kookiness. "Marsupial Sue"'s rhyming-couplet lyrics hop alongside the titular kangaroo on her quest to escape a bouncy existence that "rattles her brain and gave her migraine"; "I Got Two Dogs" trails Fanny and Blue ("Betcha wish you had two dogs, too") and begets some of the most uproarious human barking and baying since Scooby-Doo; and "Carmencita" surveys the skies for a legendary damsel who twirled and tangoed till the dance floor launched her heavenward. Lithgow's five originals pack a delightful wallop weird enough to render the other tunes--such as a perfectly fun duet of Leonard Bernstein's "The Wrong Note Rag" with Bebe Neuwirth --playful piffle, but even the piffliest track, opener "Animal Crackers in My Soup," benefits from the full-orchestra treatment. Swing revival superstar Bill Elliott ("Independence Day," "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge") brings it on with gusto to match the singer-actor-author's guffaw-generating delivery. That Lithgow has barnstormed the kids' corner of the entertainment field should surprise no one and, in a perfect world, would send parents stampeding to his concert performances. More than anything, Farkle fuels a sense that Lithgow for little people should've happened a lot sooner. --Tammy La Gorce
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