Singin' in the Bathtub

John Lithgow - Singin' in the Bathtub

Singin' in the Bathtub
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Artist: John Lithgow
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Music Label: Sony Wonder (Audio)
Soundtracks:
  1. Everybody Eats When They Come To My House (Adaptation)
  2. At The Codfish Ball
  3. Singin' In The Bathtub
  4. A-You're Adorable
  5. The Gnu Song
  6. You Gotta Have Skin
  7. Triplets
  8. No One Loves You Any Better Than Your M-O-Double-M-Y (Adaptation)
  9. Swinging On A Star
  10. I Had A Rooster
  11. From The Indies To The Andes In His Undies
  12. Big Kids
  13. The Hippopotamus Song
  14. The Inchworm

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Music Review: Treating Kids Like People
Rating: 5 Stars

One of the things I hate about much kids' music is the dumbing-down of the musicality you often hear. Audio flotsam like Raffi, Barney or even Elmo's ruination of the once proud Sesame Street lineage treat toddlers like morons, assuming they only want sappy songs about how to look both ways before crossing the street or about how nice it is to share and be friends. Sure, these songs do have a place, but is there a reason they have to be delivered so pedanticly? And who dictated that every kid's song needs a moral?

John shows it doesn't have to be so. Drawing from the classic performers of his own youth, like Danny Kaye, Cab Calloway and Bing Crosby, he delivers these catchy and wonderful sing-a-long tunes with just enough of his own wacky energy to make them his own. With excellent swinging big band arrangements, the songs are exciting, intellegent, musically interesting and eminently singable, which is the key to their success with children and adults alike. (There's a reason parents don't like Elmo or Barney.) When you catch your youngest singing a few bars of "From the Indies to the Andes in his Undies" or "I'm a g-nu! A g-nother g-nu!", you know there's been a connection, and memories are being built.

Like early Sesame Street, A.A. Milne or Shel Silverstein, these tunes aren't preachy, just good, clever fun.

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In John Lithgow's most memorable roles, he's played the outsider: the transsexual former football player in The World According to Garp, the alien in Third Rock from the Sun. On Singin' in the Bathtub, he puts the same aspect of his character that's made him successful in those roles--the slightly-out-of-touch wonder at the obvious--to work on 14 children's songs. Backed by a big band (and the occasional banjo or musical saw), Lithgow takes on topics from multiple births (the Alice in Wonderland-esque "Triplets"), the alphabet ("You're Adorable, A" which recalls Really Rosie's "Alligators All Around"), and a veritable menagerie ("The Gnu Song," "I Had a Rooster," "The Hippopotamus Song," and "The Inchworm"). He kicks off the title song with a reminder to "Grab your ducky, grab your toy boat--let's make this fun!" It's a triumph that he manages to do so for the entire album; but be warned--Lithgow's energy level is tough to keep up with, and you might find yourself exhausted long before the album ends. --Randy Silver

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