This Love Is the Deep Kind Your My Baby Your My Sunshine Lyrics
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1. So Glad I'm Here – Bessie Jones
Liz: The original recording of this song is on a record called And so Glad I'm Here: Songs and Games from the Georgia Sea Islands recorded in 1973 and released on Rounder Records. The original lyrics in the chorus are, "And then glad I'm here in Jesus proper noun." We adapted the song so that everyone, those who believe in Jesus and those who don't, could feel the joy this vocal tin can create. Gratitude is universal! That anthology is out of print only Rounder has since put out a compilation of Bessie Jones recordings called Put Your Manus on Your Hip and Let Your Backbone Slip: Songs and Games from the Georgia Bounding main Islands. Another identify to hear Bessie Jones Recordings is on the Alan Lomax Sounds of the S Collection (Atlantic), a slap-up resources for anyone interested in American dejection, gospel, folk and fife & pulsate music. Sweetness Honey in the Rock has a real bluesy version of this vocal on their children's record All for Liberty (Music for Fiddling People). Bessie Jones also co-authored a book called Step Information technology Downwardly Games, Plays, Songs and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage.
two. Skip to My Lou – Traditional
Dan: Everyone knows this vocal, but Leadbelly'southward version is the best – on the record Leadbelly Sings for Children (Smithsonian Folkways). What's a 'lou'? A vocal?
Liz: According to an old Daughter Spotter songbook we were given for Christmas this year, a "lou" is a dialect term for "sweetheart". Storey calls this i "Skippy Lou!", we almost changed the title. Brand upward your own verses, the less sense you make, the better.
Dan: More homework to do on this one!
three. Ladybug Picnic – Donald Hadley + Bud Luckey
Liz: This is a wonderful animated song from the early days of Sesame Street. The original recording has a great rollicking hoedown feel. It's on a Sesame Street video compilation called "Sing Yourself Giddy."
Dan: Liz and Warren kept trying to go me to play this song faster and faster. It made my hands hurt.
iv. Hey Bo Diddley – Ellas McDaniel
Liz: My father grew up in Washington Heights in NYC and was a teenager in the 1950's when he went to see Bo Diddley play two nights in a row at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Fast forward almost 50 years to my niece Charlotte (aka Coco-Puff) gleefully singing forth with Aaron Carter to his cover of "I Desire Candy". Nosotros wrote the second poesy to bring their ii worlds together, and my dream is that ane solar day Grandfather Mike will take Coco to hear some existent rock and ringlet.
Dan: Bo Diddley's rhythmic ideas, guitar playing, and vocal commitment take been so influential to stone and roll and rhythm and dejection, that information technology is incommunicable to imagine what music would sound like without his signature. Any drove of his 1950s recordings is essential listening. From the Rolling Stones "Non Fade Away" to Bow Wow Wow doing "I Desire Candy", and anybody who ever tried to play "Who Do You Dear?", Bo Diddley's impact is enormous and unmistakable. It'southward easy to find the Chess Album entitled His Best. Or you tin can go to Large Deal Records in Brooklyn and try to flim-flam the owner into playing you his 78's.
5. Crawdad – Traditional
Liz: Daniel'southward sister Cecilia is a great fiddle player, and last year she institute a book of bluegrass dabble solos and played them every night every bit a lullaby for her son Rafi to autumn asleep to. While we were visiting for the holidays, nosotros had the privilege of listening to these nightly serenades and Crawdad became our favorite. Rafi sang it for u.s. and nosotros included his version on the record. We found a recording of Pete Seeger singing it on an old Folkways vinyl EP called Songs to Grow On Volume 2: School Days. We thought the crawdad'due south should "fly" instead of "fry". From what we have heard, this is a existent old-time vocal.
Dan: Magical realism wins out once once more. People merely don't sing about the crawdad homo anymore or going down to the crawdad pigsty. Times take inverse.
6. Alphabet Dub
Dan: We mind to a lot of dub music, some favorites are Augustus Pablo, and King Tubby, particularly Tubby's work with Yabby Y'all. The alphabet became a polular song for us to sing with our child and one time nosotros were driving effectually listening to a Yabby You jam called "Big Youth Fights Against Commercialism" and Liz started singing the alphabet and information technology became a party. Storey has been proverb "Yabby You lot" since before she could say "apple tree". Nosotros congenital the vocal around a Tubby dub called "Loving Dub" from a record chosen King Tubby Roots of Dub (Clocktower). The instrumental runway, which sounds a lot like "Johnny Too Bad" past the Slickers (easily found on Jimmy Cliff'due south The Harder They Come soundtrack on Mango Records) was played by Warn Deferver (His Name Is Live) and Fred Thomas (Sat Looks Good to Me).
7. Car Car – Woody Guthrie
Liz: We learned this song from Woody Guthrie's children'due south album Nursery Days (Smithsonian Folkways), and have since heard many stories of our friends having grown up singing this in the car with their parents. I spent most of my car time equally a kid listening to AM radio in the back seat, imagining a tiny band of four guys playing "Grit in the Current of air" and "Wildfire" within the dashboard, merely that'southward another song history section. Our dearest free-jazzing niece, Athena, sang along on this one.
Dan: Woody Guthrie'southward children'due south songs are indispensable recordings. They are gratis, artistic, hilarious, personal, true and above all, fun songs that we felt lucky to listen to long before we had a child. Office of Woody Guthrie's unique genius is that he convinces you that anybody can write a song, that the best poetry and the best music are right there in the fashion you talk and sing with the people you dearest, the people you work and play with all the time. He was just better than anybody else at pulling those words and those melodies out of the air and giving them to everyone. Cheers Woody Guthrie!
8. Ooby Dooby – Wade Moore + Dick Penner (recorded by Roy Orbison)
Dan: On the way to our get-go kids music evidence – last year at the Y in NYC – nosotros were listening to Roy Orbison and it occurred to me that nosotros should play Ooby Dooby at the prove. I thought it was a pretty good "kids song", Storey liked it, so we played it. Warn brings Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite into the rockabilly, and a few lyrics got personalized. Orbison wrote and performed some of the most devastating, tragic, beautifully distressing songs anyone has ever washed, and "Ooby Dooby", though i of his primeval "hits", isn't really representative of the high drama of his greatest piece of work. Rockabilly wasn't actually his primary thing, but the guy could pretty much do it all, and his rockers are all archetype. The Rhino collection, Roy Orbison'southward eighteen Greatest Hits, is a nifty introduction to his work.
nine. You Are My Sunshine – Jimmie Davis
Dan: Written in 1940 past Jimmie Davis, a musician and professor of history and social studies, who later became governor of Louisiana. The Carter Family can be heard singing the song on a collection of recordings from 1939, On Border Radio Vol. 3 (Arhoolie). Maybe they downloaded the demo tape from Napster! Neat interpretations of this song are out there – some more "kid friendly" than others. The Oh Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack (Mercury) has a nice version of this song and Low does a brilliant version on their kickoff record I Could Live in Hope (Vernon Yard). I love Brian Wilson's version from the "Smile" sessions, though information technology's kind of a downer. (There are a ton of Smile bootlegs out in that location with varying degrees of quality, thou the VigoTone gear up is amazing if you tin find it). Ray Charles' version is on the Mod Sounds of Country & Western Music CD, (the LP is Volume 2 on ABC Paramount). Ray Charles' "country" recordings are incredible documents of the time, where Count Basie-like horn sections slug it out with lush, gooey, chorale harmonies of The Jack Halloran Singers, while Charles detonates nonetheless another bomb in American music…
Lix: My begetter remembers this as the first song he ever learned when he was a kid spending summers away from the NYC rut with his aunt and uncle in Due west Hurley, NY.
10. Going Downwards the Road – Traditional, just really it'south an Elizabeth Cotten vocal
Dan: When our daughter was an infant, she was not a big fan of long auto rides, so nosotros would sing this song in solidarity and promise that she would be comforted! Elizabeth Cotten owns this song as far equally we are concerned. Whether or non she wrote it, it is her song. We learned it from her, play it in homage to her manner, and in our minds she owns the copyright on "dear infant". Elizabeth Cotten records are treasures of the world. They are mystical treatises of guitar playing, singing and story telling. Some of the nearly beautiful music there is. Our recommendation is Elizabeth Cotten: Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (Smithsonian Folkways). The Grateful Dead covered this song a lot, and I bet Bob Dylan did too.
Liz: I had no idea the Grateful Dead ever played this song until we did it live at an Ida show in Detroit last year and someone said "hot Grateful Dead cover!"
11. Black Jack Baby (David) – A.P. Carter
Dan: This song is derived from a Carter Family song, "Black Jack David", near a gypsy who seduces a adult female away from her husband and children. "Last lite I slept in a warm plumage bed correct abreast my husband and infant, tonight I sleep on the common cold cold footing in the arms of Black Jack David". It's a classic Carter Family unit song, weaving betrayal, dearest, death, and darkness into the sunniest melodies and harmonies y'all always heard. We took the music and the basic arrangement and sang well-nigh a baby who rolls into town making all kinds of noises, and all the ladies get charmed. Storey is crying at the end, trying to figure out why her Mom is in the "vocal booth" and not kissing her nose. Check out The Carter Family Clinch Mountain Treasures (Canton Records/Sony) to hear "Black Jack David" and all the other songs they recorded on October tertiary, 1940, or Harry Smith'southward Anthology of American Folk Music Vol. 4 (Revenant) for a broader context. This song was probably around for a couple hundred years before A.P put his proper noun on information technology.
12. Jubilee – Traditional
Dan: This is an onetime time song that Warren Defever constitute from an out-of-print book on folk lyrics. None of u.s.a. has ever heard a recorded version of the vocal. Nosotros were suspocious almost whether the lyrics were not "altered" by Warn, simply he claims he didn't change anything(!). Warn gave us the chords and the words and the bones structure, and we bundled it. As far as we know, the but other place to hear this one is Warn Defever'south I Want Yous to Alive a Hundred Years tape.
Liz: Storey Calls this one "Live and Learn!".
thirteen. Here Comes My Baby – Cat Stevens
Dan: This song, like "Lovers Lane", is some other one of those "non really kids"-kids songs. Since our babe stays up til midnight all the time, already loves talking on the phone, and considering Kalil Gibran was probably right well-nigh how on some essential level we cannot "possess" or practise anything but larn from and try to nurture the enormous spirits that our children possess, nosotros felt, strangely, similar this was kind of a deep song to do. The song was on Cat Stevens' first record Matthew & Son (Decca) and his version is also featured in the film and on the soundtrack for Rushmore. The Tremeloes had a large hitting with it in the sixties.
Liz: Yo La Tengo does a cute version of this song on their fantastic covers tape Fakebook (Restless/Bar None), a longtime favorite anthology of mine. And equally far as all the Kalil Gibran stuff goes, I don't know what Daniel is talking almost. Storey will always live at abode with Mom and Dad and never have any boyfriends or girlfriends.
xiv. Iii is the Magic number – Robert Dorough
Dan: The most inspired Schoolhouse Rock tune, not very old-timey, and a definite indicator of when nosotros grew upwardly. Nosotros love this vocal, even though it omits the mystical female person ability of the quaternity. Since nosotros were about to take our starting time child when we recorded this song, iii sounded like a perfectly magical number to sing about. Our favorite version of this song belongs to De La Soul on their anthology 3 Feet High and Rising (Tommy Boy).
fifteen. Froggy Went a Courtin' – Traditional
Dan: Archetype former time folk song most a mouse getting married to a frog, arranged by Warren Defever. Though one could probably read all kinds of political allegory into this one, it is an incredibly imaginative and evocative children's vocal, with a cast of silver moths, bumble bees, frogs, mice, trees, snakes and more than. Bob Dylan does a good (rougher) version on Proficient As I Been To You (Columbia), and Warren'south version is unavailable but no less brilliant for it. A quick web search brought me to the Canadian Journal for Traditional Music site, where there is a study on the history of the song that traces it into the mists of 16th century Scottish sociology, without neglecting to mention sometime Japanese folktales most a mouse's nuptials.
xvi. Goodnight Irene – Leadbelly
Dan: Around the fourth dimension we did our 2nd recording session for this record, we were spending a lot of time listening to Mississippi John Hurt's Last Sessions LP (Vanguard Records). The performances are time stopping in their gentleness and depth and his version of this song provided the inspiration for u.s. to take a shot at recording information technology ourselves. Goodnight Irene is a archetype ode to suicide, and nosotros changed it a bit for the babies. Hurt's "great notion" most jumping in the river and drowning sounds, in his hands, like peaceful resignation in the confront of mortality, and information technology is undeniably powerful and necessary. But for the kids we thought the B52's had a better idea for what to exercise when you lot aren't sure which style yous're going on the fashion home. Injure claims to have learned the song from a Leadbelly tape, and that is the place to turn for the definitive Irene. Check out Leadbelly Sings for Children (Folkways) or Leadbelly's Last Sessions (Folkways) which is an amazing tape. Some of the most mind bravado acoustic guitar playing always recorded can be found on a great collection called Mississippi John Hurt Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings (Columbia Legacy/Okeh).
"I love it… Handmade music filled with unexpected musical twists and turns. Soulful and sincere."
– Dan Zanes
A founding member of the homespun indie-rock band Ida, Elizabeth Mitchell is also a former nursery school instructor – and now a mother,. Her second children's CD is a gentle, intimate collection of classic children's songs, Americana and fifty-fifty rock and roll and reggae, marked past spare, low-fi instrumentation, adorable song contributions from Mitchell's little one, and the endearingly whispery vocalism of Mitchell herself. Her renditions of standards such as the title track and "Ladybug Picnic" are charming, but it'due south her interpretations of rock-era nuggets similar "Hey Bo Diddley" and the Tremeloes "Hither Comes My Babe" that provide the album's freshest delights. And you lot've never heard the alphabet sung quite the way Mitchell does it: a jaunty reggae organization with snippets of reggae gems (such as "Johnny Too Bad") dropped in. Y'all Are My Sunshine is every bit irresistible equally information technology is undeniably cool.
– Family Fun Mag, May 2003
"… You lot Are My Sunshine serves equally a carefully crafted musical soundtrack for 21st century families, making adults reminiscent of days gone by while introducing children to the power of music."
– Allmusic.com
"On You Are My Sunshine, Elizabeth Mitchell'southward voice, reminiscent of Rickie Lee Jones and Alison Krauss, sparkles with bluegrass-ballad finesse. Tender melodies, sprinkled with banjo, piano and guitar, volition appeal to ears both large and small-scale."
– Mothering, March/April 2003
"From the cover fine art to her instrumentation and rootsy song selction, Elizabeth Mitchell's You Are My Sunshine is a sweet anthology that never turns saccharin. What makes information technology a true delight is Mitchell's beautiful vocalism, clear and pure equally an Appalachian mountain stream. Offset with the hand-clapping"So Glad I'm Hither," "Sunshine" includes the rocker "Hey Bo Diddley (teach your kids that Bo Diddley beat) and Roy Orbison's rockabilly hit, "Ooby Dooby." While Jamaican trip the light fantastic hall dub may seem out of place amidst all the Americana, the "Alphabet Dub" mic of the ABC's with "Johnny Also Bad" works well, offering a different bear. Traditional tunes like "Skip to My Lou," "Goodnight Irene" and the title rail – some sung with Mitchell'south husband, Daniel Littleton (they're two-thirds of the band Ida) – are so beautifully rendered that you're happy to hear them again – or for the very first time."
– Billy Heller, NY Post
"Mitchell, a vocalist-guitarist (as a founding member of the folk-popular ring Ida) and former plant nursery school teacher, releases her 2nd family music recording. This time around, her honeyed, soothing voice and spare arrangements focus on the various styles fo American roots and rhythm music. Mitchell's mellow vibe infuses the traditional folk, early on rock and state blues songs institute here. Familiar tracks include such favorites as "Skip to My Lou," "Froggy Went a Courtin," "The Alphabet Song" and the title track. Occasional redundancy vocals by children (on a rendition of Woody Guthrie'south "Car Car") bring together piano, guitar, handclaps, drums, banjo and other suitable elementary accompaniment throughout. Mitchell's musician husband, Daniel, and young daughter, Storey, lend a paw too, giving this outing a true all-in-the-family spirit. All ages."
– Publisher's Weekly, 2/3/03, Starred Review.
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