How did you choose the
song selections for your CD?
I had so many favorites, it was
hard to choose. I decided to focus on the changing seasons.
I wanted to record songs that had not received a lot of exposure.
Each member of my family helped by telling me which songs they had particularly
liked when they were young. I recorded the songs in two takes in
June of 2000.
Notes about the songs:
Sing A Song Of Spring A delightful
song that describes the call of the outside world when the "green buds
show."
I Can't See the Wind was
a song my daughter, Holly, and I would sing together as we drove around
to do errands.
The Spring Medley is a collection
of rain songs and was fun to put together I Hear Thunder is
an adaptation of Frere Jacques that I learned from the book This
Little Puffin by Elizabeth Mary Matterson. It's Raining
is a loose translation of a song I learned when I was a young child in
Holland.
The Winter Now Is Over we
enjoyed singing because of its great echo refrain - "Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Oh
can't you hear it, too? I thought I heard this morning,
the cuckoo's song at last?" And even though I live in Victoria, BC
where our winters are mild, I do feel like singing when "The winter now
is over!"
It Is A Happy Morning helps
me to remember to focus on the beauties of the world around me and to remember
that there is a bigger world than the one inside my house.
Tadpoles and Salamanders
by Marcia Berman brings back memories of the many days we spent as a family
at a local lake swimming and playing outdoors all day long, looking at
dragonflies, minnows, crayfish, etc.
I sung Wind, Wind, Blowing
as
a lullaby for many years. My children usually fell asleep before
I got through the song twice. I always wanted to sing it as a round,
and with recording technology, I did. That was fun!
Hurry, Hurry, Hurry, Hurry is
one of my favorite songs partly because the song itself is so much fun
to sing. It starts out slowly and speeds up as it goes along to fit
with the words. The words describe the different ways the four animals
sense winter coming and it tickles my fancy; who can resist – “Hurry, hurry,
hurry, hurry, we must all get fat and furry.” I also have wonderful
memories of singing this song in the car with my children as we drove around
doing errands.
My daughter used to sing Winter
Walk with me frequently when she was younger. It was one of her
favorites.
Remember:
You don't have to have a perfect
voice to sing to and with your children. Start singing with recorded
music if you are uncomfortable singing on your own. You might find
that as you sing along with recorded music, you'll feel more confident
to begin to sing on your own. Your children can be a very non-judgmental
audience, especially when they are small. Enjoy yourself and have
fun! Remember, if you can speak, you can sing!
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