Archive for May 9th, 2010
The Songs We Sang, 5/7/2010
Posted on: May 9, 2010
We’ve had one beautiful spring in the DC Metro Area. The delightful weather gave me one of many good reasons to enjoy the gathering to Sing Books With Emily today, including a whole bunch of new discoveries to sing, and a HUGE group of gorgeous little Kindergarten souls to sing with.
- ZYX’s (Traditional Tune, Illustrated by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus) (The children broke out into this song and sang it all by themselves. Wonderful!) (Sing this traditional tune long with me at: http://www.myspace.com/singbookswithemily)
- I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Words and Music by John Rox, Illustrated by Bruce Whatley)
- Sunrise, Sunset (Words by Sheldon Harnick, Music by Jerry Bock, Illustrated by Ian Schoenherr, From the musical “Fiddler on the Roof”)
- A-You’re Adorable (Words and Music by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, and Sidney Lippman, Illustrated by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus)
- Puff the Magic Dragon (Words and Music by Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton, Illustrated by Eric Puybaret)
- Words and Arrangements by Mark Collins, Illustrated by Christiane Engel)
- Animal Fair (Traditional Tune, Words Adapted by Ponder Goembel, Illustrated by Ponder Goembel)
- Being Green (Words and Music by Joe Raposo, Illustrated by Etienne Delessert)
- “Sesame Street Theme” (Words by Bruce Hart, Jon Stone, and Joe Raposo, Music by Joe Raposo, Published in The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems and Pictures, Illustrated by Normand Chartier (A post about this Singable Picture Book will be published in the next couple of days!)
- “Rubber Duckie“ (Words by Jeff Moss, Published in The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems and Pictures, Illustrated by Normand Chartier (A post about this Singable Picture Book will be published in the next couple of days!)
- You’re a Grand Old Flag (Words and music by George M. Cohan, Illustrated by Warren Kimble)
