The Lollipop Songs, a book of Illustrated, Singable Poems
Posted on: May 22, 2022
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The Lollipop Songs
Poems by Rene G. Varlay (and others)
Music by Rene G. Varlay
Recording Sung by Frank Luther
Published in 1962
This marvelously illustrated book comes with a 33 Record (the size of a 45, but with a little hole in the middle) so you can sing along with the songs. I cannot seem to find a recording of this little record online. And, my book’s record skips on side A, so I will try to find a copy with a clean disk so I can make a video of it playing the songs.
My brain, though, keeps writing its own tunes for many of these poems. I will hyperlink the song list titles to posts created for each one as I work on them.
I really cannot say enough about the pictures. They are delightful. Jeanne Owens made line drawings and filled in some of the images with blocks of bright color. Some of the pages brightly colored backgrounds with the black and white pen drawings on top. The book is just so distinctively midcentury modern, a perfect example of the aesthetic of its time.
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Titles Included in this book (listed in alpha order)
Unless otherwise noted, text and music is by Rene G. Varlay
- Along Long Long (Traditional Rhyme)
- Big Bass Drum, The
- Camel, The (Poem by Ogden Nash)
- Choo-choo
- Eating Peas (Traditional Rhyme)
- Fire Engines
- Hippity-hop (Traditional Rhyme Adapted by Rene Varlay)
- House that Jack Built, The (Traditional Rhyme)
- Humpty Dumpty (Traditional Rhyme)
- Huntsmen, The (Poem by Walter de la Mare)
- Indians on the Warpath
- I Want to Whistle (Poem by Dorothy Aldis, Tune by Emily Gleichenhaus)
- Little Elf, The (Poem by John Kendrick Bangs)
- Lollipop Song
- Lullaby (Christina Rossetti)
- Mousey Brown (Chinese Nursery Rhyme Translated by I.T. Headland)
- Pretty Song (Traditional Rhyme)
- Pussycat (Traditional Rhyme)
- Sea Shell Sea Shell (Poem by Amy Lowell, Tune by Emily Gleichenhaus)
- Silver Spaceship, The
- Who Has Seen the Wind (Poem by Christina Rossetti)
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Related Posts
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The Lollipop Songs, a book of Illustrated, Singable Poems
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2022/05/22/the-lollipop-songs-a-book-of-illustrated-singable-poems/
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POETRY: SING BOOKS WITH EMILY SONGBOOK SERIES (SBWE SBS)
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/sing-books-with-emily-songbook-series-poetry/
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POETRY SINGABLE POETRY IN COMPILATIONS
A List of Illustrated Compilations of Children’s Poetry with Singable Poems
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/singable-poetry-a-list-of-poems-that-can-be-sung-from-illustrated-compilations-of-poetry-and-singable-picture-books/
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POETRY, SINGABLE POETRY IN INDIVIDUALLY ILLUSTRATED SINGABLE PICTURE BOOKS
A list of individually illustrated poems that have been set to music and can be sung
https://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/poems-individually-illustrated-spb/
Sing Books with Emily, the Blog 
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