UNDERAPPRECIATED MUSIC: CHILDREN'S FOLK SONGS

I have always loved children's folk songs.  I hope you do, too.


Ella Jenkins is "The First Lady of Children's Folk Songs."  Here's her 1955 album "Multicultural Children's Songs."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaqmeU60qMY&list=PLD988MqDyXV64rhDriGutZFvvnUMcaJ6h



Pete Seeger loved to perform for children.  Here's one of his albums of animal songs for children, ""Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes:  Little & Big Animal Folk Songs."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwtZs7YyxEo&list=PLansJZQh1fBOHzsuMIfoorDKOkpVobgF6




The popular folk group The Limeliters recorded one of their children's concerts, "Through Children's Eyes."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8NP5g4WAVc&list=PLh9EIqIXtg20HdbhyHlaRetm6Mmn2R5ll




We used sing a number of Rosenshontz songs to our children (still do, even though they are in their forties).  Here's their "Greatest Hits" album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd3KnBjsmCM&list=OLAK5uy_kC2ifQs279lVdNNZWTPK4WpsECORJuWUw



Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer entertain first graders from Leckie Elementary School and show them how music is made in this Library of Congress Video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhpVMs9KJ9A




Here's Tom Glazer with a few entertaining songs in these old 78s.  Then we have his album "On Top of Spaghetti," a classic, for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXHZmHRm18s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b70rKn8gV4s



Peter, Paul & Mary Mommy had a special link to the magic of childhood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEwOzTv_XWU



There are many more artist who could be spotlighted here, but let me just leave you with a Bob Dylan song recorded by Pete Seeger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezyd40kJFq0