One of my earliest posts was describing the concept of Molly Songs, which is a combination of tolerable children's music and music from artists that I love that can mix right in amongst her tunes. In some rare cases, such as Lisa Loeb, there is an awesome combination of a singer that I enjoy and purposefully brilliant children's music.
When Lisa Loeb was at Brown, she ofter played with another singer/songwriter Elizabeth Mitchell. In 2003, Loeb & Mitchell teamed up for Catch the Moon a very successful kids album. Featured are the traditional 'Big Rock Candy Mountain', 'Stop and Go', "Little Red Caboose' and the title track' 'Catch the Moon'. Since that, Lisa Loeb has put out Camp Lisa, on her own, and for over a decade there have been solo Elizabeth Mitchell albums.
However amongst all of those fantastic kid songs, Molly's favorite is a stand alone single 'Jenny Jenkins'
The song itself, somewhat of kid traditional, stands out with it's fun guitar playing, colorful video and easy verses.
On the downside, Molly is somewhat of a nut just like her dad, can't stand it when she realizes there is no verse about purple!
When Lisa Loeb was at Brown, she ofter played with another singer/songwriter Elizabeth Mitchell. In 2003, Loeb & Mitchell teamed up for Catch the Moon a very successful kids album. Featured are the traditional 'Big Rock Candy Mountain', 'Stop and Go', "Little Red Caboose' and the title track' 'Catch the Moon'. Since that, Lisa Loeb has put out Camp Lisa, on her own, and for over a decade there have been solo Elizabeth Mitchell albums.
However amongst all of those fantastic kid songs, Molly's favorite is a stand alone single 'Jenny Jenkins'
The song itself, somewhat of kid traditional, stands out with it's fun guitar playing, colorful video and easy verses.
On the downside, Molly is somewhat of a nut just like her dad, can't stand it when she realizes there is no verse about purple!
Saturday Morning Cartoon's Greatest Hits is a great chance to hear the Sublime sing Hong Kong Phooey and the Reverend Horton Heat sing the Johnny Quest theme song. The whole album is badass!
ReplyDeleteNice, I'm personally a big fan of Blind Melon's version of '3 is a Magic number'
ReplyDeletegrowing up with a sister who's 11 years younger, i was forced to listen to some terrible kiddie songs, so i can appreciate what you're doing here with molly songs.
ReplyDeletegranted, mols already has more sophisticated taste than i do...