Animal Crackers [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Details
20 Archive Recordings Digitally Enhanced Including "on the Good Ship Lollipop", "Animal Crackers in My Soup", "Little Miss Broadway" and "Curly Top".

Animal Crackers, Music, Shirley Temple, Easy Listening/Vocal

Average customer rating:

WEE HAIRY BEASTIES for about 15 mins

I got ants in my pants (but no crocodile tears)

Kids Music for Grown-ups too!

Smart and Catchy

Animal Crackers
Wee Hairy Beasties , Jon Langford , Kelly Hogan , Sally Timms , and Devil in a Woodpile
Manufacturer: Bloodshot Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music
General | Children's Music | Styles | Music
Sing-A-Longs | Children's Music | Styles | Music
Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Whoever Shall Have Some Good Peanuts

You Are My Little Bird

Catch That Train!

Stomp Yer Feet!

New Orleans Playground

ASIN: B000IOMVYQ
Release Date: 2006-10-24

Tracks:

Wee Hairy Beasties
Flies On My Taters
Animal Crackers
Ragtime Duck
Housefly Blues
A Newt Called Tiny
I'm An A.N.T.
Road Safety Song
Cuttlefish Bone
Glow Worm
Buzz Buzz Buzz
Cyril The Karaoke Squirrel
Toenail Moon
Lightnin' The Turtle
Wee Hairy Beasties (Reprise)

Product Description

This CD has a dance-with-ants-in-your-pants blend of back porch country blues, hippity-hop country, and wiggly old-timey swing is bound to please any child or adult. Includes an enhanced CD video track of Tonail Moon. Some of the songs included are: Wee Hairy Beasties, Animal Crackers, and Ragtime Duck.

Amazon.com

A kids' album by insurgent country's leading Marxist, disco country's leading diva, the sexiest member of the Mekons, and Chicago's most-juiced jug band? An improbable scenario, to be sure, save that John Langford, Kelly Hogan, Sally Timms, and Devil in a Woodpile are all close pals and frequent co-conspirators; you can imagine them tossing beers back at the Hide-Out and laughing hysterically as they devised their alter-egos: Cyril the Karaoke Squirrel, Marjorie the Singing Bee, and Monkey Double Dippey (as identities go, Devil in a Woodpile was already quirky enough). It's a fun, folksy, bluesy romp that never talks down to kids and never traffics in sentimentality. They turn the melody of "St. James Infirmary" into a buzzing, old-time ode to swimming the backstroke in a bowl of corn puffs and transform Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" into "I'm an A.N.T." (with a shout-out to Johnny the Cockaroacharoo). They cuddle with cuttlefish, root turtles across the dance-contest finish line, and sing helium-voiced love songs to glowworms. With imaginations as perverse, wacky, and voracious as the average six-year-old's, the Beasties simply have a blast. --Roy Kasten

Customer Reviews:

WEE HAIRY BEASTIES for about 15 mins.......2007-06-11

My 3 yr old loves this CD for about 15 mins. The first several songs are good, then the album falls flat. The tunes are catchy and I have found myself at work many days chanting "Wee Hairy Beasties" with a brogue as the band leader does. Enjoyable, in small doses.

I got ants in my pants (but no crocodile tears).......2007-02-19

I was nervous when I ordered this. As a longtime fan of Jon Langford and Sally Timms, I feared that I was foisting my tastes on my five-year-old daughter. Would this join her stack of unlistened CDs?

My fears vanished before the opening title track. My daughter loves this record even more than I do. The music is clever, engaging, and best of all -- not cloying.

Kids Music for Grown-ups too!.......2007-01-17

Finally, a CD that can be heard at least 4 times a day that won't drive you insane. For some reason music for children tends to be simple. Animal Crackers proves that you can make good music for children and still have the silly lyrics and rhymes that kids love. I bought several copies for all the kids in my extended family.

Smart and Catchy.......2006-11-27

After just one listen, my two year old was singing out loud for Wee Hairy Beasties. Seriously. We were jumping for each "wee" and giggling, and she wanted to hear more about Cyril the Karaoke Squirrel. And all this in an an albumn that doesn't make my ears bleed.

Average customer rating:

Animal Crackers
Shirley Temple
Manufacturer: Pegasus
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music

Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music

Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

Lullabies | Children's Music | Styles | Music

Broadway & Vocalists | Imports | Stores | Music

Pop | Imports | Stores | Music

4-for-3 Broadway & Vocalists | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music

4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music

4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Oh My Goodness
On the Good Ship Lollipop
America's Sweetheart, Vol. 1
America's Sweetheart, Vol. 2
Bright Eyes

ASIN: B0001PJ988
Release Date: 2004-03-08

Tracks:

On The Good Ship Lollipop
You Gotta S-M-I-L-E To Be H-A-P-P-Y
We Should Be Together
Animal Crackers In My Soup
But Definitely
Oh My Goodness
Tra La La La
You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby
In Our Little Wooden Shoes
Little Miss Broadway
I Love To Walk In The Rain
At The Codfish Ball
Love's Young Dream
Come And Get Your Happiness
On Account- A I Love You
This Is A Happy Little Ditty
That's What I Want For Christmas
Goodnight, My Love
Curly Top
Baby Take A Bow

Album Details

20 Archive Recordings Digitally Enhanced Including "on the Good Ship Lollipop", "Animal Crackers in My Soup", "Little Miss Broadway" and "Curly Top".

Average customer rating:

The Straight Goods

Horse Feathers/Animal Crackers
Original Soundtrack
Manufacturer: Soundtrack Factory
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

Soundtracks | Imports | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Cocoanuts/Monkey Business
Hooray for Captain Spaulding
Best of the Marx Brothers
Day at the Races
Duck Soup

ASIN: B00004W0YQ
Release Date: 2000-11-14

Tracks:

Main Title
I'm Against It
Everyone Says I Love You
Everyone Says I Love You/Piano Medley
Everyone Says I Love You
Everyone Says I Love You
Professor Wagstaff Presents the Football Game
Happy End
Main Title
Butler's Song
You Must Do Your Best Tonight/I Represent
Hello, I Must Be Going/Hooray for Captain Spaulding
Introducing Mario Ravelli
Presenting the Professor
Somewhere My Love Live Sleepin'/Piano Medley
Piano Stravaganza
Why Am I So Romantic?
Incidental Music
On My Old Kentucky Home
End Title
Professor's Conference [*]
Swordfish Password [*]
Anatomy Lesson [*]
Captain Between Two Womans [*]
Tall African Tale [*]

Customer Reviews:

The Straight Goods.......2007-01-12

Okay Marx Brothers Fans, if there is ever a doubt that you aren't getting the straight goods from this soundtrack, perhaps you need to consider a new fan club. After all, why would anyone question the validity and authenticity of the Marx Brother's musical sound? If you loved the movie Horse Feathers, you'll love this sound track too. That said, I find it odd that this movie soundtrack was paired up with the music from the Marx's second movie hit, Animal Crackers; a movie which came along long before Horse Feathers. The Sound Track Factory also manufactured another CD soundtrack; The Cocoanuts, which is paired up with the music from Monkey Business. Since The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers were both the Brothers' debut films - as well as being their only Broadway hits, I don't see why they didn't pair those two together as a soundtrack. I have a couple of guesses, either they aren't as fanatical about the Marx Brothers as I am, or the earlier movies were distributed according to the quality of their sound. Remember, that the first Marx movie, Cocoanuts, was filmed in 1929, just two years after the end of silent films. Back in the late 20's and early 30's, they hadn't quite perfected the quality of soundtracks yet. You will find the recordings of Horse Feathers and Monkey Business a little clearer than those earlier films. Overall, who could argue with anyone who would attempt to preserve a legacy like this? I'm very grateful to have the original Movie soundtracks!

Animal Crackers in My Soup: The Songs of Shirley Temple

Average customer rating:

A Gem: You'll Never Grow Old If You're Young at Heart
Not Just for Little People!
Who's the kid on the cover

Animal Crackers in My Soup: The Songs of Shirley Temple
Maria Muldaur
Manufacturer: Music Little People
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Children's Music | Styles | Music

Compilations | Children's Music | Styles | Music

Sing-A-Longs | Children's Music | Styles | Music

General | Children's Music | Indie Music | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Swingin' in the Rain
On the Sunny Side
Animal Crackers
Oh My Goodness
Jazz for Kids: Sing, Clap, Wiggle and Shake

ASIN: B000066RLV
Release Date: 2002-06-18

Tracks:

You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby
Animal Crackers In My Soup
At The Codfish Ball
Hey! What Did The Blue Jay Say?
We Should Be Together
On The Good Ship Lollipop
I Love To Walk In The Rain
This Is A Happy Little Ditty
Early Bird
When I Grow Up
An Old Straw Hat
Goodnight, My Love
Lullaby To A Doll

Product Description

GENERAL FEATURES: Animal Crackers In My Soup At The Codfish Ball You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby Hey! What Did The Bluejay Say? We Should Be Together On The Good Ship Lollipop I Love To Walk In The Rain This Is A Happy Little Ditty Early Bird When I Grow Up An Old Straw Hat Goodnight, My Love Lullaby To A Doll Educational entertainment for all ages.

Amazon.com

Never has there been a better time to climb aboard the Good Ship Lollipop. With folk-blues great Maria Muldaur at the helm, Shirley Temple's classics shed their girlie-poo preciousness and shimmy into a new-millennium attitude, speckled with spunk, finger-snapping rhythms, and jazzy sophistication. These 13 songs, all of whose '30-era lyrics prove watertight, send nostalgia walking the gangplank, and lower the life rafts for a new generation of car-seated crooners. Muldaur glides, gravel voiced, into long-lost favorites like "An Old Straw Hat," "Goodnight My Love," and "I Love to Walk in the Rain," but it's on a handful of duets that she shines brightest. "You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby" with Norton Buffalo serves up a cheeky give-and-go that even vegetable haters will gobble willingly, and "We Should Be Together" ("You're a cup of coffee / You're a peachy pie") with Buffalo and child star Carrie Lyn--who also performs the title track, "On the Good Ship Lollipop," "When I Grow Up," and "Lullaby to a Doll"--is parent-child snuggle music, pure and simple. (Get out your movie guide if you need to know which films these tunes come from, though, because the liner notes won't help you.) Temple fans might favor a more foo-foo flavor to these classics, but for now, forget the fluff. Muldaur's chocolate-bar landings prove every ounce as happy as her precocious predecessor's, and the lemonade stands and crackerjack bands still sweep you back to more innocent shores as effectively. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews:

A Gem: You'll Never Grow Old If You're Young at Heart.......2004-05-02

Because Maria Muldaur is so fabulous, I unabashedly bought "Animal Crackers in My Soup" for my (grown-up) self. It is a flat-out terrific album, brightly fun and touching. The renditions highlight how perceptive, witty, and, as Maria says in the liner notes, "hip" the songs are. Like the best reinterpretations of jazz classics, they both re-enliven the songs and pay tribute to the original performers. Maria surely would have been a film star in the 1930s (from screwballs to weepers), with her keen intelligence, independent spirit, energy, comedic talents, beauty, and sultriness. So, I guess we can't say that they don't make 'em like that anymore. She should have at least a special on TMC or AMC!

As in Shirley Temple's work, love shines through Maria's voice on these songs, providing the embrace, faith, and hopefulness that children--and all of us--need. One can truly feel that love. Maria has paid close attention to the child listener through, for example, her clear enunciation and the duets with and solos by little Carrie Lyn, which would encourage sing-along. (And dance-along and snap-along: You have to start swingin' when you hear this album!) The intelligence and care in the album are also apparent in the selection of all the artists. The band is "cherce," as Jimmy Durante would say. Carrie Lyn is a marvel--believe it or not, a child performer without a touch of the lamentable oversophistication and Broadway "projection" that predominate nowadays. And Norton Buffalo is a hoot. There is no "talking down" to children on this album.

You don't have to analyze the components, though, just enjoy them! I highly recommend the album for children (it will become for me a favorite gift for children), jazz lovers, wits, fans of old movies, anyone who needs a lift--well, anyone! Now, that's one way to discover your sparkling inner child. I can't wait to get Maria Muldaur's other albums for "young people." OK, swing it!

Not Just for Little People!.......2004-01-20

Maria Muldaur is an American musical treasure, so don't be fooled into thinking her recordings for children are not also FABULOUS for us big grown up people. As is always the happy case, Muldaur brings aboard superior musicians and here assembles a tight swinging band featuring an especially talented player of all the reed instruments-Jim Rothermel. The sound is very much like John Kirby's Biggest Little Band of the 30's and 40's that often featured Claud Thornhill's piano and the light hot swing of Maxine Sullivan. And-as always, Maria shows exquisite taste in assemling songs from the great songsmiths of the 30's like Ted Koeler, Eddy Heyman, Mitchell Parrish, Richard Whiting and Harold Arlen. All the material is charmingly memorable in the delicious styles of Red Norvo's little swing band with Mildred Bailey or Teddy Wilson's sextet with clarinetist Edmond Hall. Goodnight my Love swings just like Benny Goodman's hit with Helen Ward, and when Muldaur sings with the young talented 8 year old girl you'd swear the Boswell Sisters were swinging singing again. Superior music for young and old!

Who's the kid on the cover.......2002-12-03

I must first say that I and more importantly, my boys (3 and 2) love this CD. The whole family sings along while the music is on and long after.
After I got over my initial annoyance with the grown lady singing the lion's share of the Shirley Temple songs, I've decided that I can live with it. But, they had a talented child (obvious from the songs she is allowed to sing) why not let her sing?
Look at the cover, don't we all expect to hear a child's voice?
The music, though, is just right for the upbeat, innocent and full sound we look for. (With maybe the exception of "When I grow up" ...too long...and "Good night, my love" ...too schmoozy and seemingly another excuse for Ms. Muldaur to steal the kid's spotlight.