The Cat In The Hat Songbook/If I Ran The Zoo/Dr. Seuss Sleepbook

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No Suess can summon slumber like the perfect-for-bedtime If I Ran the Zoo (here with accompanying tracks). From the top, voice actor Marvin Miller spins gold from Seuss's splendid rhyming prose, where "a gasket, a gootch, a gusset, and a gherkin" and other such creatures populate the zany zoo of the author's imagination. Following this hit parade of critters is the ever-loving fun songbook from The Cat in the Hat, featuring Seuss's brilliant lyrics married to the tiptop score of Eugene Poddany, who also had a hand in composing the Grinch tunes. The Cat's capers come to life in music, introducing a marvelous cast of characters from Benjiman B. s;Bicklebaum to Little Sally Spingle Sporn and Uncle Terrwilliger. By the time the "Yawn Song" wends it's way from the speakers, bedtime has become the coziest moment of the day and the closing "Dr. Suess's Sleepbook" draws infectious though never bored yawns of its own. --Paige La Grone

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The Cat in the Hat Songbook/If I Ran the Zoo/Dr. Seuss Sleepbook
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Old fashioned sounding music
  • Blast From the Past
  • a good cd
  • My Childhood Favourite!
 The Cat in the Hat Songbook/If I Ran the Zoo/Dr. Seuss Sleepbook
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Manufacturer: Buddha
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00002EPMA
Release Date: 1999-11-09

Tracks:

  1. If I Ran The Zoo
  2. Let Us All Sing
  3. The Super-Supper March
  4. My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes With Bears
  5. In My Bureau Drawer
  6. The No Laugh Race
  7. Plinker Plunker
  8. Hurry Hurry Hurry!
  9. Cry A Pint
  10. I Can Figure Figures
  11. Somebody Stole My Hoo-Too-Foo-To-Boo-To-Bah!
  12. Rainy Day In Utica, N.Y.
  13. Lullaby For Mr. Benjamin B. Bickelbaum
  14. Happy Birthday To Little Sally Spingel Spungel Sporn
  15. My Uncle Terwilliger Likes To Pat
  16. Yawn Song
  17. The Left- Sock Thieves
  18. Drummers Drumming
  19. Party Parting
  20. Dr. Seuss' Sleepbook

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No Suess can summon slumber like the perfect-for-bedtime If I Ran the Zoo (here with accompanying tracks). From the top, voice actor Marvin Miller spins gold from Seuss's splendid rhyming prose, where "a gasket, a gootch, a gusset, and a gherkin" and other such creatures populate the zany zoo of the author's imagination. Following this hit parade of critters is the ever-loving fun songbook from The Cat in the Hat, featuring Seuss's brilliant lyrics married to the tiptop score of Eugene Poddany, who also had a hand in composing the Grinch tunes. The Cat's capers come to life in music, introducing a marvelous cast of characters from Benjiman B.&nbsps;Bicklebaum to Little Sally Spingle Sporn and Uncle Terrwilliger. By the time the "Yawn Song" wends it's way from the speakers, bedtime has become the coziest moment of the day and the closing "Dr. Suess's Sleepbook" draws infectious though never bored yawns of its own. --Paige La Grone

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Old fashioned sounding music.......2007-03-02

These songs are funny in a quirky sort of way that might seem old fashioned to people today. The recordings seem to be from at least as far back as the 70's, or maybe even a decade earlier, which just by the instrumentation and the style of singing used makes the songs seem pretty dated. It's not as bad as the syrupy Disney songs of old, but the overuse of a cheesy sounding organ on almost all these songs gets old after a while.

The difference between these songs & Dr. Suess' books are that the simple rhythm of his poetry gets kind of lost in the musical settings of Eugene Poddany, which try to be as funny as Dr. Seuss's rhymes, but invariably aren't, with some exceptions. "Hurry, Hurry, Hurry" is one song where Mr. Poddany matches the music to the lyric very well, using a slowing tempo to reflect the silliness of lyrics like "we better hurry slow." And "My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes With Bears" is the best song here, a joyful romp that really starts to evoke a picture in the listener's mind of that weird uncle that families try to ignore.

The two tracks that are not songs but are a reading of a Dr. Seuss story (w/ instrumental music added) are OK, they'd be appropriate for a young person to follow along to with the book or just listen to.

I teach music at an elementary school, and I used three songs from this CD and the Cat In the Hat songbook book to help put together a show of Dr. Seuss songs with our 1st graders. A note to any elementary music teachers who might read this: most of the songs on this CD are too difficult for young singers (like my 1st graders), the range of the songs is too wide, and the songs often contain tricky key changes. Older grades such as 3rd, 4th or 5th could handle the songs better. Plus, the singers are adults, both men & women, which isn't as good of a model for children to sing along with as a recording using a good children's group. But, if you absolutely have to put together a show about Dr. Seuss, it can be a helpful resource.

5 out of 5 stars Blast From the Past.......2000-06-07

I love this CD! I listened to it as a child and memorized some of the songs. I have never forgotten them and I sang them to my own children when they were young. Kids love the silly verses and the fun music.

5 out of 5 stars a good cd.......2000-06-04

this cd makes me wish that i had a zoo. i like the music and the words are fun to say. my mom likes this cd because it makes me want to eap my supper. the end

5 out of 5 stars My Childhood Favourite!.......2000-05-27

I'm SO THRILLED to discover this album has been re-released. With upbeat tunes and hilariously inventive lyrics, I'm sure these songs will still appeal to kids today (as they did to me as a young child in the early 1970's).

Some of my favourite songs include "My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes With Bears" and "The Super Supper March" (it's a long list of favourite foods from the Seuss Kitchen, sung about with great yearning by someone very "hungry, hungry").

Then there's the "No Laugh Race," an interactive song where listener/contestants "stand face to face three inches apart...just stand there and stare and stare...nobody laugh now, don't you dare...wiggle your ears, wiggle your noses, wearing eyebrows wiggle those...but if anybody giggles, out he goes...the laugher is the loser, out he goes!" I had countless moments of fun playing this song game when I was a child.

I just found out this CD is available and haven't yet received it, thus bear in mind that this review is based purely on childhood memories (from 20 years ago). For example, I can't comment on sound quality. But the vividness of my memories must say something about these songs!

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