Nursery Rhyme Blues: Music By, For and About Kids

Rock the cradle, with music by, for and about kids—but hip enough for children of all ages. Swing Mother Goose in jazz, blues and country; plus animal tales in rock and funk. Join us for a visit to the Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp and hear the next generation of New Orleans musicians. Also, The Imagination Movers drop by to talk about going from a birthday party conversation to the next big sensation in kids’ music.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Straight No Chaser live recording at Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp

Ya Ya Lee Dorsey
Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection, Arista

Lady Madonna Fats Domino
Fats is Back, Bullseye

Rock 'n' Roll Simmon Tree Maggie Sue Wimberly
Memphis Bells: The Women of Sun Records, Bear Family

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Kermit Ruffins
New Orleans Playground, Putumayo Kids

The Muffin Man Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz for Kids: Sing, Clap, Wiggle, and Shake, Verve

Instrumental: Cake Walking Babies Sidney Bechet
Runnin' Wild, Blue Note

Shortening Bread Abner Jay
recorded live at Folk Masters concert 1993

Talkin' Guitar Doc Watson
Sings Songs for Little Pickers - Live!, Alacazam!

Barnyard Dance Martin, Bogan and Armstrong
Barnyard Dance, Rounder

Storybook Ball Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band
Greatest Hits!, Vanguard

Nursery Rhyme Blues Merrill Moore
Boogie My Blues Away, Bear Family

Oh! Susannah June Carter
Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music, Columbia/Legacy

I've Been Working on the Railroad Johnny Cash
The Legend, Columbia/Legacy

The Railroad Cars are Coming Dan Zanes
Parades and Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected by Carl Sandburg, Festival Five

Instrumental: Skip To My Lou Peter Seeger, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Washboard Band: Country Dance Music, Folkways

Skip to My Lou Lead Belly
Sings For Children, Smithsonian Folkways

Brown Girl in the Ring Lord Invader
Calypso in New York, Smithsonian Folkways

Children's Song (That Old Man) Thelonious Monk
Monk, Columbia

SEGMENT: Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp

HOUR TWO

Open Bed: When You Wish Upon a Star Dave Brubeck Quartet
Dave Digs Disney, Columbia/Legacy

Mary Mack Lilly's Chapel School recorded by Harold Courlander
Negro Folk Music of Alabama Vol.6: Ring Game Songs and Others, Folkways

Patty Cake, Patty Cake Fats Waller
If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!, Columbia/Legacy

School Days Dizzy Gillespie
School Days, Savoy

Mockingbird Inez Foxx
Island 40, Vol. 2: 1964-1969, Rhythm and Blues Beat, Island

Bo Diddley Bo Diddley
His Best, Chess/MCA

Mr. Rabbit Paul Westerberg
Stereo, Vagrant

Instrumental: "Fox Chase" Elizabeth Cotton
Shake Sugaree, Smithsonian Folkways

Mouse on the Hill Warner Williams
Blues Highway, Smithsonian Folkways

Polly Wolly Doodle Leon Redbone
Folk Playground, Putumayo Kids

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (Song of the South) Louis Armstrong
Disney Songs the Satchmo Way, Walt Disney

Yes! We Have No Bananas Louis Prima
Jazz for Kids: Sing, Clap, Wiggle, and Shake, Verve

I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song) Los Lobos
Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films, A&M

Instrumental: In 3's Beastie Boys
The In Sound From Way Out!, Capitol

INTERVIEW: Imagination Movers

Old McDonald Had a Farm (Part 2) Rufus Thomas
Funky Chicken, Stax

They All Ask'd for You The Meters
The Very Best of the Meters, Rhino

End Bed: Sleepwalker's Lullaby Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant
Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming Guitars of Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant, Razor & Tie

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