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Originally Posted by Wayfarer
I actually just called my mother to get the answer to this, expecting to hear that I power-slid out of the womb to "Children of The Revolution".
Apparently I was a huge fan of Barney's "Apples and Bananas".  |
Cute image: power-sliding out of the womb!
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Originally Posted by sopsych
I don't remember listening to children's music before age 5. That was before Teletubbies and Barney, and I don't think my parents were allowing TV viewing. They probably did me a favor.
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Thanks for answering my question. See, this supports my hypothesis that most kids need to be younger than five to really appreciate children's music. (When my child was under 5, I actively avoided the Teletubbies and Barney on TV because I didn't want him to become a fan such that I'd have to listen to them!)
So *now* I'm curious what sort of music you
did hear before age five and if you can draw any correlation between those musical experiences and your current appreciation of '80s pop?
(BTW, my parents forbid me from watching TV for a year when I was around 10. They had good intentions, but I ended up just hanging out at the mall to watch the TVs at Sears!)
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Originally Posted by ribbons
I love Barney, Erica! Both of my children were reared on Barney and I used to sing them to sleep with that song nearly every night. And how about the "Please and Thank You" song? Can't even count how many times we sang that one. 
That's so funny, Erica! Maybe I should've tried that on my sister...she had an Alice Cooper poster hanging on the back of our bedroom door at one point -- he had a snake wrapped around his neck and it used to scare the hell out of me! My eldest sister is 8 years older than me, so she was a young teenager when Alice, Black Sabbath, T. Rex and The Sweet were at their height. My middle sister is 5 years older, so she was a young teenager when the disco craze hit. But neither one of them liked The Beatles much -- I was the only one to catch the Beatle bug from my Mom. 
I'm going to plead the fifth on this one -- all I can say is that Kermit totally RULES! I love his little floppy froglegs!!  |
Perhaps we should say that you caught the Beatle
beetle from your Mom, Liz.
I *do* like "The Please and Thank You" song more than Barney's "I Love You" song. The two things that I, as an adult, don't like about Barney's songs are (1) his voice and (2) the didactic nature of some of the songs. For example, with the "Please and Thank You" song, although I agree it is nice that children learn about the reasons for being polite, I have almost never *told* my child to say please or thank you. Instead, I assumed he'd learn about please and thank you by observing me as I was saying them. I guessed (correctly) that he would figure out for himself why I am saying please and thank you, just like kids figure out the meanings of hundreds of other words without being taught them or when to use them.
Thinking back again to when I was little (under 5), I remember liking the song, "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands," and I loved Brahm's "Lullaby and Goodnight."
Also, my mom used to amuse me by singing the song, "Do your ears hang low," and I have fun memories of singing this song with her and making up our own verses using our different body parts (
Do Your Ears Hang Low? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ). My mom sang many songs to me when I was little: children's songs, folk songs, and songs that were popular when *she* was a child back in the '40s (think, "Yes, We Have No Bananas.")
When
my child was a baby, I sang him lullabies, hoping he'd have nice memories of songs and music like I did from my childhood. Now he says he always hated those songs when I sang to him! (I think he didn't mind them when he was a baby, though.)
Below is one of my favorite lullabies that I sang to my child until he was around 4, by which time he started to dislike it. I must say that my child never seemed to gravitate toward children's songs, which is too bad (for me!) because I kept wanting to sing to him!
He's almost 10 now and loves electronic dance pop music.
"The Moment I Saw You" by Nicolette Larson and Graham Nash
from Larson's album "Sleep Baby Sleep" that someone gave me as a baby gift:
Lullaby: The Moment I Saw You - Nicolette Larson/Graham Nash - YouTube
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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck
must be some sort of explanation why i'm so into disco:-
the earlier version used Marmalade's cover of "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da"
Australian
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Here's some Kermit disco for you, Howard, and for Liz: another contender for...
The Muppet Wars!!!!!!!!!
Kermit - "Disco Frog"
Enjoy those floppy little frog legs as Kermit goes wild on the dance bog floor!
EDIT: I just asked my child what he thinks of this song, and he authorized me to quote him here on MusicBanter. He said, and I quote: "This sounds like Frankenstein. This sounds like ****. This sounds like a walking talking pile of ****! I don't hate Kermit, but this sounds annoying. This sounds like a zombie is singing it. LOL."
Sesame Street: Kermit Sings Disco Frog - YouTube