Parents' Choice Awards : Audio : Music
Dan Crow Live "Songs and Comedy for Kids & Kin"
Fall 2000 MusicReview:
There’s no substitute for being there when veteran children’s singer/songwriter Dan Crow captivates kids with his rubber-faced, comic delivery and signature brand of silly stories and zany songs. This 2-CD collection of songs is next best, though. It conveys Crow’s sense of fun and sunny warmth and gives little listeners plenty to giggle about, with songs about gum, dogs, bubbles, ham, and kissing cows. There’s serious stuff behind the silliness, too. Crow incorporates his background as a language educator into his all songs, using alliterative and storytelling lyrics to emphasize vowel and consonant sounds, homophones and homonyms: "Shim Sham I sure am, I’m sure ready to go, I’m sure ready to go and shout, at the Fish’s rodeo…"; "There’s gum on the hammer and gum on the broom, And gum on the Milkman’s shoe…" "Which witch ate a sandwich?" Whether just for fun, or with a message in mind, Crow’s songs are an invitation to play.
Lynne Heffley ©2000 Parents' Choice
Lynne was a staff writer for 25 years at the Los Angeles Times where she established and maintained the paper's first weekly children's arts and entertainment beat and was a general arts reporter. As a freelance writer and editor, Lynne is currently working in the arts and family entertainment fields.
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