The Singing Lizard
A singing lizard?
Yeah, I thought the same thing. This is going to be like the singing chipmunks, or that dancing hamster.
But the lizard in question turns out to be Liz DeRoche, a talented singer/songwriter who has released her first children's CD, titled Alphabeat.
Her debut is aimed right at preschool to early elementary kids, so it's full of simple, easy-to-understand lyrics set to fun and bouncy music.
That could describe any number of cloyingly cute kids artists, but not The Singing Lizard. The difference with her sound is that it's a grown-up piano-based pop that would not be out of place on the radio next to such singers as Leslie Feist and Regina Spektor.
Liz gets that you don't have to sing down to kids. She takes classic songs like "Row Row Row Your Boat," "Itsy Bitsy Spider," and "Old MacDonald" and makes them contemporary and fresh.
Along with plenty of original songs, Alphabeat makes for an incredibly fun listen for kids and parents alike. It definitely receives my highest recommendation, along with that of my 8-year-old daughter who thought she was too old for songs about the alphabet and numbers, but changed her mind after hearing The Singing Lizard sing about them.
I'm also happy to be able to offer a free giveaway of this album, only this time it's in a digital form for easy downloading to your computer or mp3 player. All you need to do is leave a comment on this post, telling me your favorite kids song.
I'll pick a winner at the end of the week, who will then need to send me their email address for a special download link from The Singing Lizard herself.
In the meantime, visit her site to listen to tracks from Alphabeat.
Yeah, I thought the same thing. This is going to be like the singing chipmunks, or that dancing hamster.
But the lizard in question turns out to be Liz DeRoche, a talented singer/songwriter who has released her first children's CD, titled Alphabeat.
Her debut is aimed right at preschool to early elementary kids, so it's full of simple, easy-to-understand lyrics set to fun and bouncy music.
That could describe any number of cloyingly cute kids artists, but not The Singing Lizard. The difference with her sound is that it's a grown-up piano-based pop that would not be out of place on the radio next to such singers as Leslie Feist and Regina Spektor.
Liz gets that you don't have to sing down to kids. She takes classic songs like "Row Row Row Your Boat," "Itsy Bitsy Spider," and "Old MacDonald" and makes them contemporary and fresh.
Along with plenty of original songs, Alphabeat makes for an incredibly fun listen for kids and parents alike. It definitely receives my highest recommendation, along with that of my 8-year-old daughter who thought she was too old for songs about the alphabet and numbers, but changed her mind after hearing The Singing Lizard sing about them.
I'm also happy to be able to offer a free giveaway of this album, only this time it's in a digital form for easy downloading to your computer or mp3 player. All you need to do is leave a comment on this post, telling me your favorite kids song.
I'll pick a winner at the end of the week, who will then need to send me their email address for a special download link from The Singing Lizard herself.
In the meantime, visit her site to listen to tracks from Alphabeat.
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10 Comments:
It is a very nice and good post. Keep up the good work.
Second time lucky?
My favorite kids track at the moment is Electric Car by they Might Be Giants.
Cool! I'm loving Renee & Jeremy's "It's a Big World." The whole album.
My nephew would adore this! His current favorite song is "Fruit Salad" by The Wiggles. It's been his favorite song for a WHILE. haha :)
Sounds awesome! We are listening to Ralph's World, mainly The amazing adventure of Kid Astro!
my 5 Yo Brandon has apraxia of speech so he can't "tell" me his favorite song...but I do know this, he loves and dances to all music when his cochlear is on! Except maybe Wiggles since he doesn't know who they are.
KateB
http://www.kateblue.blogspot.com/
Would love to win! My kids spend 80 minutes in the car just to get to and from school, so anything to engage their senses is great!!
album Family Time by Ziggy Marley- song I Love You Too :)
Am I too late? We're really into Carole King's Really Rosie right now!
meshopsi@gmail.com
I'm late in picking a winner. We've been on vacation the past ten days. The winner of the Singing Lizard music download is Ashley.
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