The annual kid’s music awards were announced yesterday on Bill Childs’ weekly Spare the Rock Spoil the Child radio program. Not familiar with the Fids & Kamily Awards? Think of them as the Grammys, with clued-in voters. The Fids & Kamily top 10 is selected by a collection of media […]
MY WOODLAND WISH by Kate Endle and Caspar Babypants A rhythmic children’s picture book with a scrapbooker’s charm and a musician’s cadence, My Woodland Wish is a love song to nature, its critters, and one young girl’s relationship with all of it, that sounds marvelous when read aloud. This is […]
Here’s a good deal, Mr. Music Lovin’ Papa / Ms. Music Diggin’ Momma: free songs from The Verve Pipe, Recess Monkey, Caspar Babypants (which is Chris Ballew of The Presidents of the United States of America, in case ya didn’t know), The Not-Its!, Kimya Dawson, and a couple of more. […]
Haven’t done this in a while! Here’s what we listened to on the way to school this morning. Again, only a 12-14 minute ride, so it’s usually just 3-4 songs. These were picked by me, save for “Baby Cloud” which was requested by Mouse. Edith Frost “If It Weren’t For […]
Chris Ballew is back with another set of stripped down toddler tunes under his playful Caspar Babypants monikor. The aptly titled “Sing Along!” has loaded with star power (Weird Al, members of Pearly Jam, Frances England, Recess Monkey, Rachel Loshak) but should it be loaded into your family CD player?
CASPAR BABYPANTS “THIS IS FUN! The Sound: Sticky & delicious silver dollar pop pancakes for your ears from Presidents of the United States of America singer Chris Ballew. Best Moments: “Googly Eyes” (video below) succinctly encapsulates the endless possibilities of a kiddie arts & crafts experience. Anyone who can include […]
The girls and I are up super early today. We awoke to the new Caspar Babypants video, for the song “Googly Eyes” from the forthcoming disc “This is Fun!” …looks like we’ll be busting out the arts & crafts box after school today! As enjoyable as Chris Ballew’s songs are, […]
The members of Recess Monkey and Harmonica Pocket, along with Caspar Babypants’ Chris Ballew (also of The Presidents of the United States of America) recently jammed and recorded a brand new kid’s song called “Vagabond Worms”. In the good old days of, say the 90’s, I could see getting this […]
