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In 1976 a young Toronto musician released a fun and lively record called Singable Songs for the Very Young. The artist was a fellow called Raffi, and in the liner notes he wrote at the time that “there are very few good children’s records.” True as that was in the ’70s, Singable Songs became the No. 1 bestseller in its field and set the standard for today’s greater volume of high-quality material. The Singable Songs Collection reissues the classic Singable Songs for the Very Young and its superlative successors, More Singable Songs and Corner Grocery Store, as a set. Raffi’s exhilarating acoustic musicality and sense of humor shine brightly through. Single-digit-age kids and their parents will get a kick out of these silly, educational, and joyful songs, which range in subject matter and tone from shared peanut-butter sandwiches and instrumental ragtime to standards like “Goodnight, Irene.”

Tracklist

Disc 1
1. The More We Get Together 
2. Down by the Bay
3. Brush Your Teeth 
4. Robin in the Rain 
5. Five Little Frogs 
6. I Wonder If I’m Growing 
7. Aikendrum 
8. Bumping Up and Down 
9. Must Be Santa 
10. Willoughby Wallaby Woo 
11. Spider on the Floor 
12. Baa Baa Black Sheep 
13. Going to the Zoo 
14. My Dreydel 
15. Peanut Butter Sandwich 
16. Five Little Pumpkins 
17. The Sharing Song 
18. Mr. Sun 
19. Old MacDonald Had a Band

Disc 2
1. Six Little Ducks 
2. You Gotta Sing 
3. Les Petites Marionettes 
4. Sodeo 
5. Oh Me, Oh My 
6. Junior Ragtime
7. Comin’ Down the Chimney
8. Douglas Mountain 
9. Listen to the Horses 
10. Who Built the Ark? 
11. SambalelÍ
12. Skin and Bones 
13. Shake My Sillies Out
14. If I Had a Dinosaur 
15. Workin’ on the Railroad
16. New River Train 

Disc 3
1. You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song
2. Pick a Bale of Cotton 
3. Frère Jacques 
4. There Came a Girls from France 
5. Cluck, Cluck, Red Hen 
6. Boom Boom
7. Here Sits a Monkey 
8. My Way Home
9. Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous (
10. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 
11. Anansi 
12. The Corner Grocery Store 
13. Jig Along Home 
14. Popcorn 
15. Y a un Rat (There’s a Rat)/Sur le Pont d’Avignon (On the Avignon Bridge) 
16. Going on a Picnic 
17. Rock-A-Bye Baby 
18. Goodnight Irene