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An eclectic and stimulating mix of Nursery Rhymes and Children's Songs performed by real musicians on real vintage instruments in many interesting styles. A timeless collection for children to sing, dance, learn and sleep to whilst opening their eyes, ears, hearts and minds to the sounds of real music performances. 2 CD's, 70 full length tracks covering in excess of 2.5 hours of pure listening time creating an enjoyable and stress free listening experience for both the child and the adult alike! In four sections: Time To Dance, Time To Play, Time To Learn and Time To Sleep covering every need for your child. Perfect for children's parties, background music for the child to play to as well as that long car journey! The album packaging provides the customer with access to an accompanying website which includes a fantastic 'fun musical games section' plus some basic musical knowledge help your child learn and develop their first music skills and knowledge and love of the instruments used in the recordings.
About the Artist
33 top quality musicians create a masterpiece. This product was initially developed to create a better quality of musical experience for the Producers own children. This album contains recorded performances from high-class musicians from many different backgrounds and styles including the worlds of Rock 'n' Roll, Indie, Pop, Modern, Bluegrass, Irish Folk, Blues and Rock-a-Billy. Musicians from the ever popular 'Tribute Genre' were invited to perform including musicians from Beatles, Kinks, Pink Floyd, Whitesnake and Amy Winehouse tribute bands. Singer-Song writers from original bands including The Andy Whittle Band, Lucca and My Mate Kate provided fresh performances as well as two original and brand new lullabies plus we were very honoured to have three members of Billy Fury's original backing band 'Fury's Tornadoes' providing performances! Finally, many of the albums orchestral arrangements were undertaken by a serious classical arranger and a pipe organist! All of these skills bring together many flavours of various types of music all performed by the best musicians available.
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46 of 47 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I'm not one to write reviews (although I do read them very often). This CD is so exceptionally good though that I've decided to write my first one ever.
I got this CD for my 6 month old son for christmas and since then (it's April now) it's hardly been removed from the CD player. I'm a keen musician myself and so I was looking for a good quality recording of nursery rhymes really for myself as a reminder of the tunes and words so that I could re-learn them and sing them to him with the guitar. I went through quite a few other offerings before I encountered this one and was very disappointed with the general quality of everything I heard. Hearing this collection was like an epiphany! The richness of the production and the musical performances draws you in until you actually sometimes forget that you're listening to music for small children. The arrangements are reminiscent of classic pop hits and sometimes its quite easy to spot a borrowed riff or sound. Each track has its own musical identity and like any classic album can stand to be played over and over without boredom or fatigue setting in. I usually put it on at least a couple of times a week and each time my son and I have great fun while it plays.
My one regret about this CD is that I managed to lose the case containing the 2nd CD on Christmas day. It must have accidentally got thrown out with the wrapping paper. I did listen to the 2nd CD once before I lost it though and remember it being just as good as the first. I also remember reading the sleeve notes and was pleasantly surprised to see that it was produced in Nottingham which is the place I'm from.
I highly recommend this CD and congratulate the producers and musicians who made it.
I got this CD for my 6 month old son for christmas and since then (it's April now) it's hardly been removed from the CD player. I'm a keen musician myself and so I was looking for a good quality recording of nursery rhymes really for myself as a reminder of the tunes and words so that I could re-learn them and sing them to him with the guitar. I went through quite a few other offerings before I encountered this one and was very disappointed with the general quality of everything I heard. Hearing this collection was like an epiphany! The richness of the production and the musical performances draws you in until you actually sometimes forget that you're listening to music for small children. The arrangements are reminiscent of classic pop hits and sometimes its quite easy to spot a borrowed riff or sound. Each track has its own musical identity and like any classic album can stand to be played over and over without boredom or fatigue setting in. I usually put it on at least a couple of times a week and each time my son and I have great fun while it plays.
My one regret about this CD is that I managed to lose the case containing the 2nd CD on Christmas day. It must have accidentally got thrown out with the wrapping paper. I did listen to the 2nd CD once before I lost it though and remember it being just as good as the first. I also remember reading the sleeve notes and was pleasantly surprised to see that it was produced in Nottingham which is the place I'm from.
I highly recommend this CD and congratulate the producers and musicians who made it.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The CDs are great - enjoyed by parents and children alike, the rhymes are repeated once in order to learn the words and the music is charming without being sickly! Great for long car journeys.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By purplepolly
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I wish I had listened to the samples before buying (not sure that they had them on Amazon at the time I purchased this) as I really don't like the way the rhymes have been backed with rock and roll type music. I bought this on the strength of all the positive reviews and I'm very disappointed. There are a couple of the tracks that are okay but most are drowned out by the cover music, noises and randomly inserted extra words. Not what I was hoping for!
25 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I listened to the cd expecting it to be another childrens selection of songs that only they would appreciate and we adults would cringe at but found to my surprise that the Nursery Rhyme Collection was on two levels, where adults and children alike could appreciate the brilliant arrangements and fun style songs. My 12 year old grandchild wants to download it to her ipod!!!I want to play it my car when there are no children around.My eighty five year old mother (who has dementia)loves singing along to it. What greater testiment could this music be given.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Peretz34
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
While we were visiting friends and family in the UK recently, we had a LOT of long car journeys... I asked my Dad for this as a belated birthday present for my 17 month old daughter, and it's the best nursery rhymes CD I think I've ever heard! A bunch of "real" musicians got together to make a collection that also takes parents into consideration - my husband (bit of a traditionalist! ;D) took a few listens to warm up to it, but I loved it right away. My daughter adores it; we dance to it like maniacs and she asks for "More! More!" after every song!
There are rock versions of 'Humpty Dumpty' and 'My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean' (our favourite!), a neat segue from 'Ten Green Bottles' into 'Wind The Bobbin Up' and back again, a reggae influenced 'What Shall We Do With A Grumpy Pirate?', blues, soul, medieval madrigal, waltzes, riffs that sound distinctly like The Beatles' "Get Back', The Damned's 'Eloise'... just about every musical style you can think of. And it's divided into four sections - Dance, Play, Learn and Sleep. It's also nice to see a few songs that I haven't found on others CDs - I've sung 'Hush Little Baby' to her since she was born, but it's very rare to find it in a collection.
I regularly catch myself singing these versions - I really can't recommend it highly enough.
There are rock versions of 'Humpty Dumpty' and 'My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean' (our favourite!), a neat segue from 'Ten Green Bottles' into 'Wind The Bobbin Up' and back again, a reggae influenced 'What Shall We Do With A Grumpy Pirate?', blues, soul, medieval madrigal, waltzes, riffs that sound distinctly like The Beatles' "Get Back', The Damned's 'Eloise'... just about every musical style you can think of. And it's divided into four sections - Dance, Play, Learn and Sleep. It's also nice to see a few songs that I haven't found on others CDs - I've sung 'Hush Little Baby' to her since she was born, but it's very rare to find it in a collection.
I regularly catch myself singing these versions - I really can't recommend it highly enough.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
What a treat to hear fun versions of popular rhymes and songs. It is a present but dont want to part with it. Well done!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Sandy
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I wish I had listened to this before buying, I do not like the way the rhymes have been backed by other music. I bought this because of the positive reviews and I'm very disappointed. I bought it to play to and sing to my new Grandson so that I could recall Nursery Rhymes from my time as a young Mum. Not what I was hoping for at all. If I could have a refund I would ask for one!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Pam
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
A bit too jangly. I was looking for a CD with 'old fashioned' nursery rhymes that my daughter could use to sing along to with her daughter. The songs are a bit too jangly with busy backing instrumentals.
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The Nursery Rhyme Collection
I am looking for CDs for my grandson, now aged one. We have been singing rhymes of all kinds to him since before he was born. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Alex Williams
4.0 out of 5 stars
Really nice
We bought that cd for our 2 year old daughter. She loves it. The only thing is,the song starts and it does take 1-2 second till the real song starts,but all together it is nice and... Read more
Published 21 days ago by Melliken80
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great sing-a-long CD
Nice sing-a-long and dance-a-long music for children, we were very surprised, and our grandson a very enthusiastic listener and dancer
Published 2 months ago by John Dobson
1.0 out of 5 stars
Awful drivel.
This did not live up to the rave reviews I read about it. Perhaps people are judging this with a healthy dose of nostalgia but the awful accents & singing were embarrassing rather... Read more
Published 2 months ago by kiki
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great album
A very good selection of well known and more unusual songs.Great for kids to sing along with and adults as well
Published 2 months ago by ALAN TITMAN
1.0 out of 5 stars
History, music and lyrics
It is musical saccharin, with happy, bouncy tones and in many ways is ideal for playing to a child during a game of musical chairs, as it's been hacked to death enough by the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by A. G. Peck
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great CD
My daughter loved this song collection with its rocky feel. It has a great selection of nursery rhymes and I would recommend to all
Published 3 months ago by Sarah P
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable for children and adults!
I have purchased nursery rhymes cds before and I simply stop playing them to my daughter, because I can't stand the annoying voices any more! Read more
Published 3 months ago by AG
5.0 out of 5 stars
the best nursery rhyme cd ever
This is definitely the best nursery rhymes cd we have - along with the second one. Every track is enjoyable and my son and I know the words to pretty much all of them,
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Published 4 months ago by Charis Buckley
4.0 out of 5 stars
A must have for families with kids
We really like the CD, lots of songs, good selection and the music is really varied, enjoyable.
Albeit I would have liked a few songs to be "less rock-and-roll-like", and less... Read more
Albeit I would have liked a few songs to be "less rock-and-roll-like", and less... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Hani
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