Oh, and if you don't want the book/CD compilation, the CD by itself is scheduled to be released on August 8. I'm just sayin'.) You can hear clips from all of Boynton's CDs here. The album will probably be most appreciated by kids ages 4 through 8 and people of a certain age remembering the soundtrack to their high school and/or college years. Less successful, though, are the fairly straight songs (Alison Krauss sounds wonderful on 'Evermore,' but she'd sound wonderful singing the 'Weekly Clipper') and the 'Cow Planet' interludes. It takes a Titanic-worthy overwrought ballad and applies it to the overwrought words of a cranky kid. Yankovic's first duet together,' the liner notes wryly comment). The best song on the CD may be the most familiar - the wonderful 'I Need A Nap,' which pairs 'Weird Al' Yankovic with Kate Winslet ('this is Ms. As is often the case with albums where a collection of performers tackle the work of another artist, the best work is done by the least expected - the Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan bringing his Tom Waits-esque voice to 'Sneakers,' or the energetic 'Pots and Pans' built up to a percussive crescendo by the Bacon Brothers and Mickey Hart. diverse collection of musical performers to perform their (mostly) humorous songs - Alison Krauss, Hootie and the Blowfish, and Blues Traveler, among others. Boynton and her musical collaborator Michael Ford have recruited a. Or, well, as much as any album that features three separate episodes entitled 'Cow Planet' can bring said rock. With the collaboration of composer Michael Ford, Philadelphia Chickens is that rarest of kids' musical discs-one whose inimitable lyrics and music make it as irresistible to parents as it is to their children.For those of you who adore Sandra Boynton's comically plaintive drawings of pets and her whimsical sense of humor, but found the Broadway show stylings of Philadelphia Chickens a little too, well, Broadway show-stylish, her 2005 album/book Dog Train really brings the rock. What exactly it is/ I don't know.' Also joining in are Eric Stoltz, Scott Bakula, and two Boyntons, including daughter Caitlin McEwan, who performs a piece that every little listener will relate to-a love song to the chocolate chip cookies that are just out of reach.

Here is a full-color songbook of 17 1/2 illustrated story-poems, and a full-length, fully orchestrated CD of original songs performed by such luminaries as Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, The Bacon Brothers, and Laura Linney, who pleads 'Please, Can I Keep It?-it followed me home. What an event! What a show! It’s Philadelphia Chickens-the catchy and quirky, tuneful and toe-tapping, exuberant, unexpected, and totally endearing family-musical-in-a-book. And, with 1 million copies in print, a Recording Industry Association of America Platinum album.

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