''Disney's Children's Favorite Songs, Volume 1'' is a record containing 25 classic children's songs. The songs are performed by
Larry Groce
Larry Groce (born April 22, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and radio host. From 1983 until 2021, Groce served as the host and artistic director of '' Mountain Stage'', a two-hour live music radio program produced by West Virginia Public ...
and The Disneyland Children's Sing-Along Chorus (Choral Director: Betty Joyce). The record was produced in 1979 by Jymn Magon, and engineered by George Charouhas for
Walt Disney Records. It was released in 1979 by Disneyland Records and in 2006 by Walt Disney Records. Distributed by
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc.
[CD liner notes]
Track listing
All songs are public domain except where listed.
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This Old Man (Nick Nack Paddy Whack)"
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I've Been Working on the Railroad
"I've Been Working on the Railroad" is an American folk song. The first published version appeared as "Levee Song" in ''Carmina Princetonia'', a book of Princeton University songs published in 1894. The earliest known recording is by the Shannon ...
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Three Blind Mice"
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Oh, Susanna" (
Stephen Foster)
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The Man on the Flying Trapeze"
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Jimmy Crack Corn
"Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Blue-Tail Fly" is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the ...
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#"The Mail Must Go Through (from the Disneyland/Golden Book Read-Along ''The Seven Little Postmen'')" (Larry Groce)
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Home on the Range"
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It Ain't Gonna Rain No More"
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A Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy, Daisy)"
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Mary Had a Little Lamb
"Mary Had a Little Lamb" is an English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin, first published by American writer Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7622.
Background
The nursery rhyme was fi ...
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
#"Friends Lullaby (from the Disneyland/Golden Book Read-Along ''The Lively Little Rabbit'')" (Larry Groce)
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Old MacDonald Had a Farm"
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The Hokey Pokey" (
Larry LaPrise, Charles Macak and Taftt Baker)
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She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain"
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Ten Little Indians
"Ten Little Indians" is a traditional American children's counting out rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 12976. The term "Indians" in this sense refers to Indigenous North American peoples.
In 1868, songwriter Septimus Winner adapt ...
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The Green Grass Grew All Around
"And the Green Grass Grew All Around", also known as "The Green Grass Grew All Around" or "And the Green Grass Grows All Around", is a traditional Appalachian folk song that was first noted in 1877 in (Miss M. H. Mason's book 'Nursery Rhymes and ...
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In the Good Old Summer Time"
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Animal Fair"
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat
"Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is an English language nursery rhyme and a popular children's song, often sung in a round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19236.
Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album ''101 Gang Songs'' (1961). ...
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#"I'm a Policeman (from the Disneyland/Golden Book Read-Along ''The Fat Little Policeman'')" (Larry Groce)
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Pop Goes the Weasel"
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Dixie" (
Dan Emmett
Daniel Decatur Emmett (October 29, 1815June 28, 1904) was an American songwriter, entertainer, and founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition, the Virginia Minstrels. He is most remembered as the composer of the song "Dixie ...
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
References
1979 compilation albums
Disneyland Records compilation albums
Children's music albums
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