The Baby Sitters was a music group that recorded four albums of children's
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songs from 1958 until 1968. Its original members were ex-
Weaver Lee Hays as composer,
Doris Willens Kaplan as lyricist, actor
Alan Arkin
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on guitar, and his wife Jeremy Yaffe Arkin. In 1964, Jeremy was replaced by Barbara Dana, Arkin's second wife, and Arkin's eight-year-old son
Adam was featured on a few songs. All of the Kaplan and Arkin boys participated.
For instruments, the group used a guitar, a toy piano, a toy xylophone, pots, pans, and jars.
Discography
*''Folk Songs For Babies, Small Children, Parents And Baby Sitters'' (1959)
*''Songs and Fun with the Baby Sitters'' (1959)
*''The Baby Sitters' Family Album'' (1965)
*''The Baby Sitters' Menagerie'' (1968)
*''The Best of the Baby Sitters'' (compilation, on Vanguard 1975 and 1991)
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Group biographyat
Allmusic
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1958 establishments in New York (state)
1968 disestablishments in New York (state)
American folk musical groups
American children's musical groups
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