My parents gave Will and Kate MP3 players. The idea is that this is the kids’ “traveling music” for our upcoming trip. The following is a list of 136 songs, with input by both parents and actual implementation by me and Paul.
I haven’t figured out how to change the ordering (currently it is in alpha order by “artist”) and the variety may induce seizures, but so far the kids love it.
Keeping in mind that this collection is for a 6 year old and 4 year old… and that they will be doing a lot of listening to it in confined spaces… what did we leave out?
Take a look. What would (or does?) your kids’ MP3 player hold?
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✓   Tipitina And Me   2:52   Allen Toussaint   Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album
✓   Sister Golden Hair   3:20   America   History (Greatest Hits)
✓   City of New Orleans   4:33   Arlo Guthrie   The Best of Arlo Guthrie
✓   Handel: Water Music Suite #2 In D, HWV 349 – Alla Hornpipe   3:28   August Wenzinger
✓   Love Shack   5:22   The B-52’s   Cosmic Thing
✓   Solo Un Segundo   3:59   Bacilos   Caraluna
✓   People   3:27   Barbra Streisand   Funny Girl – Original Broadway Cast Recording
✓   If I Had $1,000,000   4:27   Barenaked Ladies
✓   Black Bird   2:18   The Beatles   The Beatles (Disc 1)
✓   Love Me Do   2:21   The Beatles
✓   We Can Work It Out   2:15   The Beatles
✓   Penny Lane   3:00   The Beatles
✓   All You Need Is Love   3:48   The Beatles
✓   Let It Be   3:51   The Beatles
✓   In A Big Country   3:55   Big Country
✓   No Rain   3:35   Blind Melon
✓   The Bare Necessities   4:50   Bruce Reitherman & Phil Harris   Classic Disney Volume II
✓   Thunder Road   4:49   Bruce Springsteen
✓   The Ugly Bug Ball   2:59   Burl Ives   Classic Disney Vol. 1
✓   Morning Has Broken   3:19   Cat Stevens
✓   Wild World   3:20   Cat Stevens
✓   Suite: Judy Blue Eyes   7:29   Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
✓   Marrakesh Express   2:37   Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
✓   Jack’s Lament   3:17   Danny Elfman   Classic Disney, Vol. 3
✓   What’s This?   3:08   Danny Elfman   Classic Disney, Vol. 5
✓   So Much To Say   4:06   Dave Matthews Band   Crash
✓   Best Of Whats Around   4:17   Dave Matthews Band   Under The Table And Dreaming
✓   Ain’t No Mountain High Enough   3:32   Diana Ross
✓   I Hear A Symphony   2:45   Diana Ross & The Supremes
✓   You’ve Got A Friend In Me   2:05   Disney   Disney’s Greatest, Vol. 1
✓   I Wan’na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)   4:40   Disney   Disney’s Greatest, Vol. 1
✓   Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo   1:18   Disney   Disney’s Greatest, Vol. 1
✓   Bella Notte   2:41   Disney   Disney’s Greatest, Vol. 1
✓   When You Wish Upon A Star   3:15   Disney   Disney’s Greatest, Vol. 1
✓   Winnie-the-pooh   2:20   Disney   Disney’s Greatest, Vol. 2
✓   A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes   4:36   Disney   Disney’s Greatest, Vol. 2
✓   Heffalumps And Woozles   2:05   The Disney Chorus   Classic Disney, Vol. 3
✓   Little April Shower   3:56   The Disney Chorus   Classic Disney, Vol. 3
✓   The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down   1:40   The Disney Chorus
✓   Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life For Me)   4:46   The Disney Chorus
✓   Cruella De Vil   4:08   Dr. John   Classic Disney, Vol. 5
✓   World I Never Made   4:02   Dr. John   Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album
✓   Beethoven: Bagatelle In A Minor, WoO 59, “Für Elise”   4:20   Elyso Bolkvadze
✓   Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)   3:39   Eurythmics
✓   It’s The Same Old Song   2:46   The Four Tops
✓   Etude In E, Op. 10, No. 3 (Tri   4:27   Frederic Chopin
✓   Dog & Butterfly   5:24   Heart
✓   Candle On The Water   2:59   Helen Reddy
✓   Brahms: Hungarian Dance #5 In G Minor   2:33   Herbert Von Karajan
✓   Clean My Room   2:35   Imagination Movers   Calling All Movers
✓   I Want My Mommy (time for Bed)   2:28   Imagination Movers
✓   The Medicine Song   1:26   Imagination Movers   Good Ideas
✓   Nina’s Song   2:17   Imagination Movers   Imagination Movers
✓   Closer To Fine   4:02   Indigo Girls   Indigo Girls
✓   Watershed   5:46   Indigo Girls   Nomads – Indians – Saints
✓   Galileo   4:14   Indigo Girls   Rites Of Passage   Folk
✓   Strange Fire   5:30   Indigo Girls   Strange Fire   Folk
✓   Least Complicated   4:12   Indigo Girls   Swamp Ophelia
✓   Back Water Blues   3:32   Irma Thomas
✓   I Want You Back   3:01   Jackson 5
✓   Abc   2:59   Jackson 5
✓   You’ve Got A Friend   4:33   James Taylor
✓   Me And Bobby Mcgee   4:34   Janis Joplin
✓   Take Me Home, Country Roads   3:12   John Denver
✓   Annie’s Song   3:02   John Denver
✓   Thank God I’m A Country Boy    3:30   John Denver
✓   Grandma’s Feather Bed   2:13   John Denver
✓   Rocky Mountain High   4:44   John Denver
✓   Imagine   3:08   John Lennon   Imagine (Remastered)
✓   Star Wars Main Theme   5:53   John Williams   Star Wars Trilogy
✓   The Imperial March   3:06   John Williams   Star Wars Trilogy
✓   Chelsea Morning   2:32   Joni Mitchell   Hits
✓   The Circle Game   4:52   Joni Mitchell   Hits
✓   Both Sides, Now   4:35   Joni Mitchell   Hits
✓   For Me And My Gal For Me And My Gal   4:23   Judy Garland And Gene Kelly
✓   Feed The Birds (Tuppence A Bag)   3:51   Julie Andrews   Classic Disney Volume II
✓   Stay Awake   1:46   Julie Andrews   Classic Disney, Vol. 3
✓   Walking On Sunshine   3:59   Katrina & The Waves
✓   Oogie Boogie’s Song   3:18   Ken Page & Ed Ivory   Classic Disney, Vol. 4 Soundtrack
✓   This Is It   3:59   Kenny Loggins   Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
✓   Stormy Weather Stormy Weather   3:54   Lena Horne
✓   Ev’rybody Wants To Be A Cat   2:03   Liz English, Phil Harris, Scatman Crothers & Thurl Ravenscroft
✓   Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans   3:01   Louis Armstrong
✓   Basin Street Blues   2:06   Louis Prima   New Orleans
✓   Dancing In The Street   2:41   Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
✓   Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)   3:15   Marvin Gaye   Greatest Hits
✓   Ain’t No Mountain High Enough   2:29   Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
✓   Once Upon A Dream   2:47   Mary Costa & Bill Shirley   Classic Disney, Vol. 3
✓   My Guy   2:50   Mary Wells   Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 – Disc 1
✓   Be My Life’s Companion   3:13   Mills Brothers   The Best Of The Decca Years
✓   Glow Worm   2:41   Mills Brothers   The Best Of The Decca Years
✓   Stardust   3:16   Nat King Cole   Greatest Hits
✓   (I Love You) For Sentimental R   2:55   Nat King Cole
✓   Straighten Up And Fly Right   2:26   Nat King Cole
✓   Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71A – Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy
✓   (I Wish I Could) Shimmy Like My Sister Kate   4:50   Preservation Hall Jazz Band
✓   We Will Rock You   2:02   Queen
✓   We Are The Champions   3:02   Queen
✓   Crazy Little Thing Called Love   2:44   Queen
✓   Try Not To Breathe   3:51   R.E.M.   Automatic For The People
✓   Man On The Moon   5:14   R.E.M.   Automatic For The People
✓   Nightswimming   4:18   R.E.M.   Automatic For The People
✓   Shiny Happy People   3:46   R.E.M.   Out Of Time
✓   Half A World Away   3:28   R.E.M.   Out Of Time
✓   I Will Go Sailing No More   2:58   Randy Newman
✓   Strange Things   3:20   Randy Newman   Classic Disney, Vol. 5
✓   Ya Got Trouble   3:59   Robert Preston & Ensemble   The Music Man
✓   Building A Mystery   4:07   Sarah Mclachlan   Surfacing
✓   Adia   4:05   Sarah Mclachlan   Surfacing
✓   Sunny Came Home   4:24   Shawn Colvin   A Few Small Repairs
✓   Goodnight My Someone   2:52   Shirley Jones   The Music Man
✓   Till There Was You   2:59   Shirley Jones   The Music Man   Soundtrack
✓   Lida Rose / Will I Ever Tell You?   4:15   Shirley Jones & The Buffalo Bills
✓   Ol Man River   4:08   Showtunes   The Best Of Broadway – The 30’s
✓   Tears Of A Clown   3:00   Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
✓   My Cherie Amour   2:53   Stevie Wonder   Motown 40 Forever – Disc 1
✓   You Are The Sunshine Of My Live   2:53   Stevie Wonder
✓   You Can’t Hurry Love   2:52   The Supremes
✓   And She Was   3:39   Talking Heads   Little Creatures
✓   Mad World   3:29   Tears For Fears   Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits)
✓   Everbody Wants To Rule The World   4:14   Tears For Fears
✓   My Girl   2:46   Temptations   Greatest Hits   Motown
✓   Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone   6:58   Temptations
✓   Lie To Me   3:28   Theresa Andersson
✓   Birdhouse In Your Soul   3:21   They Might Be Giants   Flood
✓   Istanbul (Not Constantinople)   2:38   They Might Be Giants   Flood
✓   Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331   2:52
✓   One   4:36   U2   Achtung Baby   Rock
✓   Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Hor   5:17   U2   Achtung Baby
✓   Pride   3:50   U2
✓   With Or Without You   4:59   U2
✓   Where The Streets Have No Name   5:38   U2   The Joshua Tree
✓   William Tell Overture   3:10   Various Artists   Symphony on the Green [Disc 3]
✓   Barber of Seville Overture   2:12   Various Artists   Symphony on the Green [Disc 3]
✓   The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room   2:41   Wally Boag, Fulton Burley, Thurl Ravenscroft & The Mellomen
✓   Treaty   3:37   Yothu Yindi   Tribal Voice
Mary Lynn | 10-Oct-10 at 8:37 pm | Permalink
We have a playlist for our kids, too, who are the same age. They have quite a few of the songs you have listed, though not all of course so I’m loving the suggestions. Istanbul (Not Constantinople)! Why hadn’t I thought of that!
Anyway, here are a few other tunes our kids really seem to love:
That’s How You Know – Amy Adams (Enchanted Sountrack)
There She Goes – Boo Radleys
I Want Candy – Bow Wow Wow
Video Killed the Radio Star – The Buggles
Love Cats – The Cure
Headlock – Imogen Heap
Over the Rainbow – Jason Castro
Celebration – Kool & the Gang
Our House – Madness
Fly to Your Heart – Selena Gomez (Tinkerbell soundtrack)
Real Gone – Sheryl Crow (Cars Soundtrack)
We Are Family – Sister Sledge
Puttin’ On the Ritz – Taco
Sleeping Satellite – Tasmin Archer
(Life is a Rock) But the Radio Rolled Me – Tracey Ullman
Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
YMCA – Village People
Wavin’ Flag – Young Artists for Haiti (K’naan)
Painted Maypole | 11-Oct-10 at 5:40 am | Permalink
What? nothing from the Pinkalicious soundtrack?
chrissieroux | 11-Oct-10 at 7:03 am | Permalink
Awesome list! I would also suggest:
* Some tunes by Trout Fishing in America
* Some tunes from Jack Johnson’s “Curious George” soundtrack album
* Something from “Princess and the Frog”
* Something from “Aladdin”
(we have all of these, if you want to borrow and rip)
elena | 11-Oct-10 at 11:59 am | Permalink
I would second the Curious George soundtrack. Stella is also a HUGE fan of the Laurie Berkner Band.
Aliza | 11-Oct-10 at 12:31 pm | Permalink
I have a great sleepy mix Alli left me at Abeona on both my ipod and cd. I could send it to you or bring it by if yall haven’t left.
Heather.engel@gmail. | 11-Oct-10 at 5:31 pm | Permalink
Our kids love Rockin’ Robin, Michael Franti, and Zac Brown Band. Also MC Yogi is kind of fun.
Emmy | 11-Oct-10 at 7:06 pm | Permalink
Have to second Chrissie’s Jack Johnson “Curious George”==
Our kids like some Black Eyed Peas “Tonight’s gonna be a good night”
“Hey Soul Sista”
“Stand Up and Get Crunk” maybe not for the plane
“When the Saints…”
“Addams Family” intro
“Iko Iko”–A-hem.
“Superstitious”
“I just called to say I love you”
Fun fun fun!
chrissieroux | 12-Oct-10 at 6:47 am | Permalink
The Abeona House “sleepy mix” is on my i-Pod…it is amazing.
eli | 14-Oct-10 at 10:07 am | Permalink
Is it horrible that Wylie doesn’t have an MP3 player? Is it horrible that his music is our music?
We do however have two CDs with the Disneyland rides music on it. However, if we aren’t listening to NPR (he likes it! Really) He is listening with me to whatever is playing on 1st wave. More than one occasion he has jammed out to The Ramones Blitzkrieg Pop and The Clash “Lost in the Supermarket”
So I guess my kid is into music in general!