Songs to Grow By

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?

✓    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