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A Duck in New York City
A Duck in New York City
A Duck in New York City
by Connie Kaldor

This recording has twelve original songs with catchy tunes ranging from big band sounds, to jazz, boogie woogie, pop, and even a waltz-tango mix. Your child will love to play around to, act out, and sing these songs at the top of their lungs. Featured instruments include acoustic and electric guitar, bass, ukulele, whistle, percussion, timpani, drums, mandolin, juice harp, bongos, dumbek, flute, banjo, harmonica, trombone, trumpet, euphonium, trombone, violin, and various sound effects. Children's voices are also heard on select songs.

Age: 3 Year-olds | Title: A Duck in New York City  |  Artist: Connie Kaldor  |  Label: Secret Mountain

This recording has twelve original songs with catchy tunes ranging from big band sounds, to jazz, boogie woogie, pop, and even a waltz-tango mix. Your child will love to play around to, act out, and sing these songs at the top of their lungs. Featured instruments include acoustic and electric guitar, bass, ukulele, whistle, percussion, timpani, drums, mandolin, juice harp, bongos, dumbek, flute, banjo, harmonica, trombone, trumpet, euphonium, trombone, violin, and various sound effects. Children's voices are also heard on select songs.

The song titles suggest silliness right away; Belly Button is a catchy ballad singing praises to belly buttons, and even suggesting a Belly Button Day! The Nose song is an upbeat tune all about how much the singer loves her nose - she even wishes she had two! A Duck in New York City has the big band sound. Slug Opera uses a silly voice to imitate what a slug (supposedly) sounds like. The opera tune breaks down into a boogy-woogy in the middle, sure to get your child moving. If You Love a Hippopotamus is sure to be a quick favorite, as children sing along and even make up a word to complete the rhyme, "And you love her a lot-amus." Seed in the Ground is one of the fewer slower, mellow songs on the CD, displaying a pretty harmony not heard in the other songs.

Some of the songs tells stories, or involve tasks that you can talk with your child about, such as eating tomatoes. Even though the song presents its message in a funny manner (naming crazy tomato concoctions like tomato milkshakes and tomato-flavored toothpaste), the idea of making tomatoes fun for kids is great! Can you get your little one to try a tomato after hearing the song? I Want to be a Cloud is a great imagination stoker; the song names all kinds of fun things to change in to if you were a cloud - a tricycle, hamburger, spaceship, or a diamond ring! What sorts of images would your child want to turn in to if they were a cloud? Perhaps your child just wants to boogy down and sing along. In that case, they can easily join in the fun lyrics in The Alligator Waltz, like "La-la-la-la hmmmmmmm" and "hoochy kootchy kootchy koo", or they could practice whistling along with Belly Button. Honey, Honey, Honey is set up like a campfire song, with no instruments, and it is perfect for singing along. Children can join in right away, as "Honey" is the only word in the chorus. The singer even makes funny voices for the bee and bear, adding to the fun. There is a clever twist to the end of this song, but I won't give it away here.

My three-year-old friend, Sam, liked Belly Button and Laundry Bag the most. He laughed so hard when he heard "party pants" and "smarty pants" mentioned as a type of clothing in the landry bag! I asked him what pants he was wearing, and looked down at his jeans, thought for a minute, and then proudly stated, "There are my big boy pants!"

--Audra

This recording has won multiple awards, including the Parents' Choice Gold Award, National Parenting Publications Association (NAPPA) Honors Award, a Juno Award (Canadian equivalent to the Grammy Award), and Children's Album of the Year. Story, lyrics, music and lead vocals are by Connie Kaldor, who is "one of Canada's most significant contemporary folk performers" (Billboard Magazine). Her song Wood River is considered by many to be the quintessential Saskatchewan song. In 2007, she was appointed to the Order of Canada.
 
The Secret Mountain's music has touched the hearts of parents and children for years. With multiple awards from Parents' Choice, NAPPA and Juno Awards, the Montreal-based publishing house has made great children's entertainment that both kids and adults will love.

1. A Duck in New York City

2. If You Love a Hippopotamus

3. Laundry Bag

4. Belly Button

5. The Alligator Waltz

6. Seed in the Ground

7. Slug Opera

8. Honey, Honey, Honey

9. I Love Tomatoes

10. The Nose Song

11. Quack, Quack, Quack

12. I Want to be a Cloud

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