Twenty-nine of the best artists in children's music participated in the challenge to create a special one minute songs. The results are as unique as the artists themselves. So buckle up and take a wild musical ride through rock, pop, folk, blues, classical, rap, bluegrass, samba, rockabilly, jazz, and Latin. And after your catch our breath, start all over again!

With 29 original songs, this album has a little something for everyone - even those with short attention spans. Joanie Bartels sings Go For It, sending a positive message through an 1980s rock beat. "Practice and patience, commitment and car, you've got what it takes to get you there. You can make it if you give it a try, so give it all you've got and reach for the sky!" Music Is A Lovely Language, played by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, is a great introduction to classical music and musical terms. Feeling jazzy? Listen to My Cool Shoes. More into rap? Skip to We Shall Overcome. How about techno-pop (Gotta Be Mine), pop-rock (Alphabet soup), ragtime (Here and Gone), a rock song complete with electric guitar (I Love My Brother, Sometimes), or even some Hand-Me-Down Blues sung by a child. Beside the wide range of genres, the creative sound effects and ways of presenting lyrics is also appealing to young listeners. Peaceful Feet includes tons of repetition and every shape and form of the word 'feet'. In Five Minutes More, cartoonish voices respond in the call-and-response style to singer Bill Harley.

The recording is full of sensory experiences. A Tiny Little Gear will inspire imagination when listeners try to 'see' the story about the pieces inside a clock, hear the clarinet, cymbal and wood block working together. In Heartbeat and Somba One, Samba Two feel the beat and perhaps start moving to it. It Only Takes a Minute teaches listeners how to say hello in many different languages including Italian, French, Hawaiian, Greek, Filipino, and Navajo. Cataplin teaches listeners to say 'goodbye' in different languages; au revoir, Shalom, adios, weidersehen, selam, ciao, aloha, cheers, and more! Travelin' the USA names all 50 states, making it a fun educational song that you can go over with your child and show them where all the states are located on a map.

My three-year-old friend, Sam, first heard this CD at his daycare. The teacher told me later that Sam really seemed to like the music, so I added it to his Easter basket that year. When I sat down to listen to it with him, the song Rocks In My Pockets caught my attention. Just a few weeks earlier, Sam said - seemingly out of nowhere - "I got rocks in my pants, How did they get here?" I had laughed it off at the time, but now saw that he was actually singing part of the verse, "I got rocks in my pockets, I got rocks in my hair, I got rocks in my pants, how did they get here?

--Audra

Rounder Records was founded in 1970 by three college students and devoted folk and bluegrass fans in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin, and Marian Leighton-Levy. Rounder received its name because of its numerous meanings; Leighton-Levy says "this was the right name, for all that 'Rounder' represented folklorically (hobos, travelers) and the (folk music iconoclasts) Holy Modal Rounders, and record shapes...on and on...round and round.