Gillygaloo's debut album, Little Green Thing, is a rich musical gumbo of fun songs and dance tunes ranging from ethnic and regional folk traditions, old-time country music, African-American play-party songs, and fiddle tunes from New York, Ireland, Scandinavia, Arizona, and Hawaii. The album includes children singing and many instruments, such as the fiddle, guitar, squeezebox, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, button accordion, slide guitar, harmonica, dulcimer and more!

This recording stands out from other albums through its creativity, variety, liveliness, and straight forward fun! There are a few familiar songs with clever twists; Singing Alphabet puts the alphabet to a new tune, so listeners will really have to know it to sing along. Mama Liza Jane is presented without instruments and in a call-and-response style, with children singing and clapping in the background. The More We Get Together will likely already be familiar to your little one, but this version includes a fiddle solo and different rests in the verses, giving the song a bit of a makeover. Two songs begin with kids telling the story as though they were news reporters. In Little Green Thing, the child reporters explain that a UFO has just landed in a park in Brooklyn before breaking into a jazz-boogie tune that even includes some scat! The children reporters at the beginning of Brudmarsch Fran Rattvik explain the silly story of two penguins getting married, leading into the upbeat Yiddish klezmer music for the Jewish wedding celebration. Other song styles include a waltz with beautiful harmonies, polka, upbeat instrumentals, and even a relaxing Hawaiian melody featuring Schlomo's voice and ukulele talents against the background sounds of the ocean.

This album has plenty of opportunities to join in the fun. City Bus has great lyrics for acting out, as you can honk the horn and wave at people on the streets as Suzi sings about it. In Down in the Valley, Suzi tells listeners exactly what to do, whether it's shading your eyes and imagine you're looking over the valley, jumping like a jack rabbit, or flying like an eagle. Children will love the elephant sounds and the creative use of the fiddle to sound like a mosquito buzzing; and you can ask if they can imitate those funny sounds? Listeners can let loose and swing dance with Hey Diddle Swing, sashay to the Peeler Creek Waltz, or move 'round in a circle holding hands before falling down (as directed to do) in Sally Go 'Round the Sunshine. Your child will soon be laughing right alongside the children heard giggling on the CD.

Gillygaloo band members include Suzi Shelton, Shlomo Pestcoe, Bob Jones, and Michael Gorin. The band was formed in Winter of 2000 when Schlomo introduced the other members of the band to one another. In 2003, they released their critically - acclaimed first album, Little Green Thing. The band got their name form a mythical bird, noted for laying square eggs, found in North American folk stories concerning the giant lumberjack, Paul Bunyan.

In 2006, Suzi Shelton left the band to focus on her solo career, singing her own songs for children young children. She passed the torch of lead singer for Gillygaloo on to new band member, Mamie Minch.