The Family Songbook is the perfect choice for a sing-along. The songs are well-known, the arrangements are easily playable and the keys are singable. The list of composers and artists reads like a Hall of Fame List: George and Ira Gershwin, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Woody Guthrie, Cole Porter, Luther Vandross and Kelly Clarkson, to name a few. Dan Coates' arrangements sound full and rich, while still remaining accessible.

Texts of songs of the standard variety, which lend themselves to group singing.

(Bass Recorded Versions Persona). Dance to the music with the bass groove of a baker's dozen of the best tunes from these masters of funk from the '70s, including: Babies Makin' Babies * Dance to the Music * Everyday People * Family Affair * I Want to Take You Higher * Life * Sing a Simple Song * Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Again) * (You Caught Me) Smilin' * and more.

In Dan Zanes' House Party!, the Grammy Award-winning children's artist presents a huge collection of folk songs along with inspiration to start your own family band. Too often, new parents eager to share their love of music with their young children feel their options are limited to cuddly singing dinosaurs and well-meaning humans whose understanding of children’s music starts with “Kumbaya” and ends with “Puff the Magic Dragon.” For many sane adults, these choices are more abrasive than the most aggro noise-rock of their college years. Dan Zanes has spent the past 20 years creating a truly compelling body of children's music that music-loving parents can also get behind. A former 1980s indie rocker, Zanes' 13 children's albums have gained wide praise for their authentic arrangements and preservation of America's folk traditions. In Dan Zanes' House Party!, the Grammy Award–winning Zanes has curated a rich selection of folk songs that comprise an essential musical cross-section of the American experience and its multicultural, immigrant underpinnings. The selections include the standard songs we all know and love, along with folk classics. Each song is accompanied by a brief narrative on its historical context, followed by lyrics, notation, and chords. Among the songs you'll learn to play: "Erie Canal," "Pay Me My Money Down," "Titanic," "Waltzing Matilda," "The Farmer Is the One," "Wabash Cannonball," "Sloop John B.," "Old Joe Clark," "Skip to My Lou," "King Kong Kitchie," and "We Shall Not Be Moved." Dan Zanes' House Party! also includes informational sidebars throughout to give families the basics needed to pick up instruments and learn to more fully enjoy music as a family band. And in the back of the book, you'll find chord charts for guitar, ukele, and mandolin. More than just a collection of songs, Dan Zanes’ House Party! is part music book, part history lesson, and a work that all families can enjoy—together.

This ultimate anthology of holiday songs from the pop music genre includes eight festive standards presented as duets. Two singers of any voice part will enjoy singing these flexible arrangements with either the stylish piano accompaniments or the fully-orchestrated CD. Perfect for seasonal programs, concerts, productions, and recitals. Titles: Believe * I'll Be Home for Christmas * It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year * Jingle Bells * Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth * Mele Kalikimaka * Sleigh Ride * Yes, Virginia (There's a Santa Claus).

URL: https://www.areditions.com/rr/rra/a071.html The eight Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867¿1957), anchored in her family¿s history and filled with memories of frontier life, are cornerstone classics in American children¿s literature. Embedded in them are citations to 127 pieces of music--from parlor songs, stage songs, minstrel show songs, patriotic songs, Scottish and Irish songs, hymns and spirituals, to fiddle tunes, singing school songs, play party songs, folk songs, broadside ballads, catches and rounds. No books in American literature of comparable standing and popularity feature America¿s vernacular music so centrally, assign it such a major narrative role, and index it in such rich abundance. This edition is a reconstruction of "the family songbook," based on the music referenced in Wilder¿s books. Although no such object ever existed, her representations of music-making have likely informed the imaginations of more Americans than many a paper-and-bindings anthology, for what millions of readers have come to know about America¿s musical heritage is what they learned from the Little House books¿the titles and lyrics to songs; how songs and tunes functioned; where they were heard; what they meant; the importance of music to individuals, families, and communities. Wilder¿s references and her evocative images of music-making thus form the basis of understanding about "American music" to many readers. The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook is an effort to give fresh voice and sound to the music inscribed in these great books and new appreciation about how music functioned during a place and time important in American history and mythology.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 67 songs kids love from classics to today's top TV hits! Includes: The Addams Family Theme * And the Green Grass Grows All Around * Blue's Clues Theme * Bob the Builder * Everyone Knows He's Winnie the Pooh * Chopsticks * Dora the Explorer Theme Song * Dragon Tales Theme * Kiss the Girl * Linus and Lucy * SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song * Thomas the Tank Engine * VeggieTales Theme Song * Welcome to the Blue House * You'll Be in My Heart * dozens more!

A piano man in 1960s New York keeps to himself and away from his father's mob ties until his hit collaboration with Esther Mine thrusts him into a national spotlight that also stirs up issues with his father's associates.