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Formats and Editions
1. Grassy Grass Grass (Grow, Grow, Grow)
2. Swimmy Swim
3. Little Sugar (Little Saka Sugar)
4. Rattle My Rattle
5. I Want My Milk (I Want It Now)
6. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
7. One Day Old
8. Wash-Y Wash Wash (Warshy Little Tootsy)
9. I'll Eat You, I'll Drink You
10. Make a Blobble
11. Who's My Pretty Baby (Hey Pretty Baby)
12. I'll Write and I'll Draw
13. Why, Oh Why
14. Pick It Up
15. Pretty and Shiny-O
16. Needle Sing
17. Bling Blang
18. Goodnight Little Arlo (Goodnight Little Darlin')
More Info:
Beautifully remastered vintage recordings with vocals, acoustic guitar, and rattles. Includes counting songs 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and One Day Old, playful songs Wash-y Wash and Pick It Up, and songs of adoration Little Sugar and Eat You Up. "Songs meant for you to sing with your children as parents have done for generations." - Long Island Parenting News
Woody Guthrie offered some sage advice in his liner notes to this collection of children's tunes. "Don't just buy this record and take it home so your kids can listen to it while you go off and do something else," the legendary folksinger counsels. Folk-music fans won't find it difficult to follow those directions. First released in 1956, Songs to Grown On, with its infectious spirit, is likely to prove irresistible to mom, pop, and 4- to 6-year-old tot alike. The likes of "Grassy Grass Grass," "Swimmy Swim," and "Wash-y Wash Wash" (detecting a trend here?) are as spontaneous and nonsensical as baby babble, and almost as delightful. So do as Woody suggested: pull up a chair and a kid or two and enjoy. --Steven Stolder
SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
WOODY GUTHRIE
SONGS TO GROW ON FOR MOTHER & CHILD
Reviews:
''Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child'' is a collection of children's music by folk singer Woody Guthrie. Recorded in 1947 and first released in 1956, a remastered recording was issued by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 1991. Several songs in the collection are instructional, helping children learn to count. Others are songs of adoration written by Guthrie with his own children in mind. For example, the last song on the list was written for his son Arlo Guthrie who would have been nine years old at the time of the release.
"I really did try to slant these songs at all of your citizens from 4 to 6, but I spilled over a little on every side" - Woody Guthrie. - Wikipedia
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