TDmonthly's ToyFair 2006 Preview--Audio & CD Product Category

Wee Sing in the Marvelous Musical Mansion by WEE SING PRODUCTIONS

A mysterious package from Timbuktu? A door knocker that rattles off riddles? Music boxes that come to life? Piccolo Pizza and Piano Pudding? Where will you find such magical, musical, mysterious things? At Uncle Rubato’s Marvelous Musical Mansion! 7/16/2008 (Price: $14.95) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

The Wiggles: "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" by KOCH ENTERTAINMENT

Songs on this dance-oriented, 19-track album include "The Fairy Dance," "La Bamba" and "The Shimmie Shake!" It includes special guests Troy Cassar-Daley and Leo Sayer. 7/2/2008 (Price: $18.00) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

A Treasure in My Garden by THE SECRET MOUNTAIN

Featuring songs by Gilles Vigneault, illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch and performed by Hart-Rougé, this album includes nursery rhymes, goodnight stories and engaging melodies. The disc includes two animated music videos and printable files with lyrics and illustrations. 7/2/2008 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Sesame Street Playground by PUTUMAYO KIDS

Sesame Street Playground is an exciting world music adventure for kids, with each song and video produced in its country of origin. Thirteen songs from Brazil, France, China, India, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, Palestine, Russia, South Africa and Tanzania complement two from the U.S. flagship production. The two-disc package features a music CD with 13 songs, featuring favorite Sesame Street Muppets, plus characters developed to reflect the unique cultural and social development needs of children in each host country. The DVD features 5 music videos that visit distant locales such as Russia, South Africa and Mexico. ( Watch Video) 6/26/2008 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Let the Good Times Rouler! French Party Songs for Kids by THE SECRET MOUNTAIN

This 35-minute, 10-track album includes the following songs: "Au bal des alligators" ("At the Alligator's Ball") by Genevieve Bilodeau, "Feu de camp" ("Campfire") by Bia et Thomas Hellman, and "Le train du Nord" ("The North Train") by Catherine Durand. It features Acadian (Cajun) style and singer-songwriters from Montreal. The CD includes a printable file of French lyrics and translations. Launch date: June 24, 2008. 6/19/2008 (Price: $12.98) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Universal Music Family: Motown for Kids by UNIVERSAL MUSIC ENTERPRISES

This 14-track album includes "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, "ABC" by the Jackson 5, and Stevie Wonder's "Uptight." The CDs come in 100-percent recyclable EcoPaks. Launch date: August 19, 2008. 6/19/2008

Universal Music Family: Songs for the Car by UNIVERSAL MUSIC ENTERPRISES

This 12-track album includes "All Star" by Smash Mouth, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" from The Temptations, and "MMMBop" by Hanson. The CDs come in 100-percent recyclable EcoPaks. Launch date: August 19, 2008. 6/19/2008

Grandchildren's Delight by WORLD MUSIC WITH DARIA

The fourth CD by award-winning children's artist Daria comes with songs from the "good old days" that is delightful for all ages. Run the "Grand Old Flag" up the flagpole, strum along with "This Land Is Your Land" or just let your "Little Light Shine." Plenty of songs to sing and play along with. 6/18/2008 [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Jadda Jadda Jing Jing Jing! by WORLD MUSIC WITH DARIA

The first CD from Daria. This album includes favorites such as "This Land Is Your Land" and La Bamba. Go back in time to listen to classics such as "Jadda" and "Three Little Fishes". And sing along to silly favorites such as Akin Drum and Hagdalena Hagdalena, accompanied on spoons and jaw harp. 6/18/2008 (Price: $14.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

I Have a Dream by WORLD MUSIC WITH DARIA

This album features Daria’s popular Martin Luther King song plus songs in English, Spanish, Hebrew, Zulu and one song in the tradition of an Iroquois woman’s song sung with a Lenape clan mother. Awards include the 2004 NAPPA Parenting Honor Award and 2004 Best New Artist – Children's Music Web. 6/18/2008 (Price: $14.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Corsair Tabletop Radio by CROSLEY RADIO CORPORATION

The system comes with a CD player, a programmable 20-track memory, repeat and random play functions, a digital alarm clock and an AM/FM radio. Users can opt to wake to CD, radio or buzzer. Chrome varieties are available with an MSRP of $99.95. The unit is “styled out like a 1950s automobile,” Crosley Radio Corporation Public Relations Coordinator Laura Cothran told TDmonthly. 6/16/2008 (Price: $79.95) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Who Will Save our planet? by ALL 4 KIDZ ENTERPRISES

The educational book teaches children about global warming in an eye-catching, informative format. An accompanying audio CD is also included. Launch date: May 2008. 6/16/2008 (Price: $12.95) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Ralph's World Rhyming Circus by WALT DISNEY HOME ENTERTAINMENT

The thirteen-track record is replete with fun songs for both parents and children. Launch date: May 20, 2008. 6/16/2008 (Price: $12.98)

Wolves! Folk Stories Featuring Our Best Friend's Wild Cousin by EASTERN COYOTE RECORDINGS

Wolves! is performed by Tim Jennings and Leanne Ponder (considered two of America's best folk storytellers) with a distinctive duo-narrative style, voices overlapping and interlocking. Weaving through the tales, the couple plays Celtic music on harp and concertina. The album is a live family show of traditional folk tales where wolves are not the enemy. Sometimes heroes, sometimes chumps, they are characters with whom we can identify, and always worthy of our love and respect. Funny, emotional, thought-provoking, and mesmerizing -- adults enjoy listening with their kids!
— Parents' Choice Silver Honoree
— Children's Music Web "Best Spoken Word Recording Young Children" and "Best Spoken Word Recording Older Children" 6/13/2008 (Price: $15.00) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Yes to Running! CD Set by ROUND RIVER RECORDS

The two-disc set features hilarious stories and sing-along music by Grammy Award-winning storyteller and musician Bill Harley. The CDs feature ten songs and stories, providing a fun introduction to Harley's offbeat and insightful way of looking at life. Launch date: August 10, 2008. 6/4/2008 (Price: $17.99) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

THE TEASING BIRD and Other Stories by BRAINY TUNES RECORDS

Ira Marlowe’s first release on Brainy Tunes Records won the 2006 Parents’ Choice Silver Honor.  It features 13 songs which are not only full of wonder and imagination, but also challenging and educational.  Titles include “Molly the Moose”, about a jailbreak from the Bronx Zoo, “The Teasing Bird”, in which a nasty bird, weighed down by negativity, finds it can no longer fly, “Krinkledinks and Grodsnips”, about tiny monsters who learn to co-exist beneath a bathroom mat, and “There Once Was A Bagel”, in which a breakfast staple defies the laws of both gravity and common sense.  At Brainy Tunes, we take pride in creating music that parents will want to hear as often as their kids will want to play it!  A 28-page lyric booklet is included. 6/4/2008 (Price: $12)

Music is ... MATH! by SoundScience

This award-winning new audio CD series teaches the early developing brain the framework of mathematics, spatial relationships, symmetry and motion — all through a passive CD system that plays in the background. This groundbreaking product is a multi-CD series designed to match the ages amd stages of a baby's brain development. 6/4/2008

Dream Time by BRAINY TUNES RECORDS

"DREAM TIME" is the brand-new CD from Brainy Tunes, first released in December 2007, now re-released in March 2008 with four new songs! It features a total of eleven songs runs for over forty minutes. Click on the titles below to read the lyrics and sample the songs! 5/29/2008 (Price: $12)

What Is It ? Musical Math & Science by RE-BOP RECORDS

Drawing inspiration from children's picture books, What Is It? Musical Math & Science introduces children to the building blocks of math and science through lively story-songs. The unique recording demonstrates that these little books can provide a multidimensional and powerful learning experience. Winner of Dr. Toy’s Best Children’s Vacation Product 2004, Parents’ Choice Approved Award among others. 5/29/2008 (Price: $14.98) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Funny 50s And Silly 60s by RE-BOP RECORDS

The Re-Bops round up their silliest singing friends to bring you a Kool Kiddies Hit Parade of the 50s and 60s most peculiar personalities — The Purple People Eater, Surfin' Bird, The Witch Doctor and Wooly Bully, just to name a few! 5/29/2008 (Price: $14.98) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

Even Kids Get The Blues by RE-BOP RECORDS

These 16 original songs have kids’ concerns directly at heart, and like many blues classics, sometimes they’ll make you want to cry, dance, be quietly alone, or just laugh out loud! The Re-Bops’ Even Kids Get The Blues is designed to introduce children to this dynamic music genre, and to demonstrate that expressing their own real-life feelings and experiences through the blues is nothing short of empowering. Winner of 2004 Nappa and Parents' Choice Awards. 5/29/2008 (Price: $14.98) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]

I Love Toy Trains - The Music! by BLUE VISION MUSIC LLC

Released specially for the fans of the “I Love Toy Trains” video series, acclaimed family recording artist James Coffey steams out of the station again with his latest collection of railroad songs. Based on the soundtrack tunes he created for this popular video series, Coffey includes 32 previously unreleased songs relating to the magic and wonder of locomotives. 5/20/2008 (Price: $14.95)

Come Ride Along With Me by BLUE VISION MUSIC LLC

James Coffey's "Come Ride Along With Me" features great songs about fun, toys, trains and travel. Many of these songs are featured on the "I Love Toy Trains" video series. Critics, parents and kids agree this award-winning CD of train songs is musical fun for the whole family with imaginative lyrics and funky, jazzy, pop and folk tunes. 5/20/2008 (Price: $12.95)

Animal Groove by BLUE VISION MUSIC LLC

Kids will go WILD over Animal Groove from award-winning children's songwriter James Coffey who take kids on an imaginative fun-filled journey through the animal kingdom. Kids will hop like kangaroos swing like the monkeys swing, and soar like eagles with his diverse musical style. Tap your toes to the Cajun style "Critter Jambalaya" or dance along to the "Jellyfish Jump." Sing-along with some old favorites like "The Bunny Hop" or a very funky "BINGO." 5/20/2008 (Price: $14.95)

Stardust lullaby CD collection by AUDIBLE CHOCOLATE PRODUCTIONS

Multiple award-winning 2-disc lullaby collection for all ages features lilting vocals and authentic instrumentation performed by symphony and jazz players. With over 2½ hours of relaxing music, a 24-page booklet and additional instrumental tracks to help parents sing to and with their children, Stardust is being heralded by many reviewers as one of the best lullaby collections available.Winner of an "iParenting Media Award," a 2008 "Parents' Choice" Award, a Creative Child's "Preferred Choice Award," and more." 5/19/2008 (Price: $24.95) [Add to my Inquiry Basket][?]