Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child

Infobox Album |
Name = Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child
Type = Album
Artist = Woody Guthrie


Cover size = 139
Released = 1956, 1991
Recorded = 1947
Genre = Children's music
Length =
Label = Smithsonian Folkways
Producer =
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dnfoxq95ldfe link] |
Last album = "Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti" (1947)
This album = "Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child" (1947)
Next album = "Nursery Days" (1947)

"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. [cite web |url=http://woodyguthrie.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TWGS&Product_Code=CDGMAC&Category_Code= |title=Songs To Grow On For Mother & Child CD |accessdate=2007-06-12 |format= |work= ]

Track listing

# "Grassy Grass Grass (Grow, Grow, Grow)"
# "Swimmy Swim"
# "Little Sugar (Little Saka Sugar)"
# "Rattle My Rattle"
# "I Want My Milk (I Want It Now)"
# "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8"
# "One Old Day"
# "Wash-y Wash Wash (Warshy Little Tootsy)"
# "I'll Eat You, I'll Drink You"
# "Make A Blobble"
# "Who's My Pretty Baby (Hey Pretty Baby)"
# "I'll Write And I'll Draw"
# "Why, Oh Why"
# "Pick It Up"
# "Pretty And Shiny-O"
# "Needle Sing"
# "Bling-Blang"
# "Goodnight Little Arlo (Goodnight Little Darlin')"

See also

* Woody Guthrie discography

References

External links

* [http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=2281 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Release]