Music for families once known simply as kid’s music continues to be very popular. Many festivals devote one stage full time to family entertainment. Bring the Kids features some classic family performers including Pete Seeger, Tom Chapin and Peter, Paul & Mary. This episode also includes newcomers Nick Bayard and Oozakazoo. So call the kids!

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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle / Smithsonian-Folkways

The Beau Hunks / “Good Old Days” / The Beau Hunks Play The Little Rascals Music / Koch
Tom Chapin / “Family Tree” / Family Tree / Gadfly
Nick Bayard / “Pancakes” / Wishing Well / Self Produced
Lorraine Duisit & Tom Espinola / “Goin’ Up the Mountain-Tickledy Raindrops /
        Little Folks Songs / Creative Life
Oozakazoo / “Dinosaur in my Backyard” / Young Folk Rock / Self Produced

Pete Seeger / “The Foolish Frog” / Children’s Concert at Town Hall / Columbia
Woody Guthrie / “(Take Me) Riding in My Car” / The Greatest Songs of Woody Guthrie Vol. 1 /
        Vanguard
Mike, Peggy, Barbara & Penny Seeger / “Raccoon and Possum” / Animal Folk Songs For
        Children / Rounder
The Beau Hunks / “Bells” / The Beau Hunks Play The Little Rascals Music / Koch

Peter, Paul & Mary / “I’m in Love with a Big Blue Frog” / Album 1700 / Warner Brothers
Tom Paxton / “Goin’ to the Zoo” / Ramblin Boy / Elektra
Greg Brown / “You Might as Well Go to Sleep” / Bath Tub Blues / Red House
Riders in the Sky / “The Cowboy’s ABC” / Saddle Pals / Rounder
John McCutcheon / “Rubber Blubber Whale” / Howjadoo / Rounder

Dave Fry / “Playground-Jimalong Joe” / Playground / Self-Produced
Taj Mahal / “Light Rain” / Shake Sugaree / Music for Little People
The Kentucky Headhunters / “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” / Best of The Kentucky
        Headhunters / Mercury

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs of Hope and Struggle Smithsonian-Folkways