Let's Go!
Travel, Camp & Car Songs
Let’s Go! takes you and your children on an adventure through music: you’ll explore the woods, stargaze on a cowboy’s range, dig for clams in San Francisco Bay, yodel with an ostrich on a mountain and visit 22 other traditional-now-hip places. Let’s Go! compiles 26 travel, camp & car songs, providing more than an hour of entertainment (perfect for road trips.) As with all Rock Me Baby Records CDs, this CD offers fresh, upbeat styles, real instruments, lots of voices, and interesting takes on the old favorites--adding cool rhythms and contemporary arrangements.
Let’s Go! is Susie Tallman's and Rock Me Baby Records’ sixth album in a collection of award-winning music, popular with both children and parents. Let’s Go! was recorded in Sydney & Melbourne, Australia with producers Mark O’Connor and Peter Farnan. The guest artists include Peter Maslen on drums, Greg O’Connor on ukelele and vocals, Michael Reily Burke, Maude Farnan, Stella Farnan and Mark O’Connor on vocals.
“Road trips and campfires make up strong childhood memories and they were always accompanied by song. Between my parents, brother and grandparents, we sung all the time. My grandfather was a park ranger-naturalist at Yosemite and Lassen National Parks in the 1930’s, 1940’s and 1950’s. Not only did my grandfather take campers on nature hikes, he led campfires and taught songs, played the banjo and violin, so he passed down many of his camp favorites, including Ain’t Gonna Rain No More, 1000 Legged Worm, You Are My Sunshine, Oh Susanna, The Old Family Toothbrush. I decided to make this record to encourage the family to get together and sing in the car and hopefully create a soundtrack for vacations,” says Susie.
"Susie records music of quality for young children. It is her mission to provide music that is an alternative to the plethora of that genre offered commercially that is childish instead of child-like, sarcastic instead of sincere, a kind of music that fails to honor children and childhood. She is dedicated to excellence as she chooses materials that reflect traditional, heritage, and Classical forms, all performed artistically and in a beautifully natural style. In today's society, parents have often forgotten or lost the ability to share songs with their children. Here, they have a wonderful model and a way to give their children a repertoire and vocabulary to accompany their journey through their very important formative years."
Louise Loomis (Director New Mexico Symphony Children’s Chorus)
Song LIST
(click here to see and print lyrics)
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Let's Go!
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Polly Wolly Doodle
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Madalina Catalina
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Throw It Out The Window
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Going On A Bear Hunt
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On Top Of Spaghetti
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A Sailor Went To Sea
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Oh! Susanna
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You Are My Sunshine
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The Old Family Toothbrush
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Sippin’ Cider Through A Straw
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Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?
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I Love The Mountains
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Swimming Hole
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The Ostrich Song
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Blowin’ In The Wind
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Boom Chicka Boom
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Yankee Doodle
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Mary Ann McCarty
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Clementine
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Aint’ Gonna Rain No More
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There’s A Hole In The Bucket
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1,000 Legged Worm
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Home On The Range
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My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean
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To Morrow