“Kiddie Records Weekly is a three year project celebrating the golden age of children’s records. This brief but prolific period spanned from the mid forties through the early fifties, producing a wealth of all-time classics. Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood productions on major record labels and featured big time celebrities and composers.
Over the years, these forgotten treasures have slipped off the radar and now stand on the brink of extinction. Our mission is to give them a new lease on life by sharing them with today’s generation of online listeners. Each recording has been carefully transferred from the original 78s and encoded to MP3 format for you to download and enjoy. You’ll find a new addition every week, all year long.”
Singing Science Records.
From the creator of the webpage:
“When I was a kid my parents got this six-LP set of science-themed folk songs for my sister and me. They were produced in the late 1950s / early 1960s by Hy Zaret (William Stirrat) and Lou Singer. . . .The Singing Science lyrics were very Atomic Age, while the tunes were generally riffs on popular or genre music of the time. We played them incessantly.
In February 1998 I found the LPs in my parents’ basement. I cleaned them up, played them one last time on an old turntable, and burned them onto a set of three CD-R discs. In December 1999 I read the songs back off the CDs and encoded them into MP3, so now you can hear them on the web.
I already told you about LibriVox, a site which “provides free audiobooks from the public domain.” You can download these mp3 files of books (and poems) into your computer or iPod, or you can listen at the website. I’m enjoying it immensely.
American Rhetoric is a website with a “database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.” I’ll be visiting this website frequently this year as I teach US History and American Literature at our homeschool co-op.
The Genevan Psalter. This webpage includes versified psalms in English and midi files to listen to the original (used in Calvin’sGeneva) melodies.
Isn’t the internet wonderful?
Oh, how I loved listening to the online songs from Singing Science several years ago when I incorporated those into our lessons. I’d love to know how to put those on a CD to use in the classroom!
Btw, I cannot find The Genevan Psalter at American Rhetoric. I’d love to hear those.
The link was wrong. There’s supposed to be, and is now, a link to American Rhetoric and another link to The Genevan Psalter. Enjoy.