self-Ping.
Don’t get me going.
All “children’s” stuff for the last 30 years is potty humor, SJW, PC, and the Environmental religion. And too “adult” - suggestive, and using “hot, hip music” with “edge” rather than the classical nice type that REAL Disney used.
(Well, most is.)
When my son got old enough to use the cd player (2 yrs old) we had (1986) he’d put in the Beatle’s White Album and Abbey Road. Darned if he didn’t just love those two CDs. I got heartily sick of them. And The Lady and the Tramp. I think we wore out the VCR tape of that.
In the ‘80s I got my very young niece and nephew hooked on Manhattan Transfer and Sha Na Na. Pretty funny. Now in their 40s, they remember all of it.
This land is your land is in the same league as Imagine, both Communist filth.
At least it’s not that damned Tudie Ta song!
Well, Raffi is garbage, but the Wiggles (Fruit Salad) and the Teletubbies (Dipsy’s Hat) are pretty good.
It's folk music, with some Christian music thrown in. So you get good vibes and God during the day, and the small birds will find you and keep your yard free from mosquitoes.
Taught elementary music in a parochial school for 5 years. Pretty much based my curriculum on what is suggested here: folk songs, classical and appropriate religious music (not drivel). The good stuff gives you a foundation and context to evaluate all the other crap that is out there.
In the classical department, there are the fun and silly operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
When I grew up, children’s music was CHILDREN’S music, not some “adulterated” subliminal edgy hip garbage. It was to be sweet and nice, and not “hip” or edgy or anything teens might get into. Kids were supposed to be kids, and allowed to be.
So, I had a nice Xmas album that was truly kids’ - but sung by adults in a fun way. Also other things like that. Disney had nice stuff then.
As for me, I’m highly eclectic, as my parents loved “their era”, musicals (not the modern homo/sleeze crap), and some contemporary things (supported by my sister and brother). We heard all kinds of things.
I still play all kinds of things but mainly just car - back then we’d play music while doing weekly house chores.
So in addition to those “oldies” and true musicals and “my own era”, I also have music/marches from the RevWar and Civil War, etc. It’s kind of all over the place. My son likes alot of it.
“There’s a church in the valley by the wildwood
No lovelier place in the dale
No spot is so dear to my childhood
As the little brown church in the vale…”
Church in the Wildwood
There is no mention here of American musicals like sound of music or Oklahoma. We owned many musicals as well. And Sousa and his band music as well as the American Song book and jazz and blues.
All important.