VA ~ The Story That the Crow Told Me: Early American Rural Children's Songs 1920-30's [Yazoo]

01 I Am Just What I Am ~ Homer Brierhopper
02 Poor Little Thing Cried Mammy ~ 3 Georgia Crackers
03 Barnyard Tumble ~ Bill Carlisle
04 Old Molly Hare ~ Riley Pucket, McMichen
05 Animals Coming In ~ 4 Wanderers
06 Johnny Booker ~ Cousin Emmy
07 The Old Grey Goose Is Dead ~ the Pickard Fam
08 Pretty Little Pink ~ Bradley Kincaid
09 Free Little Bird ~ Dykes Magic City Trio
10 King Kong Kitchie Kithcie Ki-Me-O ~ Chubby Parker
11 Hop Along Peter ~ Fisher Hendley & his Aristrocratic Pigs
12 Horsie Keep Your Tail Up ~ Lew Childre
13 The Nick Nack Song ~ Ridgel's Fountain Citians
14 The Story That the Crow Told Me ~ Carolina Buddies
15 Sue Cow ~ Bo Carter
16 Skip to Ma Lou, My Darling ~ Uncle Eck Dunford
17 Cindy ~ Gene Austin
18 Say Darling Say ~ Virginia Mountain Boomers
19 Liza up in the Simmon Tree ~ Bradley Kincaid
20 The Old Bell Cow ~ Dixie Crackers
21 George Washington ~ Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers
22 Sourwood Mountain ~ Fruit Jar Guzzlers
23 Angels Watching over Me ~ Utica Institute Jubilee Singers

it's really fun hearing kids sing these songs & it's very likely you might enjoy them as well. surely a top contender for one of the coolest children's records ever. don't sleep on the even better venerable volume 2 either. thx to lemmy for saving this one from the abyss

Stark Reality ~ Now

01 Junkman's Song
02 Thirty Days Hath September
03 Cooking
04 Comrades
05 Shooting Stars
06 Rocket Ship
07 Dreams
08 All You Need To Make Music
09 Roller Coaster Ride
10 Too Much Tenderness
11 Sunday's Song
12 Say Brother

Monty Stark [vocals, vibraphone]; Phil Morrison [vocals, electric bass]; Vinnie Johnson [vocals, drums, percussion]; John Abercrombie [guitar]; Carl Atkins [flute, saxophone, baritone saxophone]; Stanton Davis, Jr. [trumpet]; Alan Reed [electric bass]



crusty groove hype: 'One of the most tripped-out albums of funk ever. a rare treasure with a very unusual history. The Stark Reality were a cool little combo formed to work on public television in Boston in the late 60s featuring some heavy guitars, fuzzed-up vibes, and some monster percussion laid out in tight bass & drum rhythms that were years ahead of their time. The group recorded one rare album -- ostensibly a children's record, but based around old compositions by Hoagy Carmichael, completely pulled apart, sliced up, overly harmonized, and spat out into wild funky tunes that bear no resemblance to their originals! The original album -- Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop -- has been a holy grail for collectors for years [we once sold a copy for hundreds of dollars], and the music has only ever really been heard by a few dedicated beatheads that have tracked down rare copies. Now, though, the geniuses at Stones Throw have put out the whole LP, plus bonus material, in one fantastic package that is soon to make the Stark Reality legends amongst funky fans the world over! Mad vibes meet fuzzy guitars meet killer funky beats -- and the whole thing's a masterpiece that will never be duplicated again!' mas. amazin distorted vibraphonique magic band otherness throughout. 320k for the noodle bakers. yea