Silly Favorites
If you're the kind of person who occasionally needs to hear songs like "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt," this is the album for you.Silly Favoritescollects 20 of these, um, silly songs in a collection aimed at children. The expected tracks are all here ("Apples and Bananas," "Tiny Tim," "Who Stole the Cookies?" and three renditions of "Be Kind to Your Web Footed Friends"), as are a slew of lesser-known ditties ("Ain't No Sin to Take Off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones," "Do Your Ears Hang Low?"). Performed by an appropriately wacky contingent of adults and children, this is a wonderful collection for the nursery-school set. However, it can quickly become quite grating to anyone above age 8.--Randy Silver