BARRY LOUIS POLISAR: Old Enough To Know Better: The Worst of Barry Louis Polisar 2-CD set

Barry Louis Polisar

Old Enough To Know Better: The Worst of Barry Louis Polisar 2-CD set

© 2005 Barry Louis Polisar (783707224107)

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Folk, kids, family, weird, off-the-wall

tracks

1 When Suzie Sneezed
2 I Can't Tie My Shoe
3 I Used to Have a Sister
4 My Dentist is an Awfully Nice Man
5 Reptile World
6 The Accident
7 The Witch
8 That's What Makes the World Go 'Round
9 The Warning
10 Don't Leave Me In The House Alone
11 The Dinosaur Song
12 Ellen Grew a Beard
13 The Town of Round
14 Me and You
15 I Looked Into the Mirror, What Did the Mirror Say?
16 A Bee Will Sting You
17 Stanley Stole My Shoelace and Rubbed it in His Armpit
18 Sally Eats Shoelaces, Straw and String
19 Everywhere You Go
20 Shut Up in the Library
21 The Ant and the Grasshopper (What They Didn't Tell You)
22 Not So Good at Baseball
23 Poor Orville Thlapp
24 The I Never Did Like You Anyhow Stomp
25 There's No Substitute for a Cat
26 Caterpillar
27 First it Bit My Behind
28 Barnyard Stomp
29 I'm Bored
30 I'm Late
31 The Craster
32 I Forgot
33 The I Eat Kids Klezmer Polka
34 Siamese Twins
35 Get Your Hands Off of My Leg and Your Foot Out of My Shoe
36 One Big Happy Family
37 Five More Minutes
38 Fred
39 If You've Have a Kid Who Complains All the Time
40 I Don't Believe You're Going to the Bathroom

notes

Old Enough To Know Better:
The Worst of Barry Louis Polisar

Most people do a "Greatest Hits" album after twenty or thirty years. As Barry approached the 30th year of his career, he thought he'd try something different. "I talk a lot about the writing process in my school visits so I thought I'd challenge myself to take all my worst songs and see if I could re-write them."

And so he did. Then he went into the studio and began recording the songs and adding instruments and branching out into completely new musical directions. In fact, after recording an entire CD of twenty songs, he decided to dig up more songs and see if he could turn them into something. Hence, a bonus CD is included in this collection with an additional twenty songs. "Ten years ago I had a chance to re-write and re-record my favorite songs," Barry says. "I began thinking about all the songs I had left behind. There were many songs I had written that I simply didn't like anymore. I began tinkering with many of those older songs and poems, re-writing the lyrics and changing the melodies....sometimes I kept to the spirit of the original; other times I just used the opening line to write a totally new song....And once I began recording what I had written, I had so much fun I went back to the very bottom of the well -- finding songs that I disliked even more for a second disc." Why a double CD for kids? Polisar answers: "I just had so many bad songs!"

So here they are...Barry Louis Polisar's worst songs...but with a brand new twist! As Polisar says, "with forty different songs and poems, there's something for everyone to dislike!"

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  • Terrific.
    author: Evelyn

    So glad it's still available, and I could get it for grandchild. Fond memories of listening to Polisar wiith our own kids, who are now 31 and 37!

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