Sesame Street (Playground - Songs And Videos From Around The World) - Various Artists

Advantages: Compiled for kids
Disadvantages: None

...This is a compilation CD, part of proceeds of which go to the non-profit makig charity Putuymay Cross-Cultural Initiative - see www.putuamayo.org for more information on their work. It is a collection of tracks of music from different artists in different continents around the world that have been recorded to appeal to children. The cover notes say that the '12 Tracks take children and their fmailies on an inspiring musical and cultural journey around the world'. It is guaranteed to make you feel good, they add. The tracks are as follows: 1. Toure Kunda (Senegal) - I am Fatou 2. Colibria (Bolivia) - The Buttefly 3. Cedella Marley Booker and Taj Mahal ( Jamaica) - Three Little Birds 4. Trevor Adamson (Australia) - Waltzing Matilda 5. Tera Doyle (Canada) - Home by Barna 6. Buckwheat Zydeco (USA) - Mardi Gras Mambo... Read review

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Advantages: Street Life's spectacular lyricism is stellar like A STAR and IS BORN within each song.
Disadvantages: Filler songs with atrocious beats that make my ears HUNG in THESE hideous STREETS!

...was, are any of the production or provision of instrumentals from alternative beat-makers on 'STREET EDUCATION', creative enough to grab my attention? Allow me to give y'all Ciao readers an education, of WHAT I EXPERIENCED from each track and my opinion of these songs from a lyrical and musical standpoint. WHAT I EXPERIENCED I checked out the 'Street Education' album in November 2007. As I was listening to the CD, Street Life guided me along 15 tracks, detailing his story of poverty, hustling days and encountering rivalry crews. As he gave DESCRIPTIONS of the nature of his hood life, he taught me that living with the pressure of dismal projects, is his SWEETEST PAIN of survival. He went through tough times of hustling and robbing to eat, living a rough life on the streets, plagued with gang culture... Read review

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...version released in the 1990’s (although I can’t remember by who) that also made it into the charts. This is unquestionably the song for which Gerry Rafferty will be best remembered, but this 54-year-old Scotsman has been around the music scene since the late sixties, and has produced many fine albums. ~ ~ Gerry Rafferty was born in Paisley in Scotland in 1947, and after cutting his musical teeth with various bands in the local working men’s clubs, pubs, and dance halls, hooked up with two other Scot’s “jimmys”, one of who you will know very well. Billy Connolly, (the “Big Yin”) the comedian and actor, has since gone on to international stardom, and is a household name the world over, but at that time was a little known artist playing the bango in a folk group called the “Humblebums... Read review

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