Ronnie D'Addario
Try Out a Song
© 2001 Ronnie D'Addario (660355996825)
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A 2001 Parents' Choice Recommended Award winner. Rave reviews by "Parents Guide" and "Cahner's School Library Journal" and Tommy Makem. Children's album of all original catchy pop/rock songs. Fun and sensitive. Often message driven.
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- 1 Try Out a Song
- 2 Playground
- 3 The March
- 4 Mine
- 5 Minding My Own Business O
- 6 Bicycles Everywhere
- 7 I'd Like a Telephone
- 8 Opposites and Rhymes
- 9 Fear
- 10 What Did You Do Today
- 11 Our Town Music Store
- 12 Bedtime (Daddy)
- 13 Link
- 14 Bedtime (Mommy)
- 15 Playground (version)
- 16 Bicycles (version)
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Reviews:
Ronnie D'Addario has written and produced a delightful children's album. Although children will respond to the music and rhythms, this is also a family CD. The lyrics are especially supportive of basic principles of living with others that parents try to instill in their children. The songs reinforce these principles. "Mine," for example, addresses sharing of toys. All of the texts address issues in the comfort zone of everyday living. The music is truly engaging and wonderfully well performed.
Parent's Guide, Reviewed by Charlotte Collins, Dean, Shenandoah University's Conservatory
"First rate children's album. Catchy melodies and clever lyrics will engage the parents as well as the kids."
-Tommy Makem, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
"Music and lyrics are truly beautiful, soothing, witty, and should prove to be very popular with little ones."
-Arleene Sweet, Parent's Guide
"Well-sung, well-crafted lyrics gently and knowledgeably give voice to children's concerns, everyday experiences and discoveries. D'Addario's lullaby is one of the loveliest I've heard."
-2001 Parents' Choice Recommended Award Winner, Lynne Heffley, Parents' Choice
Themes: bedtime, the playground, sharing, concepts, etc. Often message driven. "Bicycles Everywhere" tells us that "more bikes and less pollution are needed, to a tune that perfectly imitates the feeling of a lazy Sunday bike ride. "Our Town Music Store" will be a welcome addition to any librarian's programming box, with it's opportunities for participation and repetition. Teachers may find "Opposites and Rhymes" a useful way to introduce those concepts. This pleasent album will make a fine additional purchase for music collections.
(Cahners) School Library Journal, Kathleen Kelly Macmillan
Artist biography:
Born and raised in Manhattan, Ronnie D'Addario started playing guitar in 1965 at the age of ten. He began singing and playing, including bass guitar, professionally in 1972. He grew up listening to 1960s pop music. He has played guitar with Tommy Makem, of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem fame, for the past decade, in concert, recordings, TV shows, and the stage.
Ronnie's credits include an appearance on the Rosie O'Donnell Show, TV commercial jingles, and six PBS shows with Tommy Makem (where he performed with Judy Collins and Eric Weissberg of "Dueling Banjos" fame). He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Guinness Fleadh at Randall's Island, Lisner Auditorium, Wash. DC, and Mechanic's Hall, Worcester, MA. Ronnie also produced the album, "Live At the Irish Pavilion," a favorite among Makem fans, and has produced several other artists, including Morning Star, Mary O'Dowd, Danny Quinn, and The Irish Mist.
His song, "Falling for Love," was recorded by The Carpenters in 1981.
This is Ronnie's first children's album, although he has engineered and produced three children's projects in the past. The first, "Dancin' in the Kitchen," was published as a children's book by Putnam in 1998 and is being sold with a companion audiocassette.
Ronnie lives in Hicksville, N.Y. (Long Island), with his wife, Susan, a neuropsychologist, and two sons, Brian, six, and Michael, age four. He has his own original and classic rock band called "The Rock Club."
Homburg Records is proud to release this children's album of original songs, "Try Out a Song."