Track Listing

1. Animal Crackers - Wee Hairy Beasties
2. No More Monkeys - Asheba
3. Nella Vecchia Fattoria - Quartetto Cetra
4. Aves - Guillermo Anderson
5. The Littlest Birds - The Be Good Tanyas
6. The Three Bears - Gary Rosen
7. Cantiga do Sapo - Ze Renato
8. L'Otorhinoceros - Les P'tits Loups du Jazz
9. Bigi Kaiman - Samba Salad
10. Don't Ever Step on a Snake - Don Spencer
11. Eagles - Terri Hendrix
12. If a Dinosaur Was My Friend - Phil Melancon
13. Mbube - Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8163 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Compilation, Enhanced
• Original language: Spanish
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Amazon.com
Putumayo's Playground series consistently lives up to its name by sending far-flung cultures out to recess, freeing them to reveal their musical fun sides. The metaphor ends there, but the parallel to actual playgrounds doesn't: as any parent who's felt forlorn at times knows, nothing nullifies a dreary afternoon funk more effectively than a trip to the neighborhood playground. So it goes with the series. Animal Playground, the latest to swing, slide, and see-saw its way into agile imaginations of all ages, is a fine-tuned creature feature as playful as a giant-pawed puppy. Even if you don't know what forro is (North Brazilian dance music), or that "Cantigo do Sapo" has something to do with a little singing frog, you'll want to shake a tail feather in time to the beat; that holds for Quartetto Cetra's right-on Italian reworking of "Old McDonald," "Nella Vecchia Farroria." No disrespect to the other exotic offerings here ("Aves," from Honduras, for example), but the English-language songs are most winning of all: Canada's the Be Good Tanyas captivate with "The Littlest Birds," and you can't help but a love a man who cries crocodile tears from his puppy dog eyes, in this case Jon Langford who, when he's not a Wee Hairy Beastie belting out "Animal Crackers," leads the excellent punk/folk band the Mekons. --Tammy La Gorce

Amazon.com
Take a walk on the wild side with this global musical journey into the animal kingdom. This enhanced CD features fun songs about animals from all over the world and Putumayo’s first ever children’s music video for Asheba’s “No More Monkeys” filmed in Trinidad