Animal Playground

Various Artists
Putumayo World Music
World | May 2007

Reviews

Decca
Reviewed 2007-05-30
A multilingual collection of animal-themed songs from around the world. Meant for kids, but it’s so wiggly good that it’s fun even for us grown-ups. Shake free your cynicism and sophistication and unleash your inner 6-year old. I liked it all, so there! Now I’m gonna go play!

1. Fun & folksy w/great harp/guitar. Midtempo, in English.
2. Happy/clappy Caribbean counting song.
3. “Old McDonald” in Italian. Upbeat & wacky.
4. Mid/uptempo guitar/vox in sweet South American pop.
5. Lazy midtempo folk w/3 fem voices in English. Sweet.
6. Goldilocks story in a bouncy midtempo guitar/vox folk tale.
7. A Brazilian call-response forro w/a playful sway.
8. Deliciously lazy brassy café sound w/kid vocals. So fun!
9. Sweet & joyful carnival sound - you’ll want to dance.
10. Sorta spoken vocals, piano, mid. Don’t step on a snake, kiddies!
11. Midtempo, bouncy w/a country sound. Warm fex vox.
12. Fun, growly vox. A midtempo New Orleans-based bounce.
13. Great a capella version of “Lion Sleeps”, the original one by LBM.

Recent airplay

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At the Cafe BohemianMay 17, 2017
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The Rock LobsterApr 13, 2010
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Bigi Kaiman
At the Cafe BohemianJul 31, 2007

Charting

2007-06-03 — 2007-08-05 Reggae/World
Week EndingAirplays
Aug 5 1
Jul 15 3
Jul 8 1
Jul 1 1
Jun 24 4
Jun 17 2
Jun 10 1

Track listing

1. Animal Crackers
2. No More Monkeys
3. Nella Vecchia Fattoria
4. Aves
5. The Littlest Birds
6. The Three Bears
7. Cantiga Do Sapo
8. L'otorhinoceros
9. Bigi Kaiman
10. Don't Ever Step On A Snake
11. Eagles
12. If A Dinosaur Was My Friend
13. Mbube