Tom Glazer
9th Annual Children’s Album Nominee
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Genre: Children’s
Smithsonian Folkways
www.folkways.si.edu
Replies by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings record label. Tom Glazer passed away in 2003.
HOMEBASE/COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Washington, D.C.
GENRES THAT BEST DESCRIBE YOUR MUSIC: Children’s
ARTISTS ON THIS RECORDING: Tom Glazer plus children
WHERE WAS YOUR RELEASE RECORDED? Compilation of three albums recorded between 1970 and 1977
DESCRIBE THE INSPIRATION FOR YOUR RELEASE: Tom Glazer’s uncanny ability to “speak to children as saints speak to birds,” as touted by the New York Times, rings loud and clear in this signature collection of live performances by this legendary children’s artist. His own delightfully silly “On Top of Spaghetti” and “Honk-Hiss-Tweet-GGGGGGGGGG” stand as eternal favorites alongside “The Bus Song,” “This Old Man,” “Jimmy Crack Corn,” and many more of these two dozen newly compiled and re-mastered classic tracks.
WHAT/ IF ANY UNUSUAL INSTRUMENTS, SONG STRUCTURE/WRITING TECHNIQUES, RECORDING METHODS DID YOU USE? Singing with children.
DESCRIBE YOUR AUDIENCE: Folk music fans, children.
NAME SOME OF YOUR FAVE SONGS & WHY THEY RESONATE: Tom Glazer most famously wrote the song “On Top of Spaghetti” to the tune of “On Top of Old Smokey”
HOW CAN FANS FOLLOW YOU? WHERE IS YOUR MUSIC AVAILABLE? www.folkways.si.edu