Mincha Moment 26 - "Modeh Ani" with Singer, Songwriter Craig Taubman
Craig Reid Taubman is an American singer/songwriter and music producer based in Los Angeles, California. Through his independent label/production office, Craig 'N Company, he has produced 11 albums. He is also the executive producer of the Celebrate Series, 12 Jewish-themed compilation albums with titles like Celebrate Hip Hop and Celebrate Passover.
Taubman's career initially launched with his popularity as a children's recording artist in the early 1990s, during which he was prominently seen on the Disney Channel performing songs like "You Need a Haircut, You Really Need a Haircut" and concerts like "Rock'n Toontown" at Disneyland. In recent years, he has branched out into recording and performing more adult-oriented music, most of it Jewish in nature, although he continues to record and perform for children.
Through Craig 'N Co., Taubman regularly produces and performs at concert events across the country, most notably his regular Friday Night Live Shabbat evening services at Sinai Temple (Los Angeles, California), the Let My People Sing Passover Festival, and the Big Tent Event.
In February 2013, Taubman bought the former Welsh Presbyterian Church on Valencia Street in downtown Los Angeles. Taubman announced plans to convert the building, which from 1909 to 1925 was the home of Sinai Temple and which was named a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1977, into "a multicultural and interfaith performing arts center and house of worship."
Solo Albums
Dreidel I Shall Play - Samuel Goldfarb Jewish American Songster
Here and There 2015
How Good - 2010
Holy Ground - 2009
Inscribed - 2005
One Shabbat Morning - 2002
The Best of the Rest - 2001
Friday Night Live - 1999
Kol Tikvah - 1997
My Newish Jewish Discovery - 1997
Imaginit - 1996
Voice of the Spirit - 1996
My Jewish Discovery - 1995
Heaven and Earth - 1993
Rock 'N Toontown - 1993
Rockin' Together - 1992
Journey - 1991
Craig 'N Company - 1989
Encore - 1989
Pennies for Your Thoughts - 1988
Yad B'Yad: Together - 1988
Karen and Craig Makin' Music - 1987
Rhythm and Rhyme - 1986
Yad B'Yad: Hand 'N Hand - 1986
Moment to Moment - 1985
Beginnings - 1982
We Were as Dreamers - 1981
Zany Brainy
Compilations
Meditations of my Heart - 2009
Sweet Sounds and the Days of Awe
Lights: Celebrated Hanukkah Live In Concert - 2008
Classic Animal Songs - 2006
Classic Dance Songs - 2006
Classic Lullabies - 2006
American Jewish Summer - 2005
The World Is a Narrow Bridge - 2004
Totally Zany - 2001
Compilations Produced
My World by Alberto Mizrahi - 2009
Marshmallow Peeps: Sing Along - 2001
Lounge Series
The Shabbat Lounge - 2006
The Passover Lounge - 2006
The Hanukkah Lounge - 2005
Celebrate Series
Celebrate Breath 2015
Celebrate Jewish Lullabies: Volume 1 - 2011
Celebrate Jewish Love Songs - 2009
My Very First Jewish Celebrate CD: Volume 1 - 2009
Best of the Celebrate Series - 2006
Celebrate Hip Hop - 2004
Celebrate Klezmer - 2004
Celebrate Yiddish - 2004
Celebrate Peace - 2003
Celebrate America - 2002
Celebrate Kids - 2001
Celebrate Friends - 2000
Celebrate Passover - 2000
Celebrate Shabbat - 2000
Celebrate Hanukkah - 1999
Themes and Scoring
“Original Music” Steve Harvey Show WB Network, 2000
“In Your Arms” Original song for Warner Brothers Animated Film, 2000
“Charley Horse Pizza”, Original Songs for the Shari Lewis Series, PBS 1998
“Row Row Row” BMW Television Commercial, 1998
“Right Connections”, Showtine Original Film, 1997
“Imaginit”, Original music for computer animation video, Miramar/BMG, 1997
“Happily Ever After”, Original music for animated series, HBO, 1997
“We Make Children Smile”, Mattel Jingle with Foote, Cone and Belding, 1997
“It’s Magic”, Original song for 1996 Olympics Pavilion, Coca-Cola, 1996
“I Can Do It”, Original song for Mickey’s Sports Album, Walt Disney Records, 1996
“Pinochhio”, Original song for Summer 1996 feature film release, New Line Cinema
“Rimba’s Island”, Original songs for ’95 – ’96 seasons, Fox Television Network
“Andre”, Original song for 1995 feature film, Paramount Pictures
“You’re a Carnivore”, 1995 television and radio advertising campaign, Carl’s Jr.
“Hollywood Hounds Christmas”, Original songs for syndicated television special
“Recycle Rex”, Original songs and music, Dept. of Conservation/Disney Educational
“Gibson Kids”, Original children’s complication, Gibson Guitars
“Street Safe, Street Smart”, Original songs and music, Disney Educational Film Series
“Halloween Surprises”, Original songs and music, Disney Video
“Kid Songs”, Original songs and music, Disney Video
“Fairfax Mural Project Video”, Original music, City of Los Angeles
“KRMH”, Original Theme, Boston Radio
“Brotherhood”, Original Song, National Conference of Christians and Jews
“NCI”, Television radio advertising campaign, National Campgrounds, Inc.
Television, Internet and Radio
In The Living Room Series, 2012
PBS Hanukkah Special with special guests, 2008
PBS Hanukkah Special with Fran Drescher, 2003
Easter Seal Telethon with special guest appearances, 1996/7
Kaleidoscope Concert – Live Children’s Concert Special, The Disney Channel
Rock ‘n Toontown – Live Children’s Concert Special, The Disney Channel
For Our Children with special guest appearances on concert special
XUXA with special guest appearance
C.H.I.M.E. Festival with special guest appearance on Live Concert Special
Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon with special guest appearance
Recycle Rex – Public Service Announcement, syndicated television
Press Appearances – Today Show, Entertainment Tonight, E! Channel, CNN Showbiz Today, The Home Show, Entertainment Report, Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel, RADIO AAHS and Radio Disney
