Released February 26, 2007 Label V2 Records Benelux Genre Children's music | Release date 26 February 2007 Compiler Stuart A. Staples | |
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Songs for the Young at Heart is a children's music album put together by Stuart A. Staples and Dave Boulter, both from the band Tindersticks. It features a number of classic children's songs, stories, and nursery rhymes set to music, and features vocals from a number of famous artists.
Contents
Boulter states that the inspiration for the album came after the birth of his son, when:
"I began thinking of songs and nursery rhymes from my own childhood to play to him. I realised there was a lot of interesting and almost forgotten music, from the school room, the radio, and the television, that maybe was the reason I'd begun to make my own music in the first place."
Initial copies of the CD were accompanied by a hardback book containing artwork by Sexton Ming.
Track listing
- "Theme for the Young at Heart"
- "Uncle Sigmund's Clockwork Storybook" - Robert Forster
- "Florence's Sad Song" - Stuart Murdoch
- "White Horses" - Cerys Matthews
- "The Lion and Albert" - told by Jarvis Cocker
- "Robinson Crusoe"
- "Hushabye Mountain" - Stuart A. Staples
- "Morningtown Ride" - Suzanne Osborne
- "Inchworm" - Kurt Wagner
- "Mary, Mungo & Midge"
- "Puff the Magic Dragon" - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Red
- "The 3 Sneezes" - read by Martin Wallace
- "Hey, Don't You Cry" - Stuart A. Staples
Songs
1Theme for the Young at HeartStuart A Staples2:36
2Uncle Sigmund's Clockwork StorybookRobert Forster2:07
3Florence's Sad SongStuart Murdoch2:40