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CBeebies: Song Time

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Overall, it’s a great collection of familiar songs, some with a fun twist, and all with the quality and liveliness you’d expect from cBeebies. Is it going to be Boring music or Children’s music?” three year old M asked as she eyed the CD mailer with suspicion. We tore it open and as my children caught the tiniest glimpse of the corner of the cBeebies logo they burst into peals of excited laughter and leaped up and down, bumping into each other and spinning around. From the instantaneous brand recognition one would almost think that I use cBeebies as a babysitter while I’m cooking the childrens’ tea.…

I am about to put one of the two CDs into the car so that I can switch them on when Lara gets restless and screechy when we're out and about. I suspect it may stay there for some time and I can just picture me singing along to 'It doesn't matter if you're Big or Small' or '3rd and Bird' at full volume and getting odd looks from other motorists! Well, they don’t really. We were a bit disappointed that the CD as a whole hasn’t got the cohesiveness that you normally expect from an album, and can feel a little disjointed. For example, the sleepy theme song to In the Night Garden is slotted right in between Something Special and GiggleBiz, both much more lively and also for slightly older children. We would have preferred smoother transitions between the songs, and perhaps more of a divide between the music for babies and toddlers versus those for pre-schoolers and beyond.

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I really love being able to have music that I can play to Lara rather than feeling I have to switch on the TV when she gets restless with her toys. At this age, Lara has such a short attention span that anything I come up with to entertain her lasts no more than 5 minutes so I like to have a good collection of music for her different moods. Beautiful. The Charlie and Lola theme tune is purely instrumental, and is just such a lovely, bright, spritely, bubbly, twinkly piece of music, but sophisticated at the same time. Not being a musician I have no idea how best to describe the music itself, but I can tell you it is one of our absolute favourites. We even used it for our Cot Jumping for Children in Need video – proof that it makes great jumping-around-being-silly music too. This week we aaaaaaave been mostly listening to the CBeebies Song Time album which is released tomorrow. Great fun. The new CD, Song Time, features songs (mostly theme songs) from cBeebies TV programmes like ZingZillas, Teletubbies, Guess With Jess, Tinga Tinga Tales, Driver Dan’s Story Train, In the Night Garden, Bob the Builder, and dozens of others. You’ll be surprised at how many of them you and your children know by heart – bizarrely mine even knew the theme songs from shows they have never seen. So I was looking forward to the new cBeebies’s album too, if only to be able to sing along with “Hello, Hello” in the car.

In true toddler style, she REFUSES to dance in front of the camera for me, but will bop away like a mad thing when the camera is turned off. AArgh, I really wanted to share her 'moooves' with you. Justin Fletcher is one of my favourite ever children’s presenters, and we enjoy watching Something Special together, a show specifically aimed at children with delayed learning and communication difficulties. I often find myself singing “Hello, Hello, How are you?” to myself around the house, positively infected by its simple cheerful message and catchy tune. My children sternly correct me when I mess up the lyrics – “It’s good to see you, not it’s great to see you”, but also love the song and are getting pretty good at the Makaton gestures that go along with it.We came across a few interesting surprises in the album – the producers obviously wanting to give you something more than just a collection of theme songs. I won’t give it away, but we thought the subtle remixes of Bob the Builder and Chuggington both work really well, and the Club Mix version of Say “Eh-Oh” by the Teletubbies certainly puts a different spin on music for babies.

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