A Child's Christmas: Holiday Songs & Carols

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2 Year-olds

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Feature: Susie Tallman & Friends

Feature: Rock Me Baby Records

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The award winning CD will rock, croon, jingle and jangle its way into your holiday traditions and make your family's Christmas merriment more musical. This CD offers 74 minutes of songs, beautifully arranged carols, stories, and more! Musically arranged and produced with upbeat styles and lots of voices to delight children, Susie Tallman's A Child's Christmas is terrific seasonal music for the entire family.

Susie Tallman's Christmas album offers more than just traditional holiday songs; she puts her personal spin on each song making them new again! Tallman puts Jingle Bells to a doo-wop beat, has a cello take the lead in Jolly Old St. Nicholas, adds a strong funky beat to Deck the Halls, makes Go Tell It On The Mountain over into a bluegrass jam, and speeds up the tempo to White Christmas while also including a mandolin solo and whistling. And that's just the beginning! Tallman's version of The Little Drummer Boy may surprise listeners as it does not feature a snare drum beating prominently throughout the song; instead, it is a very slow and relaxing song with only softly beaten hand drums and prominent electric guitar and keyboard sounds drifting peacefully behind Tallman's beautiful voice. Tallman also slows down the traditional tempo of Up on the Housetop, with a brush on snare drum and acoustic guitar as the primary instruments. There is no lack of fun and children's participation on the album though, as children are frequently singing backup or occasionally featured as the solo singer (O Christmas Tree). The children singers are particularly enjoyable in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, as they echo Tallman after each line with a funny addition to the song.

Interspersed among the carols are also stories, jokes, and fun language lessons for your little one. Listeners will learn how to say 'Merry Christmas' in nine different languages: Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Navajo, French, Italian, Japanese, Hawaiian, and German! They will also learn a handful of holiday jokes to tell to their family and friends. My favorite was. "What do Snowmen eat? Icebergers!" Be sure to encourage your little one to sing and move to the music so they can fully enjoy the holiday spirit. How could anyone listen to We Need a Little Christmas and not find themselves dancing along and wanting to decorate the house with tinsel and holly?! The song is fun and inspiring on its own, but a strong beat and electric guitar in Tallman's version really makes the song stand out on the album. Santa Clause is Coming to Town starts the album off with a high energy bang! The upbeat tempo and children singing along with Tallman is sure to get your shoulder's rocking and singing along.

I got my two-year-old friend Kyle this album for Christmas last year. I wanted him to enjoy it longer, so I gave it to him a week early. His mom said she played it for him often while they were decorating the tree and house and when they made Christmas cookies. She said each time a child would say 'Merry Christmas' in another language, she would repeat it, then Kyle would also try to repeat it. She said it was a fun way to teach him something she never would have thought of on her own.

--Audra

Susie Tallman & Friends present traditional songs with a twist; music that connects generations - bridging the years between grandparent, parent and child with song. "If parents can enjoy lullabies with their children they will share a very special time together," said Tallman. "Children are educated by the music they are brought up with, and these lullabies will teach them about the bond they share with their parents, and about the warmth of the world their parents will share with them."

Rock Me Baby Records carves out a new path in the market of music for small children," says Tallman. "The albums provide parents with a contemporary way to introduce the beauty and tradition of nursery rhymes and lullabies." All the CDs contain original and interesting arrangements of traditional songs. The lullabies are soothing and calming and the nursery rhymes are fun, exciting and unique, with multiple voices and instruments.

Rock Me Baby Records was founded in 1999 by Susie Tallman and has won the Parents' Choice Gold Award for Lullaby Themes for Sleepy Dreams, the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum & Gold Awards and the Parents' Choice recommended for Classic Nursery Rhymes, the iParenting & Oppenheim Gold Award for Children's Songs, A Collection of Childhood Favorites and the iParenting Award for Classical Baby. Tallman's CDs have also been recommended in Parenting, Baby Talk, Fit Pregnancy, Child and other National Publications.

Singer Susie Tallman graduated UCLA with a BA in voice performance. She further evolved her voice in France, singing with the Choeur International and the American Chorus in Paris. Upon her return to the states, Tallman honed her classical training at the New England Conservatory Workshop in Boston. She has sung backup for such acts as Ronnie Spector, Darlene Love and Cheap Trick, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Rose Bowl, The Los Angeles Forum and Pauley Pavilion as well as in commercials for Taco Bell, The Coca-Cola Reunion Commercial and the movie Beaches. She is a former member of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus.

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A Child's Christmas: Holiday Songs & Carols