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Ballads for the age of science [sound recording] / by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: HCD-2801 | Harbinger RecordsCopyright date: ℗2012Description: 6 audio discs : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (13 cm)Content type:
  • performed music
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
Subject(s):
Contents:
Disc 1 / Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans. Space songs. Zoom a little zoom (Rocket ship) -- What is the Milky Way? -- Constellation jig -- Beep, beep! (Here comes the satellite) -- Why does the sun shine? -- What is a shooting star? -- Longitude and latitude -- It's a scientific fact -- Ballad of Sir Isaac Newton -- Friction -- Why are stars of different colors? -- Why do the stars twinkle? -- What is gravity? -- Planet minuet -- Why go up there? --
disc 2 / Dorothy Collins. Experiment songs. It's a magnet ; Vibration ; We know the air is there (Hi, ho, fiddle dee dee) -- We're making heat -- Ice is a solid -- Why do I have a shadow? -- Rocks and gems and minerals -- The Earth goes around the sun -- Why is it raining raindrops? -- Where does the sun go at night? -- What's inside our Earth? -- Where does the sun rise? -- How many colors are in the rainbow? -- Who's afraid of thunder? -- It's a magnet (reprise) --
disc 3 / Marais & Miranda. Nature songs. Introduction to nature study -- Why do leaves change their color? -- What are the parts of a tree? -- What is an insect? (Cricket in a thicket) -- What is a mammal? -- How do the fish swim? -- Song of the rocks -- The birds have a language -- How does a bird sing? -- What does a bird have that I have not? -- How silk is made -- What's in the ocean? -- How do the seeds of plants travel? -- The balance of nature --
disc 4 / Marais & Miranda. More nature songs. Metamorphosis -- How does a frog become a frog? -- What is an animal (What is a plant?) -- Bobo the bear (The hibernation song) -- Song of the fossils -- How does a cow make milk? -- Eohippus (The evolution of the horse) -- The conservation song -- Why is the sky blue? -- What makes a rainbow? -- Let's wander through the seasons -- Why does a bee bzzz? -- What are the parts of a flower? -- The face of the Earth is changing --
disc 5 / Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans. Energy & motion songs. What is energy (part 1) -- Grand Coulee Dam (How energy changes its form) -- E-lec-tri-city -- Engines (Mechanical energy) -- Solar energy -- Energy in roundabout way -- What is energy? (part 2) -- Kinetic and potential energy -- Jets (Action and reaction) -- Ultra violet and infra red -- What is chemical energy? -- How do we measure energy? -- Motion, motion, everywhere -- Thumbnail introduction to atomic energy --
disc 6 / Tom Glazer. Weather songs. What makes the weather? -- What is the atmosphere? -- Where is the stratosphere? -- The water cycle song -- Why does the wind blow? -- How clouds are formed -- Warm fronts, cold fronts -- What is humidity? -- The hurricane song -- Why is it hot in the summer? -- Highs and lows -- What makes the lightning? -- Stratus and cumulus -- Snowflake, snowflake -- What does the glass of a greenhouse do? -- What is climate? -- What makes the weather? (reprise).
Dorothy Collins, Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans, Marais & Miranda.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's CD Children's CD Dr. James Carlson Library Children's CD Ballads for the age of science Disc 1 Space songs Available 33111007884105
Children's CD Children's CD Dr. James Carlson Library Children's CD Ballads for the age of science Disc 2 Experiment songs Available 33111007884113
Children's CD Children's CD Dr. James Carlson Library Children's CD Ballads for the age of science Disc 3 Nature songs Available 33111007884121
Children's CD Children's CD Dr. James Carlson Library Children's CD Ballads for the age of science Disc 4 More nature songs Available 33111007884139
Children's CD Children's CD Dr. James Carlson Library Children's CD Ballads for the age of science Disc 5 Energy & motion songs Available 33111007884147
Children's CD Children's CD Dr. James Carlson Library Children's CD Ballads for the age of science Disc 6 Weather songs Available 33111007884154
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For the first time in over 50 years, Harbinger Records is proud to release a six-CD set of Ballads for the Age of Science, the most successful educational recordings projects of all time. These songs introduce scientific concepts and terms using catchy, easily learned words and music.

Compact discs.

Previously released in 1961 by Motivation Records.

Set includes booklet containing lyrics.

Disc 1 / Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans. Space songs. Zoom a little zoom (Rocket ship) -- What is the Milky Way? -- Constellation jig -- Beep, beep! (Here comes the satellite) -- Why does the sun shine? -- What is a shooting star? -- Longitude and latitude -- It's a scientific fact -- Ballad of Sir Isaac Newton -- Friction -- Why are stars of different colors? -- Why do the stars twinkle? -- What is gravity? -- Planet minuet -- Why go up there? --

disc 2 / Dorothy Collins. Experiment songs. It's a magnet ; Vibration ; We know the air is there (Hi, ho, fiddle dee dee) -- We're making heat -- Ice is a solid -- Why do I have a shadow? -- Rocks and gems and minerals -- The Earth goes around the sun -- Why is it raining raindrops? -- Where does the sun go at night? -- What's inside our Earth? -- Where does the sun rise? -- How many colors are in the rainbow? -- Who's afraid of thunder? -- It's a magnet (reprise) --

disc 3 / Marais & Miranda. Nature songs. Introduction to nature study -- Why do leaves change their color? -- What are the parts of a tree? -- What is an insect? (Cricket in a thicket) -- What is a mammal? -- How do the fish swim? -- Song of the rocks -- The birds have a language -- How does a bird sing? -- What does a bird have that I have not? -- How silk is made -- What's in the ocean? -- How do the seeds of plants travel? -- The balance of nature --

disc 4 / Marais & Miranda. More nature songs. Metamorphosis -- How does a frog become a frog? -- What is an animal (What is a plant?) -- Bobo the bear (The hibernation song) -- Song of the fossils -- How does a cow make milk? -- Eohippus (The evolution of the horse) -- The conservation song -- Why is the sky blue? -- What makes a rainbow? -- Let's wander through the seasons -- Why does a bee bzzz? -- What are the parts of a flower? -- The face of the Earth is changing --

disc 5 / Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans. Energy & motion songs. What is energy (part 1) -- Grand Coulee Dam (How energy changes its form) -- E-lec-tri-city -- Engines (Mechanical energy) -- Solar energy -- Energy in roundabout way -- What is energy? (part 2) -- Kinetic and potential energy -- Jets (Action and reaction) -- Ultra violet and infra red -- What is chemical energy? -- How do we measure energy? -- Motion, motion, everywhere -- Thumbnail introduction to atomic energy --

disc 6 / Tom Glazer. Weather songs. What makes the weather? -- What is the atmosphere? -- Where is the stratosphere? -- The water cycle song -- Why does the wind blow? -- How clouds are formed -- Warm fronts, cold fronts -- What is humidity? -- The hurricane song -- Why is it hot in the summer? -- Highs and lows -- What makes the lightning? -- Stratus and cumulus -- Snowflake, snowflake -- What does the glass of a greenhouse do? -- What is climate? -- What makes the weather? (reprise).

Dorothy Collins, Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans, Marais & Miranda.

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