Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW

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Uh-Oh! 2 Feb 15, 2019

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Today we’ve got Chapter Two of my "Uh-Oh!" album for you. I actually recorded this album because a bunch of my friends asked me to put out an album for pre-schoolers. I said,

“Why do I need to do an album for pre-schoolers? A lot of pre-schools already play the albums I have. Got an email just yesterday from a pre-school director in Florida who said that my “Pluggin’ Away” album was the kid favorite music!

“Well, …” I was told, “a lot of that album is over the little kid’s heads, even if they like singing with all the bigger kids who sing with you! Little kids need shorter songs! They need to chew songs about things that little kids think about! Things like how their teeth grow inside their mouths, and about animals and the parts of their bodies! ( If you heard Chapter One last week, you heard my songs called ‘My Gums Grow Teeth’ and ‘Rabbit On My Shoulder’”

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Uh-Oh! 1 Feb 08, 2019

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Here's the first Chapter of my UH-OH! album for kids. It was Parent’s Choice Approved, and received Gold Awards from National Parenting Publications and Mom’s Choice. The Seal of Excellence from Creative Child Magazine, and a Kids Music - Best Album Award.

I know there are lots of adults who listen to my kid’s albums while driving in traffic, just to keep your inner child from getting bored. And of course you know that inner children (just like actual children!), love to sing along with my songs, so keep them all happy and sing away!!

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When The Women Say No! Feb 02, 2019

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We all know that men can get carried away with our manly activities sometimes. Right? I laughed when I first heard this story, because it seemed like a pretty good idea, to give women the authority to tell men “NO! STOP! ENOUGH!” It reminded me of the Iroquois people whose tribal system empowered the women to vote; they would decide which men they wanted in the Great Council. Women could not run themselves, but they could remove a chief if he didn't properly fulfill his job. Hmmm?

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Grow It At Home 3 Jan 27, 2019

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If you’ve heard Chapters One and Two, you know that the kids and I are out back of my house in the garden. Last week we discussed how to be safe around strangers and sometimes life works out really well, and sometimes, … it doesn’t work out so well. Point is, we keep trying. This week in Chapter Three, we’ll pick up the story where we left off after the “No! No! No!” song, … here’s Chapter Three of GROW IT AT HOME.

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Grow It At Home 2 Jan 16, 2019

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This is Chapter Two of GROW IT AT HOME for kids and families. If you haven’t heard Chapter One yet, you might want to go back and listen to that first! It all started when a bunch of my kid friends came over to my house and ended up helping me in my garden. We sang songs about “peaceful feet” and beets, and we pulled weeds and told stories.

The songs in Chapter Two are:

Stick My Neck Out ~ Was St. Pat Scared? ~ Strangers

Sometimes Si, Sometimes No! ~ No, No, No!

Thanks for stopping by!

Peter

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Grow It At Home 1 Jan 10, 2019

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This is Chapter One of my GROW IT AT HOME album. It's for Kids and Families, and it's Parent's Choice Approved. It received Gold Awards from National Parenting Publications and Mom's Choice; the Seal of Excellence from Creative Child Magazine and a Kid's Music Best Album Award.

The songs in Chapter One are:

Peaceful Feet ~ Wish ~ Ask Away

Listen To The Beet ~ Dragon Who Flies By My Window

Thanks for stopping by!

Peter

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Ebenezer's Make Over 4 Dec 15, 2018

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Here's the fourth and final Chapter of Ebenezer's Make Over! Please listen to them in order (or not!) And I hope you enjoy the story & songs from the Feminist Men's and Women's movement. Please share. Please subscribe/follow so you'll get a new program each week. Please keep loving the kids and others around you and keep working for social justice and more kindness on this old planet of ours. Bye for now,

Peter Alsop

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Chris Moose Holidays 4 Dec 15, 2018

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This is the fourth and last chapter of Chris Moose Holidays. (for kids and families) Makes sense to listen to them in order, and then you grown-ups might want to listen to the 4 chapters of Ebenezer's Make Over: Songs from the Feminist Men's and Women's Movement. Just click on the title and it will stream to you. More shows coming in January! Please share with your friends. Happy Holidays. Peter Alsop

CHRIS MOOSE HOLIDAYS

Chris Moose(3:22)

Little Tree(9:44)

The Gift(2:40)

Daddy's Roll(2:39)

Christmas Cheer(1:42)

Buy Me Something!(2:45)

When Jesus Was A Kid(4:14)

The Night Before Hanukkah(2:44)

G-Gee, It's Warm Out Here(2:42)

I Believe You(2:05)

The Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Santa & God(2:43)

Pass It On!(1:30)

Clean Out The Attic(3:37)

Earthsong(3:57)

CREDITS:

Produced by Peter Alsop

Music Engineer: Greg Hilfman

Recorded & Mixed at Barely Sound Studios, Topanga, CA

Teletalent, Hollywood, CA, and LaRocque Studios, N. Hollywood, CA

Peter Alsop - vocals, guitars, jingle bells, autoharp, spoons, bass, jaw harp, tambourine, triangle, washboard,

Greg Hilfman - synthesizers, keyboards & all other sampled insturments, background vocals(14), elf, orchestra bells(1), autoharp percussion (4), Mr. Leibovitz

Joachim Cooder - dumbeks

Miriam Cutler - clarinet, background vocals(7)

Shelby Flint - background vocals

Ellen Geer - background vocals

Willow Geer-Alsop - lead vocal (3, 7, 11)

Brette Gentry - lead vocal (4)

Michael Hamilton - engineer

Roger LaRocque - engineer, percussion & drum programming(7)

Melora Marshall - background vocals (10, 14)

Marshall McDaniel - lead vocal (5, 11)

Tosha Scarfe - lead vocal (11)

Nick South - bass (13)

Cory Thompson - lead guitar (11)

Bill Buerge - cover art

Terri Asher - layout

Kids: Kailani Ector, Willow Geer-Alsop, Brette Gentry, Chenoa Hernandez, Abe Hilfman, Jacy Hernandez, Kai Hernandez, Marshall McDaniel, Tosha Scarfe, Talia Wabnig

Thanks to Chris Fletcher & Bill Harley

P., C., 1994, Moose School Music, Box 960 Topanga, CA 90290

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Chris Moose Holidays 3 Dec 14, 2018

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In Chapter 2 the kids and I sang about the problems with smoking, over-eating, drinking alcohol and even shopping compulsions, … now here's Chapter 3!

CHRIS MOOSE HOLIDAYS

Chris Moose(3:22)

Little Tree(9:44)

The Gift(2:40)

Daddy's Roll(2:39)

Christmas Cheer(1:42)

Buy Me Something!(2:45)

When Jesus Was A Kid(4:14)

The Night Before Hanukkah(2:44)

G-Gee, It's Warm Out Here(2:42)

I Believe You(2:05)

The Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Santa & God(2:43)

Pass It On!(1:30)

Clean Out The Attic(3:37)

Earthsong(3:57)

CREDITS:

Produced by Peter Alsop

Music Engineer: Greg Hilfman

Recorded & Mixed at Barely Sound Studios, Topanga, CA

Teletalent, Hollywood, CA, and LaRocque Studios, N. Hollywood, CA

Peter Alsop - vocals, guitars, jingle bells, autoharp, spoons, bass, jaw harp, tambourine, triangle, washboard,

Greg Hilfman - synthesizers, keyboards & all other sampled insturments, background vocals(14), elf, orchestra bells(1), autoharp percussion (4), Mr. Leibovitz

Joachim Cooder - dumbeks

Miriam Cutler - clarinet, background vocals(7)

Shelby Flint - background vocals

Ellen Geer - background vocals

Willow Geer-Alsop - lead vocal (3, 7, 11)

Brette Gentry - lead vocal (4)

Michael Hamilton - engineer

Roger LaRocque - engineer, percussion & drum programming(7)

Melora Marshall - background vocals (10, 14)

Marshall McDaniel - lead vocal (5, 11)

Tosha Scarfe - lead vocal (11)

Nick South - bass (13)

Cory Thompson - lead guitar (11)

Bill Buerge - cover art

Terri Asher - layout

Kids: Kailani Ector, Willow Geer-Alsop, Brette Gentry, Chenoa Hernandez, Abe Hilfman, Jacy Hernandez, Kai Hernandez, Marshall McDaniel, Tosha Scarfe, Talia Wabnig

Thanks to Chris Fletcher & Bill Harley

P., C., 1994, Moose School Music, Box 960 Topanga, CA 90290

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Ebenezer's Make Over 3 Dec 13, 2018

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In Chapter 3 of Ebenezer’s Make Over, Carol, the Spirit of Present Times, shows Scrooge what his own present life looks like to an outsider, and Scrooge begins to understand why he treats women the way he does, and the kind of family in which he grew up. Songs by Joe Jencks, Tom Hunter, Fred Small, Romanovsky & Phillips and me!

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