![]() ![]() A greatest hits compilation, The Best of The Laurie Berkner Band followed two years later, and A Laurie Berkner Christmas was released in 2012.īerkner's audience increased dramatically when she appeared on The Today Show in 2001. Her album Rocketship Run came out in August 2008. With 1999's Victor Vito, Berkner achieved national fame, appearing on the FX network's American Baby Show and winning a Parent's Guide to Children's Media Award. In 1998, Berkner formed her own independent record company, Two Tomatoes Records, to release her second album, Buzz Buzz, which includes such Berkner standards as "Pig on Her Head" and "Monster Boogie". The album contained original songs like "We Are the Dinosaurs" and "I Know a Chicken", along with covers of classics like "The Cat Came Back" and " Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)". "The children were really responding to the music we created together," she said. She had been encouraged to record by the parents of the children she worked with. In 1997, working with Susie Lampert, Mueller and guest bassist Adam Bernstein, she put out her first album, Whaddaya Think of That? as a cassette-only release. "I used to arrive early and memorize every child's name, so I could feel like I knew them." "Those days were intense," she told The New York Times. Some of her first performances as a children's musician were birthday party gigs at $125 a show. "The more I started working on material for children, the more I realized that it opened up creativity in me that I never knew I had." "Writing music for kids has not been a struggle at all," Berkner has said. ![]() When she started a band that played original music, Red Onion (Berkner, Brian Mueller, Adam Bernstein and Alan Lerner), she found song-writing to be a struggle-a problem that disappeared when she started writing children's music. In 1992, she began to perform as a professional rock musician, playing in an all-female cover band called Lois Lane. After working as a summer-camp music counselor, she spent several years as a children's music specialist for day care centers and preschools in the New York area. As a student at Rutgers University, she toured Europe as a choir soloist and an orchestral guitar player. ![]() That’s how I started, but then I eventually switched to Amazon Music Unlimited because it has nearly every song.Growing up in Princeton, New Jersey, Berkner attended Princeton High School and was involved in choirs, bands and musical theater. There is also a 2 million song music library with Amazon Prime. Then the songs are always there on my phone, and I can play them in the classroom, the car, or anywhere else. What’s great is that I can download the songs while I’m home on my phone using wifi with the Amazon Music app. It’s compatible with your phone, electronic devices, Alexa, and computer. If you would want to download more than 10 songs a month, it’s worth its weight in gold! It isn’t free, but well worth it for me because we use it each day between the classroom and home. If you are using just audio, I have Amazon Music Unlimited. Screen it first to make sure it works for your needs. You can click the songs directly from this post, and it should take away most of the ads. If you want to get songs without the ads from YouTube, there are a couple simple solutions. There are a few songs in there just for fun, too! How to Stream Music in the Classroom or at Home Then we end with fun space songs for preschool! These are a little more educational, using the concept of outer space to reinforce things like the alphabet or counting to 10. They may teach some new concepts about outer space, such as gravity, but they’re specifically geared towards the youngest kids. Then we give you space songs specifically for toddlers. We start with songs about the solar system that teach the names and order of the planets, as well as one that teaches the planet names in Spanish! We’ve picked out some of our absolute favorite outer space songs for kids. ![]()
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