Dog Train: A Wild Ride on the Rock-and-Roll Side - Hardcover

Boynton, Sandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761139664 ISBN 13: 9780761139669

Verlag: Workman Kids, 2005

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Full of attitude, full of fun, and all lit up with star power, Dog Train is a Recording Industry Association of America Gold Album with 600,000 copies in print. Another great book-and-CD production by Sandra Boynton, it features all original songs recorded by big-name acts and great voices.

Blues Traveler performs a stomping version of the title song, a moody rock journey that Boynton wrote especially for them. And then there’s Alison Krauss with “Evermore.” And Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme—really—who do the “Boring Song.” The Spin Doctors, who channel rock’s rebellious side—with a taste of punk—for “Tantrum”: “No No No, I don’t want to, I don’t want to./No no no, I don’t want to, no no./Leave me alone. Leave me alone./LEAVE ME ALONE.” And the sweetly unexpected pairing of “Weird Al” Yankovic and Kate Winslet (yep, Kate Winslet) as a duet singing “I Need a Nap.”

The full-color book features a portion of each song’s lyrics set as a little story, illustrated with Boynton’s irresistible hippos, cows, dogs, and more dogs. Full lyrics appear in the back.

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Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, author, songwriter, producer, and director. Since 1974, Boynton has created eighty-eight children’s books and seven general audience books, including six New York Times bestsellers. More than 90 million of her books have been sold, “mostly to friends and family,” she says. She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced seven albums of renegade children’s music. Three of her seven albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold) and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has been certified Platinum (over 1 million copies sold). Boynton has also directed many music videos of her songs, including the award-winning “One Shoe Blues” starring B.B. King, “Going Home Now” sung by Lyle Lovett, and “Tyrannosaurus Funk” (animated) fabulously voiced by Samuel L. Jackson. She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America.

Michael Ford, Sandra Boynton’s esteemed collaborator on Philadelphia Chickens and Rhinoceros Tap, is a classically trained composer and pianist, with a long detour in Progressive Rock performance. He and his family live down the road a spell from Sandy.

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Great performances, great music, great illustrations—now arriving on Tracks 1 through 17. All Abooooooard!
Oooooo! From the team that brought you Philadelphia Chickens—It's an all-out rock album for children! and for vintage children!

"The train goes nowhere, but it goes there fast."

From Boynton & Ford, here comes Dog Train...energetic, moody, and unpredictable new songs written and illustrated by the energetic, moody, and unpredictable Sandra Boynton. And performed by the most unusual mix of legendary musicians imaginable—

• Spin Doctors throw a "Tantrum"
• The O.K. Chorale presents "Thus Quacked Zarathustra"
• Blues Traveler rocks the "Dog Train"
• Mark Lanegan sings "Sneakers"
• Billy J. Kramer narrates & sings "Cow Planet" (3 episodes)
• Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme croon "Boring Song"
• The Bacon Brothers and Mickey Hart clang "Pots & Pans"
• Kate Winslet and "Weird" Al Yankovic sing "I Need a Nap"
• Alison Krauss sings "Evermore"
• John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting sings "Penguin Lament"
• The Phenomenauts rock out "(Don't Give Me That) Broccoli"
• Rob Hyman and Eric Bazillian perform "Dragonfire"
• Doshie Luther sings "Wave Bye-Bye"
• Hootie & the Blowfish rock and rock "Rock to Sleep 54"

Great performances, great music, great illustrations—now arriving on Tracks 1 through 17. All Abooooooard!

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Workman Kids
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0761139664
• ISBN 13: 9780761139669
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar