CHILDREN'S CHOICE-TRADITIONAL SONGS/NURSERY RHYMES CD

Children’s Choice

Traditional Songs & Nursery Rhymes

Over an hour of all-time favourites

Performed by Wally Whyton

When Wally Whyton was asked to deputise for Rolf Harris on a TV programme called Musical Box, he was a struggling musician.  His skiffle group the Vipers had disbanded and a new line up had left en masse to join Cliff Richard as the Drifters (later Shadows).  The television money, Wally later recalled, was good, and all they wanted me to do was sing a few nursery rhymes’.  Thus began nine years in which Whyton became one of the firs major children’s TV presenters, a route more recently followed by Ralph McTell with Alphabet Zoo and Tickle On The Tum.  When Wally one day innocently asked Pussy Cat Willum on air what his favourite nursery rhyme was, an unexpected avalanche of mail came in from young viewers.  This public demand – some 25,000 letters, all told – resulted in four volumes of children’s songs and nursery rhymes which sold over five million copies in total and from which this collection of favourites has been culled.  We guarantee it will entertain and amuse whether you’re an old fan of Wally from his Five O’Clock Club years or have children of your own.

1. Join In The Chorus

Gimme Crack Corn (The Blue Tail Fly)

She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain

Skip To My Loo

Oh My Darling Clementine

2. By Numbers

Ten In The Bed/One Man Went To Mow

Ten Little Indians

One Two Three Four Five Once I Caught A Fish Alive

3. Folk Songs

Go Tell Aunt Rhody

Big Ship Sails On The Alley-Alley O

When I First Came To This Land

Did You Ever See A Whale?

4. Boys

What Are Little Boys Made Of

This Is The House That Jack Built

Wee Willie Winkie

Simple Simon

Charming Billy

Bobby Shafto)

5. Girls

What Are Little Girls Made Of

Polly Put The Kettle On

Curly Locks Curly Locks

Lucy Locket Lost Her Pocket

Mary Mary Quite Contrary

See Saw Marjorie Daw)

6. First Favourites

Bye Baby Bunting

Diddle Diddle Dumpling

7. Cats And Mice

Hickory Dickory Dock

Hey Diddle Diddle (The Cat And The Fiddle)

Three Blind Mice

Fiddle-Eye Dee

Three Mice Went Into A Hole

Three Little Kittens

Pussy Cat Pussy Cat Where Have You Been

8. Other Animals

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Goosie Goosie Gander

Cock-A-Doodle-Do

Frog Went A-Courtin'

If I Had A Donkey)

9. Little

Mary Had A Little Lamb

Little Boy Blue

Little Jack Horner

Little Bo Peep

I Had A Little Nut Tree

Little Miss Muffet

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

10. Lullabies

Hush Little Baby

Papa's Gonna Buy You A Mocking Bird

Good Lord (Bye And Bye)

Hush-A-Bye Baby

11. Some Dancing Songs

Dance To Your Daddy

In And Out The Windows

Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron

Ten Green Bottles

Be Bo Bopperty

12. Some Animal Songs

Pussy Cat Ate The Dumplings

Ding Dong Bell

There Was A Mouse Who Lived In A House

The Squirrel

A Fox Went Out (Den-O)

13. Some London Songs

London Bridge Is Falling Down

Oranges And Lemons

Pop Goes The Weasel

14. Some Seasonal Songs

There's A Party Here Today

Hot Cross Buns

North Wind Doth Blow

I Saw Three Ships

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Twelve Days Of Christmas

Happy Birthday)