Wee Sing Silly Songs

Wee Sing Classics

by Pamela Conn Beall, Susan Hagen Nipp

Want to be silly? Here's your chance with the silliest group of nonsense songs ever compiled which includes: 47 silly songs and finger plays; one-hour audiocassette (approximately); and a 64-page illustrated book with complete lyrics.

Genres: Music, Childrens, Reference

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Pamela Conn Beall was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and raised in Klamath Falls, Oregon, with two sisters and a brother. Music was a large part of her childhood, not only within the family, but as she studied voice, piano, and guitar, and sang in numerous select choirs. She graduated from Oregon State University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in music with a minor in education. After college she became an elementary school music teacher in the Portland area, taught guitar at the community college, and sang with the Norman Leyden Singers and Portland Symphonic Choir. Pam lives with her husband, Ron, in Lake Oswego, Oregon. They have four adult children.

Reviews

[J · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Wee Sing brand was known during its peak to provide songbook compilations and cassettes to teach younger generations music and/or rhymes from the past as well as sometimes something newer like this book. As a result some of the songs during these bitter years are definitely not going to be received well or even considered politically correct.

Each book is a collection of poems and various brief songs, the latter which are put on musical scales for those who not only talented in singing but also in playing an instrument. And sometimes if a tune has been recycled that information has also been shared.

Readers will find the book has three categories of songs with two focusing on people and the other on animals respectively while rounding out the book with a chapter that tackles the silly things one may also see. As with other books in the series hand gesture have been included for songs that are known for having interactive elements.

The book does include some black-and-white detailed and realistic to cartoonish illustrations to reflect the silly nature ofsomewhat cartoonish.

All in all if you are looking to share with your younger ones healthy and mostly wholesome older songs from the past than I would highly recommend these time capsules even with all their now perceived faults.

[Siskiyou-Suzy · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are some good songs in here and some not-so-good songs. I've only listened to part of the tape, so I don't have much to say about that. I recognize several of the songs from my childhood while others I have never heard of. Not all of the songs are appropriate for school because of references to religion or death, but that doesn't really make them inappropriate for young ages.

[Don Gubler · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some are pretty funny.