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Arthur & Friends
Arthur's Really Rockin' Music Mix
Genres: Pop, Children's Music

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Believe In Yourself
2. I Don't Want To Wake Up
3. Pop Quiz From Ratburn
4. Has Anybody Seen My Invisible Friend?
5. Two Sides Of The Story
6. I Can't Snap My Fingers
7. Fly, butterfly, Fly
8. D.W.'s Brass In Pocket
9. Elwood City: A Report
10. Muffy's Soccer Song
11. My Brain
12. Only The Frensky
13. Mrs. Wha-cha-ma-call-it
14. Fern's Detective Tango
15. My Echo Doesn't Sound Like Me
16. Goldilocks And The Bears Trio As Told By Sue Ellen

CD Details

All Artists: Arthur & Friends
Title: Arthur's Really Rockin' Music Mix
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rounder / Umgd
Original Release Date: 1/1/2001
Re-Release Date: 9/11/2001
Genres: Pop, Children's Music
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 011661810624

Synopsis

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As the most popular kid's show on PBS, Arthur and Friends has succeeded through the sheer amount of personality, charm, and chutzpah embodied by its all-too-human animal cartoon characters. With Arthur's Really Rockin' Music, the whole cartoon gang explores the richness of world music, so that the CD is equal parts instructive, fun, kid-friendly, and at times just plain goofy. "Two Sides of the Story," sung by Arthur's family in country & western basics, lets kids know how the truth often has more than one point of view, while D.W.'s "Has Anyone Seen My Invisible Friend?" will provoke the giggles and inspire Cajun parties with its animated zydeco attack. From global music such as the tango to fundamental rhythm and blues to the techno remix of the show's Ziggy Marley theme song to Buster's jazzy lounge complaint "I Can't Snap My Fingers," Arthur and company provide an almost pristine foil to their noisy commercial cousins on children's television. Add to that D.W.'s precocious rock cover of the Pretenders tough "Brass in Pocket," and the antics of "My Brain" (it has a "mind of its own..."), and Arthur and Friends gives a hearty theatrical performance that your younger compatriots shouldn't miss. --Martin Keller

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CD Reviews

Overall a Decent "Mix"

George Buttner | Dayton, Ohio United States | 09/22/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The musical history for the "Arthur" show began with the theme song, "Believe in Yourself," performed by the talented "Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers." The next big musical breaks came in Season Three of the program, with Art Garfunkel lending his singing talents for the "Ballad of Buster Baxter," and the music festival episode. This musical festival episode featured several songs that later made it to Arthur's first album, "Arthur's First Almost Live, Not Real CD (or tape)" an excellent album that continues to sell to this day.Unfortunately, the crew waded into murky water when they released a christmas CD, "Arthur's Perfect Christmas," based on their less-than-stellar Christmas special, which largely featured rehashes of traditional Christmas songs. One other problem were the unsuitable voice-actor replacments or voice changes.So what's happening with this new CD? Arthur explains in the liner notes:
"When I decided to make my very own music mix, I asked my friends and family what to put on it...everybody had a different idea. So here's a little bit of everything."So did it work? Overall, I'd say it did. The writers avoided the biggest worry of many, that they would do songs based on traditional children's tunes. They only did one, "Pop Quiz From Ratburn," based on "Pop Goes the Weasel," and it's actually pretty good. They've hired on a new voice actor for Arthur, and although D.W. still has the same voice-actor, "Has Anybody Seen My Invisible Friend?" is still an excellent song, although the problem is definitely noticeable in her other two songs. "Has Anybody Seen My Invisible Friend?" (Zydeco) is included in my favorites, along with "Two Sides of the Story" (Country Western), and "Fern's Detective Tango" (Tango, duh!) None of them were entirely bad. The dance remix of the main title theme (which has been given the name "Believe in Yourself") is okay, although you get the feeling they could have tried harder. This tune (or perhaps just a portion of it), will play during the end credits for Season Six of the show, which is scheduled to premiere September 24, 2001 on most PBS stations."