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Debi Derryberry (also the voice of Jimmy Neutron) brings new energy to children's favorites and her original songs with this fun and eclectic blend of blues, boogie-woogie, country, jazz, campfire and lullaby. The songs in ?What A Way To Play? include sparkling new arrangements of traditional children?s favorites, as well as half a dozen Derryberry originals, which include the irresistibly playful title tune and ?My Dog?s My Buddy,? a celebration of childhood canine love set to a ?get-up-and-dance,? rock ?n? roll beat that Debi wrote when she was nine years old. Other highlights include a swinging version of ?The ABC Song? featuring beautiful walking bass lines and pithy commentary from the blues harp; a rockabilly setting ? in three different languages ? of ?Itsy Bitsy Spider;? a wonderfully funky rendition of the perennial children?s favorite, ?The Wheels on the Bus;? and ?Raisin Fingers,? a jazzy, minor-keyed vamp song about one of the first observed mysteries of childhood: bathtub wrinkles. There?s also ?Nose,? a gentle country waltz contemplating the problem of a cold bedtime nose with such funny solutions as having the nose switch places with the mouth! Rounding out the album are ?Pippity Pop,? a speech-song rendition of nonsense syllables set to an ensemble of percussion instruments, the Calypso-flavored ?Baby Banana,? a lively version of ?Lollipop Tree,? a straight-ahead celebration of the Woody Guthrie folk anthem ?This Land Is Your Land,? and the gentle country two-beat ballad, Harry Nilsson?s ?Little Cowboy.?