They changed the tunes.
sulavik | 02/04/2003
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I bought this for my little girl for her second birthday based on the review above, and I am sorry that I did.She had a couple of music CDs that were awful, and I thought if I got her this 5 star disc, that she would at least get the tunes right.To my horror, this three disc set has the same anonymous performers that our other single disc did. Over half of the songs change the tune and/or rhythm dramatically. I cannot use musical notation here, but for example, in "Hickory Dickory Dock", they sing "Dock" as the high note!!!This is not a matter of children not being able to hit the notes, either. The kids can sing well enough (although they have little annoying sound bites between some numbers that are supposed to be cute, but are merely annoying). The keyboardist is the one doing violence to the tunes, apparently thinking he can improve on standards.Is it too much to ask that the original tunes on classic children's songs be respected, so that they learn it the way all preceding generations did? I guess I have learned my lesson, no more anonymous compilations, they are not worth it."