Ralph's World: All Around Ralph's World
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Ralph's World: All Around Ralph's World, originally released by Bar/None Records, features 16 songs including a few Disney rarities! Ralph Covert takes you on a musical journey from your backyard to outer space with songs that range from crunchy rock to cowboy country to latin pulses and broadway-style tunes.The cover and the delightful inside illustrations are by the renowned and inventive Laurie Kellerwho also worked with Ralph on their "Me And My Animal Friends" book.
From Ralph's liner notes:
Music is like life, a journey all around the world… the world around us, and our own neighborhood. Sometimes it means taking my guitar and traveling to different cities to make music with fans and friends, and sometimes the music takes me on trips in my imagination. Sometimes the journey is throwing a CD on in the mini-van while running errands. Either way, thank you for being on the journey with me. We may start in our backyard and end up in outer space, so let’s get going!
From Ralph's liner notes:
Music is like life, a journey all around the world… the world around us, and our own neighborhood. Sometimes it means taking my guitar and traveling to different cities to make music with fans and friends, and sometimes the music takes me on trips in my imagination. Sometimes the journey is throwing a CD on in the mini-van while running errands. Either way, thank you for being on the journey with me. We may start in our backyard and end up in outer space, so let’s get going!
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Songs:
1. The Great Outdoors 2. My Magic Trick 3. Wiggle Your Lah-De-Dah 4. Easy Ryders 5. All About Bob 6. All Around The World 7. Black Hole Boy 8. Blue Airplane 9. The First Time 10. Pickle Me Juice 11. Sally's Trip 12. Bubblegum 13. The Funniest Joke In The World 14. A Dog Named Bruce 15. The Robot Looked At The Stars 16. I'm Not Tired |
Critics say:
The Sound: Melodic, pop-rock greatness with more hooks than a tackle box, from one of the true giants of the kid’s music genre, In the Cafeteria, They Sit With: Brady Rymer, Eric Herman, Justin Roberts Best Moments: What if being funny came with disastrous side effects? That juxtaposition of humor and tragedy is cleverly examined on “The Funniest Joke In The World”. I could easily hear Mark Olsen and Gary Louris singing “The First Time”, a criminally catchy Jayhawks-ish tune about being afraid of new experiences, be it riding a bike, taking a swim or greeting the new babysitter. Ralph Covert once again shares songwriting credit with his daughter Fiona, on the musical pogo stick “Pickle Me Juice”. With lyrics like “fibbily dibbily nibbily cake / ate a piece of pie on a roller skate”, it’s a novelty song that’s as bouncy as it is absurd. The most adventurous song on “All Around Ralph’s World” is about a kid who has the golden disappearing touch. “Black Hole Boy” loses everything, including, in the end, parts of his own song. It’s my favorite on the album. According to both my girls, the funniest part of “A Dog Named Bruce” (the Mouse’s most-requested new Ralph’s World song) is when Covert asks the listener “Have you ever seen a dog with a suntan?”, as if getting a tan was the most outlandish thing Bruce the dog did while on his “train trip across America”. Jeff @ Out With The Kids |