Kidz STEM Songz. Performed by Dan Crow and
others. 2 CDs and 1 DVD. KidzMusic Records. 2018. $12.99 download only.
The first CD is Dan Crow’s Concoctions, which I reviewed 8/29/16. See my review in this blog
for details.
The second CD (approximately 50 minutes) includes 16
original songs by a variety of well-known children’s music professionals, such
as Grin Brigade, Katherine Dines, Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band, The Brian
Waite Band, Marla Lewis, Hap Palmer, Roger Day, Eric Ode, Billy Harley, and
several others. Children’s choruses join in on several of the songs. They
perform in a variety of musical styles, including rock, pop, funk, Western,
Latin, rap, Chinese folk, and chipmunk voices. The songs are “Weightless,”
“It’s Amazing What You Can Do With Your Brain,” “Gato Astronauta,” “Five Cool
Cats,” “Sedimentary Rock,” “E=mc2,” “The Abacus” (a story about a
competition between an abacus and a calculator; the calculator was faster, but
got the wrong answer), “Counting by Twos with the Odd Numbers,” “The Brain Train,”
“When I Only Have a Minute” (which takes 1 minute, 3 seconds to sing), “I’m an
Engineer” (train engineer, that is), “Poor Planet Pluto,” “Milky Way,” “Thank a
Plant” (should be thanking God for creating plants for us instead), “Jump,” and
“Botany.”
Included in the set is a DVD, which has computer animation
accompanying “Science, Science, Science,” “Technology,” “You’re an Engineer,” “Seven,”
and a bonus track: “Tooth Fairy Take Me Home.”
This is a good, professional album that encourages
children to pursue math and the sciences.
Here is a link to the song "Seven":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ifpAv9-xE
Here is a link to the song "Seven":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ifpAv9-xE