Sing Your Song

 

Sing Your Song. Performed by Harmonica Pocket. CD. Approx. 43 min. 2021. CD: $12.99; Digital: $9.99. Ages 2—8

Two-time Parents’ Choice Gold Award-winner, Keeth Monta Apgar (aka Harmonica Pocket), performs 11 original songs, 1 traditional song (“Twinkle, Twinkle”), and one cover, all with memorable and appealing melodies. On this 5^th album for children, his pleasant and smooth vocals blend in beautiful harmonies with his guest singers, Renee Stahl, his wife Nala Walla and son Montana Apgar. And occasionally, he lets rip an amazing falsetto. Apgar and his guest instrumentalists perform on guitars, ukulele, upright bass, bass, alto and baritone saxophones, trombone, harmonica, drums, percussion, Glockenspiel, and caxixi, in pop rock, country and folk musical styles. In “Sing Your Song,” you may not sound like everybody else, but you sound just like yourself, so open up your mouth and sing. “One Two I Love You” and three, four, couldn’t love you more. “Nest” celebrates a couple of birds building a nest (with bird chirps). In the “Sand Song” the narrator has sand in his hair, underwear, nose, between his toes, and he'd love to share if you’d care for some. In “Everything is Everywhere” the narrator lists a plethora of misplaced body parts, such as his nose is in his ear, etc. “Take a Little Finger” is a spoken poem in which listeners are asked to draw figures in the air and clap. In “Apples on the Sun,” one can taste apples that are growing on the sun and smell flowers that are blooming on the moon. In “Itchy 9,” the narrator suffers from itches all over his body (with sounds of scratching). “I Can Be the Princess” and you can be the violin; I can be the bird and you can be the flower, but I prefer to be me. The cover of “Stand by Me” features lots of harmonica. “Wee a Tilly” begins with the sounds of wind chimes, then avows apart or together, love you forever. The “Ukulele Lullaby” sings little ones to sleep. A lovely and beautifully executed album.

Website: https://harmonicapocket.com/music/