Wee Sing Bible Songs (Wee Sing) CD and Book Edition (Wee Sing)

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The bestselling Wee Sing line is now tailored for the most modern Wee Sing fans! These eight classic Wee Sing titles are now in a great new package—a book and CD in a reusable blister!

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Just like we remembered.......2007-10-09

My children grew up on these songs, and now they are growing up with children of their own and wanted to pass the music on. Fun!!

Awesomw music for even the youngest child........2007-08-29

I do daily Devotions with my 3 young children and they love the music and I love what it helps me teach them.

Love It.......2007-05-12

I grew up with the Wee Sing products and, when I found out I was pregnant, I bought this CD for my own son. I find it very useful because I find it hard to remember a lot of the songs that I sang when I was growing up. This is a good reminder. Also, when my son gets a little older, I know that he'll enjoy singing along with it as well. I intend to purchase many more Wee Sing products in the future.

Kids' music.......2007-05-12

Some of the best music "out there" for Christians; conservative but kid friendly

Fanstastic CD!.......2007-02-09

Wee Sing Bible Songs became a favorite in our home, car, and Children's Church program. The songs are easy to sing and many have motions described in the song book that the kids love. I ordered multiple copies for our programs after purchasing one for my own children.

Gonna Sing My Head Off! American Folk Songs for Children

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gonna sing my head off

Gonna Sing My Head Off! American Folk Songs for Children
Kathleen Krull
Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0394819918
Release Date: 1992-09-15

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gonna sing my head off.......2001-03-12

This book is a treasure! I discovered it while substitute teaching the music class at the local elementary school, and was impressed with the content, ease of playing and the complete texts of songs long forgotten that I had enjoyed so much as a child. This is a must have for home or school teaching. It has many wonderful lessons for teaching music and American folk themes. Even though it is aimed at children, I heartily recommend it to everyone. There should be one sitting on every piano!

The Reader's Digest Children's Songbook: Over 130 All-Time Favorites to Play, Listen and Sing

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Song Selection is Ok, Piano Arrangements Difficult
The Reader's Digest Children's Songbook
Book is great but CD is awful
Book is good but CD is lacking
The Reader's Digest Children's Songbook: Over 130 All-Time Favorites to Play, Listen and Sing

The Reader's Digest Children's Songbook: Over 130 All-Time Favorites to Play, Listen and Sing

Manufacturer: Reader's Digest
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 0762106190

Book Description

First published in 1985, this Reader's Digest best-selling classic has sold over 200,000 copies. Carryon or start your own tradition as adults and children gather to sing from this collection of easy-to-play children's favorite songs-from movies, shows, nursery rhymes, holiday songs, folksongs, nonsense songs, and more. This collection is great for all ages, familiar songs that children love to sing, and a must have for parents, grandparents, and teachers-including musical games and activity ideas to add to the fun. The 252-page easy-to-read music book with more than 130 all-time favorite family songs is spiral-bound to lie flat, and includes a 40-page lyric book. And bring these favorite melodies to life by listening to the recordings on the companion CD.

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Song Selection is Ok, Piano Arrangements Difficult.......2007-08-09

The song selection in this book is ok to good, but could be better. It contains quite a few children's songs of the repetitious, annoying variety. The piano arrangements are very nice, but difficult to play and will only be played easily by fairly advanced pianists.

The Reader's Digest Children's Songbook.......2007-05-29

I am very proud of this book because its songs that I grew up with plus a few extras. My granddaughters are learning most of these now. It is a great book. Great price too!

Book is great but CD is awful.......2007-01-14

My preschool daughters love leafing through the book, singing the songs they know, but we pitched the CD almost instantly. The singing is awful and the CD doesn't include most of the songs in the book. If you're looking for a good family folksong CD, buy something else.

Book is good but CD is lacking.......2007-01-12

I received this book as a gift and was very excited until I realized the CD only contains 12 songs and not 130. The actual CD cover is the only place I could find that says there are 12 songs on it. Neither the book cover or the inside of the book states how many songs are on the CD. I assumed 130 songs would be on the CD since the heading says "Over 130 All-Time Favorites to Play, Listen, and Sing. Do not buy this book if you are looking for a CD of 130 kids songs. If you are looking for a book with piano or guitar arrangements for kids songs, you found a winner.

The Reader's Digest Children's Songbook: Over 130 All-Time Favorites to Play, Listen and Sing.......2006-11-04

The most awesome children's song book compiled. I have given it as a gift 5 times.

Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays (Wee Sing)

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Hours and Hours of fun for toddlers
my 2 year old's favorite
My daughter likes this audio cassette
We Love Wee Sing
Wee Sing is Pretty Darn Good for Kiddie Music...

Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays (Wee Sing)
Pamela Conn Beall , and Susan Hagen Nipp
Manufacturer: Price Stern Sloan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0843113626

Book Description

The bestselling Wee Sing line is now tailored for the most modern Wee Sing fans! These eight classic Wee Sing titles are now in a great new package—a book and CD in a reusable blister!

Customer Reviews:

Hours and Hours of fun for toddlers.......2007-04-07

I bought this when my daughter was around 18 months she just loved following along with the fingerplays. Hours and Hours of entertainment.

my 2 year old's favorite.......2006-10-12

We bought many children's song for my son, and this is his favorite. He loves to buzzz when he hears the bee comes, and claps his hand when he hears "clap you your hand as slowly as you can ...". He didn't talk too much before, but this tape really makes him much more vocal then before. The music is so soothing and he listens to it every day before he goes to bed.

My daughter likes this audio cassette.......2006-07-30

I bought this while my daughter was less than two years old. She still likes to listen this even after she is four now.

Many songs are very popular and also taught in school. It is good for parents like me, who may not know what exactly their kid is singing, to also enjoy these songs with your kids at home. It comes with a book for parents with the instruction on the fingerplays.

I think that this book is well designed. One thing they can improve is to have the book more colorful. Otherwsie, considering its low price, I think that this is a good buy.

We Love Wee Sing.......2006-02-27

My cousin gave me her children's old Wee Sing Bible Songs and I played it for my daughter one day. She really liked it, more than the other children's music I've played for her. I bought several of the Wee Sing collections and my daughter loves them all.

They seem to all be classic children's songs sung in their original format (as another reviewer said, with none of the TV character weird versions) by children.

This one is her very favorite, though, and we have listened to this almost daily since she was one (she's now almost three). There are fingerplays that go with many of the songs. My daughter has learned the words and actions to most of these..... some of them, like the address song, the counting song, and the ABCs have even been educational!

The CD comes with a songbook, too, and my daughter really enjoys hearing me play the songs on the piano for her (they only give the single note treble clef part - but that's enough to make my daughter happy - and it's all I could play anyway).

This whole series is really wonderful and I highly recommend it for young children!

Wee Sing is Pretty Darn Good for Kiddie Music..........2000-11-15

Children's Songs and Fingerplays is my 2 1/2 year old son's favorite, and one I enjoy a lot, too. It is a collection of the classics I had forgotten (in my young mother sleep-deprived state). The songs are in the original version I remember (not Barney-ized!) The collection encourages dance and fingerplays so it is good rainy-day fun. Although the music is not acoustic, the synthesizer is not so obvious and the music is pretty good--not at all grating on the nerves of exhausted parents. The children's voices are what grab the attention--they are really good. My son inadvertantly ruined his cassette so we are trying to replace it with the CD...Amazon, hurry up and replenish your stock!

Wee Sing Nursery Rhymes and Lullabies (Wee Sing)

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Off we go to London Town!
We Loved This
written music
Time for Another Generation of Wee-Singers

Wee Sing Nursery Rhymes and Lullabies (Wee Sing)
Pamela Conn Beall , and Susan Hagen Nipp
Manufacturer: Price Stern Sloan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 084311360X

Book Description

The bestselling Wee Sing line is now tailored for the most modern Wee Sing fans! These eight classic Wee Sing titles are now in a great new package—a book and CD in a reusable blister!

Customer Reviews:

Great Product.......2007-09-06

I'm really glad I purchased the Wee Sing Nursery Rhymes. It even comes with sheet music! It seems that every song I learned in school is included, plus many more. Now I can pass this on to my son and daughter! Shipping was prompt, which is a bonus!

Off we go to London Town!.......2007-07-06

My Mom and I used to quote that every time we would go on a trip. This is easily one of the best Wee Sing tapes, now available on CD. My cousin recently had her 2nd baby and I bought it for him. And since my Mom had the NERVE to sell our original copy of this one in a garage sale, I just HAD to download it to my iPod before wrapping it.

The nursery rhyme part of it, is also set to a story of Georgie Peorgie, Jack and Jill, and Mary going to King Cole's Birthday party, and on the way meeting other Mother Goose Characters.

Here are some interesting facts and trivia on some of the nursery rhymes and lullabies.

THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL. Originallly titled "JEMIMA," was written SURPRISE! SURPRISE! by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about his daughter about a time that she misbehaved. Everyone knows the first verse. But there are two other verses that are almost never anthologized.

One day she went upstairs while her parents unawares.
Sitting below were at their meals.
She stood upon her head on her little trundle bed,
and then began hurraying with her heals.

Her Mama heard the noise and thought it was the boys
A playing at a combat in the attic.
But when she climbed the stair and saw Jemima there
She took and she did Spank her most emphatic!

LUCY LOCKET If you own this product, you'll remember that the poem is sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle. What you may not know is that Lucy Lockett is the main tune and that the yankees got the melody for Yankee Doodle from Lucy Lockett.

GOOD NIGHT TO YOU ALL Isn't really a lullaby, but it was a round dating back to the 19th century often sung by quartets in hotels and such as a finale.

EARLY TO BED Was written, believe it or not by Benjamin Franklin. And was used as a way to get children to go to bed on time.

SWEETLY SLEEP Is a parody of a Czech Christmas carol called "ROCKING," which you will find on "Wee Sing for Christmas." Either song gets me in a Christmas mood no matter what time of the year it is.

All in all, this is a first rate recording and perfect for the young and the young at heart. So if you or anyone you know is about to have a baby, go ahead and buy it. You certainly won't go wrong.

We Loved This.......2007-04-02

We were so glad to be able to buy this on CD. Our tapes were so old and really no equipment handy to play, especially in the cars. We played this over and over and over and sang and had a wonderful time going places. My granddaughters are 16 and 19 now and I loved the smiles on their faces when I gave them their very own CD. Thanks so much.

written music.......2007-03-22

One thing I'd like to add to the other comments is that you might want to search inside the book to see the list of rhymes and lullabies as well as a sample of the notes for two of the songs which you can play on the piano if you like.

Time for Another Generation of Wee-Singers.......2007-02-07

My three grown daughters remember all these songs from having the cassettes when they were little. Sometimes when we're all together, someone will break into spontaneous song from one of the tapes and we all join in. It brings back great memories from our many car trips. I still have the cassettes, but no cassette player, so it was time to upgrade for my 18 month old grandson. His mom has been singing these songs to him from Day 1. All these Wee Sing CDs will become a family treasure! You won't go wrong on any of them.

The Everything Kids' Travel Activity Book: Games to Play, Songs to Sing, Fun Stuff to Do - Guaranteed to Keep You Busy the Whole Ride! (Everything Kids Series)

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Fun Activities For Car Trips and Kids

The Everything Kids' Travel Activity Book: Games to Play, Songs to Sing, Fun Stuff to Do - Guaranteed to Keep You Busy the Whole Ride! (Everything Kids Series)
Erik A. Hanson , and Jeanne Hanson
Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1580626416

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Do you love riding on planes, trains, and automobiles but get restless on the way? If the answer is yes, take along The Everything Kids' Travel Activity Book and you'll be there before you know it! Packed full of puzzles, activities, quizzes, and game, this book provides hours of nonstop fun that can be done alone or shared with other kids. There's cool stuff to do, like:
Create your own postcard
Invent a new automobile
Play detective

The Everything Kids' Travel Activity Book also gives you answers to all sorts of crazy questions:
What makes your foot "go to sleep"?
Why does your sister cough?
Why do we daydream?

On top of all that, you can draw caricatures, test your memory, and even keep a weather diary. The traveling fun is so endless you'll never ask "Are we there yet?" again!

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Fun Activities For Car Trips and Kids.......2007-07-24

This was a great book to send home with the grandkids as they made their way back to CA from a long car trip to Iowa. I am sure it kept them busy for a good long time.

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Wee Sing Silly Songs
New release is a disappointment
Love it!
These are religious songs!

Wee Sing Silly Songs (Wee Sing)
Pamela Conn Beall , and Susan Hagen Nipp
Manufacturer: Price Stern Sloan
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0843120045

Book Description

The silliest songs ever sung, Wee Sing style! You won't be able to stop giggling.

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Wee Sing Silly Songs.......2007-03-11

awesome cd. great singing by both the kids and adults and just plain cute. excellent for car trips or plane rides. good times when listening to this cd. very good.

New release is a disappointment.......2007-01-09

My brother and I really enjoyed our Wee Sing Silly Songs tape as kids, so I purchased the CD for my son. As I recall, on the old release the songs were sung by adults (albeit in funny voices). On the new release the songs are mostly sung by children, which gets to be irritating. I would much prefer to have my old tape back.

Love it!.......2006-09-19

I remembering listening to this 20 years ago and I still love it today!

These are religious songs!.......2006-06-02

Am I the only person in the world who didn't know that all Wee Sing stuff is religious. Okay - maybe I live under a rock, but when I pick up a cd/book package for kids that says "Silly Songs & Finger Plays", and has NO mention anywhere on the packaging or in the titles of the songs about Christianity or religion, I hope I can assume that the book is just a bunch of funny songs meant to entertain, not subliminally teach Christianity to my 4 year old! We are a secular family and teach our children to respect all religions and cultures. We would rather they didn't go about singing songs that made them sound Christian (or Buddhist or anything else for that matter.) "Abraham, Isaac and Jacob went to Jericho. Maybe they should have gone to Amsterdam." - thus goes a song titled "Three Jolly Fishermen". What's that supposed to mean??? I'm sure this is a great CD/book set if you are a practising Christian. The publisher should get responsible and mention the religious bent on the packaging for those consumers who are not.

The Animal Boogie (Sing Along With Fred Penner)

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Great sing along book
Barefoot Books are the best!
The Animal Boogie
Rhythmic, fun, and educational
Great Activity Book For Teachers

The Animal Boogie (Sing Along With Fred Penner)
Debbie Harter
Manufacturer: Barefoot Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1905236220

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Great sing along book.......2007-09-10

My students love this book! It has a very catchy tune and they love doing the motions for each animal. They beg me to do it!!

Barefoot Books are the best!.......2007-05-04

Whenever my sister asks for recommendations for my three-year old's birthday, Christmas, etc. gifts, I give the same answer: ANYTHING from Barefoot Books! The day after receiving Walking Through the Jungle (Sing Along With Fred Penner) for her latest birthday I rushed to the computer and Amazon to order all of Barefoot's CD+books. They are all fantastic - my daughter listens to each of them at least twice a day. She took them to her daycare, as well, and her teacher promptly ordered all of them!

The Animal Boogie.......2007-01-26

What an awesome book! Having read it once, I had to own it. The children in my early childhood classroom adored the rhythm of the text and joyously participated in the book when the CD was played. They couldn't help but move!

Rhythmic, fun, and educational.......2007-01-14

A comment from another reader describes this book as "inane" and unoriginal, but I have to disagree. This book is wonderful! Studies show that repeating patterns of words and rhythms, with just a word or two changing between verses, actually helps strengthen beginning readers' vocabularies, word recognition, and understanding of sequence and structure, all important parts of literacy. The colors in this book are beautiful. There are many interesting details in the illustrations, and I noticed there are little ways that the human characters match up with the animal ones. The CD is great, too - there is a full vocal version as well as an instrumental version, and the tune is really bouncy and catchy. As the editorial review mentions, it is one of the few books I've found that actually includes a child with a disability, which I think is important for young readers to be able to see. I have a six-year-old and twin two-year-olds, and we enjoy this book very much.

Great Activity Book For Teachers.......2006-06-25

Although this book references jungle animals, I use it as an activity when teaching my K-2 about the rainforest. The children absolutely love it. It can also be used as a way to compare the animals in the jungle vs the animals in the rainforest. This year the children put on a performance with the music from the CD. The children's faces were painted according to the animal they represented and they danced away. Just a little imagination and the ideas from this book can be endless....

Hop, Skip, and Sing Spanish (Book + Audio CD) (Hop Skip & Sing)

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Great for "Car Spanish"
Warning may be scary to little kids
From a teacher's perspective, a great tool!
Very engaging
Spanish of Spain

Hop, Skip, and Sing Spanish (Book + Audio CD) (Hop Skip & Sing)
Ana Lomba
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 007147451X

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Songs + fun and games = little language learners!

What better way to capture children's attention and open their minds to a new language than with catchy tunes, giggle-inducing games, and beloved fairy tales? Award-winning author Ana Lomba presents Hop, Skip, and Sing Spanish for Kids, an interactive program that will help you teach Spanish to children ages two though seven.

Based on the author's proven "Easy Immersion" methodology, this audio package offers 25 songs and games that use repetition and active participation to make language learning a snap while encouraging children to sing, play, and act silly for maximum fun.

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Great for "Car Spanish".......2007-10-15

We're a homeschooling family with a bright 4yo and an extremely bright 8yo. Both enjoy singing along to this CD in the car. For the 4yo it is pitched just right, for the 8yo it is simple but still fun. Both kids sing the songs even when we're not playing the CD, and the 8yo in particular seems to be picking up some of the rules of Spanish grammar and pronunciation just by singing and playing the games. Some of the games/songs are better at home, where they can move around, but for the most part everything can be done seated. We have passed the time other places with the songs -- I need to learn them better myself!
You've got to do something in the car -- why not learn Spanish?

Warning may be scary to little kids.......2007-09-28

My kids we're enjoying the CD until the story about Little Red Riding Hood played. There's a voice for the Big Bad Wolf and it scared my 2 and 4 yr old. Now they dont want hear the CD ever again.

From a teacher's perspective, a great tool!.......2007-08-22

My own children love this CD, and any of the games I have tried. It's an excellent resource for Spanish teachers, too, who need to spice up the lesson plans for the week, and allow the students to listen to someone else's voice speak the target language (Spanish!) My students (ages 3 to 18) sometimes would groan if I pulled out a CD, but not this one!

Great job, Ana! Another fun tool that's well done and goes with just about any curriculum that has the objective of communication, not just memorization.

This enhances Flip Flop Spanish, Professor Toto, Beginning Spanish Reader, and probably any other text book.

Very engaging.......2006-12-31

This CD can keep a kid very engaged for a long period of time, unlike most other products, where the kid will lose interest in less than 2 minutes. The fact that the instructor speaks Spanish from Spain was also a plus, considering the shortage of similar products in US. Cannot wait for more CDs from the same group.

Spanish of Spain.......2006-10-28

It was probably noted somewhere but missed by me: Ana is from Spain and uses the vocabulary and pronunciation from that country. (see: lots and lots of theta; a bit disconcerting for a latinoamerican type like me)

A Song To Sing, A Life To Live: Reflections on Music as Spititual Practice (Practicing our Faith)

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the role of music in spirituality
Music as affirmation
Well Written and a Must for Fans!
Spiritually Uplifting

A Song To Sing, A Life To Live: Reflections on Music as Spititual Practice (Practicing our Faith)
Don Sailers
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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ASIN: 0787983772

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In this rich exploration of music, authors Don and Emily Saliers interweave their own stories as well as those of others to reflect on the what, the how, and the why of music as a key aspect of spirituality in our lives. As an Indigo Girl, folk-rock singer-songwriter, Emily performs in primarily secular settings, while her father, Don - composer, cantor, and church musician - writes and arranges for church congregations. Their audiences may differ but both father and daughter understand the profound spirituality of music and have personally witnessed how their music brings healing to people no matter what the setting or circumstance. A Song to Sing, A Life to Live bridges two generations, two approaches to spirituality, and two genres of music - the music of Saturday night and Sunday morning. Don and Emily Saliers reflect on such topics as music and justice, music and grief, music and delight, and music and hope. They open the way for those who seek to embrace new spiritual practices by creating music, sharing music, and developing their musical skills as a spiritual practice.

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the role of music in spirituality.......2007-08-16

Authors Don and Emily Saliers, father and daughter, write from very different but equally fascinating places. He is a noted church musician and composer and university professor at a major Protestant divinity school; she has left behind her traditional church upbringing and practice and now writes music and performs as part of the maverick singing group Indigo Girls which has been around for nearly 2 decades. If you are a church musician this book will especially speak to you I think. If you're not -- and I'm not -- many of the sections written by Don may leave you confused. At least that was the impact on me. Consequently, I wasn't able to connect to his spirituality in the way I'd expected, despite my longtime church background. Emily's contributions to the book, in which I was especially interested because of Indigo Girls' social justice activism, were far fewer up to the point, about half way through the book, where I finally quit reading. I was just plain bored, and I realized I'd been skimming through pages, hoping for but finding nothing that really touched or inspired me. I felt I was reading a college textbook. There was an emotional distance that seemed odd to me for a book about spirituality. Or maybe it really is a book about music, and I'm not a musician, though I love music and it is the source of my greatest spiritual growth and comfort. Because I admire both Emily and Don Saliers so much, I keep thinking it must be me that's the problem where this book is concerned. Maybe so. Maybe no. But I never finished it.

Music as affirmation.......2006-11-04

This book supports what many of us have long felt: that music is perhaps the best medium to express joy and affirmation of life. The thoughts and experiences of this father-daughter pair, one a church musician and the other a popular performer, resonate with those of us who are neither, but who love to sing and/or listen to and/or play music. Sometimes the prose gets repetitive, but it's always clear. You'll find yourself nodding vigorously, and probably smiling too, throughout.

Well Written and a Must for Fans!.......2005-06-16

I thoroughly enjoyed this book since I am an Indigo Girls fan-particularly of Emily's song writing. This book is about tolerance of all music and how it affects just about all that we do. It talks about some of the stories behind Emily's song lyrics which I find fascinating, but also gives a great history behind many of the hymns that her father plays in their church. I would have liked to have seen Emily mention her mother and her impact on her song writing, but overall...the language and the ideas expressed in this book are beautiful and wonderful. I was sent this book as a gift, and it truly was. What a delightful treat to read.

Spiritually Uplifting.......2005-02-06

Can't get that song out of your head? Neither can they. In their new book "A Song to Sing, A Life to Live" Don Saliers, renowned professor of theology at Emory, and his daughter Emily Saliers, Grammy award winning singer/songwriter of the Indigo Girls, sing in harmony the praises of music and its connection to the soul. They remind us that it is music which generates the vibrating strings of energy connecting us to all living things. Their discussions of how music helps to shape us by connecting us to memories, people, places, and the Divine Source is both uplifting and inspirational. Both Don and Emily provide insights into how music has inspired them and directed their lives not only on a path of self-discovery, but a path of discovering the world around them; a world made visible only through music. This book will make you stop and look at the music you enjoy in a different light. I was deeply moved by the story of a young girl, Sarah, on her death bed waiting to hear Emily, and Indigo Girls partner Amy Ray, sing Emily's "Southland in the Springtime"; dying only hours after the duo finished their song. It made me question why even in death we long to fill our soul with our favorite music, but as Don and Emily point out, the cycle of life moves to music. They remind us that we cannot escape the rhythms with which daily life moves; whether it is the bustle of traffic, the roar of the ocean, or the singing of the birds. Our own bodies would not exist without the heart's intricate beating and the exact rhythm of our breathing. In essence, we are born in rhythm and die in song. I highly recommend this book as a primer in understanding the connection between music and the soul. This book is enlightening, uplifting, and fun. As an added bonus you'll also be treated to the personal stories and anecdotes of Don and Emily's encounters with music. Thank you Don and Emily for your courage and openness. Rock on!

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