Kidsongs

I watched plenty of Kidsongs as a kid, but I haven't seen it in forever. However, I still occasionally listen to their songs, and I might revisit it at some point if I can find any episodes. When I was in grade school, my class would watch it together during music class on some days. I also used to have a couple of Kidsongs DVDs, but I don't know what happened to them. They most likely got lost.

I honestly don't remember a whole lot about the show, but it starred kids who sang covers of children's songs, Christmas songs, and even songs by well-known artists like Elvis and the Beach Boys. If I remember correctly, they never sang any original songs. I think the episodes consisted mostly of the characters singing and didn't have plots, although I could be wrong.

The sets were very well made and had a lot of detail, and the Biggles were cute. Sometimes the kids and Biggles would go to actual locations, like a zoo, a circus, and even Old MacDonald's farm. Interesting, isn't it?

Each episode was about something kids (and maybe adults) love, like animals, sports, traveling, and more. The series demonstrated that even kids could produce and star in their own music videos and be just as creative as adults (or almost).

Kidsongs was good, and so were the song covers, but it could've been better if it had a plot and some original songs. Again, I could be wrong about all the songs being covers of already existing songs and the episodes consisting mostly of the characters singing.

I remember when this show first came on. My sister saw it for me since I was in school, and then I decided to tape it. I was seriously obsessed with this show as a child and never thought I'd have the chance to review it. This show has been through many changes, but if you were always a fan of singalongs, watch this show and re-live your childhood.

Kidsongs is a creation of Bruce Gowers and Carol Rosenstein both of whom have experience in producing music videos and music TV specials. Rosenstein had the ideal of Kidsongs when her daughter was one year old. Gowers had a baby son and also jumped on the Kidsongs ideal as well. Originally Kidsongs was series of direct to home video program which centered on a story/theme and had 10 to 15 songs. Some of themes included animals, silly people and songs behind them, and automobiles.

In 1994 it was decided to produce a TV show featuring the songs from the video programs that Gowers and Rosenstein produced since the mid 1980's. In the TV show a group of neighborhood kids convince a couple of TV station managers to let them produce a television in which the kids would produce and star in. While the TV program made you think that kids did all the work on the set and on location, in reality it used video segments from the Kidsong video program, and they had adult camera people that were off camera. The TV show also had a question and answer segment in which the Kidsongs Kids would interview highly respected people and their also interviewed a few well known actors and music performers. That included Raven-Symone who started in "The Cosby Show" and "Hanging with Mr. Cooper" and smooth jazz saxophonist Dave Koz. The TV program also introduced a fantasy character called Billy Biggle, and later added a second one Ruby Biggle who was Billy's sister. The Biggles would help the Kidsongs kids during the program in anyway possible. Whether it was helping behind the scenes or leading a sing along on one of songs in the show. The Kidsongs TV Show got exposure on both cable (Disney Channel) and broadcast TV (PBS affiliates)from 1994 though 2001.

By the way at the later years of the Kidsongs music video productions, the Biggles were also featured and that included including two videos that made Billy and Ruby the main theme and bring the Kidsong Kids and the home viewers to Biggle Land were Billy and Ruby resided along with their friends. A few Kidsong Video show in their entirety got aired on public televison as well.

The TV show is gone but you can still buy all 24 videos of the Kidsong video series by going to their website at kidsongs.com. Bruce and Carol still work in creating and producing music programs for TV and video and have worked with people like Ricky Martin, Britney Spears, and 'N-Sync just to name a few. They know how to but pictures to music and Kidsongs comes out a winner.

I remember when my parents made me watch this when I was a baby. I am 18 now and I think they need more stuff like this now a days for kids. It's classic and fun for little kids from 2-about 7. Why do they rid of good old stuff like this off the T.V.? Plus all the songs that they sing are also classic. At least they still have these on DVD. It's cool and sad about how much T.V. has changed. They come with cool new shows but get rid all the good old classics that we use to love back in the good old days. I think what they need to do is make more channels that show all this classic show like what they do on Boomerang. Here is what I think should have a classic's channel, Nickelodeon, P.B.S, and a brand new version of The Family Channel.

I'll have to say, if you are looking for a perfect gift for a little one, these are perfect. I watched them growing up, and now my kids watch them too. The Good Night Sleep Tight is perfect also if you are having trouble putting kids to sleep. It puts ME to sleep myself along with my kids. These videos help kids use their imagination without some boring character that's purple. If you are tired of the same old same old, these are great because they don't get annoying. It's just kids like ours singing songs we grew up with and really getting into the zoo, circus, you name it. These are really cheap on amazon.com or kidsongs.com you can buy the package too!