Canciones para el recreo, Alerta Sings Songs for the Playground, Del Sol Books

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ALERTA is an acronym for A Learning Environment Response To All, a curriculum for young children developed at Columbia University. ALERTA placed a value on multiculturalism and bilingualism, and this program of 31 songs, performed by noted children's singer and guitarist Suni Paz, is devoted to songs from Latin America and the Caribbean. These are really brief tracks -- as short as 30 seconds, and only longer than two minutes in a couple of cases -- with both Spanish and English lyrics. They're sung capably by Paz, sometimes with sympathetic, unobtrusive accompanying vocalists, sometimes a cappella, and usually on guitar, although piano is also used. This LP and another Paz album on Folkways, Canciones para el Recreo: Children's Songs for the Playground, have been combined onto one CD by Smithsonian Folkways. That reissue has liner notes which print the lyrics, and also include English translations of Spanish lyrics. - Richie Unterberger

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44-Song Canciones para el recreo, Alerta Sings Songs for the Playground's CD
Los vecinos
Naranja dulce
Tengo una muñeca
Little David
Dis Lang Time Gal
Pizza, Pizza, Daddy-O
San Serení
Andando, andando / Tortitas, tortitas
Sana, sana / Pon, pon
Brown Girl in the Ring
Willoughby
Room for Rent / Cinderella
Mambrú
A la limón
El coquí
La rana
Noah
Head to Shoulders
Little Sally Walker
¡Que llueva!
La pájara pinta
Los números
La manita
Los animalitos
Walk Together, Children
Hush, Little Baby
Punchinella
A Sailor Went to Sea
Brinca la tablita
Matarile
Cricle Around
Lega la mañana
La gatita Carlota
Los pollitos dicen pío, pío, pío
Quenepa
Niño lareño
El aguila y la paloma
Cocorocó
Tengo dos cabritillasé
Canción de tomar el té
Resfalosa de mi escuela
Cuando estoy triste
Papaloapán
Por un ratoncito