Disney Children's Favorite Songs 2

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Disney's Children's Favorites, Volume 2
Disney Children's Favorites 2.jpg
Artwork for 1996 re-release
Compilation album by
Larry Groce and the Disneyland Children's Sing-Along Chorus
ReleasedAugust 1979 (original release)
1986 (re-release)
1990 (re-release)
1991 (re-release)
1992 (Special Edition)
1993 (re-release)
1996 (re-release)
Recorded1976, 1978–1979
Genre Children
Length45:53(1979, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1996 releases)
Label Disneyland (1979 and 1986 releases)
Walt Disney (1990, 1991, 1992 Special Edition, 1993 and 1996 releases)
Producer Jymn Magon
Larry Groce and the Disneyland Children's Sing-Along Chorus chronology
Disney's Children's Favorites Volume 1
(1979)
Disney's Children's Favorites, Volume 2
(1979)
Disney's Children's Favorites Volume 3
(1986)
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Disney's Children's Favorites, Volume 2 is the second entry of the Disney's Children's Favorites series. The album contains 25 classic children's songs. [2]

Track listing

  1. "The Farmer in the Dell"
  2. "Yankee Doodle"
  3. "On Top of Old Smokey"
  4. Sailing Medley: "Blow the Man Down"/"My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"/"Sailing, Sailing"/"Drunken Sailor"
  5. "Camptown Races" (Stephen Foster)
  6. "Old Blue"
  7. "Here We Go Loopty-Loo"
  8. "The Sidewalks of New York"
  9. "Shortnin' Bread"
  10. "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt"
  11. "Thumbelina" (Larry Groce)
  12. "The Bear Went Over the Mountain"
  13. "Red River Valley"
  14. "Skip to My Lou"
  15. "Swanee River" (Stephen Foster)
  16. Western Medley: "The Yellow Rose of Texas"/"Buffalo Gals"
  17. "London Bridge Is Falling Down"
  18. "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"
  19. "Frère Jacques"
  20. "The Dump Truck Song" (Larry Groce)
  21. "Bingo"
  22. "Polly Wolly Doodle"
  23. "There Was an Old Lady"
  24. "Carrot Stew" (Larry Groce)
  25. "When the Saints Go Marching In"

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References

  1. Allmusic review [ dead link ]
  2. CD liner notes