Kidbits

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Kidbits
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Compilation album by
Released1992
Genre Children's music
Label Elephant Records
Sharon, Lois & Bram chronology
Sing A to Z
(1990)
Kidbits
(1992)
Great Big Hits
(1992)

Kidbits is a mini-album by popular children's entertainers Sharon, Lois & Bram, originally released in 1992. The album was released to promote their other 1992 album, Great Big Hits . The album featured eleven of Sharon, Lois & Brams previously recorded songs. The first song, Skinnamarink Introduction features the 1986 version of Skinnamarink with a voice-over introduction by Sharon, Lois & Bram.

Kidbits was only released on cassette. The inside foldout contains information about Great Big Hits and their 1992 video titled Sharon, Lois & Bram: Sing A to Z . It also features a clip-out coupon.

Track listing

  1. "Skinnamarink Introduction"
  2. "Cookie Jar"
  3. "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain"
  4. "Hush, Little Baby"
  5. "Ha-Ha, This-A-Way"
  6. "Rig-A-Jig-Jig"
  7. "Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?"
  8. "Michaud"
  9. "Jump Josie"
  10. "Happy Birthday Waltz"
  11. "I Had A Little Doll"


Songs 1 & 6 from: Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show Record
Songs 2,3, & 8 from: One Elephant, Deux Éléphants
Song 4 from: Sing A to Z
Songs 5,7,9 & 11 from: Mainly Mother Goose
Song 10 from: Happy Birthday

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