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Hap Palmer pioneered the integration of music and movement in the area of early childhood education. His songs enhance the development of motor skills, language acquisition, reading readiness, and math concepts as well as nurture the imaginative process and encourage creative problem solving. His widespread popularity in schools and day- care centers for over twenty years, has made him a living legend within the teaching community for young children. Teachers have used his music for more than two generations to teach letters, numbers, phonics, days of the week, colors, shapes and more. A third generation of children are now learning with his songs and movement innovations. An accomplished musician, singer/songwriter and educator, his multiple skilled talent on guitar, bass, percussion, saxophone, and clarinet can be heard on his various recordings. His Baby Songs live-action music video series for young children has sold over 2 million units. Hap’s recordings and videos have received numerous honors including the Parents’ Choice Award, the American Library Association Notable Designation, the National Association of Parent Publications Award, The Early Childhood News Directors Choice Award and the American Video Award. As a teacher of teachers, Hap has taught classes and workshops for the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the University of California at Los Angeles Education Extension, the Los Angeles City Schools, the Georgia Preschool Association, the Oklahoma Early Childhood Association, the New England Kindergarten Conference, and many other school districts and educational organizations throughout the nation. Using his background in music, education, and dance, he is able to help teachers find innovative, imaginative and fun ways to teach their students with enjoyable music and lyrics that children love to listen to over and over again. With a Masters Degree in Dance Education from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a love of music, Hap Palmer has given the world of early childhood education and young children a lasting gift of learning that has spanned the generations. |
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 Baby Songs children’s video series was created and produced by Backyard Enterprises, a.k.a. Backyard Productions, a company ormed by Amy Weintraub and Brooks McEwen. Amy and Brooks met in 1983 in a prenatal class when they were pregnant with their first children. They had both been involved in television production but had quit their jobs in the hope of staying home with their babies. Tired of singing “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” and “The Wheels On The Bus,” they discovered the wonderful original children’s music by Hap Palmer. Fans of MTV, they decided to contact Hap to create music videos for toddlers based on his original and entertaining songs. They formed Backyard Productions in 1985 in Amy’s backyard garage - and Baby Songs was born. The idea of Baby Songs was to create videos that would keep young children entertained. They instinctively knew that young children love to watch other young children. Using that premise, Amy and Brooks decided to take children watching the videos to familiar places - playgrounds, kitchens, grocery stores, homes, and show young children just like the viewer in the videos. Each video contains over 100 children in over 20 locations. Baby Songs reflects the child’s world and portrays issues that young children are concerned about like separation anxiety, sharing toys, getting dressed, tasting new foods, and more. Baby Songs is unique because it is one of the few children’s video series that is not tied into the marketing of toys, movies and TV shows. The original Baby Songs were produced in 1986. The videos were initially distributed by High Tops Video, a division of Media Home Entertainment, a Heron Communications Company. The logo was a picture of a red shoe with shoelaces. The distribution was subsequently taken over by Anchor Bay Entertainment, an independent distributor of DVDs and videocassettes, established in 1989. In September of 2002 Backyard Enterprises entered into an agreement with Fox Home Video, the current distributor of Baby Songs. There are presently five Baby Songs DVDs which use the music of Hap Palmer: • Baby Songs Original • Baby Songs Baby’s Busy Day • Baby Songs ABC, 123, Colors & Shapes • Baby Songs Animals • Baby Songs Goodnight The music for these Baby Songs videos is published by Hap-Pal Music with music by Hap Palmer and lyrics by Hap Palmer and Martha Cheney. The songs are performed by Hap and many talented musicians and singers from the Los Angeles area. For a list of Hap’s CDs that are the song sources for Baby Songs videos, please visit: http://www.happalmer.com/happalmersource.htm Fox Home Video does not distribute the VHS versions of Baby Songs and the manufacture of VHS Baby Songs has been discontinued. However, most of the songs from the original VHS series have been included in the DVD series in somewhat different configurations. For example, the DVDs Baby Songs Original and Baby’s Busy Day are a combination of songs from the original VHS videos Baby Songs, More Baby Songs and Baby’s Busy Day.
Please email us with your questions and suggestions about Baby Songs DVDs. See
our new photo page "Capturing the Moments" Read Testimonials from parents and teachers for Hap Palmer CDs and DVDs. Read reviews of Hap Palmer's music at: www.happalmer.com/reviews.htm
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