Mike and Michelle Jackson - Playmates (Good Children Music)

Some will remember this classic album from their childhood days. Ironically, the lyrics in this are better than what one would happen to hear on main-stream radio today. This is clearly evidenced on such hits as 'Mighty Muldoon', 'Ma Will You Buy Me A Banana' (which later inspired The Pogue's hit, 'Waxie's Dargle'), and the mischievously violent 'The Kookaburra Laughed'. An instant classic when it hit the shelves in the late 1980's, it has been ripped from the original CD at good quality using iTunes (version 8) and is sure to provide entertainment for the whole family.



Mike and Michelle, both singers and multi-instrumental musicians, met on stage at the 1979 Kapunda Celtic Music Festival and toured Australia; New Zealand; Canada and the U.S. almost non-stop for 7 years. Between tours they created three songbooks; co-wrote an instruction book for string figure novices and recorded ten albums - two collections of Australian folk music for adults and eight for children. The bulk their thousands of performances together were Arts in Education performances designed to introduce children to a wide range of unusual instruments and encourage them to play music.



Mike and Michelle's children's albums were a huge success with their second, Playmates going Platinum and the rest of their first four kids' disks going 'Gold' in Australia. They had two North American releases, Bunyips, Bunnies and Brumbies and Playmates, which were released in Canada on Sharon, Lois and Bram's Elephant Records label, distributed by A&M Records. They were featured artists on the ABC TV programme Playmates and regular contributors to many other 1980's Australian children's shows.



In 1986 the pair went their separate ways. Mike Jackson has continued touring, writing and recording both in Australia and internationally.



Tracklist:

01 - Bananas In Pyjamas

02 - Twinkle, Twinkle Daddy's Motor Car - Moo Moo Jersey Cow - Baa Baa Black Sheep

03 - There's A Hole In The Bottom Of The Sea

04 - Nellie The Elephant

05 - Three Blind Mice - Little Bo Peep - Hickery Dickery Dock.mp3

06 - Little Fly

07 - Mairzy Doats & Dozy Doats

08 - Mighty Muldoon

09 - Your Bob Owes Our Bob A Bob

10 - The Boy With A Drum

11 - The Mallow Fling

12 - The Kookaburra Sits

13 - The Worm Song

14 - Ma Will You Buy Me A Banana

15 - The Bear Hunt

16 - Jack And Jill - Lazy Ciaron - Lily Bolero

17 - The Emu And The Kookaburra

18 - The Kookaburra Laughed

19 - Miss Polly Had A Dolly

20 - The Platypus Song

21 - The Apples And Bananas Song

22 - I've Just Come From Sydney

23 - Piggy On The Railway

24 - Five Little Speckled Frogs

25 - The Good Ship Fabulous Flea

26 - The Bunyip Song

27 - Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport

28 - The Circus