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Diddle Diddle Doodle Too
DIDDLE DIDDLE DOODLE TOO
A new CD of Action Songs and Traditional Nursery
Rhymes
Loose Records have added a new dimension to the
nursery rhyme series they started last year. The
previously released Diddle Diddle Doodle Doo CD was
all music and most of them well-known favourites. It
proved popular, not only in Cumbria where local shops
stocked it but also sold nationally and
internationally.
The songs as downloads have been a popular venue
around the world – even in Japan.
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Now in Volume Two – aptly entitled Diddle Diddle
Doodle Too – we have spoken word nursery rhymes and
action songs. Loose Records are looking for a repeat
of last year’s successes.
JANET MANSFIELD is Loose Records’ new collaborator in
the campaign to restore nursery rhymes to their proper
place in the early years learning process. Janet has
contributed some spoken word nursery rhymes herself as
well as suggesting songs for Caroline to sing. She
teaches youngsters using some infrequently heard
rhymes and they love it – especially those that
require actions.
Janet Mansfield is a Londoner who made her home in
Cumbria 22 years ago. She is an experienced infants
teacher. She has taught in Lowca Community Primary
School near Whitehaven, and more recently at Bridekirk
Dovenby C of E School as well as doing supply teaching
around Cumbria. She fervently believes that these
action rhymes, some traditional and some more modern,
give children opportunities to sing in tune, to learn
to take turns, to improve their sense of rhythm, and
above all to have fun!
Like all teachers, Janet has found that watching and
learning from colleagues has enabled her to continue
learning, and in this case preserve these activities
for future generations. Janet is married to Laurie,
who has managed to become an enthusiast too. They have
four (now grown up children) who loved a lot of these
songs when they were little.
"Despite what people say, EVERYBODY can sing! -just
listen to any football crowd, always singing together,
always enthusiastic" says Janet, " and the earlier in
life they start, the better"
CAROLINE SWEENEY normally would be found singing jazz
round venues in Cumbria in the beautiful Lake District
area of England UK - so why the nursery rhymes, I ask,
and so she tells me: -
"I currently work with primary school children so when
I was approached by Brian to try vocalizing his
initial arrangements I felt very much at home with
these songs. After the success of Volume One (Diddle
diddle doodle doo –look for here on CDBaby) I was
gratified to repeat the performance with some less
well-known songs"
Singing has always been something she loves to do and
she has been singing in choirs for a long time. She
has sung with the Cockermouth Harmonic Society for
about four years and has been given a singing bursary
with them for three of those years. Art and painting
remain a true passion following her degree at Falmouth
College of Arts.
Branching out into other musical fields over the last
year and a half she has been learning to sing some
wonderful new jazz songs with Brian Melville, the
arranger of Diddle diddle doodle doo (now there's that
name again) and Diddle diddle doodle too.
BRIAN MELVILLE is the musical maestro behind these
nursery rhyme CDs. The success of Diddle Diddle Doodle
Doo made it an easy decision to bring out a second
volume.
Brian, a Cumbrian by birth, is a multi-talented
musician who has also been very involved in teaching
in Cumbria having originally attended school, in
Wigton at The Nelson Thomlinson School. He continues
to teach music in primary schools. “It is essential in
music education for the groundwork to be put in place
as a young age, especially in singing” he says, “Good
musical habits have to be instilled at an early age.”
Brian continues, "Children begin the learning of music
from nursery rhymes. They are such an important part
of the early music processes" He also encouraged a
local school to issue a CD of their own version of
popular songs and recorded them after many rehearsals
to produce a great fund raiser for that school.
Outside of school hours Brian is a well-respected jazz
musician and is often to be found in venues around the
country and, indeed, has annual trips to Europe to
further his career. He has often performed in Germany
and written a musical, which played at the Edinburgh
Festival, not to mention years of school concerts and
recordings so he is ideally placed to help local
schools through his company Solway Music
(http://www.solwaymusic.co.uk).
He also has available Touchdown from Tokyo – an album
of instrumentals and Simply Sequence a CD of strict
tempo dance tunes to encourage you to a strictly
ballroom or strictly sequence challenge.
Look at http://cdbaby.com/all/looserecords for all his
current releases then see you on the dance floor after
you have sampled the nursery rhymes.
All the best from Andrew Titcombe
producing music http://cdbaby.com/all/looserecords
selling music www.crucialmusic.co.uk
coping with life http://www.ucb.co.uk/why_jesus
About the Author: Andrew Titcombe is company director of Loose Records and Music. He is living and working in Wigton, Cumbria where he is pulling strings in a number of directions.
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