#berkner

[witekspicsbanknotes]

ANTARCTICE - BERKNER ISLAND - commemorative fancy notes.

[the-algebra-thing]

B! O! O! T! S! BOOTS! B! O! O! T! S! BROWN boots! in my brown boots, in my brown boots, I fuck around in my brown boots! in my boots (STOMP STOMP) in my boots (STOMP STOMP) I fuuuck around in myyy boooooots

[goawaywithjae]

Laurie Berkner is celebrating the 25th anniversary of her children’s album “Victor Vito” with a digitally remastered re-release that will be available on streaming platforms, CD and vinyl.

“It will have a beautifully updated cover and the record itself will be blue, to call back to the color of the original cassette,” said Berkner, who splits her time between Manhattan and Red Hook, New York. “I color-coded my first three albums so kids who were not able to read would still know which cassette contained their favorite songs. ‘Whaddaya Think Of That?’ was yellow and ‘Buzz Buzz’ was red.”

This autumn, the singer-songwriter will release “A Laurie Berkner Halloween,” which will include old favorites and brand-new tracks.

[spocksgotemotions]

being someone who works in childcare and like cares a lot about children’s entertainment is a blessing and a curse tbh. On the one hand it’s not looked at strangely for wearing clothes with characters on it but also I get to pick the music in the classroom and have the delight of the kids choosing lazytown and Sesame Street over disney, but also I see So Much bad children’s entertainment.

[smile-files]

i wonder why i wrote a story about sentient shapes and then i remember that i grew up listening to a song about sentient shapes (by they might be giants, i should add)

[riylcast]

Episode 605: Laurie Berkner

Play children’s music long enough and something peculiar starts to happen: your fans start having kids of their own.

A quarter century after releasing her album, Laurie Berkner is a veritable music institution.

She’s racked up more than one million streams and 350 YouTube videos – but most importantly, her work has engaged multiple generations.

Berkner joins us to discuss her start and musical growth over the decades.

[honey-beesknees]

Me at the luau in Stardew Valley

[mceproductions]

MCE Best of 2022: Honorable Mention

TV Shows: South Park (Comedy Central)

For 25 Years the quiet mountain town unexpectedly has its weekly adventures tie into real world events.

As South Park Colorado exits Pandemic life we get more classic adventures featuring a simple Pajama day, Cartman wanting to keep his status quo but inadvertently making things worse, an activity with teens, and more fun with breakout star of the last 8 years Randy.

But the shades of reality aren’t far as we get another special Paramount+ exclusive featuring the return of everyone’s favorite climate change metaphor.

The big highlight though involved a dream concert with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Primus, and others at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheater.

Pure epicness that can still be great 25 years in.

SUM 22: The TV Honorable Mention gave more of Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny with its silver anniversary.

[this-is-the-ticket]

022 Show Notes

Laurie Berkner Lullabies

Ari was wrong - The Climate Clock is counting down from 5 years...not 25.

And then there's the Doomsday Clock, which Ari doesn't entirely understand.

UGH WAIT - Antarctica does actually have landmass (-__-)

Dr. Rena Malik - Get Better Erections & Stronger Orgasms with a Healthy Pelvic Floor ft. Julie Sarton

Dr. Kegel for pelvic floor health

Kapil Gupta & Naval - Conquering the Mind

Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies

Safdie Brother's Closet Picks - they talk about Mean Time

Trailer for Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner

ANNIE BAKER'S CRITERION CLOSET PICKS!

Talk Easy Pod with pulitzer prize winner, Annie Baker

So Far So Good by: Ursula K. Le Guin

[whatimdoing-here]

What your Spotify release radar looks like when you have kids and can't get their Spotify connected to their Google home. And you sometimes listen to a classical song to settle your brain. And you like jazz. Couch releases an EP too, not sure why that's not on here

[gillianthecat]

The cat came back the very next day

Oh the cat came back, they thought he was a goner

But the cat came back, he just couldn't stay away

Meeeeeeoooooow

My life in a song title and chorus (unlike Mr. Johnson I desperately wanted the cat to come back).

[one-of-your-girls]

my icebreaker question for people is "what does the name laurie berkner mean to you" and usually a few people in a large group actually know who she is and we bond over that

[thefairfeline]

Cookie bakers of the night is running through my mind right now and it won't stop

[ratscabies]

oh laurie berkner we're really in it now

[goblinbabe666]

NOT ONE OF MY WORK SONGS COMING UP ON MY TRAUMA PLAYLIST 😭😭😭😭

[militarymiral]

Laurie berkner video songbook

We want to give them high-quality stuff.'' ''This is a different kind of children's entertainer,'' Mr. He has become part of an informal network of children's performers who share the same philosophy: no overly animated enthusiasm necessary, just play good tunes.Īnother is Brady Rymer, 36, whose Web site () says he started making up songs to sing his son to sleep and soothe his crying. Ulz and his peers say it is rewarding to reach children with music that does not condescend. But that's a good life.'' Watching him perform at Playspace, where some children listen rapt, while others wander away, it is hard to imagine that those kinds of engagements are not humbling, especially birthday parties. ''Kids hear it four or nine months and get sick of it. But he sees how they respond to his song ''Firetruck,'' which leads his 1999 CD ''Songs From the Old School'' and can be ordered at '' 'Firetruck' was a big surprise to me,'' Mr. Ulz seems to have accepted that he may never be known outside the small circle of children he plays for at Washington Square Preschool in the West Village or the few who gather around him at Playspace on Tuesday afternoons. ''It's a tiny market percentage, so you don't get a lot of people paying attention to what I'm doing or what other children's performers are doing.'' ''I think a lot of people are doing this on a low level,'' Ms. She also has a Web site: (She calls her company Two Tomatoes Records.) Little by little she has built a staff: a publicist, a bookkeeper, an assistant, a graphics designer. She has had her celebrity moments, playing birthday parties for Madonna and Sting. She is coming out with a video songbook and recently got herself a national distributor, which saves her from having to make the rounds, peddling her music to New York toy stores, selling a mere six CD's at a time. Youngsters push to the front to dance and sing along with her hits, like ''Victor Vito,'' the title song on one of her three CD's. Families pack her concerts in Manhattan at the West Side Y.M.C.A., Ansche Chesed Synagogue and the Bank Street School for Children. Berkner, 32, who wears an earring in her nose and sparkles on her eyelids, is one of the more successful ones. There was a position open for a music specialist, and she got the job. Berkner was living in New York, trying to be a folk-rock star, she baby-sat for a movement teacher at Rockefeller University's Child and Family Center. Ulz, whose parents ran a nursery school in California, started out writing songs for bands like the Byrds (they never used any of them) and in 1970 recorded an adult album of his own work, ''Ivan the Ice Cream Man,'' which recalled his days selling ice cream from a truck to make ends meet. Most of these performers got into children's music by accident or because they didn't make it in the adult circuit. So they press on, getting whatever gigs they can, performing at Playspace, an indoor playground on the Upper West Side where children are also distracted by plastic cars and an oversize sandbox. Someday one of them may break out and become the next Raffi, the nursery-set superstar who turned ''Wheels on the Bus'' into big business. All of them produced their own CD's at their own expense, often with the help of fans, family or friends. None of these singers have managers or agents. Other performers range from Imagination Workshop Band, made up of four people who met at the Children's Museum in SoHo, to Ivan Ulz, a 56-year-old folk guitarist who also does his children's songs at performance art clubs on the Lower East Side of Manhattan like Surf Reality, Baby Jupiter and Collective Unconscious. ''But I don't think there's any money at all for these independent artists.'' ''Big labels want to sign only known big names - maybe a pop artist who's decided to put out a kids record,'' said Tammy LaGorce, who reviews children's music for Billboard and Parents Magazine.