Ever since NPR aired an excerpt of this 1976-77 school project, it's been selling like, well, cookies at a bake sale! Imagine a gym in western Ontario full of 60 children aged 9-12, singing the pop hits of the day and discovering inside themselves for the first time a love of pop music the joy and wonder of these kids is palpable! Then add in some Carl Orff-like percussion, and rudimentary bass and guitar, and the whole thing even takes on some avant-garde dimensions. Trust us, you've never heard God Only Knows; Space Oddity; Rhiannon; Wildfire or the Long and Winding Road sound like this!
1 Venus and Mars/Rock Show (Paul McCartney & Wings)
2 Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys)
3 God Only Knows (The Beach Boys)
4 Space Oddity (David Bowie)
5 The Long and Winding Road (The Beatles)
6 Band on the Run (Paul McCartney & Wings)
7 In My Room (The Beach Boys)
8 I'm Into Something Good (Earl-Jean/Herman's Hermits)
9 Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers)
10 I Get Around (The Beach Boys)
11 Mandy (Barry Manilow)
12 Help Me, Rhonda (The Beach Boys)
13 Desperado (The Eagles)
14 You're So Good to Me (The Beach Boys)
15 Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
16 To Know Him Is to Love Him (Teddy Bears)
17 Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
18 Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphy)
19 Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day) (Klaatu/The Carpenters)
Ever since NPR aired an excerpt of this 1976-77 school project, it's been selling like, well, cookies at a bake sale! Imagine a gym in western Ontario full of 60 children aged 9-12, singing the pop hits of the day and discovering inside themselves for the first time a love of pop music the joy and wonder of these kids is palpable! Then add in some Carl Orff-like percussion, and rudimentary bass and guitar, and the whole thing even takes on some avant-garde dimensions. Trust us, you've never heard God Only Knows; Space Oddity; Rhiannon; Wildfire or the Long and Winding Road sound like this!
