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18 tracks | 37 minutes
Released Apr 2004
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:07 Hi My Name is Joe lyrics BUY MP3 02:07 Hi My Name is Joe lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:07 Hi My Name is Joe
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:46 Are We There Yet? lyrics BUY MP3 01:46 Are We There Yet? lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:46 Are We There Yet?
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:48 The Stinky Song (Could It Be You?) lyrics BUY MP3 02:48 The Stinky Song (Could It Be You?) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:48 The Stinky Song (Could It Be You?)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:59 Hey Mom I Gotta Use the Potty! lyrics BUY MP3 02:59 Hey Mom I Gotta Use the Potty! lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:59 Hey Mom I Gotta Use the Potty!
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:45 The Underwear Song lyrics BUY MP3 01:45 The Underwear Song lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:45 The Underwear Song
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:03 Monster in My Belly lyrics BUY MP3 02:03 Monster in My Belly lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:03 Monster in My Belly
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:43 Silly Joe's Cafe lyrics BUY MP3 01:43 Silly Joe's Cafe lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:43 Silly Joe's Cafe
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:51 Tastes Like Chicken! lyrics BUY MP3 00:51 Tastes Like Chicken! lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:51 Tastes Like Chicken!
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:58 I Wanna Be Grumpy! lyrics BUY MP3 01:58 I Wanna Be Grumpy! lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:58 I Wanna Be Grumpy!
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:46 Crazy Town (the basement cut) lyrics BUY MP3 01:46 Crazy Town (the basement cut) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:46 Crazy Town (the basement cut)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:37 Timmy Had a Tiger lyrics BUY MP3 01:37 Timmy Had a Tiger lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:37 Timmy Had a Tiger
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:25 You Can't Do That! lyrics BUY MP3 01:25 You Can't Do That! lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:25 You Can't Do That!
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:48 Hard to Be Good lyrics BUY MP3 02:48 Hard to Be Good lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:48 Hard to Be Good
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:49 Put It on My Head lyrics BUY MP3 01:49 Put It on My Head lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:49 Put It on My Head
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:53 Wedgies! lyrics BUY MP3 00:53 Wedgies! lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:53 Wedgies!
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:32 Ants in My Pants! lyrics BUY MP3 01:32 Ants in My Pants! lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:32 Ants in My Pants!
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:23 Kids Rock! lyrics BUY MP3 02:23 Kids Rock! lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:23 Kids Rock!
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:41 Grow if You Must lyrics FREE 05:41 Grow if You Must lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:41 Grow if You Must
Silly Joe Sings Silly Songs is a high energy collection of songs written from a kids point of view featuring funny lyrics, crazy sounds, and simple production that gives an at home feel. The style is the Violent Femmes meet The Wiggles.
Bio / Background
Silly Joe entertains audiences with his high-energy songs about the everyday lives of kids and families. With a guitar, a loud voice, a wig, a kazoo, boxer shorts, and a lot of silly body movements, Silly Joe keeps everyone involved in the show. Silly Joe sings about family trips with grumpy dads in "Are We There Yet?" crazy pets in "Timmy Had a Tiger" and "Dumb Dog," brother and sister relationships in "Lil' Sister Blues," and kids who act goofy in "Put It on My Head" and "The Underwear Song." Mixing stories with music, Silly Joe captures family moments in an honest and imaginative way. Kids and parents enjoy laughing with Silly Joe and at themselves as he offers a lighthearted look at the comedy and quirks of family life.
"I started writing kids songs when I realized that most of the music out there for kids was written with grown up thoughts and little kid sounds.
↓ more ↓So much of it tried to massage their psyches or give them the right attitudes towards the world that I wondered when they were allowed to be kids and just have fun. I know what my own kids like-they like rock and roll! And they have plenty of their own thoughts; they don't need mine. So I decided to listen to my kids, to the funny things they say, and to the honest things they feel, and I started writing from their point of view. I came up with songs like 'Hey Mom I Gotta Use the Potty!' 'I Wanna Be Grumpy,' and one of my favorites, 'The Ballad of Poor Gil,' a sad tale about a dead fish that makes that short trip from bowl to bowl. Then I made a commitment to rock. When I listened to the playback of the master for 'Poor Gil and Other Stories' late one afternoon, a mom who teaches on my hallway came in and asked me to turn it down. That's when I knew I had something fun that kids could relate to. The result is a recording with real kid thoughts and big kid sounds."
Silly Joe has recorded two CDs. The first, "Silly Joe Sings Silly Songs," was produced on a minimal budget with simple, mostly acoustic arrangements. "I wanted to make a record that kids could play along with. I wasn't thinking about the parents listening to it. It gives the recording a bit of an edge, kind of like 'The Violent Femmes' for 2 to 10 year olds. And really, I was just trying to make a record for the kids at my camp who bugged their parents all summer long with 'The Underwear Song.' Then, when I sold a whole bunch of them, it was the parents who asked for more. They wanted me to make a record for them. So I made a record for the whole family, from the babies to the grandparents." The result is "Poor Gil and Other Stories," which features full professional arrangements and a greater variety of themes. "One family told me that they drove to Disney and back and listened to 'Silly Songs' the whole way. That's when I knew I had to make a record that wouldn't wear out Mom and Dad." Gil features a cast of 14 professional musicians playing everything from blues guitar and organ to country fiddle, Hawaiian ukulele, and Caribbean steel drums. In theme, it covers the anxiety of kids who don't want to be harassed by kissy relatives in songs like "Everybody Wants to Pinch My Cheeks!" the foibles of parents who are always late dropping off their kids in "Parent Drop Off," the drama of daughters with royal attitudes in "Princess in Training," and the loneliness kids often feel when in a new place in "Lost in the Lost and Found." In the end, everyone is found, even the "Five Little Ducks" who refuse to listen to their mother who quacks, grunts, yodels like Tarzan, sings disco songs, and asks "Who let the ducks out?"
When Silly Joe isn't busy with his own wife and kids or being silly, he teaches English, Drama, and Philosophy at Concord High School in Wilmington, Delaware and spends his summers directing the program at Camp JCC, also in Wilmington. He is available for concerts, parties, and assemblies and offers consulting services for camps, libraries, church groups, and a variety of other children's programs. He can be reached by e-mail at SillyJoe@SillyJoe.net or on the web at www.sillyjoe.net.
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