Milkshake - Got A Minute? - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2005 NAPPA Gold Award Winner 2005 Parents' Choice Recommended 'A sunny hug of an album' - LA Times 'Bottle of Sunshine' video featured on Noggin's 'Jack's Big Music Show' Well, true to the phrase 'Good things take time,' two years after the of our 2002 debut CD 'Happy Songs', we presented 'Bottle Of Sunshine'. The disc offers fifteen Milkshake originals the whole family can groove to. We hope, like our first CD 'Happy Songs', you find more than one great song you really, really like on 'Bottle Of Sunshine'. More than one catchy tune you can't get out of your head. Like the days of old, when your mommy and daddy were growing up and people played ALBUMS. They listened from start to finish, and the disc was a whole experience. Sure, there were singles-little vinyl records with a song on each side-but most of the time, back then, the big disc-the album--was worth buying. There was always at least three or four great songs, and hopefully, ten or twelve. You'll also find lots of variety here, although most of the songs still live in the rock genre. We recorded 'ABC Of Me' live in the studio with a jazz combo. It's a new take on the Alphabet Song, and each letter stands for some quality or thing that reminds us of how great we are, and how wonderful childhood is. 'Boom Boom' turned into a country rock song as we added fiddle and banjo and a 'yee-haa'. There's a doo-wop tinged song about having fun in the water called 'Woo-Woo,' and features wonderful harmonies from the CD's producer John Suchy. There are some totally acoustic songs ('Bluebird' and 'Milkshake!') and some very electrified, all-out rock songs ('School' and 'Space Song'). But every song is memorable. And each one was great fun to record. British children's author/illustrator Alexis Deacon created the cover art for 'Bottle of Sunshine,' along with illustrations for the 16-page booklet accompanying the CD. Pleas

'Scared' featured on Noggin's 'Jack's Big Music Show' CHILD MAGAZINE'S 'Stand-Out CDs for 2002' 2003 Children's Music Web Awards 'Best Recording for Preschoolers' and 'Best New Artist for Preschoolers.' iParenting Media's 2003 Great Holiday Product Awards 'Best Children's Music Recording. Kids-and their parents-won't have any trouble getting giddy over the 14 irrepressible originals in this rock-for-tots album. Sunny and bighearted, this one is a keeper.' Parenting Magazine, April 2003 Milkshake is the duo of Lisa Mathews and Mikel Gehl, both members of the popular rock group LOVE RiOT. After becoming new parents (Lisa has a daughter, Mikel a son), they found themselves thinking up songs to entertain their toddlers. The resulting recording features music as tuneful and alive as that found on the LOVE RiOT recordings (see the LOVE RiOT CD Baby page for more info), and indeed we think fans of the band will love many of the songs featured on Happy Songs. Contemporary, fun, educational and heartwarming, Milkshake's debut recording Happy Songs is a potpourri of activity songs, upbeat rock songs and lullabies released on Milkshake Music. Milkshake's original songs are based in the pop-rock genre, and influenced by both the years spent performing tuneful, melodic music in their rock band alter ego Love Riot, and the classic sounds of great groups like the Beatles. Both Mathews' and Gehl's songs have been featured on network television programs (NBC-TV's Providence, Homicide Life on the Street, All My Children, Passions; ABC-TV's JAG, One Life To Live), MTV, the Oxygen Channel, Disney's ZGames 2000, and the Showtime Network. Their music is noted for it's multi-generational appeal, and the musicians have performed on such diverse venues as prime-time television, Lilith Fair and a mountain stage in Japan.

GREAT DAY is Milkshakes fourth CD for kids and kids at heart. In keeping with the bands desire to grow with their own children, the songs on GREAT DAY touch on issues of friendship, age, self-esteem, goals and desires among other things that matter to a 6 - 10 year old. In Milkshakes short seven years together, the band has released three award-winning CDs, a Parents Choice Silver Award for their DVD Screen Play, and had music videos on Noggin, PBS KIDS and Discovery Kids Emmy-winning TODDWORLD.