LeapFrog: 1-2-3 Sing!: Sing-Along Learning Songs

Leap Frog: 1-2-3 Sing!: Sing-Along Learning Songs is an album from 2001 by LeapFrog Enterprises.

Album Description

1-2-3 and it's time for sing-along learning fun! Rock out to 10 LeapFrog original songs that teach letters, numbers, spelling, rhyming, phonics and music, and to enhance the learning fun, sing-along to 5 traditional well-loved classics! Get down, grab your microphones, and sing, sing, SING!

Musicians

• Gary Boren (guitars)
• Russ Greene (bass)
• Jonathan Zeretzke (violin, ethnic strings)
• Mark Tortorici (harmonica (track 9 only))
• David Diggs (programmer, keyboards, wurly keys and synth)
• Jeanne Parson (piano, keyboards, programmer (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 13)) (uncredited)
• Christian Phelps (drums, percussion)
• Ira Nepus (trombone)
• Jonathan Dane (trumpet)
• Gary Herbig (saxophone, clarinet, flute, piccolo)

Vocals

Singers

• Fran Avni
• Bob Ayres (as Gramps)
• Desiree Bogas (as Mrs. Frog)
• Michael Mendelsohn (as Mr. Frog)
• Joy Burnworth
• Amy X. Neuberg
• Joe Retta
• Gunnar Madsen
• Jennifer Terran

Children's Voices

• Hayli, William Blair and Hannah Boren (a/k/a The Boren Triplets)
• Zac Schuman (as Leap)
• K. Elizabeth Lally (as Lily)
• Danny Walker (as Tad)
• Vita Romano
• Alexandria Samuel
• Peter Kappen

Track Listing

The track list follows as below. Note that the parentheses in italics ( () ) mark the appropriate subject of that LeapFrog original song; the brackets ( [ ] ) mark a traditional children’s classic.

1. LeapFrog Family Theme (Introduction to Leap and his family)
2. Cool Speller (Alphabet/Spelling)
3. Wheels on the Bus [ Traditional ]
4. The Alphabet Song (Alphabet)
5. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star [ Traditional ]
6. Name Game (Rhyming)
7. Count to Twenty (Counting/Early Math)
8. Driving to the Letter (Alphabet)
9. Old MacDonald [ Traditional ]
10. Introducing the Vowels (Phonics [vowels])
11. This is the Way We Hear the Band (Music and Instruments)
12. Itsy Bitsy Spider [ Traditional ]
13. A Troupe of Acrobats (Counting/Early Math)
14. We Love the Sounds that Letters Make (Phonics)
15. Rug in the Middle (Rhyming)

All songs and traditional song arrangements (c) 1999-2001 LeapFrog Enterprises and Rounder Records, inc.

Trivia

• The audio CD marks the first appearance of Danny Walker doing Tad.
• Track 4 (The Alphabet Song) was credited as "ABC Samba".
• Track #'s 1, 8 and 10 composed by Jeanne Parson.
• Track #'s 1 and 5 have words by Sandra Sherman.
• Track # 2 written by Gunnar Madsen.
• Track #'s 6 and 15 written by Fran Avni.
• Track # 7 written by Bevin Kelley-Blectum.
• Track #'s 11 and 13 written by Judy Munsen.
• Track # 14 written by Jeanne Parson and Judy Munsen.
• The other 5 are Public Domain.
• Track #'s 2, 4, 8 and 14 were also used as "Bonus Songs" in the 2004 CD, Learning Songs.
• This is the only CD to use real instruments for every song.
• A few of the tracks have other child singers perform for Leap, Lily and Tad.

Gallery

Album artwork with Leap, Lily and Tad singing and dancing on a staircase-like piano