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Camp songs or campfire songs are a category of folk music traditionally sung around a campfire for entertainment. Since the advent of summer camp as an activity for children, these songs have been identified with children's songs, although they may originate from earlier traditions of songs popular with adults.
"Sarasponda" is a children's nonsense song that has been considered a popular campfire song. It is often described to be a spinning song, that is, a song that would be sung while spinning at the spinning wheel.
The tracks on Camp Favorites are traditional songs that children might sing at summer camp, and the record sleeve is illustrated with a group of youngsters singing around a campfire. Camp Favorites was unknown among Phil Ochs fans until 2000, when David Cohen prepared his comprehensive catalog of Ochs' works ( Phil Ochs: A Bio-Bibliography ...
"The Other Day I Met a Bear" is one of the songs sung by Barney the dinosaur on the 1990 children's video Campfire Sing-along except it was shortened to 4 stanzas instead of 10. On Barney & Friends, the tune was used for The Exercise Song. The 2007 album For the Kids Three! includes a version of the song by Barenaked Ladies. [3]
The piece became a standard campfire song in Scouting and summer camps and enjoyed broader popularity during the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. In American politics , the song title gave rise to the phrase " sing Kumbaya ", denoting unrealistic, excessively optimistic attempts at compromise .
Sing Around the Campfire is the 16th album by children's entertainers Sharon, Lois & Bram, originally released in 1995. This album is a collection of songs for round the campfire. This is the third official compilation from the Sharon, Lois & Bram collection.
All The Fun You Can Sing! 1993. Elephant Records. / 1994. Drive Entertainment. Club-E Collection 1994. Drive Entertainment / 1994. Elephant Records / 1995. Gap Inc. Sing Around the Campfire. 1994. Elephant Records. / 1995. Drive Entertainment. Sharon, Lois & Bram Sampler 1995. Drive Entertainment; Kid Bits Vol. 1, 2 & 3 1995. Drive Entertainment.
It is an Ionian Cantada, a style of folk music that originated in the late 19th century. [1] In the modern era, this song may be best attributed to Armenian-Canadian singer-lyricist Raffi , and appears on his 1976 album Singable Songs for the Very Young as his signature song .