When I hear about another adult artist making an album for kids, usually it makes some sort of sense -- they've got kids themselves, or perhaps they have a touch of goofiness that makes for an easy relationship with a kids' audience. I can feel safe in saying that I never thought I'd include Neil Sedaka in the ever-burgeoning list. And I feel doubly safe in saying that I never thought Sedaka would take to reworking his own classic songs for the kids' set. I mean, I'm used to seeing punk and hip-hop and metal and classic rock songs reworked into kid-friendly tunes. But I'm not used to seeing Mick Jones or Missy Elliott or Metallica or Robert Plant reworking their own songs. What happens when a certified master of the pop song tweaks... himself? We're about to find out -- on January 6, 2009, Sedaka will release Waking Up Is Hard To Do, featuring 11 tracks, including re-workings ("spoofs"? "re-imaginings" -- what the heck do we call these?) of "Breaking Up is Hard To Do," "Where the Boys Are," and "Love Will Keep Us Together." As I said in the title to this piece -- I'm not sure there is any middle road here. It will either be a mess or something touched with a bit of genius. Here's the tracklisting and album art.