Ep. 48: Give Him an Award Just for Being SpongeBob

Cooper & Kid's Best Family Music Songs of 2013

Kids Place Live 13 Under 13 chart (Jan. 10, no update from last week)

Ep. 44: The Old Traditionals, Like "Wrecking Ball"

Winners: Math nerds. Second week in a row!

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U pcoming Releases: This week - none; Next week - none

Kickstarters: Successful: Brady Rymer (Bake Sale interview); Unsuccessful: Monty Harper (Bake Sale interview), Randy Kaplan (Bake Sale interview) (canceled), Jason Didner and the Jungle Gym Jam (canceled); In process Kikeriki, Bari Koral, The Whizpops (new!), Danny Weinkauf (Bake Sale interview)

Legoland New Year's Eve Concert featuring Justin Roberts, Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band, The Pop Ups, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, and Aaron Nigel Smith

Red Tricycle's Best Family Music Albums of 2013

Charts

Billboard Children's Music albums (Dec. 28)

Kids Place Live 13 Under 13 chart (Dec. 13), Kids Place Live Top Songs of 2012

Ep. 37: The Scariest One of the Bunch

This week's winner: People who like Halloween (because it's here!) and people who don't like Halloween (because it's almost over!).

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U pcoming Releases: This week - Baze and his Silly Friends: The Best Day Ever, The Dirty Sock Funtime Band: The Dirty Socks Come Clean, Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Helen Austin: Colour It; Next week - Pacha's Pajamas: A Story Written by Nature

Kickstarters: Successful: Laurie Berkner lullaby album (Bake Sale podcast); In process: Phineas McBoof album (Bake Sale interview), Mo Phillips, Peter Himmelman, Jason Didner and the Jungle Gym Jam album, Lo og electric guitar, Hi Babyboo! video series & app, Peculiar Tales of the S.S. Bungalow

Elsewhere: Reviews of Recess Monkey's Desert Island Disc and The Short Films' Kingdom Animalia, plus brand new iOS App page (featuring review of Miss Elephant's Gerald app from Mibblio and the Pop Ups)

Charts

Billboard Children's Music albums (Nov. 9)

iT unes Children's Music album chart

Symphony Space / Sirius-XM Kids Place Live No Kidding? Just Kidding sweepstakes

Kids Place Live 13 Under 13 (Oct. 25, here's Oct. 18)

Episode 25: The Great LOLcat / Kindie War Is Upon Us

Back again with all the news regarding the pitched battle between LOLcats and kindie superstars. This week's winner: Frances England, of whom I can guess which side she'd be on in the great LOLcat/kindie war.

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Kickstarters: Mr. and Mrs. Muffins Gatefold Vinyl Album (Bake Sale podcast)

Sesame Street season 44 starts September 16

U pcoming Releases: This week - Frances England: Blink of an Eye, Various Artists (Bossy Frog Productions): 15 Songs Every Kid Should Know (and will LOVE!) ; Next week - The Muppet Movie soundtrack; Coming in October - Elizabeth Mitchell: The Sounding Joy

Charts

Billboard Children's Music albums (August 17)

CD Baby Kids Music album chart (includes I Like Everything About You (Yes I Do!) from Crosspulse Percussion Ensemble -- here is an interview with founder Keith Terry)

Amazon Children's Music digital singles (and, since I made a big deal out of it, the chart slots for the 2 versions of "You Are My Sunshine" are #17 and #18, not #16 and #17 as I said in the podcast)

Kids Place Live 13 Under 13 (that's the Aug. 2 chart, July 28 is here)

Episode 20: The Only Human in a World of Kindie Zombies

This week's winner: Hmmm... Elizabeth Mitchell? Yes, let's go with Liz Mitchell, fighting the good kindie fight.

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Kickstarters: Johnny & Jason: Be Alive! (successfully funded!)

Upcoming Releases: This week -- Recess Monkey: Deep Sea Diver, Various Artists (Putumayo): American Playground, Mr. Saxophone: I Sneeze in Threes ; Next week -- Joanie Leeds and the Nightlights: Bandwagon , Lori Henriques: The World Is a Curious Place To Live

Charts

Billboard Children's Music albums (June 29)

Kenn Nesbitt named Children's Poet Laureate

Kids Place Live 13 Under 13 (June 14, here's June 7 and May 31)

Episode 19: He Says, Facetiously

This week's winner: People who are able to convince others to make music that can be sold at 3 cents per song. I'm not sure there are many other winners in that exchange.

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Kickstarters galore: Django Jones (aka Girlyman) debut album (Bake Sale podcast), Johnny & Jason: Be Alive! , The Hula Honeys: A Hui Hou,

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer collecting donations of children's books and music for libraries in Papua New Guinea.

Alastair Moock: Singing Our Way Through to be released July 9.

Upcoming Releases: Next week -- Recess Monkey: Deep Sea Diver, Various Artists (Putumayo): American Playground, Mr. Saxophone: I Sneeze in Threes

Charts

Billboard Children's Music albums (June 22)