Funny story: 2 weekends ago my brother and I were in the garage installing a garage door opener, and I put on this mix while we worked (I occasionally force my kid brother to listen to my weird music). Needless to say, it's not really "beer & manual labour" music, but it is upbeat and fun, and this was a sunny day, so why not. Now beside the garage, there happened to be two other dudes putting in a garden bed on our lawn. When the fourth track came on, the younger of the dudes came in to the garage and said, "This is really good, what is this?" For some reason I couldn't bring myself to say that the song was called "Fruity Flutes", so I started into a long, awkward explanation/apology about how this was a mix CD about fruit, and this track was from a library record, etc. etc. When I was done he just shrugged his shoulders and said "Yeah, cool" and went back to his hammering. It was refreshing to run across another dude that was secure enough in his masculinity that he could appreciate promotional kid's music from 40 years ago...and now that I'm looking at the tracklist again, there are quite a few songs directed at kids on this mix. I guess kids and fruit just go together.
01 The Wiggles - Fruit Salad intro
02 Hawaiian Punch - Fruit Juicy
03 Freckle Face - I got 51 Freckles
04 Reg Wale - Fruity Flutes
05 Glazer & Tripp - Why are Bananas Picked Green?
06 Edd Kalehoff - The Big Banana
07 I’m a Chiquita Banana
08 Hoosier Hot Shots - I Like Bananas, Because They Have No Bones
09 Banana Splits - Doin’ the Banana Split
10 Electric Banana - Alexander
11 Legay - The Fantastic Story of the Steam Driven Banana
12 MIA - Ba-na-na Skit
13 Video Kids - Gimme That Banana
14 NES - Banana Title & Gameplay
15 Adam Green - Apples, I’m Home
16 Toby Twirl - Toffee Apple Sunday
17 The Lemon Pipers - Blueberry Blue
18 Jolly Ollie Orange - Laugh Laugh Laugh
19 Billy Hayes - Oranges, Smoranges
20 J. Trombey - Sliced Orange
21 Lefty Lemon - Why I Left Baseball
22 The Move - (Here We Go ‘Round) The Lemon Tree
23 Loudmouth Lime - Hello Hello Hello
24 Mike Sammes - Limehouse Blues
25 Harpers Bizarre - Raspberry Rug
26 Rootin’ Tootin’ Raspberry - A Cowboy Named Fauntleroy
For the cover I image searched "Carmen Miranda" and up popped this guy: http://www.graemebowman.com/
Classic.
Experience the fruity fun HERE
