Raffi: Bananaphone
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Rhonda Vincent: Bananaphone
[purchase Country Goes Raffi - it's amazingly awesome!]
Seriously: this song isn't as bad as you think it is.
Sure, it's made for kids. It's plenty silly, enough to have staying power as viral meme in the digital world. It's got such a high catchiness quotient, it's prone to get stuck in the brain for days.
But so what if it's an earworm: it's also so infectiously fun, you can't help but sing along once you know the words.
And check out that jazz drum intro, the jaunty piano riffs, the clarinet. It would make a wonderfully playful song to play over the credits for a Woody-Allen-meets-Elmo flick, if there could ever be such a thing.
Rhonda Vincent's swingin' countrygrass take kicks it, too. And in the end, doesn't good coverage say what it needs to about the innate soundness of a song?
So let yourself go: try 'em both, and then try to get the damn thing out of your head. I'll be over here, dancing around the living room with the five year old, laughing my head off.
