Bruce Springsteen: Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips (from For Our Children ) [ purchase ] Natalie Merchant: Come Take a Trip in My Airship ...

Here are four songs that fit our theme. Other than that, the only thing they have in common is that I couldn’t choose between them for my la...

Donovan: The Voyage of the Moon [ purchase ] "The Voyage of the Moon" comes from HMS Donovan , a whimsical children's album D...

There seems to be a love/hate relationship with Disney for many people. Some people look at them as corny or overly corporate, but it's ...

The Kentucky Headhunters : The Ballad Of Davy Crockett [ purchase ] When I was a kid many Sunday evenings were spent watching The Wonderful ...

Elizabeth Mitchell: You Are My Sunshine [ purchase ] Gray Sky Girls: You Are My Sunshine [ purchase ] Norman Blake: You Are My Sunshine [...

They Might Be Giants have released several albums of songs for kids, but they're not all that different than the songs they've been ...

The Tractors : Shortnin' Bread [ purchase ] This week's theme is somewhat out of my area of expertise. Not being a parent I only hav...

Dirty Sock Funtime Band : Dino-Soaring Note: Dino-Soaring does not appear to be available on any album. However, you can: [ purchase a selec...

Carole King: Really Rosie Carole King: Pierre [ purchase ] Remember when you were younger and wanted to put on a show? - through the com...

John Flynn : A Manatee Sneezed On Me [ purchase, scroll down to the bottom ] John Flynn is a rare artist, in that he writes powerful and poi...

Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers: Here Come the Martian Martians [ purchase ] Jonathan Richman has never released a real children...

Johnny Cash: Nasty Dan [ purchase ] The lead track on Johnny Cash's 1975 children's album was actually written for the Man in Black...

Billy Jonas: What Kind of Cat Are You? [ purchase ] I've written of Billy Jonas before - in my opinion, he's one of a handful of ...

I share with you now the Ghosts of Past, Present and Future - whether inhabiting a shadowed room, a relationship-in-flux (stalker?) or a smo...

Andrew King : Sweet William‘s Ghost [ purchase ] Back in 1987-88, I was involved with a folk music coffeehouse in New Brunswick, NJ, called ...

Jay Brannan: Zombie [ purchase ] I know we don't usually post new music here on Star Maker Machine, but I'm sure we're all thin...

We've had two songs simply named Zombie this week. Seemed high time to give some similarly stark, soundalike spirit-world song titles ...

Nellie McKay : Zombie [ purchase ] This is obviously a completely different song from our last Zombie. Nellie McKay starts us off with a wal...

Crash Test Dummies: The Ghosts That Haunt Me [ purchase ] I may have written before that I'm not a big fan of 80's music (other th...