Kidsongs
A children's franchise of music videos and TV series.
Kidsongs is an American children's media franchise created by producer Carol Rosenstein and director Bruce Gowers of Together Again Video Productions. It began with music videos for children, leading to a partnership between Together Again Video Productions, Warner Bros. Records, and View-Master Video. The franchise expanded to include a television series, DVDs, CDs, songbooks, toys, and merchandise.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Children's music sing-along
- Creator
- Carol Rosenstein; Bruce Gowers
- Camera
- Multiple-camera setup
- Producer
- Carol Rosenstein
- Executive producers
- Carol Rosenstein
- Bruce Gowers
- James Rich Jr. (1986)
- Director
- Bruce Gowers
- Writer
- Carol Rosenstein
- Abbie Crow Rich (1986)
- Bruce Gowers
- Episodes
- 25
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Development
One of these, A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm, sold over 4 million copies and won the Vira Award. Each half-hour video featured about ten songs in a music video style starring the Kidsongs Kids, who sang and danced to children's songs, nursery rhymes, and pop covers from the 1950s through the 1980s, tied together by a simple story. The partnership of Together Again Video Productions, Warner Bros. In 1997, Together Again Video Productions acquired Time Warner's rights and assumed sole ownership. Later that year, it partnered with Sony Wonder to co-produce four more titles, including I Can Dance! and I Can Do It! and two Adventures in Biggleland specials. Distribution moved to Image Entertainment (later RLJE Films) in 2002.
Television series
In each live-action episode, the Kidsongs Kids hosted their own countdown show, featuring music videos from the home video series. This version kept many original videos but added educational segments and in-studio guests, along with fantasy characters Billy and Ruby Biggle and their friends from Biggleland. The Biggles helped children navigate issues like sharing, jealousy, friendship, honesty, and patience. Across four seasons, 96 episodes were produced, and the show ran on public television for seven years. Fifteen episodes are now available on DVD, and the full series can be downloaded from iTunes and Amazon Video. Hosts changed each season: Chris Lytton and Triskin Potter; Christian Buenaventura and Alexandra Picatto (credited as Alexandra Palm); Aaron Harvey, Alexandra Picatto, and Lynsey Bartilson; and Sergio Centeno and Tiffany Burton.
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