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Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

Audio CD

Disk ID: 472385

Disk length: 13m 46s (10 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1984

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Sick 1:23
2. Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too 1:52
3. The Silver Fish 1:03
4. With His Mouth Full of Food 1:39
5. Crocodile's Toothache 1:20
6. Listen to the Musn'ts 0:25
7. Smart 1:10
8. The Farmer and the Queen 1:07
9. Dreadful 1:07
10. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout 2:33

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Review

If you've heard Shel Silverstein's bawdy Freakin' at the Freakers Ball, your notion of the man who wrote Where the Sidewalk Ends might've been skewered. Silverstein was nothing if not a tad twisted. But his twists and turns in world of children's arts were well considered and infectiously charming. When he recorded poems and rhymes from Sidewalk, the book was nearly a decade old. But he brought the words to life, albeit a funky, sometimes nasally delivered, sometimes abruptly jolted life. Silverstein knew that his changes in voice pitch, his quickly dashed mixes of spare guitar and pinched singsong delivery, and, most of all, his rhythmically fetching words were ideal for hearing. Sidewalk, which took home a 1984 Grammy for best children's album, still stands boldly above (or at least apart from) so much of what's recorded for kids. One should expect nothing less than pretzeled genius from the guy who wrote such pop hits as "The Unicorn," "A Boy Named Sue," and "On the Cover of Rolling Stone." And that's what comes through on this expanded Sidewalk, with its 11 newly added snippets (including "Hector the Collector," "Hungry Mungry," and "If I Had a Brontosaurus"). If it's a rhyme you're after, look no further. --Andrew Bartlett

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Tracks: 36 (+26 tracks), Disk length: 38m 27s (+24m 41s)

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Tracks: 36 (+26 tracks), Disk length: 38m 27s (+24m 41s)

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Tracks: 47 (+37 tracks), Disk length: 50m 24s (+36m 38s)

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