Cri, Cri, Baby
This is a nice Mexican lp cover with a sweet children’s illustration. (It also includes a stereotypically racist, watermelon-eating, barefooted black boy!) The music and stories are by Cri Cri (born Francisco Gabilondo Soler in MÃ ©xico).
Cri Cri (means Cricket) songs are about animals, trains and children. Each song has a different musical style (tango, fox-trot, danzon, etc.) and have been children’s favorites since Soler began composing these pieces for the radio in the 30’s.
October 21st, 2010 at 3:37 am
Small correction: Cri Cri does not mean cricket but is the onomatopoeiac name for the sound a cricket makes. In Spain cricket is “grillo” – no idea if Mexico has a regional term for it.