Five Little Pumpkins Music Video Released!

Happy October!!! Based on a traditional song, featured on my "Jumpin' Jitters, It's Halloween" album, "Five Little Pumpkins" invites children to sing along as they watch the song gently come to life in this child-centered animated music video illustrated in cut-paper collage.

I hope you enjoy the video!

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(c) (p) 2023 Johnette Downing, Wiggle Worm Records, LLC, ASCAP. Performance, illustration and video by Johnette Downing. Animation by Scott Billington. Guitar and vocals by Johnette Downing and Violin by Gina Forsyth.

"Five Little Pumpkins" is on the "Jumpin' Jitters, It's Halloween" album.

Song administered by Concord Music Group. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized duplication without prior written consent prohibited.

Twenty Bees Video Release!

Twenty Bees by Johnette Downing

During the pandemic, I created nearly a dozen animated music videos of my songs for virtual programs. I used some of them in my virtual programs, but some have never been released. Therefore, I have decided to release them once per month. The first one I released in May was “On the Farm” from my Parents’ Choice Recommended Award winning Wild and Woolly Wiggle Songs album.

This month, I am releasing “Twenty Bees” from my Silver Parents’ Choice Award winning album Boogie Woogie Bugs. I hope you enjoy this counting backwards by 1s, 2s, 4s, 5s, and 10s song. I learned from my friend Patsy Kanter, who developed the Everyday Counts curriculum, that children have difficulty counting backwards. Therefore, I decided to continue my trajectory of counting songs, but this song counts back from twenty, a higher number, not normally used in children’s music.

I illustrated the video with cut-paper collage to create depth, and my husband Scott Billington animated the video. It took dozens of frames to create the bee flying across the page at the end. Also at the end of the video, I include bee fun facts from the Bee Conservancy for educational purposes to help children help bees! I hope you have fun buzzing along!

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On the Farm Video Released!

On the Farm by Johnette Downing

During the pandemic, I spent some time illustrating some of my songs to create animated music videos. I will be releasing these videos over the next several months.

I hope youngsters will enjoy singing along with "On The Farm," a sequential song about animals on a farm. Based on one of my songs by the same title on my Parents' Choice Recommended Award winning "Wild and Woolly Wiggle Songs" album for children, this animated music video includes animal sound effects, and is illustrated in cut-paper collage, a technique used to create textures by layering and gluing paper atop paper to create shapes, animals, buildings, etc.

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Johnette Downing is a musician, author, illustrator, former early childhood music teacher and poet from New Orleans, Louisiana. The Louisiana Writer Award recipient, Johnette has received dozens of awards and has performed music for children on five continents for over 35 years.

Words, Music, Illustrations, Arrangement, Performance, and Animation by Johnette Downing.

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@2000 & 2020 Johnette Downing, Wiggle Worm Records, ASCAP Administered by Concord Music. Underlying song distributed digitally by CDBaby.

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