The Saturday Morning Cereal Bowl

11/16/2024

Thwarted by technology again. The show is not streaming this morning on WAWL, so here's the podcast. Thanks for listening.

The Boogers - “The SMCB Theme Song” Egg - “Nothing Better” [Hard Boiled]Professor Jefferson Band - “Hello” [Hello]Little Miss Ann - “Over in the Meadow” [Clap For Love]Jack Forman show IDRecess Monkey - “Wired” [Wired]The Not-Its! - “Let’s Skateboard” [Kidquake!]Josh & ...

11/14/2024

We've got a fun show for you this weekend, kids. No new music. Instead we'll dig back through the catalog for songs of Cereal Bowls past. Some of my favorites will be here and hopefully some of yours, too. Listen Saturday 8am EST on The WAWL.

11/13/2024

The SMCB is a one hour radio show for kids featuring the best & brightest in children's music since 2006. Great for kids and parents to listen to together. Saturdays 8am EST on wawl.org

11/11/2024

Thank you for all you did for the children, Ella Jenkins.

Performing and recording, she transformed what was seen as a marginal genre in the music industry into a celebration of shared humanity.

11/09/2024

Check out the podcast here for today's show or from just about anywhere you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening!

The Boogers - “The SMCB Theme Song” Watch Reggie Run - “I Miss My Friend Steve”Dean and the Family Jones - “Red Balloon”Blue Tac - “Lollypop Lady”Parry Gripp show IDParry Gripp - “Churros From Space”The Microphone Doctors - “Float”Uncle Grape - “Colors” Michael and the Ro...

11/07/2024

We're back this Saturday with an all-new episode of The bowl. Check out new songs
from Watch Reggie Run, Dean & the Family Jones, Parry Gripp, The Microphone Doctors, Dean & Michael, Munslow Music, Danny Weinkauf - Red Pants Band, Mo Phillips with Ratboy Jr., and fleaBITE, plus other great kindie tunes. Listen 8am EST on The WAWL. Enjoy!

10/26/2024

Here's a link to the podcast. You can also find just about anywhere you get your podcasts.

It's time for The SMCB Halloween Episode. Almost all the songs this year are brand new Halloween songs. Enjoy! Play Date - “Zombie Bop”Jeff Parsnips - “I’m a Scary Monster”Divinity Rox - “Halloween (feat. Militia Vox)”Parry Gripp show IDParry Gripp - “I’m a Ghost”Pancake Manor - ...

10/24/2024

It's time for The SMCB Halloween Show! Listen this Saturday as we pull out the spooky and creepy, but not scary, songs for Halloween. We'll have new songs from Danny Weinkauf - Red Pants Band, Play Date, Go Banana Go, Key Wilde & Mr Clarke, Mr. J, Star Forest, Chanelle & Friends, Kath Bee - Children's Songwriter, Rolie Polie Guacamole, Simon Stanley, Andrew Best Music, Pancake Manor, Parry Gripp, Little Coyotes, Jeff Parsnips, Itty Bitty Beats, Claudia Robin Gunn - Music for Kids, EVT Kids, and Munslow Music, plus some Halloween favorites. Listen at 8am EDT on The WAWL. Find the podcast at the same time.

10/10/2024

Get ready for a new show this Saturday kids. We'll have some new tunes from Mo Phillips, Mr. Super Dude & KinderChartin', Mr. Pete's Playhouse, Angie Who, POCO DROM, Johnny and the Raindrops, and Levity Beet Music plus kindie songs you know & love. The radio station is undergoing some maintenance so the show may not air when it's supposed to. I'll have the podcast up by 8am EDT Saturday. Enjoy!

10/03/2024

It's time for a new show this weekend kids. We have a handful of new songs from The Microphone Doctors & Doctor Noize, Fans of Randy Kaplan (FORKs), fleaBITE, The Quokkas, Claudia Robin Gunn - Music for Kids, and Mr. Elephant, plus a few other kindie favorites. Also, we'll wrap up the show with some tunes from Father Goose Music who we just lost this week. Listen on The WAWL this Saturday, 8am EDT.

10/02/2024

This Saturday, we'll listen to some tunes from Father Goose Music. Stay tuned for details.

10/01/2024

This one hurts. Thank you Father Goose Music for the tunes, the jams, and bringing a smile to our hearts.

Wayne Rhoden aka Father Goose aka The King of the Dance Party aka Rankin’ Don has gone to his heavenly home.
He was a true music man and I feel so blessed to have known him for 30 years.
His mother Joyce introduced us in the mid 90’s. He was Rankin’ Don in Brooklyn’s dancehall scene back then.
Wayne was one of the most open minded musicians I’ve known, easily swinging from Cutty Ranks to Elvis to Jim Reeves to Sister Carol. Music was a vehicle that he used to uplift, entertain and galvanize people. He made us laugh and think differently about things.
It felt like it might be a stretch to invite him to the studio to jam on my first recordings of “family music” back in 1999. He told me later that he had no idea what I was doing or why I was doing it (I barely knew myself).
But he came in, listened to the track, took the mic and suddenly transformed into….Father Goose!!!
I’ve always said no Father Goose, no Dan Zanes. His presence on the Dan Zanes and Friends records and at our concerts made us unique in the all-ages realm. He helped create our template and his spirit was in everything we did. He appears on almost every family record that I’ve made from Rocket Ship Beach in 2000 to the new Dan + Claudia Zanes album, Pieces of Home, that we released a few weeks ago.
Wayne was committed to the idea of a mixed gender, multiracial band - that was DZAF and it was his group when he started doing his own family shows. He wanted young people to look up and see themselves on stage and he wanted them to be able to say hello after shows. He was completely accessible and ready to give positive vibes at any moment.
There’s so much to say about this music man and the lives he’s touched. His beautiful daughter Aisha was born the same year as my daughter Anna. We became fathers together. His loving and super-supportive wife Denise has been on the roller coaster of life with him for decades and his son Irie Goose is now making his own inspired music. There is such a sense of loss right now.
I’ll share some more memories here soon.
One thing I’m sure about: Father Goose would rather have people dance to his music than cry about his passing.
Today I’ll do both.

09/28/2024

The radio station hiccuped this morning and did play the show. Here's the podcast or get it from just about anywhere you get your podcasts.

The Boogers - “The SMCB Theme Song” The Mighty Jarkobian & His Conglomerate of Sound - “Please Don’t Be Mad, But…” [The Mighty Jarkobian & His Conglomerate of Sound]Miyavi - “Let’s Drink Water” [VA: Yo Gabba GabbaLand!]Greg Lato - “New Lunchbox” [Adults These Days]Lucky...

09/27/2024

Bringing all the kindie jams to another new episode of The SMCB. New tunes from Munslow Music, Blue Tac, Marko Polo Music & Andrew & Polly, Tallest Kid in the Room, The Microphone Doctors & Doctor Noize, Lisa Loeb Official & Debi Derryberry's World, and Levity Beet Music plus other family music favorites. Listen this Saturday 8am EDT on The WAWL or grab the podcast later and take it with you.

09/14/2024

Check out the latest show right here or just about anywhere you get your podcasts.

The Boogers - “The SMCB Theme Song” Bowling For Soup - “Friend Like Me”The Mighty bUZZniks - “To the Moon” [Bug Out]Imagination Movers - “Duck Race” [Blue Skies]Parry Gripp show IDParry Gripp - “All the Nachos You Can Eat”BARK - “Dual Walkie Talkies” [The Imaginillionaire]Mr....

09/13/2024

It's that time again, kids. Another new episode of The Bowl. We have new songs this week from Mr. Elephant, Todd'n'Tina, fleaBITE, Mega Ran, Mr. Pete's Playhouse, Mista Cookie Jar, John Legend, Claudia Robin Gunn - Music for Kids, Tallest Kid in the Room with Red Yarn, Davey & Peter, Little Coyotes, and Dan + Claudia Zanes, plus a few Cereal Bowl classics thrown in. The radio station may be acting up so I'll have the podcast available at 8am EDT on just about any app you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening!

08/31/2024

The radio station (wawl.org) scheduling is acting up so The Bowl isn't currently playing. You can listen to the latest here or just about anywhere you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening.

The Boogers - “The SMCB Theme Song” The Bazillions - “Back to School” [Rock-n-Roll Yearbook]Keith Munslow - “Top Secret Song”The Interrupters - “Wonderful Day in a Wonderful Place” [VA: Yo Gabba GabbaLand!]Mista Cookie Jar show IDMista Cookie Jar -“Just Another Finger”Scott Wheat...

08/30/2024

Summer's (basically) over and it's back to school time. Check out an all-new show, kids. New songs from Star Forest, Munslow Music, Cory McAtee, Danny Weinkauf - Red Pants Band, John Legend, Mr. Elephant, Little Coyotes (Cal Heights Music), Dan & Claudia Zanes, fleaBITE, Cee Bee Teatime, Suzi Shelton, Doctor Noize & 123 Andrés, and Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could with Laurie Berkner Band, plus a few back-to-school tunes. Listen on The WAWL 8am EDT or get the podcast. Enjoy!