The Music of Our Language

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KIDS Radio Show

Carolyn Meyer and Kel Pickens

105 episodes

1 day ago

On Sept. 19, 1981, the K.I.D.S Radio Show premiered on KSPI FM radio station broadcasting out of Stillwater, Oklahoma. The radio sitcom/musical expertly blended clever, kid-friendly comedic stories with children’s genre song selections. The weekly radio show was the brainchild of Carolyn Meyer, a Stillwater Public Schools music specialist and Kel Pickens, an account rep for the radio station. Carolyn and Kel are releasing select episodes from the 1980s and 1990s in podcast form on Saturday mornings at 11 a.m., like the original radio show time.

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The Music of Our Language

KIDS Radio Show

26 minutes 17 seconds

1 year ago

The Music of Our Language

“The Music of Our Language” first aired on Sept. 3, 1983

Miss Carolyn helps the KIDS Radio crew learn our language through song.

Of note: The original reel-to-reel recording was not salvageable for digitization, so Carolyn and Kel proved they still got it and jumped into the studio to re-record their lines.

Starring:

Theodore, The Giant Blueberry, and Mr. Invento – Kel Pickens

Miss Carolyn – Carolyn Meyer

Songs:

The Vowel Boogie
The World is Full of Opposites
Homonyms
Verbs are Action Words
The Plural Snakes
Capital Letters Reggae
Punctuation Parade

All of the songs featured in this show are from Carolyn Meyer and Kel Pickens’s album “The Music of Our Language” and were all written by Carolyn and Kel.

The musicians on the album were as follows:

Carolyn Meyer: lead and background vocals, piano, Moog Opus 3 Synthesizer, vibraslap, claves, wind chimes, and whistle
Kel Pickens: punctuation sounds, snake hisses, “Run for your lies!”, laughter sound effects, “Mmmm,” with cookie crunch
Mike Hufford: drums, bongos, seeds in a small canister and engineering the whole recording
Donnie Mitchell: bass guitar
Jim Blair: banjo, acoustic rhythm guitar
Randy Pease: acoustic rhythm guitar
Rod Boutwell: slide guitar, lead guitar, pedal steel guitar, background vocal reggae guitar
Mark Lyon: lead guitar, slide guitar, background vocal
Paul Montemurro: trumpet

If you’re a fan of good stories and dogs, you won’t want to miss out on carolynwestmeyerbooks.com. Carolyn shares the fascinating travel tales of her and Kel’s pups, a journey you can experience through her engaging books, available in paperback and ebook formats.

Credits:

Each episode was co-produced and directed by Carolyn Meyer and Kel Pickens.

Kel Pickens wrote episodes, and Chris Cozort did the audio engineering.

Sound engineering for the KIDS Radio Show theme song was provided by Mike Hufford at Lamb Recording Studio.

Jon Dickey created the artwork for the KIDS Radio Show T-shirt.

Analog to digital conversion provided by Don Mitchell.

Chris Peters published the podcast.