“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.