Teletubbies, Bedtime and Playtime Stories
Audio CD
Disk ID: 801954
Disk length: 57m 2s (10 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1999
Label: Unknown
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“Bedtime and Playtime Stories” Tracks & Durations
| 1. Teletubbies Title Song | 2:09 |
| 2. Tubby Toast Accident | 8:13 |
| 3. Baa Baa Black Sheep | 4:48 |
| 4. Laa-Laa's Best Song | 7:10 |
| 5. Big Wind & Come Back Everything | 8:02 |
| 6. Custard Machine Not Working | 6:22 |
| 7. The Gingerbread Boy | 4:03 |
| 8. Singing Songs | 6:45 |
| 9. Dipsy's Sleepy Song | 8:01 |
| 10. Rock-a-bye Baby | 1:22 |
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Review
The Teletubbies' Stories CD plays like a reheated episode of the notoriously babyish TV series minus the eye-poppingly bright and only questionably cute visuals. That's not to say that this record is without merits. For one, as defenders of the improbably controversy-shadowed show point out, each of its 10 story tracks are told methodically, in a manner befitting the 2-year-old and younger crowd. When a roaring wind runs away with the Tubbies' favorite things in "Big Wind and Come Back Everything," for instance, listeners run through the loop of Tubbies to get a read on how forlorn each feels. When the hat, scooter, bag, and ball are returned, we circle through the gamut, this one of relief. Similarly simple-to-follow sagas fill the "Playtime Stories" half of the CD, which includes "Tubby Toast Accident" (about an explosion of excess breakfast) and "Laa-Laa's Best Song" (in which the yellow Tubbie tinkers with a song and gleans that the best way to sing is her own way). The "Bedtime Stories" half of the CD doesn't differentiate much from "Playtime." There's a bummer of a story about a broken-down custard machine and one about Dipsy's dazzling way with a lullaby. A wordless rendition of "Rock-a-Bye Baby" and a Tubbiless telling of the classic tale of the Gingerbread Boy also show up. Beyond the easy-to-grasp and therefore potentially educational aspect, this record carries a couple of hidden benefits: caregivers concerned that their tykes are spending too much time in front of the tube will find it offers a guiltless but almost as compelling alternative to the TV show. And, because it's so simple-minded, the CD is easy for adults to tune out. That makes it superb fare for maintaining steady nerves on long car trips, at the very least. --Tammy La Gorce
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| Various, Das Grosse Weihnachts Wunschkonzert |
| Yuri Antonov, Golden Collection of Russia |
| Bulan Dagoan, Degung (Sundanese Music) |
| Music Maestro, MM6180 |
| Phillips, Grant-Lee, Mobilize |