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What can I say? Kids and their families are wild about this Christmas album and we couldn't be happier about that!

Here are the lyrics and the MP3 downloads––

Do You Hear What I Hear
Frosty The Snowman
Holly Jolly Christmas
Don’t Want No Bones For Christmas (I Want an Electric Guitar)
I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
I’m Getting Nuttin’ For Christmas
Jungle Bells
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Silent Night
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
All Snug in Their Beds (instrumental)

Or click here and order the CD!

Walking Oliver was founded with the promise of bringing only the highest quality music to you and we think "Don't Want No Bones for Christmas" more than lives up to that promise.

It’s a superbly crafted, dance-along, sing-along recording of upbeat Christmas favorites, traditional carols and original compositions and already a seasonal classic. Keep a handful handy for unique stocking-stuffers and personal gifts throughout the holidays, and be sure to get one for yourself early enough to kick off the season with the joyous sounds of a Walking Oliver Christmas!

The CD includes a full-color 16 page booklet with complete lyrics and the very cool and wacky illustrations of award-winning illustrator Korky Paul.

What the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said–– "Opera singer Paul Austin Kelly continues his collection of songs for children with this funny Christmas album. From goofy renditions of classics such as "I'm Getting Nuttin' for Christmas" and "The Twelve Days of Christmas" to a few originals such as "Don't Want No Bones for Christmas (I Want an Electric Guitar)," Kelly sings engaging renditions of carols. With guitar, and synthesizer and drums, these aren't traditional performances, but that's the point. Kelly wants to appeal to kids who are bored with all that!"

Here is a lovely collection of songs, originally commissioned by Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers for a book and CD set for the educational market. Boosey followed this project from beginning to end and signed off on it, gave it their complete approval but their new marketing arm in Germany gave it a pass because they felt the songs weren't commercial enough. So, a better part of a year's work went unpublished.

Life is for Learning
Bicycles for Better Air
Don't Talk to Strangers
Bones in the Body
Life Recycle
Little Jumping Gene
Need A Room
Phoning Around
Runaway Dog
Randall the Vandal
Totally Turkey-Free
Where Did the Dinosaurs Go?

Boosey's loss can now be Walking Oliver customer's gain because we're offering them to you as individual song downloads.

Titled “Where Did the Dinosaurs Go?” the songs, written and performed by Walking Oliver artist Paul Austin Kelly, focus on environmental, scientific and social issues of interest to primary schools in the UK and Ireland, as well as the US and Australian markets. Pretty current topical stuff but also timeless, not trendy.

Walking Oliver also created a book of piano & vocal arrangements that we will shortly be making available for downloading, as well.

So, have a listen and decide for yourself. The lyrics are all there as well as an audio clip of each song so you can listen before you buy.

The CD is tentatively slated for a proper CD release sometime late in 2008 and will be distributed in the US by NewSound Kids, a subsidiary of Allegro.

Talk about deja-vu. Apparently I'm not the only one in the opera world to have a special place in his heart for Weimaraners. It seems the Metropolitan Opera, yes the prestigious Met in New York also recognizes the charismatic quality of this wonderful breed and has included their own Oliver, so to speak, in this season's publicity campaign - photographed by William Wegman naturally. We've always been fans of his work.

Suddenly it seems that maybe naming our record label after our family dog wasn't such a crazy idea after all. Then again, Walt Disney did quite well with his mouse friend.

Have a look at the Met Weimaraners here...

It’s such a pleasure working with Paul Austin Kelly, an artist of unparalleled talent in so many areas – singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, producer, and chief cook and bottle washer at Walking Oliver. I listen to a lot of new kids’ music every day, yet I return to Paul’s CDs as a sort of “mental floss” - a refreshing break from the often “same old, same old” that’s so pervasive in kids music right now. His music is of such high quality, so well produced, so inventive and so accessible to kids of all ages, I think it should be in everyone’s collection. We are working to see that happen here at NewSound and so we’re looking forward to a long and successful partnership with Paul and Walking Oliver!"

Man! How cool is that?
We're looking forward to it, too, Dot! Thanks!!

Paul