Lomax the Hound of Music is a PBS Kids children's TV series that brings together puppets, humans, live music, and animation to promote musical education for children ages 3–7, inspired by John Feierabend's "First Steps in Music" curriculum for music educators. Created by Christopher Cerf, Norman Stiles and Louise Gikow, and produced by Sirius Thinking, Ltd., Eyevox, Inc., and Connecticut Public Television, Lomax first aired in October 2008, and immediately gained a reputation as a show that follows in the tradition of acclaimed educational children's TV series like Sesame Street, and Between the Lions. Sirius Thinking announced that the series would premiere in 2007, but instead premiered in 2008. The last new episode aired on December 29, 2008. Upon conclusion, PBS lost the rights to the show, and Sirius Thinking became the primary owner of the series.
Lomax, the Hound of Music follows the adventures of Lomax (named after American ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax), a good-natured, melody-obsessed puppet hound dog, his fluffy cat sidekick, Delta, and their human companion, Amy, on a tune-filled train ride aboard the Melody Hound Express crisscrossing the musical landscape of the United States of America. With the help - and full participation - of real kids on the train, on location, Lomax and his friends track down the wonderful songs in different music genres and music styles that form the heart of the nation’s most diverse musical heritage on the planet earth.
Trivia[]
- This series could be considered as a spinoff of Between the Lions, because of most of the same cast and crew, although it may be a coincidence
Cast[]
- Peter Linz as Lomax.
- Amy Miless as Amy.
- Jennifer Barnhart as Delta.
- Fred Newman as Fred
- Pam Arciero as Louise
Classic Children's Songs Used On The Show[]
- My Dog Has Fleas
- Bill Grogan's Goat
- There Ain't No Bugs On Me
- Aloha ʻOe
- John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
- The Old Hen Cackled
- Buffalo Gals
- All The Pretty Little Horses
- The Horse Stood Around
- The Old Bell Cow
- Toodala
- There's a Hole in the Bucket
- Mother Gooney Bird
- The Old Oaken Bucket
- The Itsy Bitsy Spider
- Alabama Bound
- Skip To My Lou
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat
- Down By The Bay
- Michael, Row The Boat Ashore
- The Cat Came Back
- Kitty In The Straw (Turkey in the Straw parody)
- Whoa Mule
- Oh, In The Woods (The Green Grass Grew All Around)
- It's Raining It's Pouring
- Ragtime Annie
- The Arkansas Traveler
- Miss Mary Mack
- Pay Me My Money Down
- Miss Mary Mack Hip Hop Remix
- I Had a Rooster
- The Bear Went Over the Mountain
- The Other Day I Met a Bear
- My Father's Whiskers
- Jim Along Josie
- She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain
- Turkey in the Straw
- The Duet for Two Cats (Rossini)
- Crabfish
- John the Rabbit
- The Horse Stood Around
- The Long-Legged Sailor
- Polly Wolly Doodle
- Derby Ram
References[]
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