The Cat in the Hat Songbook/If I Ran the Zoo/Dr. Seuss Sleepbook (1999)

About this title: The long-winded title of The Cat in the Hat Songbook/If I Ran the Zoo/Dr. Seuss Sleepbook is meant to explain that this reissue of Dr. Seuss' 1967 album The Cat in the Hat Songbook is sandwiched between two bonus tracks: spoken word adaptations of the books If I Ran the Zoo and Dr. Seuss' Sleepbook. The latter two cuts consist of Marvin Miller delivering Seuss' rhymes over a bed of music composed by conductor/arranger Marty Gold. The Cat in the Hat Songbook, on the other hand, features actual songs that Seuss wrote with Eugene Poddany, a veteran composer of cartoon music. The lyrics are far ... read more

Tracks:

1. If I Ran the Zoo [Gold]
2. Let Us All Sing [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
3. The Super-Supper March [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
4. My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes with Bears [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
5. In My Bureau Drawer [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
6. The No Laugh Race [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
7. Plinker Plunker [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
8. Hurry Hurry Hurry! [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
9. Cry a Pint [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
10. I Can Figure Figures [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
11. Somebody Stole My Hoo-Too-Foo-To-Boo-To-Bah! [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
12. Rainy Day in Utica, N.Y. [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
13. Lullaby for Mr. Benjamin B. Bickelbaum [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
14. Happy Birthday to Little Sally Spingel Spungel Sporn [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
15. My Uncle Terwilliger Likes to Pat [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
16. Yawn Song [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
17. The Left-Sock Thievers [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
18. Drummers Drumming [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
19. Party Parting [Doctor Seuss/Poddan]
20. Dr. Seuss' Sleepbook [Gold]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.