![]() Simple songs may be designed for kids to enjoy them, but there is an importance to performing something that everyone can enjoy. Tails and Firecracker (19951999) In September 1995, Loebs debut album, Tales, was released by Geffen Records under the name Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories. And yeah, I do get some pushback sometimes for playing something that is identified as a kids song at a grownup show, but it tends to be some serious artsy type upset that they heard something silly. “If someone were to write the song “I Want to Teach the World to Sing” today, that would most likely end up being labeled a kids song, but it’s really just a song that universally connects with audiences of all ages. That’s been a goal of mine for years, and those songs tend to land within the children’s genre of music now. The longer I’m doing this, the more that the lines blur, and it just becomes the chance to fill the need that I’ve found for universally themed songs. 1995 Tails (Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories) Released: SeptemLabel: Geffen 30 42 15 85 6 44 39 CAN: Platinum US: Gold 1997 Firecracker. “Even my most recent adult-oriented record (2013’s No Fairy Tale), there were two songs on it that were written during sessions that were supposed to be specifically for kids material. “I still do ‘real’ music,” the singer explains, noting the condescension she has received from peers. Both of them were different from each other, but what they both had in common were that they were produced like regular records, and I just felt so grown up and cool listening to them as a kid,” Loeb says. < Wonder Pets: Niche Explosion With No Product - Name that Niche and Win a. ![]() “There were a few records that I thought were grownup records, because I didn’t think they felt like kiddie records when I was younger: Free to Be… You and Me by Marlo Thomas & Friends, and Carole King’s record Really Rosie, where she put Maurice Sendak’s words and stories to music. Performed by Dawn Robinson, Lisa Loeb, B Real, Patti Smith, Lou Rawls. The album was Loeb’s nod toward both the children’s albums that were produced during her childhood that didn’t underestimate a kid’s intelligence, and the heartfelt songs that ruled the radio airwaves in the ’60s and ’70s, but would cynically be viewed as kiddie fare if written today. Children’s music that leans more pop than “Pop Goes the Weasel” is always in demand for parents with children starting to age out of nursery rhymes, and that’s where Loeb has become invaluable for Amazon Music’s profile amongst families.įeel What U Feel features 12 tracks of mostly original songs, a welcome departure for families burnt out on the Kidz Bop series of high-pitched covers, but still in need of music for car rides with their grade school aged kids. Check out the entire story after the jump.Ĭheck out the entire story in the Observer online archives.Amazon Music says it’s seen a threefold increase in streams of kid’s music in the past three years - perhaps in part because kids can ask Amazon’s voice activated robot Alexa to play it themselves - leading mainstream acts such of Loeb and lead singer Amy Lee of the rock band Evanescence to sign exclusive deals with the e-retailing giant. And she talked her then-new album, Tails, which would be released days after the article was published. LISA LOEB & NINE STORIES Do You Sleep (1995 UK 4-track CD single including the LP Version, the previously unreleased track Birds produced, engineered and. She talked about being the first ever unsigned, unmanaged artist to ever have a Billboard No. She reflected on her so-called "overnight success," which took her years to achieve, she said. So, for this edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, we turn the page back to 1995, when Loeb talked about her fame with all the benefit of hindsight. In the aftermath of it all, Unfair Park's Robert Wilonsky talked to Loeb, who hadn't yet fully recovered from her instant rise to popularity and even quicker tumble down from it. ![]() And Loeb would move on to date another big celebrity. But the couple broke up in 1995 for an unknown reason. At the time, he would have been starring as Fox Mulder on 'The X-Files' (via IMDb ). It started as a cute, sweet number morphed into a record-breaking hit then it devolved into a song that Loeb herself, along with everyone else with functional ears, had heard way too many times. Not only was the Maryland native one of the most popular singers of the moment, but she was also reportedly dating actor David Duchovny (via Ranker ). She was a year removed from her one and only hit song, "Stay" clogging the radio waves and the charts. Sixteen years ago this week, Lisa Loeb was suffering a massive fame hangover.
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