"Singin' In The Bathtub - John Lithgow"

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I've been a grown-up actor for about thirty years now. In a hundred plays, movies, and TV shows, I've had to learn thousands of lines, rhymes and even lyrics. And you know what? I'VE FORGOTTEN ALL OF THEM! So why is it then that I can sing so many songs by heart that I first heard when I was three? four? five? Maybe it's because a kid is eager to learn and extra impressionable. Maybe it's because his young brain still has plenty of vacant space available. But in my case, it's probably because I grew up in a house full of music and heard so many fantastic songs. A lot of those songs are on this album. Jazzy tunes with ingenious lyrics, they were originally performed by some of my first idols, great showmen like Kanny Kaye, Cab Calloway, Allan Sherman, Michael Flanders & Donald Swann. The songs bring to lively musical life a whole menagerie of storybook characters: singing pigs, dancing fish, ornery triplets, hippo sweethearts, a punctilious gnu, a mathematical inchworm, and Otto Zilch, the jockey-clad explorer (oh yes, some of them are pretty outrageous). Only a few of the songs were actually written for children, but all of them are songs that children will love. And if those kids are like me, someday they'll grow up and sing them to their own kids. By heart. - John Lithgow

Produced by:
Jai Winding

Executive Producers:
Hillary Bratton and Becky Mancuso-Winding

Engineered by Mark Linett and Capitol Studios:
"A - You're Adorable," "At The Codfish Ball," "Everybody Eats When They Come To My House," "The Inchworm," "Swinging On A Star," "You Gotta Have Skin"

Engineered by Ted Blaisdell at Village Recorders:
"Big Kids," "From The Indies To The Andes In His Undies," "I Had A Rooster," "No One Loves You Any Better Than Your M-O-Double-M-Y," "Singin' In The Bathtub"

Arranged by Jai Winding:
"Big Kids," "From The Indies To The Andes In His Undies," "The Gnu Song," "The Hippopotamus Song," "I Had a Rooster," "No ONe Loves You Any Better Than Your M-O-Double-M-Y," "Singin' In The Bathtub," "Triplets"

Engineered by Keith Wechsler:
"The Gnu Song," "The Hippopotamus Song," "Triplets"

Mixed by:
Keith Wechsler at Jai Winding Studios, Santa Monica, CA

Mastered by:
David Mitson at Sony Music Studios, Santa Monica, CA

Assistant Engineers:
Charlie Paakkari, John Hendrickson, Eric Greedy, Jenny Knotts

Orchestrations arranged and conducted by:
Bill Elliott

Orchestra:
Violins- Joel Derouin, Kirsten Fife, Norman Hughtes, Peter Kent, Gina Krondtadt, Maria Newman, Nancy Ruth, John Wittenberg
Violas- Bod Becker, Evan Wilson
Cellos- Larry Corbett, Suzie Katayama, Sue Giordano
Harp- Amy Shulman
Bass- David Stone
Trumpets- Wayne Bergeron, Don Clarke, Darrel Gardner
Trombones- Alex Iles, Andy Matriz, Charlie Morillas, Bruce Otto
Guitar- Barry Zweig
Drums- Gordon Peeke
Saxes/Woodwinds- Charles Erdahl, Phil Feather, Bill Liston, James Mason, Roger Neumann, John Mitchell, Don Shelton
Concertmaster- Peter Kent
Orchestra Contractor- John Rosenberg

Bill's Lucky Stars- Michael Lescault, Cassie Miller, John O'Campo, Royce Reynolds

A&R Manager- Hillary Bratton

Art Direction- Mary Kramer

Cover Illustration- C.F. Payne

Design- Scott McClean

The Rubber Duckie Choir- Amy Gleason, D.J. Harper, Cord Jackman, Kate Morrissey, Brandon Pollard, Laurie Shillinger, Tiffany Takara, Cambria Winding

Kids Vocal Contractor- Luana Jackman

Acknowledgements- John Lithgow wishes to acknowledge the support, hard work and talent of Jai Winding, Keith Wechsler, Hillary Bratton, Becky Mancuso-Winding, Bill Elliot and about fifty great musicians. Also, he dedicates his own efforts to his three children, Ian, Phoebe and Nathan.

Thank you- Jefferson Denim, Annmarie Gatti, Kathie Grady, Ted Green, Phil Midiri, Wendy Moss, Christine Schultz, Deborah Strafella at Sony Music; Staff and Management at Capitol Studios, Michael Frondelli and Paula Salvatore; Staff and Management at Sony Music Studio, Phil Kaye, Lee Ann Paynter; Staff and Management at Village Recorders, Jeff Greenberg, Robin Bulla and Anneke; Mark Linnett and his compliment of vintage microphones; Glenn Howard, Gina Polcaster, Leslie Rylke, Cami Winding.

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