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"I Was A Supa-Dupa-Pupa" |
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MUSIC SAMPLES |
| Living In Symbiosis | |||
| It's All About The Hive | |||
| Can You See The Connection? |
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SONG LISTING / LYRICS |
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LINER NOTES |
An excerpt from Lucas Miller: I’ll start with a couple of notes about the science and songs on this disc: Scientifically speaking, symbiosis just means "living together." In that sense, a flea and a dog have a symbiotic relationship even though the dog is not helped by the flea. What most people call "symbiosis," is actually mutualism (the primary theme of this project). An example would be the ways honeybees and sunflowers benefit from each other. They do not, however, spend all their time together so that's NOT actually symbiosis. Clownfish & anemones live together and help each other; that’s mutualistic symbiosis. If you listen really closely to the lyrics of Living In Symbiosis, you’ll find that I’m scientifically correct but I admit to walking both sides of that fence for the sake of the metaphor. Christine McNew commissioned me to write Go Wild for the Texas State Library’s 2005 Summer Reading Program (this version was modified to better fit the “nature” of this disc). I’ll credit my son: he mistook “local library” for “loco library” one day. I chuckled and knew I had a start to the song. . . Stinkle, Stinkle, Little Skunky came to me as I sang my daughter to sleep one night. I could only sing Twinkle, Twinkle so many times before I started to mess with it. . . I'll probably catch some flack about Out on the Prairie. If you don’t like this one, let me know and I'll apologize profusely and offer a refund. I deliberated a lot over whether to include it. I was on the verge of backing out when I got what I must consider a “message from above:” I performed the song at a show where it was well received by a fellow sitting in the audience behind my wife. The next day, I was having doughnuts with my family when that same man walked in with his family dressed beautifully in their Sunday best. HIS Sunday best was a black outfit with a little white square over his throat! I figured if I could win over a man of the cloth, this song must be safe! About Connection: fruit bats are important seed dispersers in many rainforests. Usually they swallow the seeds and “deposit” them elsewhere like the birds I mention in Prairie. Not wanting to appear obsessed with such things, I looked for and found accounts of fruit bats of the genus Pteropus flying off with mangos and dropping the seeds as described in the song. |
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REVIEWS |
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"The 'Singing Zoologist' is back with silly and sensical songs bursting with rollicking factoids about metamorphosis, pollination, earthworm poop and other tidbits of delightfully icky earth science." "All instrumental and vocal performances are excellent. An outstanding album." “I Was a Supa-dupa Pupa is a must-have in any kids' CD collection. Kids will enjoy the music and parents will be amazed how much it teaches them with seemingly little effort.” |
