My Very Favourite Nursery Rhyme Record

My Very Favourite Nursery Rhymes is an album by Tim Hart and Friends. By 1981 both Tim Hart and Maddy Prior had children, so it was appropriate to create an album of children's songs. The treatment is very light and poppy. The clever use of synthesisers makes it seems as if there is a whole orchestra present at times. Tim takes the lead on most songs. "Old MacDonald" and "Bobby Shaftoe" are given country-and-western treatments. John Kirkpatrick takes the lead vocals on "Little Bo Peep". Melanie Harold leads on "Bobby Shaftoe". The album was released on the Music for Pleasure label. Another similar album was released in 1983, called "The Drunken Sailor". The rights for "Music for Pleasure" were sold to EMI Gold, who released an hour-long cassette called "Favourite Nursery Rhymes" in 1985. It contained all these tracks except "Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket" and "Boys and Girls come out to Play". Two tracks were missing from "The Drunken Sailor". In its place there was a new track – "Humpty Dumpty", with leads vocals by Bob Johnson. In 1989 EMI/Music For Pleasure released a 3-CD set called "The Children's Collection". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Very...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)