Roger Day: Why Does Gray Matter? CD Review & Giveaway

Back again with a new CD recommended for ages 5-11.  This time it is Roger Day’s: Why Does Gray Matter?…and Other Brainy Songs for Kids.

Parents’ Choice® Gold-winning kids’ musician Roger Day scales the pinnacle of braininess with the February 9 release of his fourth CD and first “theme” album, Why Does Gray Matter? … And Other Brainy Songs for Kids! The disc offers fourteen Roger Day originals, each one devoted to the wonders and mysteries of the human brain, encouraging kids to “use their noodles” for creative problem solving and letting them know that it’s cool to be smart.  Along the way, they’ll learn some fun facts about the brain.

Why Does Gray Matter? is an outgrowth of the more than 1,000 cultural arts performances and songwriting workshops Roger Day has done over the past 10 years at elementary schools all over the country.

In the spirit of Schoolhouse Rock and Bill Nye, the Science Guy, Why Does Gray Matter?includes “Sara Bellum, the Brainy Girl,” “It’s a No Brainer” (literally singing the praises of math), and “Brain Food – Eat it Up!” which uses omega 3, lypocene and green tea in a B-52s inspired rocker about the best foods for brain health.    The “Left Brain/Right Brain” song illustrates the different functions of each side of the brain: the left brain is a Bach-inspired baroque string quartet and the right brain – naturally – is a bad British punk rock band. Roger Day co-wrote “The Brain Train” with Dr. John Paul Bouffard, Chief Neuropathologist at Overlook Hospital in New Jersey. The song takes a peek inside Ringo Starr’s brain during that nanosecond from Ringo’s first thought about playing the drums to showtime at Shea Stadium. Roger says, “I’m confident this is the first – and probably last — children’s song that uses words like ‘corpus callosum’ and ‘deep basal ganglia’ in the lyrics!”

Why Does Gray Matter will be available online at rogerday.com, amazon.com, cdbaby.com and iTunes on Feb. 9th.

My take:  Being a science major in college I knew this CD was right up my alley!  I loved this CD…there was not one song that I didn’t like.  Even though my boys are too young to understand most of the words they danced and jiggled their way through the music.   Every science teacher will love this CD and if you have a child who has a deep love for the brain this is the CD for them!

One lucky MommyPR winner will win the Roger Day: What Does Gray Matter?  CD!

Win It

Mandatory Entry:

Visit Roger Day’s website and tell me a song you think you would like to hear

Extra Entries:

Blog about this giveaway with a link back here & Roger Day: Why Does Gray Matter?

See the Contest Rules for even more Entries!

Open to US

Contest ends 11:59 pm Pacific Time on 3/26

************************************************************

Disclaimer:

I was not paid in any form of cash for this posting.

I did receive product or services to keep for my testing purposes

The product itself did not persuade my personal beliefs or views.
You can read more about Mommy PR’s Policy Disclosure here.
See our Mission Statement for more on what we promise to uphold on every post.

• Pin It
• Share
• Tweet