The Biscuit Brothers (dressed in matching overalls, plaid shirts, boots, and hats) sing, talk about music (and rhythm and pitch), and show viewers around Old MacDonald's farm EIEIO (“Environmental Institute for Every Instrument in the Orchestra”) in the three PBS-aired episodes compiled here. In addition to animated clips featuring a pig who sings “My Way” and a horse who can beat his hooves in time to “Mairsy Dotes,” the show features characters such as Sister Buttermilk and Tiny Scarecrow (a completely enchanting rod-arm puppet), “crazy classics” music videos, and entertaining sketches (in one segment, “ER EIO,” a tuba is taken in to emergency surgery after producing strangely flute-like noises). More on the entertainment end of the “infotainment” scale than the educational Magical Music Express: It's Fun to Learn About Music (VL-7/06), this is a big hit with my kids (five and two), even if MacDonald's fake Scots burr makes my hair stand on end. DVD extras include a half hour's worth of bonus songs. Highly recommended. Aud: K, E, P. (R. Reagan)
The Biscuit Brothers: Go Make Music! Volume 1
(2006) 84 min. DVD: $14.95. Big Kids Productions. PPR. Color cover. Volume 21, Issue 5
The Biscuit Brothers: Go Make Music! Volume 1
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