Moving Makes Me Magic

Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley

On this 1979 recording, music educator Yvonne Cheek Johnson is joined by artist and author Betty Mosley and Mosley’s daughter Joella, in a collection of movement songs that will excite children as well as their teachers and parents and that people of all ages will enjoy. The best-known tracks are the traditional nursery rhymes “Mary Mack” and “Hambone” and the Norwegian fairy tale “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” complete with bleating goats. The closing track is the story “The Adventures of Peter Bunting.” Performer credits, story text, and song lyrics are included in the liner notes.

Track Listing

101	Work Out! The Dancing Poem	Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley	4:09
102	Move with the Music	Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley	3:10
103	The Seed	Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley	3:39
104	Jumping	Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley	0:36
105	Regina She Fat and I'm Skinny	Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley	0:41
106	When Uncle T.C. Comes to Town	Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley	0:51
107	Three Billy Goats Gruff	Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley	5:31
201	Hambone	Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley	1:02
202	Mary Mack	Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley	1:05
203	My Body	Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley	0:45
204	The Caterpillar	Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley	3:36
205	Strange Walks	Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley	3:43
206	The Adventures of Peter Bunting	Yvonne Cheek Johnson, Betty Mosley, and Joella Mosley	13:31