Reviewed by Tony Cummings

If you've followed our reviews of this popular album series down the years you'll know that we're far from enthusiastic. In fact, a check shows that the five albums originally released in 1994 and 1995 and now packaged in a box under the 'Cedarmont Gold Collection' moniker hardly hit the high spots. 'Silly Songs' got a three square review, 'Sunday School Songs' and 'Bible Songs' were awarded two squares, and 'Action Bible Songs' and Toddler Tunes' got the dreaded one square abysmal award. Well, were we way off in our original assessments? Have these Cedarmont Kids Classics revealed new hidden depths to justify their name? Sadly not. The production, by Sue and Mike Gay, still sounds cheap, predictable and as cheesy as a Kraft factory. The songs, largely from the songbooks of Victorian Sunday schools, often sound trite and stilted. And the singing, by an ensemble of American kiddywinkers, is ragged, shrill and occasionally off key. I know of no children of any age, who would enjoy these banal albums. Putting them in a package offering '91 Classic Songs For Kids' with '5 Hours Total Playing Time' is tantamount to child abuse.

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