Bunny Bunny
The Song Formerly Known as Dizzy Bunny
Hello wonderful Music Class families!
Today, I am going to share the origin story of "Bunny Bunny" from The Elephant Collection.
Once upon a time, Mr. Rob had a baby girl. Mr. Rob wanted to immerse his baby in all kinds of music, but especially his favorite genre, jazz. (As all parents prefer to play music for their kids that they actually enjoy listening to. Years later, that would remain an important tenet of The Music Class songs!) So, baby Raina got a lot of Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, etc. The album that Raina fell asleep to every night was "Clifford Brown with Strings."
Baby Raina was gifted a polka dot bunny that she carried with her EVERYWHERE. If the bunny got left behind, there was an immediate meltdown (sorry dad.) One time the bunny got lost and Raina was inconsolable and they gave her a backup bunny they had stashed specifically for this. But the backup bunny was white and the real bunny was more of a greyish color from all the dirt and stains and rounds in the laundry machine and Raina refused the backup bunny until the original bunny was finally found. Phew.
One of Raina's favorite songs to dance to was "Manteca" by Dizzy Gillespie. She'd ask for it on repeat and twirl and dance around the living room with her bunny. And that is how the bunny eventually became "Dizzy Bunny."
Mr. Rob was always making up songs for Raina. One day he started singing, "He's got ears, Dizzy Bunny, Dizzy Bunny. He's got a tail, Dizzy Bunny, Dizzy Bunny." The song stuck! It became a favorite in the house.
Years later, when Mr. Rob decided to start his own early childhood music education company, several of the songs he wrote for Raina and her brother Brian became the first TMC hits. The Elephant Collection was the first album he recorded for The Music Class, and "Bunny Bunny" became the first song on that album.
The end!
Love, Raina