Bullfrogs and Butterflies (album)
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Bullfrogs and Butterflies (AKA Bullfrogs and Butterflies: God is My Friend) (1978) is the first album in the Dove Award-winning Christian
children's series
called Bullfrogs and Butterflies
. It is set in Agapeland
, and is an off-shoot of the Agapeland
album. It features Barry McGuire
and Candle
.
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
children's series
Children's music
Children's music is used here to refer to music composed and performed for children by adults. In European influenced contexts this means music, usually songs, written specifically for a juvenile audience. The composers are usually adults. Children's music has historically held both entertainment...
called Bullfrogs and Butterflies
Bullfrogs and Butterflies
Bullfrogs and Butterflies is a series of Agapeland related Christian albums. The series was an off-shoot of the album titled Agapeland. The series has won two Dove Awards for "Children's Music Album of the Year," and it has been nominated for two Grammy Awards for "Best Recording for...
. It is set in Agapeland
Agapeland
Agapeland, or "Land Called Love," is a fictional place created for a series of children's Christian musical albums by Candle, Birdwing Kid's Korus, Barry McGuire, Tony Salerno, Jim and Dee Patton, and Agape Force in the 1970s and 1980s...
, and is an off-shoot of the Agapeland
Agapeland (album)
Agapeland is an album by multiple Dove Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated music group Candle. Most of the music on this album was written by Jim and Dee Patton and produced and arragned by Jim Patton. Jim and Dee conceptualized the album and wrote the dialogue...
album. It features Barry McGuire
Barry McGuire
Barry McGuire is an American singer-songwriter best known for the hit song "Eve of Destruction", and later as a pioneering singer and songwriter of Contemporary Christian Music.-Early life:...
and Candle
Candle (band)
Candle is a Christian band that is best known for their Agapeland related children's albums Music Machine and Bullfrogs and Butterflies. They recorded children's albums for Sparrow Records' Birdwing branch....
.
Track listing
- "Welcome To Agapeland" (Georgian Banov)
- "Good Morning" (Barry McGuireBarry McGuireBarry McGuire is an American singer-songwriter best known for the hit song "Eve of Destruction", and later as a pioneering singer and songwriter of Contemporary Christian Music.-Early life:...
) - "This is the Day" (Dee Patton / Jim Patton)
- "Rainy Day Song" (Andy Davis / Kathy Salerno)
- "Kid Talk" (Frank Hernandez / Sherry Saunders Powell)
- "I Like Knowing God the Best" (Barry McGuireBarry McGuireBarry McGuire is an American singer-songwriter best known for the hit song "Eve of Destruction", and later as a pioneering singer and songwriter of Contemporary Christian Music.-Early life:...
/ Mary GrossMary GrossMary Gross is an American comedian and actress, perhaps best known for her four-year stint on Saturday Night Live from 1981 to 1985. Her credits also include minor roles on Animaniacs, Boston Legal and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch...
/ Sherry Saunders Powell) - "My Hands Belong to You" (Ane Warner Weber / Frank Hernandez)
- "Friends" (Ron Krueger)
- "Practice Makes Perfect" (Sherry Saunders Powell)
- "Bullfrogs And Butterflies" (Barry McGuireBarry McGuireBarry McGuire is an American singer-songwriter best known for the hit song "Eve of Destruction", and later as a pioneering singer and songwriter of Contemporary Christian Music.-Early life:...
) - "Noah" (Georgian Banov / Mark Pendergrass) - story and song
- "You're so Good to Me" (Sherry Saunders Powell / Frank Hernandez)