The Baby Sitters was a music group that recorded four albums of children's folk songs from 1958 until 1968. Its original members were Alan Arkin

Alan Arkin

Alan Wolf Arkin is an American actor, director, musician and singer. He is known for starring in such films as Wait Until Dark, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Catch-22, The In-Laws, Edward Scissorhands, Glengarry Glen Ross, Marley & Me, and...

, his then-wife Jeremy Arkin, Lee Hays

Lee Elhardt Hays

Lee Hays , was an American folk-singer and songwriter, best known for singing bass with The Weavers. Throughout his life, he was concerned with overcoming racism, inequality, and violence in society. Hays wrote or co-wrote "Wasn't That a Time?", "If I Had a Hammer, "and "Kisses Sweeter than Wine",...

, and Doris Kaplan, although Jeremy Arkin was later replaced by Barbara Dana.

For instruments, the group used a guitar, a toy piano, a toy xylophone, pots, pans, and jars.

Discography

• The Baby Sitters (1959)
• Songs and Fun with the Baby Sitters
• The Baby Sitters' Family Album
• The Baby Sitter's Menagerie (1968)

External links

• [ Group biography] at Allmusic