When I first started the Random Weekend series over a year ago (on January 21, 2012, to be exact), I had one fear: What if I wound up with a bunch of Raffi songs?

I have nothing against Raffi, whose live album got a fair amount of attention from my daughters in their early childhood. He and fellow child entertainer Laurie Berkner are admirable talents. But I didn’t want the blog to turn into an episode of Sprout every weekend.

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