Peggy's Pie Parlor [Audio CD] Ralph's World

Poke into Ralph Covert's fourth album for kids and a preoccupation with where to pin the blue ribbon overrides any fear of fruit-filling overload. Here, as in all three previous discs, forkfuls of genuine hilariousness--from the cut-up Broadway parody "Caveman" to the giddy gusto of "Go Go Pogo"--mix with rock-on, purely musical instincts, like in the good-timey "All I Wanna Do Is Play," the wheelie-poppin' "Banana Seat Bike," and "67 Cents of Heaven," a lemonade sip of a song if ever there was one. A couple of well chosen classics ("I Never See Maggie Alone," "I'm My Own Grandpaw") stir nicely into the funnyman/serious rock &roll recipe. Few pie parlors can claim to be flakier, none as much fun. --Tammy La Gorce