# Ella Jenkin

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Grey City Jazz w/ Codin Orășeanu (25.09.2025)

This episode dives into folk songs and pays tribute to Ella Jenkins, ”the first lady of children’s music”. Miss Jenkins died last year at the venerable age of 100 years. She dedicated all her career to creating songs and playing for children, guiding them into rhythm and forming a link between teac…

Gayle Wald — This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children's Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement - with Michel Martin

Ella Jenkins is one of the most influential musicians you've never heard of--her songs "You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song" and "Who Fed the Chickens?" are classics in the world of children's music. In a career spanning more than sixty years, she recorded forty albums, won a lifetime-achievem…

How Ella Jenkins’ Chicago childhood shaped her iconic children’s music

From school assemblies to “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood,” Ella Jenkins was a rhythm specialist and children’s music pioneer. Her childhood in Chicago was her launching pad. In our last episode, we learned that the first Chicago public school named after a Black person was DuSable High School, in honor o…

Gayle F. Wald, "This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Ella Jenkins (1924–2024) was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, although many people have never heard of her. A pioneer in children’s music and an innovative educator, Jenkins recorded forty albums and influenced countless children and adults over a sixty-year caree…

Gayle F. Wald, "This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Ella Jenkins (1924–2024) was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, although many people have never heard of her. A pioneer in children’s music and an innovative educator, Jenkins recorded forty albums and influenced countless children and adults over a sixty-year caree…

Gayle F. Wald, "This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Ella Jenkins (1924–2024) was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, although many people have never heard of her. A pioneer in children’s music and an innovative educator, Jenkins recorded forty albums and influenced countless children and adults over a sixty-year caree…

You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song and We'll Sing a Song Together: A Chat About Ella Jenkins with Gayle Wald

Ned and Paul are joined by Gayle Wald, an accomplished writer, professor at George Washington University and author of "This is Rhythm," a new biography of the late Ella Jenkins – often referred to as "the First Lady of children's music." Although a six-year-old Paul was fortunate enough to see Ell…

How Ella Jenkins’ Chicago childhood shaped her iconic children’s music

From school assemblies to “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood,” Ella Jenkins was a rhythm specialist and children’s music pioneer. Her childhood in Chicago was her launching pad.  Jenkins forged a path in the music industry during a time when children’s musicians didn’t really exist. She persevered through th…

Episode 31: 14 Months

It's 14 months of being a first-time dad and this week Lane talks with Ed about baby's first steps, changing the number of naps, another trip under his belt, embracing music, a list of spoken words, learning to let your child just…play and of course, another entry in the Diaper Diaries. *** Ella J…

Experimental Tunes and Children Episode 6 29.11.24

This months episode looks at children’s music that focuses on creative movement, defined as acting out what is envisaged in the mind through movement. Introducing musician educators, committed to using their work to support children’s learning and development, that recognised the power of simultane…