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1962's Dance, Sing & Listen marks Bruce Haack's debut as a children's composer. The first part of the Dance, Sing & Listen series, the album includes medieval, country, classical and pop styles in its embrace, interpreting the songs with a mix of electronic and acoustic instruments. 'Sunflowers' is an activity song in which children imagine they are sunflowers, from seed to bloom, behind Esther Nelson's instructions, Haack provides fizzy, bubbling keyboard effects, a vaguely African guitar line and bongos as accompaniment. Similarly, tracks like 'Eine Kleine Gebouncemusik' feature discussions between Nelson, Haack and the children they recorded the album with, resulting in a parallel-dimension version of Kids Say the Darndest Things. Dimension 5.