This medley of songs is called “Chloe When She Was Two Years Old”.
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There are so many good things about this track. It is Chloe, my fiance, as a baby when she was two years old. Her parents recently found this dirty old cassette tape and gave it to her. I decided to digitize it, in case the tape ever gets ruined.
I guess Chloe’s parents had some hopes that Chloe was a singing baby genius. And they would make millions of dollars off of her!!! (joke) At a very young age (2), Chloe could mimic back songs and lyrics. She had perfect pitch. She was saying words, but she didn’t know what they meant. She just knew how to copy people, not how to actually talk. She was learning the sound of language, but not really the meaning so much yet.
I love the eagerness and enthusiasm in her tiny voice.
So on this tape you hear Chloe’s dad prompting her to sing various songs. And Chloe does pretty good. But very often her songs get interrupted (she interrupts herself) by her obsession to want to “push this button”.
Chloe’s dad is presumably recording her on a cassette recorder (like the one pictured below).
Oh, look at those pretty buttons! Don’t you just want to push one of those buttons? Wouldn’t you rather push one of those buttons and see what happens, instead of singing some stupid song you have sung a million times before?
Chloe starts with “London Bridge”. I love the way she says “lock her up” during the “take the key and lock her up” part. You can just picture her cute little baby mouth with her chubby little tongue rolling around inside it like a bunch of marbles.
So, wait a second, why is there this song about locking a girl up? Well, from my research, one meaning suggests it is “a reference to an old practice of burying a dead virgin in the foundations of a bridge to ensure its strength through magical means”.
Anyway, Chloe’s rendition of “London Bridge” is continually interrupted by her suggestion that they “push this button, ok?”
Next she goes into “The Wheel On The Bus” but almost immediately interrupts herself to “push this button?”. Now-a-days, Chloe and I will sing this part around the house. Like it’s become a classic. This is particulary because of the way she pronounces “button” and most recently we noticed the way she says “bus” like “bucks”. It is also because she makes the song her own by singing it in an odd minor-sounding version.
They go through a few rounds of the “Wheels On The Bus” variations, some of which get pretty fucking cute sounding.
Finally, this amazing track ends with Chloe’s dad trying to get Chloe to count from one to ten. They go back and forth with some good exchanges. Will she be able to do it? Can she successfully count from one to ten? She almost does it, she gets soooo close, but does she make it all the way? You’ll have to listen to the track to find out the chilling conclusion to this story…
Does she ever get to push that button? Probably yes, probably after they finished recording.
One final note, the original tape is recorded on one of those old cassette tapes that only has like three minutes of tape on each side. What dinosaurs, you never see that anymore, completely obsolete… but once they were new and incredible.
Chloe is a remarkable musician (as is her brother), but she never went on to become a child star or anything. Well, she did a few commercials actually.
Hey everyone out there, if you ever have a kid, record them doing stuff. Not to put on youtube or anything dumb like that, but for the kid’s own sake, so the kid can have it when they’re older, and they can be like “whoa, i used to be a baby”. The age at which a person is able to reflect upon their childhood varies from person to person.
Again, digitizing possible due to the Griffin i-mic.
