Ella Jenkins
Singer
Writer
Composer
August 6, 1924 – November 9, 2024
Credits:
Albums:
A Life of Song (2011); A
Long Time (1970 / 1992 / 2024); Adventures in Rhythm (1959 / 1989 / 1992); African-American
Folk Rhythms (1960 / 1998); And One And Two & Other Songs for Pre-School
and Primary Children (1971 / 1990); Call-and-Response Rhythmic Group Singing
(1957 / 1990); Camp Songs with Ella Jenkins and Friends (2017); cELLAbration: A
Tribute to Ella Jenkins (2004); Come Dance by the Ocean (1991); Counting Games
& Rhythms for the Little Ones (1969 / 1990); Early Early Childhood Songs
(1982 / 1996); Ella Jenkins and A Union of Friends Pulling Together (1999); For
the Family (1991); Get Moving with Ella Jenkins (2012); Growing Up With Ella
Jenkins (1976 / 1990); Holiday Times (1996); Hopping Around from Place to Place
Vol. 1 (1983 / 1999 / 2015); Hopping Around from Place to Place Vol. 2 (1983 / 2000
/ 2015); I Know the Colors of the Rainbow (1981); Jambo and Other Call and
Response Songs and Chants (1974 / 1996); Little Johnny Brown with Ella Jenkins
and Girls and Boys from "Uptown" (Chicago) (1972 / 1990); Live at the
Smithsonian (1991); Looking Back and Looking Forward (1981); More Multicultural
Children's Songs (2014); Multicultural Children's Songs (1995); My Street
Begins at My House (1971 / 1989); Nursery Rhymes: Rhyming & Remembering for
Young Children & for Older Girls & Boys with Special Language Needs
(1974 / 1990); 123s and ABCs (2014); Play Your Instruments & Make a Pretty
Sound (1968 / 1994); Rhythm & Game Songs for Little Ones (1964 / 1991); Rhythms
of Childhood (1970 / 1989); Seasons for Singing (1970 / 1990); Sharing Cultures
With Ella Jenkins (2003); Songs and Rhythms From Near and Far (1964 / 1997); Songs
Children Love To Sing (1996); Songs, Rhythms And Chants for the Dance (1977 / 1982
/ 2000); This is Rhythm (1961 / 1994); This-A-Way That-A-Way (1973 / 1989 / 1992);
This-a-Way-That-a-Way (1961 / 1989); Travellin' with Ella Jenkins: – A
Bilingual Journey (1979 / 1989); We Are America's Children (1976); You'll Sing
a Song and I'll Sing a Song (1966 / 1989).
Movies and television:
Barney
& Friends (1993); Cellabration Live! a Tribute to Ella Jenkins (2007); Fargo
(2020); Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom (2022); Kidding (2018); Mister
Rogers' Neighborhood (1974–1992); Roadtrip Nation (2012); Sunday Today with
Willie Geist (2024).
