Wee Sing

It all started with two elementary music teachers, Pam Beall and Susan Nipp, who bonded over favorite childhood songs they wanted to share with their children and students. Realizing that they couldn’t remember all the words or even some of the melodies, they began a long and difficult search through collections of children’s songs. Slowly they discovered that the music from their childhood and that of their parents was being forgotten. In an effort to preserve it, they decided to create a book filled with favorite children’s songs to help not only themselves but all interested families share the joy of music together, titled Wee Sing Children’s Songs and Fingerplays.

Pam and Susan continued to develop new titles for the Wee Sing series after their first book became an enormous success. In 1981, they broke new ground in children’s publishing with the addition of audiocassettes to their established songbook collection. This was taken one step further in 1985, when the first Wee Sing video, "Wee Sing Together", was produced, beginning a series of direct-to-video musical films that continued until 1996. They were then followed by two less successful sing-along videos made up of recycled songs from the previous videos.

These videos include:

  • "Wee Sing Together" (1985)
  • "King Cole's Party" (1987)
  • "Grandpa's Magical Toys" (1988)
  • "Wee Sing in Sillyville" (1989)
  • "The Best Christmas Ever" (1990)
  • "Wee Sing in the Big Rock Candy Mountains" (1991)
  • "Wee Sing in the Marvelous Musical Mansion" (1992)
  • "The Wee Sing Train" (1993)
  • "Wee Sing Under the Sea" (1994)
Tropes used in Wee Sing include:

Snoodle: Why are you crying?
Profster: I always cry when I'm happy.
Doodle: Well, what do you do when you're sad?
Profster:...Cry.

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