Last weekend, we brought the girls down to the recording studio where Alastair has been working on his forthcoming kids' album, A Cow Says Moock. (Yes, yes, he loves the puns.) I sang harmony on one of the tracks -- my first studio singing experience since I was ten years old and sang on a commercial for Duncan Hines cookies (Crispy, chewy! Crispy, chewy! To the tune of "Love and Marriage." Anyone remember it?) It went fine -- the harmony track, that is -- though I don't think I have much future as a recording artist. Elsa and Clio, on the other hand...
OK, so they were more interested in the headphones than in actually saying or singing anything. Elsa was also fascinated by the microphone, and kept asking me to "turn it on!" I think she thought it was a lamp. Clio liked opening and closing the door to the booth. But we did manage to get some good little clips of them laughing and moo-ing and singing "You are my sunshine" and the alphabet song. The former, I think we would have to pay royalties on if he put in on the album, but ABC, we believe, is public domain.
Anyway, Alastair is going to find places to add some snippets of them where appropriate throughout the album. There's a song about twins, "Twins are twice as fun," where their voices will almost definitely make a cameo. And when the album comes out, they'll be joining their father on a 30-city stadium tour, with the Jonas Brothers opening. Nickelodeon has already contacted us about a sitcom and video series, which they're pitching as "the Olsen Twins for a new generation." Just kidding. We'll settle for obscure blog fame and occasional recognition at Boston-area playgrounds, thankyouverymuch.
For the next week, through labor day, however, we'll be taking our act up to Lake Winnepesauke, so the blog will be dark for a while. Well, not dark, but you know. Not updated. But don't y'all go away! We'll be back. Enjoy the last lovely days of summer.
