“When my daughter turned 15 she said, ‘Dad, I finally get all the jokes in your songs.Please, make the ‘Juno’ soundtrack stop! – The Mercury News Close Menu Even Polisar’s children have noticed the many layers in his music. “Animation is often associated with cartoons that are appealing to kids,” says Polisar, “but here, the animation sequence introduces us to a film that address an adult theme.” Since the release of Juno, the Internet has been swimming with people’s recollections of how Polisar’s music affected them as children, and how their perception of it has changed since they’ve gotten older. “These are simple, playful songs that have a crossover appeal.” The animation paired with Polisar’s song also works on multiple levels. “On every one of my ‘children’s CDs,’ I’ve always included one or two songs that I would describe as a ‘kid-like love song’ and ‘All I Want is You’ is one of those kinds of songs,” says Polisar. First released on his 1977 album “My Brother Thinks He’s a Banana and other Provocative Songs for Kids” when he was just 23, “All I Want Is You” has the simple appeal of a kid’s song paired with the lyrics of a love song. “The animated opening credits of the Oscar-nominated film Juno are set to a tune by a children’s songwriter with a secret: Barry Louis Polisar doesn’t write just for children. What did Moviemaker Magazine say about Juno?

He said director Jason Reitman was looking around on the Internet for a song of a similar name, stumbled upon the track from Polisar’s second album, My Brother Thinks He’s a Banana and Other Provocative Songs for Children, and fell for it…The up-tempo harmonica-and-guitar ballad All I Want Is You, with the words, If I were a flower growing wild and free/All I’d want is you to be my sweet honeybee, is more love song than nursery ditty, but then Polisar’s vision of children’s music was always different.” How did he end up on this year’s most anticipated hipster-rock soundtrack alongside the Moldy Peaches, Cat Power and Belle & Sebastian? “Purely by accident,” Polisar told us. All I Want Is You was recorded in 1977 by Silver Spring’s own Barry Louis Polisar, a pioneer in the now-exploding kiddie music field. “If that folk song playing under the opening credits of the quirky new Oscar-buzz comedy Juno vaguely rings a bell - well, you’re under 40, right? And you probably first heard it at a school assembly or children’s library hour or maybe on your own Fisher-Price record player. What did The Washington Post say about Juno?

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