Dog Train: What do Kate Winslet and Weird Al have in common?
Kate Winslet
“Weird” Al Yankovic
What do Kate Winslet and Weird Al Yankovic have in common? Timman might know, the Weird Al fan that he is. Kate and Al teamed up to record a song. Yes, a song. For the children’s book and CD, Dog Train, by Sandra Boynton.
Oh man, the holiday season is right around the corner and you haven’t bought any presents yet. Do you know what the kids want these days? Dog Train: A Wild Ride on the Rock-and-Roll Side! Yeah that’s right. It’s Sandra Boynton’s third CD-and-book production featuring special guests like Hootie and the Blowfish, Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors and, at long last, the pairing of Kate Winslet and “Weird Al” Yankovic. Yes, after being separated at birth, spending a lifetime apart, and suddenly meeting while shopping at the same hardware store one day, these two are FINALLY back together again and singing “I Need A Nap”. Ahh, isn’t life grand? Dog Train is available in stores now.
~ from HappySteve at yankovic.org
Al himself only has two sentences for the project at his official site, Weird Al.com:
AL WITH KATE! “Dog Train”, the new book-and-CD by Al’s friend Sandra Boynton, is in stores now. We thought you’d like to know, since one of the tracks (”I Need A Nap”) features a duet with “Weird Al” Yankovic and Kate Winslet!
Dog Train can be found at Amazon.com. Publishers Weekly interview with Sandra Boynton:
Dog Train took two years, with us putting in every minute we could spare. I think I was lucky because I hit the music business with this at a time when everyone seems to have young kids. Most of the time, either the people I wanted to work with or the artists themselves had children, so they were open to it.
Sandra Boynton
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