Label: Numero

Released 2007

The formula was simple: Merge bubblegum and soul with the crackling sincerity of an enthusiastic child, cross your fingers, and pray for airplay. Throw in a publicist, stylists, dance instructors, and a crack songwriting team and the next thing you know you've got a Neverlander dangling a small child out a window in Bahrain. That's provided you're a one-in-several-billion Gary, Indiana, Jackson. For our Home Schooled performers and their overly ambitious adult promoters, the path to kid soul stardom wasn't anywhere near as "simple as do-re-mi." Home Schooled: The ABCs Of Kid Soul unfolds like a map of American dreams derailed early. More energetic than funky, more passionate than soulful, whether fastidiously trained or shockingly green, these kid performers laid down nothing less than absolute honesty.

Track listing:

1. Patrizia & Jimmy–    Trust Your Child Pt. 1    
2. Promise –    I'm Not Ready For Love
3. Eight Minutes–    Here's Some Dances
4. Jack & The Mods–    One Is Enough For One
5. Little Murray & The Mantics–    Don't Leave Me Mama
6. 3 Simmons–    You Are My Dream (School Time)  
7. 3 Stars–    Jersey Slide Pt. 1  
8. Cindy & The Playmates–    Now That School Is Through  
9. Man Child Singers–    Right On  
10. Altyrone Deno Brown–    Sweet Pea    
11. Atons–    Yellow Ribbon
12. Triads–    If You're Looking For Love  
13. Quantrells–    Can't Let You Break My Heart
14. Jr. & His Soulettes–    2009 Cherry Soul Sound    
15. Michael Washington–    Little Girl
16. Otis The 3rd–    Time
17. Step By Step–    Time After Time
18. Patrizia & Jimmy–    Trust Your Child Pt. 2