Nursery Rhymes is an album released by Mattel in 2021. It features 15 songs based on famous children's melodies.
The songs are performed by some children, Rachael Miller as herself, Rebecca and Allicia Botti and John Hasler and Joseph May as Thomas, with Keith Wickham and Kerry Shale as Gordon, Nigel Pilkington and Christopher Ragland as Percy and Rob Rackstraw and John Schwab as all the other featured male characters providing additional vocals.
Music videos were later made for the songs included in this album the day after its release. These music videos were released weekly on the official YouTube channels. As of 2 August 2021, all the music videos have been uploaded in compilation videos, although the individual uploads still use the weekly schedule. The animation for the music videos is provided by Kong Studio.
Tracks[]
- Six Little Trains (Six Little Ducks) *
- Percy! (Bingo!) *
- Tunnels, Bridges, Tracks and Hills (Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes) *
- The Wheels on the Train (The Wheels on the Bus) *
- Chuff, Chuff, Chuff Along (Row, Row, Row Your Boat) *
- If You're Happy and You Know It *
- Another Day on Sodor (Itsy Bitsy Spider) *
- Old McColl's Farm (Old MacDonald) *
- Hickory Tickory Tock (Hickory Dickory Dock) *
- Pop Goes the Diesel! (Pop Goes the Weasel)
- Thomas Found a Little Lamb (Mary Had a Little Lamb) *
- Twinkle, Twinkle Sodor Sky (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star) *
- My Name is Thomas (Frere Jacques) *
- Five Little Railway Friends (Five Green Speckled Frogs)
- "Happy Birthday to You" **
*New for the album
**From a previous album
Characters[]
- Thomas
- Gordon
- James
- Percy
- Toby
- Nia
- Rebecca
- Diesel
- Salty
- Troublesome Trucks
- Bertie
- Cranky
- Sir Topham Hatt
- Allicia Botti
- The Ginger-haired Boy
- The Blond-haired Boy
- The Indian Actor
- Emily (does not speak)
- Rosie (does not speak)
- Farmer McColl (does not speak)
- Annie and Clarabel (cameos)
- Harold (cameo)
- Big Mickey (cameo)
- The Duke and Duchess of Boxford (cameos)
- Sailor John (cameo)
Cast[]
UK[]
- John Hasler as Thomas
- Keith Wickham as Gordon
- Rob Rackstraw as James, Toby, Diesel, Salty, Bertie, Cranky, the Fat Controller and the Indian Actor
- Nigel Pilkington as Percy
- Rachael Miller as Rebecca and Allicia Botti
- Christopher Ragland as the Troublesome Trucks
US[]
- Joseph May as Thomas
- Kerry Shale as Gordon
- Rob Rackstraw as James, Diesel, Salty, Bertie, Sir Topham Hatt and the Indian Actor
- Christopher Ragland as Percy and the Troublesome Trucks
- John Schwab as Toby and Cranky
- Rachael Miller as Rebecca and Allicia Botti
Trivia[]
- In addition to reprising his main series roles as James and Toby (UK only) in this album, Rob Rackstraw also voices the following characters:
- Salty, Bertie, and Sir Topham Hatt (for the latter, much like in the Pixel Zoo YouTube shorts) instead of Keith Wickham.
- Diesel and the Indian Actor (not providing an Indian accent for the latter) instead of Kerry Shale and Sanjeev Bhaskar, respectively.
- Cranky (UK only) instead of Matt Wilkinson, also like in the Pixel Zoo YouTube shorts.
- John Schwab voices two characters in the US version of this album:
- Toby instead of William Hope.
- Cranky instead of Glenn Wrage.
- In addition to reprising her role as Rebecca, Rachael Miller also voices Allicia Botti in this album (not providing an Italian accent) instead of Jules de Jongh.
- The introduction for Tidmouth Sheds and the closing of Brendam Docks were animated with Photoshop and 3ds Max.
Goofs[]
- Nia's only dialogue in Chuff, Chuff, Chuff Along is taken from her scratch track as opposed to her normal voice by Yvonne Grundy. This error previously happened on a Nick Jr. US rerun of the twenty-second series episode, Confusion Without Delay on the 5th August, 2019.
- James has his UK voice in the US version of Six Little Trains.
- The following errors occur throughout the music videos:
- James' siderods are golden. Additionally, his wheels and axleboxes are grey, much like his original Bachmann model.
- Gordon, Percy and Nia's siderods are the same design as Thomas and James'.
- Nia is missing her African pattern on the back of her coal bunker and her boiler bands change from green to yellow.