When musician Ella Jenkins appeared on the show, she brought Black diasporic music and her signature songs to televisions ...

Ella Jenkins’ repertoire of call-and-response songs have kept generations of children singing along for more than 50 years. On most of the folk songs Jenkins has recorded, children sing ...

Jenkins' albums also included traditional songs from cultures around the country and the world. "Ella Jenkins is one of the premiere artists of children's music. I mean, if you want to think of ...

Ella Jenkins, the woman who popularized childhood ... It was very important to be able to carry a tune and to learn songs,” ...