Who is Chumbahway?
The Way Of Friends
Bob is an experienced singer-songwriter and Emi is a talented vocalist.
When their son was born, Bob naturally started making up songs to sing to him.
Over a period of time, these few songs grew in number. The songs sing about adventure, nature, friendship and rest.
Emi encouraged Bob to record some of the songs, and so Bob began to put the songs down, using his small home recording studio.
Over almost 2 years, these songs slowly grew into the album that is now available for children and parents around the world to enjoy.
They are wonderfully rhythmic songs, full of great melodies and great lyrics for children to sing along with.
As parents or teachers please feel free to copy, paste and print the lyrics available in the 'INFO' section next to each song, if you wish to.
Chumbahway means ... "The Way Of Friends".
Enjoy the music and have a good ol' sing-along, with Chumbahway.
Front cover of the Chumbahway CD
Choo Choo music
Our Kangaroo friend Bobby Roo, was for a long time a character we had thought about creating.
He loves to sit under his apple tree and play his ukulele.
His character of joyful enthusiasm for fun and music affected our feelings towards all of the songs as they were being written.
Inside left page of the Chumbahway CD
When The Sun comes up - lyrics
"When The Sun Comes Up" is the first song on the album.
Soon after our son was born, this song started coming out. We sang it to our baby boy just to entertain him, or if he was crying, to cheer him up. Now that he is older, he sings this song all by himself.
Inside right page of the Chumbahway CD
credits for the chumbahway album are mentioned on this page.
We hope you love CHUMBAHWAY's music as much as we do.
All songs written, performed and recorded by Bob Vidler.
Vocal harmonies by Emi Vidler & Nigel Grover.
Mixed and mastered by Nigel Grover at HUMMING LIFE studio in Nagoya Japan.
Thanks to James Ovenden for his violin on “And We Played All Day”.
Graphic design by John Kiujian & Bob Vidler.
Back cover of the Chumbahway CD
10 wonderful songs to enjoy
The first song written for the album was "Butterfly Lullaby".
Butterfly Lullaby inspired us to continue writing more songs, and eventually after about 18 months of writing and recording at home, we wrote the final song which was "Such A Beautiful Day".
Each song was recorded with love and warmth, and to entertain and communicate with our child, and children all around the world.