The Baby Sitters (folk group)

{{Short description| American folk music group}}

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The Baby Sitters was a music group that recorded four albums of children's folk songs from 1958 until 1968.{{cite web| title =Alan Arkin Biography| publisher =Hollywood.com| url =http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/fulldetail/id/186232| access-date =2006-12-09| archive-url =https://archive.today/20130103024741/http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/186232/Alan_Arkin| archive-date =2013-01-03| url-status =dead}} Its original members were ex-Weaver Lee Hays as composer, Doris Willens Kaplan as lyricist, actor Alan Arkin on guitar, and his wife Jeremy Yaffe Arkin. In 1964, Jeremy was replaced by Barbara Dana, Arkin's second wife, and Arkin's eight-year-old son Adam was featured on a few songs. All of the Kaplan and Arkin boys participated.Willens, Doris. Lonesome Traveler: The Life of Lee Hays, W.W. Norton (New York) 1988{{cite web

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For instruments, the group used a guitar, a toy piano, a toy xylophone, pots, pans, and jars.{{cite news | last=Kohn | first=Martin | title=The latest in kids' products | date=June 1, 1994 | publisher=Entertainment Weekly| url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/commentary/0,6115,317505_7%7C108873%7C%7C0_0_,00.html}}