Gary Lapow

Gary LaPow is one of many children's singer-songwriters who made the successful transition from a folk audience to a pop-oriented children's audience. For two decades, under his own Springboard label, Lapow steadily produced up-to-date children's material for the preschool to elementary audience. LaPow was born in Brooklyn in 1943. As a college student at Brooklyn College, LaPow would often join in a jug band in Washington Square Park. After college, LaPow became the guitarist for the Freedom Singers, and then the accompanist for Malvina Reynolds. In 1982, LaPow released his...