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{{Infobox album
| name       = Through Children's Eyes
| type       = live
| artist     = [[The Limeliters]]
| cover      = Through Children's Eyes (Little-Folk Songs for Adults).png
| alt        =
| released   = 1962
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = Folk
| length     =
| label      = [[RCA Victor]]
| producer   =
| chronology =
| prev_title = [[Sing Out! (The Limeliters album)|Sing Out!]]
| prev_year  = 1962
| next_title = [[Folk Matinee]]
| next_year  = 1962
| misc       =
}}
'''''Through Children's Eyes (Little-Folk Songs for Adults)''''' is a live album by the American folk music group, [[The Limeliters]], backed by a chorus of 70 children from the Berkeley Unified School District in California. The album was  recorded on 29 December 1961 at the Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, California as a "benefit for the Music Department of the Berkeley school system, as well as an opportunity to record The Limeliters in unusual and delightful circumstances."<ref name="Benefit">{{Cite AV media notes |title=Through Children' Eyes |title-link= |last=Gleason |first=Ralph J. |url=https://www.limeliters.net/through-childrens-eyes---the-limeliters-album.html |date=1962 |access-date=4 August 2022 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224102017if_/https://www.limeliters.net/through-childrens-eyes---the-limeliters-album.html|archive-date=24 February 2022}}</ref> It was released in 1962 on the [[RCA Victor]] label (catalog no. LPM-2512).<ref name=Discog>{{cite web|title=The Limeliters – Through Children's Eyes (Little-Folk Songs for Adults)|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=December 23, 2020|url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Limeliters-Through-Childrens-Eyes-Little-Folk-Songs-For-Adults/release/2454156}}</ref><ref name=AM>{{cite web|title=Through Children's Eyes |publisher=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=December 23, 2020|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/through-childrens-eyes-mw0000612625}}</ref>  Each of the original members of the group cited the album as their most satisfying.<ref name=AM/>
On the liner notes of the album, Gottlieb said: "I cannot tell you what a kick it was to sing with those children...The sound of their voices was - and I know this seems corny but it is true - simply an inspiration to us."<ref name=Benefit/>
The album debuted on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine's pop album chart on June 16, 1962, peaked at No. 25, and remained on the chart for 11 weeks.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums|publisher=Billboard Books|author=Joel Whitburn|year=1995|page=182|isbn=0823076318}}</ref>
[[AllMusic]] gave the album a rating of four-and-a-half stars. Reviewer Cary Ginell called it "a great album" and urged, "Get it for your kids."<ref name=AM/>
==Track listing==
'''Side A'''
# "This Train"
# "Marty"
# "Hey Jimmy Joe John Jim Jack"
# "The Whale"
# "Grace Darling"
# "Morningtown Ride"
# "Join Into the Game"
'''Side B'''
# "I Had a Mule"
# "Lollipop Tree"
# "Run, Little Donkey"
# "The Riddle Song"
# "Stay on the Sunny Side"
# "B-A Bay"
# "America The Beautiful; This Land Is Your Land"
==References==
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[[Category:The Limeliters albums]]