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Eddie Coker

Edward Eugene Coker (born December 1, 1960, in Midland, Texas) is a children's singer/songwriter from Dallas, Texas, now living in Manitou Springs, Colorado.

Coker grew up in Highland Park, Texas, attended Highland Park High School, and earned a degree in music from Southern Methodist University. Originally an opera singer, Coker has been writing, recording, and performing children's music since 1987. Coker's songs draw on a wide range of rock and popular influences ranging from The B-52's and Queen to classical music. His songs and performances also feature fanciful and quirky characters such as Fred, a "purple red-truck-driving duck", and Regina, a musician-turned-construction-worker octopus.

Coker has composed music for Barney & Friends, Chuck E. Cheese's, and Borders Books, and was the host of the Saturday-morning show "The Weird, Wild World of Eddie Coker" on Radio Disney. He typically performs over 200 concerts a year; fellow Texas musician Sara Hickman described him as "the James Brown of children's music... The hardest-working man in kids' show business."

Discography

• The Happy One (1992)
• Say Hello (1994)
• Welcome to the Island (1995)
• What's Cooking? (1996)
• Schnorgel & Berg (1998)
• E.C. on CD (compilation) (1998)
• Wow! (compilation) (1998)
• Hmmm.... (compilation) (1998)
• Save Our Planet (compilation) (2000)
• Seven Songs (compilation) (2002)
• Wezmore (2014)

Videos

• Sock Lobster
• Take A Walk on the Child Side
• The Bright Side of the Moon
• Kids for Character-Himself
• Choices Count-Himself
• Eddie Coker Rocks Your World