• Flipping channels as a kid home from kindergarten, I'd run across various children's acts on a couple of the channels during the morning, presumably aimed at the afternoon kindergarteners. Years later, I recalled a few of these names and did a search to see what exactly was going on with them, and I was amazed to see that they were still kicking. A lot of these children's performers are doing very well in their niche celebrity, bubbling just under from the consciousness of most, where they'll occasionally peek out during parades or general channel flipping.

    One of the more notable ones that even many without children are aware of, Raffi, started out as a singer-songwriter type who had middling success in Canada, but then he started the kid's act and just blasted away.