The home video series was launched with four Kidsongs "Music Video Stories" being announced at New York's Toy Fair in February 1986. "A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm" was one of those first four and has sold over 4 million copies and won the Vira Award. Each half-hour video featured around 10 songs in a music video style production starring a group of children known as the "Kidsongs Kids". They sing and dance their way through well-known children's songs, nursery rhymes and covers of pop hits from the '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s, all tied together by a simple story and theme.
The TAVP/WBR/View-Master Video partnership (View-Master was acquired by Tyco Toys in 1989) produced sixteen Kidsongs videotapes. In 1995, WBR and TAVP bought out Tyco's distribution rights, then "Let's Put on a Show" and "Baby Animal Songs" were released in 1996 by WarnerVision Entertainment, another division of Time Warner. In 1997, TAVP acquired Time Warner's rights to Kidsongs, assuming sole ownership of the franchise.
Later in 1997, TAVP entered into a distribution/production agreement with Sony Wonder, having admired Sony's revitalization of Sesame Street's home video and music products. TAVP and Sony Wonder co-produced four more titles: "I Can Dance!", "I Can Do It!" and two "Adventures in Biggleland" specials also broadcast in television syndication. In 2002, distribution rights migrated to Image Entertainment (later RLJE Films), which continues to distribute the videos.
