Singer-songwriter Bryant Oden started writing songs when he was a kid growing up in Oklahoma and spending his summers in the Colorado Mountains. Some songs were funny, and others were straight from his heart. “None of them were very good. But that process of being in a creative mood and writing a funny song, and also of walking in the woods and having a real heart song come to me, that has never really gone away.”

Bryant graduated from Oklahoma City University and soon after moved to the Denver area. His focus on recording and sharing his children’s songs is a recent development.

Over the years, people would sometimes suggest he make a CD of his children’s songs, and in the fall of 2008, he finally started the process. “After hearing someone say again I should record my kid songs, I just decided to go for it. I thought I would record maybe eight or nine songs. 6 months later I had recorded over 30, most of them newer songs that came to me once I started recording. So this has become a much bigger project than I had expected!”

Bryant started putting his songs on Youtube in January, 2009. His YouTube channel now has over 60 million video views. In March of 2009, a popular 14 year old Youtube filmmaker made an animated video of The Duck Song, which now has over 125 million views. “It’s been fun to kind of have an internet hit lately, fun to hear about kids singing the song down the hallways at school, and to see all the fan videos of it. But it’s the nature of the internet that popular things tend to fade away about as fast as they rise, so I’m more focused on the longer term.”