When I found out one of my favorite singers from the Lilith Tour-era of the 1990s had a new CD of camp-themed songs, I was excited and intrigued.

The cat-eye-bespectacled Lisa Loeb, whose most famous single is 1994’s “Stay (I Missed You),” has churned out several CDs and penned dozens of songs in the past 14 years, but her latest is a unique combination of original tunes created with summer camp in mind and old standard camp songs such as “Peanut Butter & Jelly,” “Father Abraham” and “Home on the Range.”

“Camp Lisa” is Loeb’s second children’s CD, following “Catch the Moon.” “Camp Lisa,” inspired by the 1970s music that was popular when Loeb attended sleepaway camps, hits Barnes & Noble’s shelves and Web site exclusively on June 3, just in time for camp season.

Although geared to school-age kids, the CD also appeals to my 2-year-old daughter, Emma, and me. We have been listening to it since I received a promotional copy about a month ago, and we love it!

The CD appropriately starts off with the “Meatballs” theme song, “Ready for the Summer.” One of our favorites is the original “Wake Up Song.” The chorus features Loeb calling and a chorus of kids shouting in answer: “Everybody wake up ... Wake up! Everybody wake up ... Wake up!” We like anything that has kids and shouting!

Loeb’s smooth, sweet voice is always ear-pleasing, and the CD is put together in a comfortable format that makes the listener come to regard her as one would a favorite summer camp counselor. On one track, she plays acoustic guitar — an instrument she learned to play at camp, incidentally — and sings a short ditty called “Granma’s in the Cellar” that she introduces by saying it’s the grossest camp song she knows. After every few songs, she is heard teaching a boy to master the “Woodchuck” tongue-twister (”How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”)

Several of her original songs capture the spirit of summer camp that I remember well, but they also fit a ’tween’s lifestyle year-round. “Best Friend” talks about two girls who didn’t like each other when they first met, but “now that I know you/you could be my best friend.” “When It Rains” encourages listeners not to waste the day just because it’s wet outside. “It’s Not Goodbye” appeals to that feeling one gets at the end of a long week of fresh air, new experiences and making lifelong friends. The classic camp son “Linger” will take you right back to the campfire circle.

Actor/comedian/musician Steve Martin makes a guest appearance on the CD as a banjo picker on “The Disappointing Pancake,” an original epic tale in the same genre of “On Top of Spaghetti,” that follows a rock-hard pancake around the world as people find different uses for it.

This CD has been in constant play on my car’s player and I don’t see that changing any time soon! Thanks for the memories, Lisa!