I decided to make my own CD of lullabies for Creed, and I made a copy for Audrey for Christmas. I suspect a few of you may be getting a copy from me too because I'm so happy with the songs that I found, and I figure that even if you don't have the same musical taste that I do, it's still handy to learn the words to a few lullabies because I was just singing bits and pieces to Creed and humming the rest until I made this CD and learned the words.
So without further ado, here and the songs I selected:
1. Moon River - Innocence Mission
2. Godspeed (Sweet Dreams) - Dixie Chicks
3. Count Your Blessings - Bing Crosby
4. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Elizabeth Mitchell & Lisa Loeb
5. Dream A Little Dream of Me - The Mamas & The Papas
6. All Through The Night - Shawn Colvin
7. We’re Going To Be Friends - Jack Johnson
8. Bye-Lo - Innocence Mission
9. Sweetly Sleeps - Peter Breinholt
10. Over The Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
11. Close Your Eyes - Shawn Colvin
12. The Rainbow Connection - Sarah McLachlan
13. Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel) - Billy Joel
14. Chi-Baba Chi-Baba - Perry Como
15. Which Will - Nick Drake
16. Lullaby - Dixie Chicks
17. Slumber My Darling - Allison Krauss & Yo-Yo Ma
A few others that I thought about including that you might be interested in if you enjoy these are:
Golden Slumbers: Ben Folds or Beatles (Itunes doesn't sell Beatles songs because of a rights dispute and the Ben Folds version has a really loud part that I thought might wake a baby)
Sarah MacLachlan - Ice Cream
Sarah Maclachlan – Blackbird
Catch the Moon – Lisa Loeb & Elizabeth Mitchell
Across the universe - Rufus, Moby, Sean Lennon
Joshua Radin – Everything’ll be alright
You Can Close your eyes – Sheryl Crow (I really wanted to include this song, but Itunes doesn't sell it and I'm not tech savvy enough to know how to buy it somewhere else and import it into Itunes)
I also learned that if I was just going to buy a whole CD instead of create my own, I would probably choose Now the Day is Over by Innocence Mission or Catch the Moon by Elizabeth Mitchell and Lisa Loeb.
Enjoy!
I think I'm going to work on a good, happy Kids' music collection next. Any suggestions?
12 comments:
Probably told you this, but we love the For the Kids Collection and there is a For the Kids Too and For the Kids Three. Happy songs by cool singers. Makes Mommy happy too. Thanks for the lullaby collection - I'll have to get onto itunes and burn it!
I love that you still love Lisa Loeb...so many fun memories!
Great list! I'm going to buy some of them and make a CD. Can I put my 2 cents in?:) I'd add to it several songs by Eva Cassidy, "Songbirg", "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", and my favorite, "I know You by Heart". Also, "Baby Mine" by Allison Krauss. While I'm at it, I'd add "Never Alone (Eeyore's Lullaby)" by Tyler Collins.
That looks like an awesome list of songs. I'll have to check them out on iTunes.
Oh Steph: My birthday is coming up. Maybe you could send one to me. Hopefully, we will have more grandbabies and I can learn them to sing to them. I think you are too big for me to rock and sing too.
Here is my favorite baby saying:
"Cleaning and scrubbing can wait for tomorrow
For babies grow up
We've learned to our sorrow.
So, quiet down cobwebs
Dust go to sleep,
I'm rocking my babies
and babies don't keep."
It is sooooo true. Enjoy our Creeders.
Baby Mine, I totally should have thought of that! Thanks for the suggestions mandy! I'm going to check them out right now.
Steph, I love love love the lullaby CD!
For the happy kids CD, here are some super peppy songs that the girls and I love:
I'm Walking on Sunshine (by somebody)
and
I'm in Love with a Girl Named Fred (from the musical Once Upon a Mattress--have you seen it? it's a great retelling of The Princess and The Pea. Ellie thought the Sarah Jessica Parker version was hilarious.)
Miss you,
We love Elizabeth Mitchell and own almost all her CDs. I highly recommend her others.
heather carter
Awesome list of songs. My friend is having a baby in February and I might make her a CD of songs for her baby shower. I was wondering -- what font did you use on the Cd cover (Creed's Lullabies)??
Thanks for your wonderful inspiration!!
Reba, I've never seen Once Upon a Mattress so I'll have to check out the Sarah Jessica Parker version. Thanks for the recommends!
Liz, The font is CK Neat Freak from the Creating Keepsakes site scrapnfonts.com. I still have it from back in the days when I was designing for them. I'm not positive, but I think it was designed by the ever talented Elsie Flannigan.
I'd love a copy if you get a chance, great job!
I forgot my other two favorite Eva Cassidy songs, "True Colors" (GREAT cover of that song) and "You Take my Breath Away". Can you tell that I LOVE her??! haha.
She seriously has one of the best voices I have ever heard and I have heard a lot of singin' in my day.:0)
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