Hush-A-Bye

I've been promising to make a mix of lullabies for a loooooooong time, and have finally gotten around to it. This mix was designed especially for little ones, but it should be the kind of aural sleeping pill that will get most of us snoozing in no time. The songs from I Go To Sleep till the end are all very quiet, hushed songs, so there is little danger of becoming jarred awake by a sudden loud song. Hope it works!

DREAM A LITTLE DREAM

1 Sleepy Time On Peel Street Steve Tilston

2 Sleep Chet Atkins

3 Like Dreamers Do The Beatnix

4 Each Coming Night Iron And Wine

5 Corcovado (Quiet Nights) Astrud Gilberto

6 Everything Merges With The Night Brian Eno

7 Blackbird The Beatles

8 Lullaby of the Leaves Mary Hopkin

9 Lullaby (Mountain) The Acorn

10 Hush-A-Bye Peter, Paul & Mary

11 Sleep Donovan

12 Humming Chorus (from Madame Butterfly by Puccini) Erich Kunzel

13 I Go To Sleep The Kinks

14 and Dream of Sheep Kate Bush

15 A Dream, A Dream, A Dream Bert Jansch

16 Baby Mine Bonnie Raitt & Was (Not Was)

17 Island Of Dreams Martin Denny

18 Holland Sufjan Stevens

19 Dolly, Op. 56 (by Gabriel Faure) Julian Bream and John Williams

20 All I Have To Do Is Dream The Everly Brothers

21 Dreamsville {From Peter Gunn} Henry Mancini & His Orchestra

22 Lullaby + Exile M. Ward

23 Sleepwalk Santo & Johnny

24 Asleep And Dreaming The Magnetic Fields

25 Moe 'Uhane (Dream Slack Key) Sonny Chillingworth

26 I'll See You In My Dreams Miss Pat Collins [The Hop Hypnotist]

Songs for Two-Year-Olds and Up!

My niece Sophia has been getting really into music lately. Yes, she worships the Wiggles, but she's also into Baa Baa Black Sheep, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Old McDonald Had a Farm, and Humpty Dumpty. I thought it was time to start introducing her to some new tunes, so I made her a mix. She's really into spiders, bugs and animals of all kinds, so I loaded it up with songs of that nature, tucking in little surprises here and there. We played this in the car the other day, and we were all singing along to it in traffic, having a grand old time. This mix will probably appeal to kids of various ages, and some adults too (if you're like me!).

SING ALONG WITH SOPHIA

1 All Together Now- The Beatles

2 The Ugly Bug Ball- Burl Ives

3 Moon River- Audrey Hepburn

4 Spin Spider Spin- Peggy Zeitlin

5 Teency Weency Spider- Pete Seeger

6 Never Smile At A Crocodile- Paulette Sisters

7 The Devil's Coachman- Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians

8 Family- Original Cast Of "James And The Giant Peach"

9 "C" is for Cookie- Sesame Street

10 The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)- Brian Eno

11 Colours- Donovan

12 The Spectrum Song- Paul Frees

13 My Green Bicycle- The Hipwaders

14 I'm In Love With A Big Blue Frog- Peter, Paul & Mary

15 Puff (The Magic Dragon)- Trini Lopez

16 Grizzly Bear- Anne Meeker Miller

17 Funky Butt- Devil in a Woodpile

18 Hey Diddle Diddle, The Cat And The Fiddle (Twist)- Wynken, Blinken and Nod and The Golden Rock-A-Twisters

19 Laugh Laugh Laugh- Jolly Ollie Orange

20 Minnie's Yoo Hoo!- Carl Stalling & Walt Disney

21 Skip To My Lou- Pete Seeger

22 Across The Wide Missouri- The Kingston Trio

23 The Little White Duck- Burl Ives

24 Rubber Duckie- Ernie (from Sesame Street)

25 I Wan'na Be Like You- Louis Prima

26 Pop! Goes The Weasel- Merry Macs

27 Popeye the Sailor Man (variant)- The Caroleers

28 I Am Superman- R.E.M.

29 Zoom a Little Zoom- Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans

30 Elmo's Song- Elmo, Big Bird, and Snuffleupagus

31 Casper, The Friendly Ghost- Toon Tunes

32 Daddy's Little Girl- The Mills Brothers

33 When You Wish Upon A Star- Cliff Edwards

34 Pillow Time- The Monkees

The Girl Can't Help It

This is the mix that got me back in the saddle again a few years back. I listened to it the other day and it still gets me moving. Enjoy.

I CAN'T CONTROL MYSELF

1   9 to 5- Lady Sovereign

2   Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1- The Flaming Lips

3   Ocean Man- Ween

4   Furnace Sun- Preston School Of Industry

5   Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron- Victor Banana

6   The Yodeling Hoover- The Soft Boys

7   Swan Swan H- R.E.M.

8   Highway 101- Sam Butera & The Witnesses

9   Les Sauvages- Les Sans Culottes

10   1150 Closer To The Boxer- The Kleptones

12   Educated Kid- The Hipwaders

13   It's Time to Honor Ghouls- 20 Minute Loop

14   My Boy Lollipop- Sakura and The Quests

15   It's All Me- Holly Golightly

16   Mercy, Mercy- Wilson Pickett

17   Center of the Universe- Built To Spill

18   From the Floorboards Up- Paul Weller

19   All Over the World- Pixies

20   Whittier Boulevard- Los Straitjackets

21   Non-Stop Girls- Radio Birdman

22   I Can't Control Myself- The Troggs

23   Chills and Fever- Tom Jones

24   Coucou- Erin McKeown

25   Vicky Verky- Squeeze

26   She's Fantastic- Sondre Lerche

27   Kiss You Better- Maxïmo Park

28   Happy For the Box- The Minus 5

29   Neverland- The dB's

New Year Greetings

I've been away from the blog for a while, and have decided to upload a few of my older mixes that still have active DL links for any friends who may have missed them. I plan to get back to mixing again soon, and have been missing all the fun of AOTM lately. I hope 2009 is the year they finally get all the kinks worked out and banish the malware forever! Happy New Year everyone.

Zombie Jamboree!

I've been working on this one for a few weeks, and finished it about the same time as my mix for Sophia. This one is missing the kiddie tracks, and has lots of great tunes for a vintage-themed Halloween shindig. Mostly tracks from the 50s and 60s, with some film tracks thrown into the brew... all in all, it makes for a devilish good time!

DOIN' THE ZOMBIE STOMP

1 Spider Baby [Opening Theme] Lon Chaney Jr.

2 Midnight Monsters Hop Jack And Jim

3 Monster Shindig Danny Hutton

4 Munster Creep The Munsters

5 Weerdo The Wolf Frankie Stein And His Ghouls

6 The Mummy Little Tibia & the Fibias

7 Igor's Party Tony's Monstrosities

8 Frankenstein Meets The Beetles Dickie Goodman

9 The Monster Bobby Please

10 Monster Surfer The Abominable Surfmen

11 Graveyard Phantom Five

12 I Dig You Baby Bob McFadden And Dor

13 Rockin‚ Zombie The Crewnecks

14 Saturday Evening Ghost Frankie Stein And His Ghouls

15 The Lurch Ted Cassidy

16 Do The Rigormortis Don Hinson And The Rigamorticians

17 I Was A Teenage Monster Keytones

18 What Kind Of Ghoul Am I Frankie Stein And His Ghouls

19 Ring-A-Ding Orangoutang Zacherley

20 Monster Man The MSR Singers

21 Morgus The Magnificent Morgus & The Ghouls

22 Haunted House Chris Kevin

23 The Spook Spoke Jupiter Jones

24 Feed Me! Fred Katz

25 Down In The Basement The Munsters

26 The Voo Doo Walk Sonny Richard's Panics with Cindy And Misty

27 Wombie Zombie Billy Taylor

28 The Zombie Stomp The Del-Aires

29 The Mad Scientist The Zanies

30 The Head Shrinker The Vampires [Milton DeLugg]

31 Black Widow Spider Woman Jack Hammer

32 Wolf Gal Glen Ryle

33 Drac's Back Billy DeMarco & Count Dracula

34 Graveyard Rock Tarantula Ghoul & The Gravediggers

SOPHIA'S SPOOKY BIRTHDAY BASH

I know it's been a loooooong time since my last post--  my computer's hard drive died and I've been slowly getting it back to normal again. Just in time for my niece's second birthday this Friday. I love having a niece whose birthday is on Halloween. I get to celebrate my favorite holiday with someone I love! We're celebrating her birthday on Saturday and I made her a birthday mix for the occasion. It's a blending of Halloween songs for kids and some not-too-spooky songs that I think have a good vibe for a kids' Halloween/Birthday party. Sophia is just starting to put words together into phrases and short sentences. The title of the mix comes from something she was saying the other night while we were all driving home from a dinner out together.

WHEN IT'S DARK... THE MOON!

1 Halloween Wade Denning & Kay Lande

2 Casper The Friendly Ghost (Theme) Casper The Friendly Ghost

3 At The Munsters The Munsters

4 Halloween Music Lucille Wood, Marni Nixon & William Schallert

5 Guess What I Am? Wade Denning & Kay Lande

6 Midnight Monsters Hop Jack And Jim

7 Monster Shindig Danny Hutton

8 The Mummy Bob McFadden And Dor

9 The Mummy Little Tibia & the Fibias

10 Little Brown Bug Frankie Stein And His Ghouls

11 Monster Mash Bobby "Boris" Pickett

12 Halloween Music Lucille Wood, Marni Nixon & William Schallert

13 Coolest Little Monster John Zacherley

14 Munster Creep The Munsters

15 Knock Upon Our Door Lily and Herman Munster

16 Mr. Ghost Goes to Town The Five Jones Boys

17 The Pumpkin Man The Wonderland Singers

18 Lullaby Of Ghost Land Frankie Stein And His Ghouls

19 Mostly Ghostly The Creatures

20 Halloween Cats Lucille Wood, Marni Nixon & William Schallert

21 Trick Or Treat The Wonderland Singers

22 Frankie Frankenstein Ivan

23 Monster Man The MSR Singers

24 The Monster Swim Bobby "Boris" Pickett And The Crypt Kickers

25 I'm A Little Jack-O'-Lantern Lucille Wood, Marni Nixon & William Schallert

26 There Is A Haunted House In Town The Wonderland Singers

27 Ghost of the St. Louis Blues Leon Redbone

28 The Blob The Five Blobs

29 The Pumpkin Tells Wade Denning & Kay Lande

30 Halloween Parade Lucille Wood, Marni Nixon & William Schallert

31 Down In The Basement The Munsters

32 The Rockin' Ghost The Modernaires

33 Werewolf Waltz Dickie Goodman

34 She's Stuck On A Broomstick Wade Denning & Kay Lande

35 The Headless Horseman Kay Starr & Billy Butterfield Quintet 

36 Mother Ghost Nursery Rhymes Scholastic Singers

37 Peter Pumpkin Eater Is Having a Party Scholastic Singers