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