Music for Baby.

Hi,
We created a playlist for our son when he was born as well. Here are a couple more ideas:
Miracle- Sarah Maclachlan
Magnificent- U2
Miracle Drug- U2
-Sarah

Ali, you have got to hear "May the Lord Bless and Keep You" by Andrew Peterson! He wrote it for his son. So sweet!

Well, my baby is now 17 years old and graduating from high school this time next year. I am gathering stuff for an album about her as a gift and I am so excited to print her playlist from itunes! That will make a great page about her music right now. I wish I could remember what I would have put on my ipod in 1979 when I was a senior in high school! Thanks for a great idea!
barb

I highly recommend Ingrid Michaelson - she's a wonderful musician, her songs are intriguingly simple and true. Some are good for quiet time ("Breakable", "Keep Breathing") and some are made for dancing and singing along ("Be okay", "Far away", "The hat"). Or both! Oh, the beauty.

Ali, I think you would like the song "Sweet Sweet Baby" by Michelle Featherstone. It's from the album "Fallen Down." You can find it on iTunes. It's a very mellow, soothing song with a good message. As a new mommy myself, it makes me teary when I hear it! :)

Okay, so you asked a question that was right up my alley, so please excuse the list below! I love music!
1) Take It From Me – The Weepies
2) 1234 – Feist
3) Coming Home – The 88
4) Dancing With Myself – Nouvelle Vague
5) Nobody Knows Me At All – The Weepies
6) The Littlest Birds – The Be Good Tanyas
7) The Way I Am – Ingrid Michaelson
8) Everybody Knows – Ryan Adams
9) Think I’m In Love – Beck
10) Brand New Key – Robinella
11) Far Away Blues – Joe Purdy (he is amazing!)
12) One Small Year – Shawn Colvin
13) Something in the Way She Moves – James Taylor
14) Steady as We Go – Dave Matthews
15) Stay or Leave – Dave Matthews (My all time favorite Dave song)
16) I Found a Reason – Cat Power
17) You and I – Ingrid Michaelson
18) Giving – Ingrid Michaelson
19) And Then You – Greg Laswell
20) I’m In Love With a Girl – Big Star
21) Baby – Dave Matthews
22) Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) – Billy Joel (I know I am a dork!)
23) The Good You Do – Christine Kane
24) Mr Blue (New Version) – Catherine Feeny
Other Songs to Know About:
Buildings and Mountains – Republic Tigers
How Lucky We Are – Meiko
Reasons to Love You – Meiko
Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk – Rufus Wainwright
Show Me What I’m Looking For – Carolina Liar
Anna Begins – Counting Crows (for obvious reasons)
Happy listening, and thanks for posting your list!

The idea of a playlist for your baby is genius.
I just came across a beautiful song by Eric Church.... Love your love the most.
I think it is just perfect. Enjoy. :D

Such a wonderful idea, and what a great bit of personal and cultural history Anna will have. This had reminded me of so many artists and songs I love!
One of my favorite songs is Wilco's "My Darling". Perfect little love song to a baby.
Thanks for sharing this, Ali!

I had to go hunt for it, but I found it... And I'm didn't read through the other comments so I'm not even sure if it has already been suggested. I'm sure the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow has been suggested, but not sure if Israel Kamakawiwo'ole version has been suggested to you. He is no longer with us, but his rendition of this song is so beautiful and so sweet. I've used it twice in projects I've done for family. First when on a DVD for my daughters graduation from HS and second as background music on a DVD I did for my parents 50th anniversary. And yes you can get it on Itunes....
Hugs
Kelly

I love the baby mix--you've got some awesome songs on there including my favorite!!!!!!! Sweet Jane by the Cowboy Junkies--she has such a powerful and sexy voice

I have a cd called "Baby Beatles" and it is a bunch of great Beatles songs done in lullaby form. I love love love it and even have it playing in my 5th grade class as some soothing music while the students are entering the room. :0)

Debussy wrote many beautiful pieces that are very conducive to relaxing and sleeping. The Bach cello suites are wonderful. You also cannot go wrong with good old-fashioned silence at bedtime.

My husband & I decided to name our daughter Delaney, after hearing a Jimmy Buffett song, "Delaney Talks to Statues." It's on his Fruitcakes CD. He wrote the song about his daughter, Delaney, when she was 2. In the song, Delaney is a free spirit living on a boat or a beach somewhere. We loved how he talked about his daughter and my husband sang the song to my belly every night. Our Delaney turned 8 last week and "her song" has always been her favorite!

I set up a baby book with the title of each page being a song. So the first page is titled "Beautiful Day" (by U2) for the day of my baby's birth (I used "Brand New Day" (by Van Morrison) for my second baby). I have a page titled "What You Are" (by Dave Matthews Band) on which I'll include the baby's family tree. "Two of Us (by The Beatles) for a page about me and my husband, "Your Smiling Face" (James Taylor) for a page about the baby's first smile, etc. It was really fun. Then I burned a couple CDs with all the songs, printed the song list via iTunes, and included those items in the back of the book. So someday my boys will be able to listen to the songs as they flip through their baby books.

I'm trying to post an iMix link here...hope it works
http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/publishIMix?imixid=149494955&sf=143441
The big favorites I haven't seen mentioned: Godspeed by the Dixie Chicks, Dreamland by Mary Chapin Carpenter, and I Cross My Heart by George Strait. We made that mix six years ago, and it is permanently written on my heart now; both my husband and I can fall asleep almost anywhere in the world if we have that list on our iPods.

The CD Before Sleep Comes by the Irish singer/songwriter Luka Bloom. All acoustic,
lovely, gentle, voice with the sweetest lilt. He's on iTunes. Search for Luka and
the music from that album. Enjoy.

Thanks so much for sharing your music. I love the idea of featuring a playlist collage in a scrapbook page.
I really appreciate exposure to artists I haven't heard of before. I started listening to Alexi Murdoch upon your recommendation.
I hope you and your family have a great day!

A great idea to have the music in albums for the mood.
My favorite kid's entertainers here in Canada are Jack Grunsky and Debbie Carroll.
Grunsky writes music in many genres and from many cultures very well. Eclectic and great for adults also. If you get a best of album, you will not go wrong.
Debbie Carroll is a music educator who has great songs for children and also has some folksy tunes. My daughter (2.5) is in love with this music and spontaneously sings and begins to hop, hop, hop like a bunny and run, run , run like a dog....
best to you on your new adventure!!

Bon Iver has some wonderful music. :o)

c
i have a 17month old daughter..and love hanging out in her room listening to music. Right now we have 3 cd's I got on Amazon that we are listening to:
Plumb - Blink (this is an ALLTIME FAVORITE - In my Arms, MySweet MyLovely - this is what I put her down to for naptime, Always) and then an artist i found on Tara's blog: Patricia Ahn- Good Day and last but from my era: Rick Springfield just released an album of Lullabies he created for his own children that are now grown up: My Precious LittleOne (i think it is an Amazon exclusive) but I love love love listening to these and I think I may take your suggestion and do a layout about this..working FT I relish our time together and music is a big part of those moments .. love hearing about your new one!

How cool is that iTunes??? I have not printed a CD case before...who knew!!! Thanks for sharing this info!

If you haven't discovered Patty Griffin, download "Heavenly Day". And thanks for the iTunes tip about printing CD covers! Who knew?!

If you haven't discovered Frances England, she is an absolute favorite of our families... both albums are incredible, we play them over and over again... Family Tree, Spring has Sprung, ohhh geez all of them. Love this list and all these great comment suggestions.

oh gosh we love love love her too, that is a great suggestion!

The Weepies is awesome -- but the song "Comfort" is all about giving comfort to a special little one.