Sing ‘em to Sleep: Moobabe
May 16, 2005 mp3
I went through Moobabe’s archives to find out more about her family and about Hannah specifically. I got lost in the pictures they have up and in Hannah’s big, beautiful dark eyes. I loved the family pictures especially and then I knew just what song would sing her to sleep! This isn’t one you can really sing all on your lonesome but it’s perfect for them because the mom and dad are performing and their daughter chimes in — singing a little and giggling a lot. There is a lot of tender love in this performance and in Moobabe’s family so there you go! Perfect!
Here I Am by Tracy Silverman, Thea Suits-Silverman and their daughter Louisa getupgrrl, since I think she would prefer that I wait until “the hypothetical not-bad thing” has happened. But I already have a song picked out!
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Sing ‘em to Sleep: Kendra/Tagebuch
May 15, 2005 mp3
I chose this lullaby for Nathaniel’s sea-bright eyes. Doesn’t he look like a slick little seal? This is from a Rudyard Kipling poem:
Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us
And black are the waters that sparkled so green.
The moon, O’er the combers, looks downward to find us
At rest in the hollows that rustle between.
Where billow meets billow, there soft by the pillow.
Oh, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!
The storm shall not wake thee, no shark shall overtake thee
Asleep in the storm of slow-swinging seas.
I love the picture he made of beauty and safety as a loving parent watches out at the world. And I think this is a particularly apt image for a baby whose destiny is being shaped by the love of strangers across the ocean from each other. From his foster mother and then to the arms of his mama, Kendra.
I also like it because it’s easy to sing even for someone such as myself without much range.
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Sing ‘em to sleep! (for Shelba)
May 13, 2005 mp3
I want to post more lullabies for the babies/children that are on their way to the loving arms of their families. If you have an online baby/child/family for whom you’d like a lullaby posted (you know, someone in your blog world who’s about to give birth or who just brought a baby/child home or is about to travel), please let me know and I’ll keep a list. Then you guys can download some lullabies and burn ‘em if you want. Or else only rock your kiddies next to the computer. Either way works. I’m not sure what schedule I’ll use — I’ll have to see how many people need a lullaby.
And this one, this is for Shelba, and I chose this one for her manic/joyful self-portraits of late. She gets a particularly upbeat (for a lullaby) one! (And if you were going to burn a CD, I’d put this song first because that’s where it would sound best.)
Moon Moon Moon by Laurie Berkner
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Lullaby CD now closed
Feb 4, 2004 mp3
Ok folks, I’ve burned most of the CDs and will now start packaging. I was going to make them with pretty covers but I’m not going to have time but at least the music will still sound pretty good! Read the rest of this entry »
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Tuneful Tuesday: The Crow
My blog is at least legible in all three browers now (but trust me, it’s prettiest in Safari) so I’m moving on ahead and will continue to work on it sporadically (please let me know if you’re still seeing the heavy black border around the entries — it’s not supposed to be there!!! And let me know what browser/operating sytem you’re on, ‘kay?)
Jane has only one song on the soundtrack for The Crow but what a song it is! I’ve never seen the movie but I can only hope it’s as good as Jane writes, although I’m doubtful. Yesterday I had a not-so-good day. In fact I had a bad, tearful, “oh dear god, I can’t go on!” kind of overly dramatic wretched day. I worked out to see if the endorphins might help (not so much) and cooled down to this song, which set me to crying, which made me feel a tiny itsy-bit better.
“It Can’t Rain All the Time,” our last Jane song. Enjoy.