When Kid 1 was a baby I started a little ritual at bedtime: I would first read him “Goodnight Moon” and then turn on a CD of Mozart recordings. The first track was “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” and he would be pretty sleepy before that song even ended, so that was as far as we usually got. As he grew older and started to talk, we still listened to that CD, which was yellow, and that is how the song “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” came to be known as “Yellow Mozart” around our house.
That was nearly seven years ago now, long before I had discovered the wealth of great music that tastemaker parents have sourced and created for other parents and for children. I recently discovered “Daddy Plays Lullabies,” which is a compilation of rock and roll hits recorded as sleepytime tracks to lull babies to sleep without boring the head off the parent and/or killing additional brain cells. Singer/songwriter Eran Phillips wondered himself: “Don’t newborn babies deserve real, quality music?”
And so it is that there is a now a lovely acoustic lullaby version of “Stairway To Heaven.” If I were to play that song now for my newborn, it just might block out my memory of dancing awkwardly to that song that they always played as the last song at all of our high school dances. What? It was the eighties.
Anyway, Phillips gathered this and other covers on his album “Daddy Plays Acoustic Rock Lullabies” which also includes The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Simon and Garfunkel. Heck, I’d listen to this album even without a baby.
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