Best Music for Babies: Award Winning CD's for Infants

Karen Curley
The National Parenting Publication Awards announced the 2009 Gold Winners for the top music for babies. These infant CD's sooth and entertain infants. The following music selections were developed by professional children's musicians whose experience brings a world of musical fun to babies.

Songs from the Garden of Eden

This CD features various children's artists who perform twenty-eight Jewish rhymes, lullabies, and folk tunes. Infants are exposed to calming music, sung in Hebrew, English, and Spanish. The instruments provide soothing background music for the Jewish folk tunes. Older children are also mesmerized by the traditional songs in this collection.

A few of the inspiring song choices are: Erev Shel Shoshanim in Hebrew, La Una in Spanish, Ikh Bin a Kleyner Dreydl in Yiddish, Nanim, Nani in Judeo Spanish, Bibhilou, Etmol, Lekha Dodi in Hebrew, and many more selections from the twenty-nine tracks on the CD.

The music from the "Garden of Eden" was produced by The Secret Mountain in 2009. The cost for the CD is $14.98 on Amazon.com and the Book/CD combination sells for $22.95.

Celeste Sings: Kids Dream

This CD not only won the NAPPA Gold Award for 2009 but also received the 2010 National Parenting Center Seal of Approval and the Family Choice Award for 2009. The musical collection presents a combination of traditional and newly composed lullabies with flourishing harmonies performed by piano, strings, and harmonica.

A few samples of the fifteen musical selections from "Celeste Sings: Kids Dream" are: Edelweiss, Wynken, Blyken, and Nod, Brahms' Lullaby, and Pachelbel Canon in D. View the lyrics for all the infant lullabies.

The CD was produced by Dana Anton, State of Mind Entertainment, in 2008. The cost of the children's CD is $14.98 and is available at Celeste Sings website where visitors can also listen to sample tracks from the album.

The Ultimate Lullaby Collection

This collection of lullabies is the ideal gift for all parents of infants. The selections are a combination of instrumentals featuring classical music, traditional tunes, and vocals performed by both adults and children. The CD also includes a forty-eight page book for Baby's First Year Memories. The baby book is designed for new parents to use as an infant scrapbook, photo album, and diary for special moments in their baby's life.

The four disc baby lullabies' collection includes seventy-four extraordinarily composed melodies. A few samples of the tunes include: Hush, Little Baby, All the Pretty Horses, Fur Elise, Adante Con Variazioni, Mozart's Lullaby, and Dance to Your Daddy.

"The Ultimate Lullaby Collection" was produced by Twin Sisters Productions in 2008. The cost for this beautiful musical collection of infant lullabies and is available for $19.99 at Amazon.com.

Resources:

NAPPA Awards

Celeste Sings: Kids Dream

The Secret Mountain

Twin Sisters Productions

Boston Parents Paper: "Award Winners", December 2009.

Published by Karen Curley

I have been a freelance writer, child care provider, and artist for many years. My experience also includes agility and obedience dog training, as well as a dog day care business. In my spare time, I p...  View profile

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