Warm lullabies, plus fun songs for children, ages 2 -9, that should be in your child's collection

11 MP3 Songs
KIDS/FAMILY: Lullabies, KIDS/FAMILY: Children's Pop



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HUSH LITTE BABY

This collection is an accumulation of songs that I wrote to entertain my daughter when she was very young. A lot of laughter and fun came from the melodies and lyrics and I want to now share the opportunity for you to perhaps experience some of that with your children and grandchildren.

There is something special about the happiness on a childâs face when something strikes their fancy.

I recorded four of these on my favorite artist, Katiah. This girl is really something. She can soar like Celine Dion, growl like Stevie Nicks, smooth out like Patsy Cline or when ask find one of many different vocal moods such as a child like voice on âSimple Little Symphonyâ and âJohnny Verbeckâ. The next instant sheâs mother-like, singing to a baby, on âJesus Loves Meâ and âHush Little Babyâ. Tough to do, but not for her.

How rough and tumble old friend, Red West and I came to write âSimple Little Symphonyâ is a mystery. Red was Elvisâs bodyguard at the time and I was just a songwriter having a great time singing gospel songs all night long, every night, with Elvis at his house in Belle Aire. The song came out of there somewhere?

Iâve fooled and tinkered with âJohnny Verbeckâ off and on for years. The original lyric had old Johnny capturing all the neighborhood cats and dogs and putting them in his machine to grind them into sausages. It ended up with the villain trying to push a cow in his machine but instead fell into it himself and was ground into sausages. Now that wouldnât do for kids to hear. Finally, when we were preparing to record it Kathy Hill, (aka KATIAH) changed it around to bugs and worms being turned into bubble gum. Now to a child thatâs fun. Ask one! Now it works. Enjoy! Your kids will.

âHush Little Babyâ Gosh I like that song! The way Katiah sings it â itâs just too good.

âJesus Loves Meâ What can you say. This song has to be in a childrenâs album.

The âOrange Blue Dogâ came from an incident where in my daughter, during her terrible twoâs, tossed her stuffed toy dog into the washing machine. Well you know what happened! The dye ran into the clothes, and out came an Orange/Blue Dog.

Fred Burch and I wrote, âNothing Venture, Nothing Gainedâ for a scene in an Elvis movie. My daughter still believes to this day that it is her song. Written especially for her. Well â OK! When she was four she sang it word for word, note for note three thousand times a day. HELP!

âThe Riddleâ. What a nice lyric and melody. So many years ago I recorded this on Mac Miller with the Anita Kerr Singers. Perhaps the greatest vocal group of all time. I know for sure that Anita Kerr is nicest, prettiest, most talented person ever. Also on this recording are old dear friends: Grady Martin, Floyd Cramer, Bobby Moore, Buddy Harmon, Ray Eddington, Harold Bradley and the Nashville Symphony Strings.

âSleepy Eyesâ are two traditional classic melodies, âLullaby and Goodnightâ - âBeautiful Dreamerâ woven together with an original melody. Put your child to bed, turn the CD Player down low, and youâve got sleep. Guaranteed.

Fred Burch and I were hanging out in California, luckily writing one hit song after another. I donât recall how âBillie Blue Shoesâ came to be in that mix but the story goes on: A friend, Mark Slade, heard me singing it and wanted to do a cartoon storyboard around the song. OK! We did that and took it to Walt Disney. He liked it and said he would do an animated feature film around the idea. Very soon thereafter Mr. Disney died, and that was the end of that. Well not quite. In addition to being a talented cartoon artist, Mark was also an actor. Perhaps you remember the TV series âHigh Chaparralâ? Mark was one of the main characters in the series. The name of the character he played in the series? BLUE. Guess where that came from. Later Shelby Singleton recorded the song on Mercury Records by the Wayfarers Trio, and George Richie (Tammy Wynettsâs, husband who sang with my group, The Foggy River Boys, in Los Vegas with Jimmy Wakely) recorded it on Roy Rogers. So the songâs been around. You canât go wrong with a boy and his devotion to his dog.

âPinocchio the Puppetâ and âMilitary Schoolâ are fun songs.

So these are for the little ones. I hope you enjoy watching them smile.

Gerald Nelson

P.S. Look up Katiahâs albums: âKatiahâ, âMidnight Madnessâ, âSunday Morning in Americaâ, âTwas The Night Before Christmasâ and her latest âPurple Heartâ all on CD Baby. I think youâll like what you hear.

If you have time listen to John Haywood Guthrieâs album âHelp Me Daddyâ also on CD Baby.

You might like âDream Dateâ by Gerald Nelson and the G5 Orchestra, âSongs I wrote for Elvesâ, and âIn The Beginning Godâ. Also on CD Baby