The World Sings Goodnight

World Sings Goodnight 2	G'night Wolfgang	African Lullaby As with other Ellipsis Arts releases, African Lullaby is more than a stellar music collection. Its delightful liner notes provide ample context for these "love songs for children" and the collection's innovative earth-friendly packaging is a work of art unto itself. Commencing wi...	G'morning Johann	Lullaby: A Collection For centuries the world over, mothers (and fathers) have been cradling, cooing, and crooning to babies and small children with song. There's scarcely a one of us that cannot recall a particularly gentle song a special someone sang for a wee self--to calm, soothe, and aid slumber....
Latin Lullaby Including contributions from Tex-Mex power folkie Tish Hinojosa, Cuban opera diva Clara Alonso, and Nelie Lebrón Robles, lead singer of Paracumbé, an Afro-Puerto Rican outfit, Latin Lullaby is a richly moving encounter with dream-inducing tunes sung in Spanish. Drawing on the r...	Brazilian Lullaby	Planet Sleeps Everything about this CD, from its eye-popping cool packaging to its beautiful booklet, is wonderful, perhaps peerless. It's a study that spans 16 countries, catching paeans to childhood sleep from varied traditions. The set traverses the Cape Breton Gaelic tradition with the Ran...	Dreamland This CD has beautiful, calming songs from around the world are perfect for bedtime, meditation, yoga and relaxation. Some of the songs included are A Lullabye, Arriba Del Cielo, and Cradle Spell of Dunvegan.	Disney Baby Lullaby: Favorite Sleepytime Songs for Baby and You Lullabies lend themselves to woozy re-creations, a sort of endless repetition that flags under the weight of the concept (putting kids to bed for their much-needed sleep) and the lack of weight accorded to the music. You might expect a Disney lullaby collection to be on a par wit...

Great way to introduce world cultures to your kids
I love this CD! The music is beautiful, soothing, and wonderfully sung. I used this CD in homeschooling my sons. Using placemats during snack time, they placed a small piece of food on each country as its lullaby was sung. This painlessly combined geography, world cultures, and music. My only caveat is that part of the proceeds benefit Amnesty International, which supports abortion. I suggest you borrow or purchase a used copy, rather than buying it new.

guaranteed sleep!
i have played this at naptime and bedtime for the last 16 months; it's on repeat during naps. i have listened to the CD at least 1500 times, and have finally worn out the original CD (i'm buying the download now). my twin sons settle down immediately upon hearing the first song, and are lights out by the third. the rest of the CD is just great background noise to drown out the sounds of the rest of the house. if a baby is cranky, i can start to hum the first song and he settles down. i've never bothered to read the liner notes and translations, but whatever: i need my guys to sleep well and soundly, and this CD does the trick.

World Sings Goodnight
We first received this as a baby gift 13 years ago, and we find it makes a great baby gift! We all loved the soothing lullabies from all over the world!

Superb Collection
Excellent collection of lullabies from around the world. Beautifully produced. Adults will enjoy this one just as much as the younger set. Listen to this and skip your valium.

Lullabies from around the World to put your kids to sleep
I have always had a pet theory that with babies and small animals HOW you say something is always more important than WHAT you say. "The World Sings Goodnight" would certainly seem to put that theory to test as it offers lullabies from 33 different cultures, each sung in its native tongue. This means only a handful are sung in English and that until they are old enough to read the liner notes your little ones are never going to know what these songs are about. This is probably a good thing because there are songs that tell children "to wake you up we'll cut off your ears" and contemplate giving them to a witch or a bad man. My favorite is the lullaby from Egypt where the parent promises to bring the child two pairs of pigeons to eat or two pairs of black beetles to play with, but quickly explains to the animals that this is only being said to the baby so he will sleep. These lullabies are sung either a capella or with the simple instrumentation of the culture, which can mean anything from end-blown bamboo flute to hurdy-gurdy to goat bells and hammered dulcimer. There is even on song accompanied by crickets. One nice thing about this album is that gender does not matter when it comes to singing a baby to sleep. Males sing the Indonesian lullaby where the mother pleads "Sleep and grow up well, honey, so that you can protect me later, because your father has gone away and forgotten you" and the Ogalia Sioux song where a woman sees the ghost of her dead husband (thus we learn that lullabies do not need to contain the typical lullaby references found in every typical lullaby to be an effective lullaby). There are also several nice examples of lullabies involving sweet harmonies between a pair of singers, including a piece written by producers Tom and Susan Wasinger that is quite lovely. These songs collected from five continents are song by "folk" voices in an effort to have these songs sung by people who have really had to persuade babies and young children to go to sleep. Final Note: I was listening to this CD in the morning and I almost fell asleep, so there is a very good chance it will work on your little ones as well.