Walk this way, folks. We’re so elated about our new arrival, Lullaby Renditions of Aerosmith (featuring liner notes by Steven Tyler!), we’re giving away ten copies!
Here’s how to enter:
All you have to do to win your very own CD is leave a comment on this post telling us why you love Aerosmith in 100 words or less. Ten lucky winners will be chosen from all the entries. You can enter more than once, but you must give a different reason on each comment! You must enter your email when you leave a comment so we can contact you (don’t worry, it will be kept private).
Contest ends Friday, October 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM (PST).
Want to hear one of our amazing lullaby renditions? Listen to Dream On. Don’t want to miss a thing? Run to your nearest cool baby boutique or visit www.rockabyebabymusic.com to get your very own copy!
These are our favorite Beatles covers from The Muppet Show. Our list would go on forever if we added Sesame Street (Letter B, anyone? Still cracks us up!), though we just may do that someday. Muppets performing Beatles is a magical combination.
5. Beetles Sing Beatles - This one makes the list in spite of its lack of Muppet starpower (Kermit introduces the bug band as a talented young group of unknowns) because of the classic grumpy Statler and Waldorf comeback at the end.
4. Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - Two muppet blokes and a chorus of canines equals wacky fun.
3. Floyd’s Guitar Gently Weeps - The lead guitarist for Electric Mayhem shows his softer side, on what looks to be the set of Hitchcock’s Rear Window. How could you not love The Muppet Show?
2. A Little Help From My Friends - Janice the hippie Muppet is tied up, about to become the human sacrifice of a stone, saxophone-playing Eagle, and she still manages to beat out some pretty slinky percussion. The members of Electric Mayhem sneak past her pig captors to save the day. That’s what friends are for.
1. Gonzo Acts Naturally - Gonzo, a mirror, a ukulele and a Buck Owens song that the Beatles covered. What could be more entertaining?
Want a really cool rock & roll-themed activity for your kids? Beatlefans.com scanned an official 1960’s Beatles coloring book. You can print and color your favorite images of John, Paul, George and Ringo, while teaching your little ones the ABC’s of rock. B is for Beatles!
As soon as our daughter was out of her bassinet and into her crib, and hence, her own room, we wanted to make her a lullaby CD for bedtime.
My husband made this one, and every time he’d play me a song for consideration, I’d well up with new Mommy tears. Here is what’s on our first lullaby “mix tape” (well, mix CD nowadays) that he made for our sweet baby Julia.
What are some of your favorite songs for a lullaby mix?
“Didn’t Leave Nobody But The Baby”
Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch (O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack)
“Julia”
The Beatles (The White Album)
“If I Didn’t Care”
The Ink Spots (20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Ink Spots)
“Hushabye Mountain”
Original Cast Recording (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Soundtrack)
“Love Me Tender”
Elvis (Elvis – The Complete 50’s Masters)
In the age of Radio Disney, does classic rock & roll still speak to children? One very clever dad decided to find out. Will Hodgkinson from the Times Online (UK) wondered if the current round of Beatlemania was being lost on his kids. He bribed them with toffee to participate in a very unscientific focus group where played them Beatles classics to get their thoughts. We have to say it’s one of the funniest things we’ve read in a long, long time! Here’s a sampling:
Apart from Rowan, who claims only to know about the beetles in her garden, panel members are vaguely aware of the Beatles. “They look like me so I like them,” offers Otto, proud possessor of a mop-top bowl cut.
“They are a rock band from olden times,” adds Isabella. “They did lots of songs,” says Pearl, somewhat unhelpfully, but then Pearl’s musical interests are focused entirely on the soundtrack to Mamma Mia!, so she can be forgiven.
Resolving to give the study session a chronological overview, I begin by putting She Loves You on to the record player. “She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah,” sing Lennon and McCartney on their Number One smash from 1963. “No she doesn’t,” Otto says.
“I thought it was quite strange,” comments Rowan when the song is over.
“It’s different from most of the songs I’ve heard.”
When burning the midnight oil to put the finishing touches on a lullaby album, these are the kind of questions we find ourselves asking: What if the Muppets played Metallica? Who is a better drummer, Lars Ulrich or Animal?
Thank goodness this amazing video came along to help us find out!
Since my husband’s parents live in Nebraska, the closest we could come to telling them in person that we were expecting, was to tell them monitor to monitor — on ichat!
Because my husband and I waited so long to decide to have a baby, our parents had given up hope that we ever would. We wanted to capture their reaction when we broke the news, so here’s us casually folding our announcement into conversation with my folks over breakfast.
Give a looksee, then tell me how you told your folks, friends & family.
Aerosmith’s long roster of rabble-rousing hits have never been said to put anyone to sleep. Until now.
…There are 12 songs here, including “Mama Kin,” “Dream On,” “Dude (Looks Like a Lady),” “Sweet Emotion” “Angel” and “Rag Doll.” Warm xylophones, plinky keyboards, happy bells, flighty flutes, wonky coconut-like claps, crickets and frogs dance through these instrumental-only arrangements, which are perfect for wake-up or bedtime.
The slowed pace and ticking-time effects and frog chirps on “Walk This Way” and “Cryin’” add a sneaky vibe to the classics. The songs aren’t dark or eerie as much as they are unusual and unconventionally sweet.
Because this is Aerosmith week on The Rockabye Baby Blog, we have to play you this awesome Steven Tyler rendition of a children’s music classic — I love Trash, the theme song of Oscar the Grouch! This recording is from Elmopalooza. Check it out!
And, just because we can never get enough Sesame Street, here’s a super early version, from when Oscar was orange!
Be sure to check out our new release, Lullaby Renditions of Aerosmith, featuring liner notes by Steven Tyler! Dream on, and on and on…
