Hey lullaby lovers,

We’ve updated our poll at the Rockabye Baby! online store. Go check it out and vote for your favorite candidate to be lullabied. If your choice isn’t on the poll, leave it here in the comments. Your pick may make it onto future ballots.

Some of you may wonder why we haven’t released lullaby renditions of all the great rock bands on the poll yet. It takes months and even up to a year to make a perfect lullaby album. We work really closely with the producers, draft after draft, to get the instruments sounding as soft and sweet as possible. We hope the work pays off in the sound of silence coming from your nursery!

So what are we up to now? Lullaby Renditions of Queen is still rocking the cradle and Aerosmith is coming out Sept. 15, with liner notes by Steven Tyler! We’re hard at work on our lullaby renditions of Guns N’ Roses and it’s so fabulous we can’t stand it. That will be followed up by Kanye West. Oh, yes, you heard us right! Our first Rap-a-bye Baby! It’s going to be super swell.

Not only that, but this fall we have a way cool gift edition coming out — it’s a download card good for any Rockabye Baby! digital album, housed in an adorable eco-friendly package with a baby food recipe, temporary tattoos, paper dolls, and more fun stuff. This is going to be the world’s best baby shower gift, because  you don’t have to guess which CDs your friends want, or what they might already have. View it here.

Oh, yeah, we updated the look of our blog, too! What do you think?

That’s a lot of work for such sleepy bears to handle, but luckily for us, napping is always encouraged at lullaby world headquarters.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ,

Your friends at Rockabye Baby!

There’s no reason you can’t rock out at your baby shower. Here are our picks for a great mix to liven up your party. You could play Rockabye Baby! lullabies, but we can’t be responsible for people falling asleep in the punch.

What are your favorite baby shower song ideas? Tell us in the comments!

P.S. Don’t miss Part 2 in this series for more of our playlist picks.

Born to Be Wild – Steppenwolf

We say, why not reference Dennis Hopper at your baby shower? Besides, when the sweet little bun in your oven is entering the terrible twos, this pick will make a lot more sense.

Be My Baby – The Ronettes

We wanna be Ronnettes. Pencil skirts, teased hair and black eyeliner, crazy Phil Spector wall-of-sound production (and we do mean crazy).

Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses

Axl, Slash and co. really knew how to deliver a hard rock ballad. Plus those high notes kind of remind us of a baby’s high-pitched wail. You might was well start getting used to it now.

P.S. Check out our lullaby rendition here!

I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight – Bob Dylan

Okay, not so rockin’, but we were convinced this song was about a baby when we were little. Especially the line “Bring that bottle over here…”

Shower the People – James Taylor

Get it? SHOWER the people? By sweet BABY James. Get it?

Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure

Oh, they don’t? This is either highly ironic or a lovely bit of fantasy for expecting parents to indulge in. Also suitable for a bris. Hear our lullaby rendition here.

Cry, Cry, Cry – Johnny Cash

Yes, that’s more like it. Our country cousin, Hushabye Baby, covered this one quite beautifully. Check it out!

And the Cradle Will Rock – Van Halen

Don’t even dream of rocking your shower without this one.