Music CD - Sara Hickman: Newborn

	Music CD: Newborn Artist: Sara Hickman List Price: $15.99 Our Price: $8.09 Your Save: $ 7.90 ( 49% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Big Kids Productions
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Tracks: 1. Hush 2. It's Alright (a capella) 3. A-Tisket A-Tasket 4. Lily 5. Goop's In It 6. This Heart 7. Reserved for the One I Love 8. Big Bird, Little Bird 9. Moonshadow 10. You Are My Sunshine 11. A Slice of Heaven 12. All Things Bright and Beautiful 13. It's Alright (with string quartet) 14. We Are Each Other's Angels 15. Brahms'Lullaby
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0705267763421 Label: Big Kids Productions Manufacturer: Big Kids Productions Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Big Kids Productions Release Date: 1999-11-01 Studio: Big Kids Productions
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Such a lovely surprise!! Comment: I am not even sure how I ended up buying this CD (probably an Amazon recommendation) but it was the surprise hit out of a bunch of music I bought for my new baby son (3 months old). I think he likes it, as he definitely seems to relax when I turn it on and tends to fall asleep. But I absolutely love it! I find myself playing it again and again--just hitting play and starting over. Sara Hickman's voice is beautiful and soothing, and the songs are incredibly catchy. I wholeheartedly recommending buying this CD. It will make you smile and you will find yourself humming the songs to yourself. Customer Rating: Summary: Best baby gift you can buy. Comment: Going to a baby shower soon? Friends or family members about to have a kid? This is more than a CD of some music -- is family intimacy in a box! Seriously, this CD was created to encourage parents to sing to their children. Simple songs that are soothing to babies. One of the songs was made up by Sara while walking the floor with her colicky firstborn. This is the kind of stuff that settles the stomach of both parents and babies. Beautiful stuff. Customer Rating: Summary: This album is a MUST-HAVE for parents everywhere Comment: I received this album as a shower gift and I can't tell you how much it has meant to my whole family, even the grandparents. Sara has a way of verbalizing how amazing children and your love for them is. I plan on buying every product she ever produces because she is uplifting and makes both my daughter and I feel great. Customer Rating: Summary: A Family Favorite Comment: A friend gave us a copy of Sara Hickman's Newborn and Toddler cd's when our daughter was born and they are forever on our stereo... in the livingroom, the nursery, and the car. Newborn is such a sweet cd that has calming songs as well as a few funny and playful songs (good for dads to sing along with!). The Toddler cd is great fun for when our little one is wide awake and in need of entertainment. You don't feel so ridiculous being silly when you are singing along with Sara! Both cd's are essential for new parents. We treasure them! Customer Rating: Summary: Couldn't (would not want to) live without this one! Comment: If my now 6 months old daughter (who has been Sara's fan for 3 months) was writing a review, it would go something like this. "I love to listen to Sara's CD. She has a beautiful voice that instantly makes me forget to be fussy. I could listen to her singing for hours, and indeed I do - and never tire! The song "goop in your eyes" makes me smile, esp when mama tries to sing along (she is NOT a very good singer). My only complaint is that the pauses between the songs are too long. Sometimes I have just enough time to remember what was making me fussy, but then I forget again when the next song starts!" --- aah, isn't she cute? More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: The liner notes to baby records could be lifted from one jewel case to the next with nary an eye ever batted, because they all trot out some form of the same trite message: "It doesn't matter what you sing to your baby, so long as you sing." Don't count Sara Hickman out--on Newborn (and on the logical successor, Toddler), she lets us know from the get-go that "my wish was to create an album for parents who have trepidation about singing to their newborns." Still, and despite the inclusion of standards like "Hush" and "You Are My Sunshine" on this not overly touchy-feely 15-tracker, she's concocted something special, outdoing her well-intentioned peers by performing originals so repetitive (the soothing "It's Alright") or ridiculous ("Goop's In It," about a booger-infested baby peeper) that singing along, infant at your side, seems right. Hickman wins us over with informality; in effect, she hands over her baby monitor, letting us listen in on stuff that's spilled spontaneously (and, because she's Sara Hickman, melodically) from her lips while gazing dopily at her own newborn. Occasionally, she can go overboard with the candor--listening to the ballad "Lily," written for her daughter, feels like opening somebody else's love letter--but forgiving her is easy, first because by being so open she becomes an instant surrogate friend to isolated new parents; and second, because her voice, evocative of Karen Carpenter on "Lily" and of Linda Ronstadt on "It's Alright," will tame the testiest baby. It's vocal crushed velvet. Give this album to stupefied new moms--by not being overly concerned with making sense, it may be the most sensible baby album you can buy. --Tammy La Gorce