American Lullabies

Subject: American Lullabies
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 16 Nov 12 - 07:19 PM

By which of course I mean the all-inclusive American definition. Whatever you mean it to be.

Anyway, we are recording for a CD project and I was looking at the list and realized we do not have a single lullaby from USA..of course we are mostly a nation of immigrants and lullabies would have been sung in many languages..but except for Kentucky Babe I'll be darned if I can think of any...Hobo's Lullaby that is a new composition.

Anyone have any ASAP? We are very heavy on the Irish and Scottish ones....

and no..my mother was not the lullaby type.

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: GUEST,Julia
Date: 16 Nov 12 - 08:15 PM

Something from Stephen Foster perhaps?

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 16 Nov 12 - 10:03 PM

I can't think of any that he wrote...

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: mg
Date: 16 Nov 12 - 11:54 PM

This is a compilation CD by Masguda S., a Tartar ethnomusicologist now living in Seattle...she has collected an awesome number of lullabies at Northwest Folklife..

http://sub.tatars.com/articles/ENG/74/

she has a big long list..most I had never heard of..Scarlet Ribbons is a possibility come to think of it...

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: Bert
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 12:12 AM

Rock a bye my baby with a Dixie melody

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: Bert
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 12:15 AM

Here's one of mine. It was written in America. Bathing Angel

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: Bert
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 12:16 AM

Hush Little Baby Don't you cry.

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: mg
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 12:27 AM

that bathing one is lovely. By Hush little baby do you mean the mocking bird one? there is als o all the pretty little horses. I am hoping to have some African American singers on at least one song and I think that one has African American origins...

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: Susan of DT
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 07:42 AM

What about Jean Ritchie's What'll We Do With the Baby-o? (in DT)
There are 59 song sin the DT with the keyword lullaby - some may be American.

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: mg
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 10:09 AM

For this purpose we can't use anything with copyright issues..and also if it has bad things hnappening to baby we can't either...can't remembertnhe words to that one.

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: Elmore
Date: 17 Nov 12 - 12:24 PM

Baby Rocking Medley by Rosalie Sorrels. Lullaby by Leonard Cohen from his latest album, Old Ideas. Yes, laughing Len has written a very pretty, soothing lullaby.

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: GUEST,Harold Steves
Date: 18 Nov 12 - 12:55 AM

As a young cowboy I sang the "Cowboy's Lullaby" and the "Streets of Laredo" to my children. Also "Hush Little Baby don't say a word" and Guthries "Hoboes Lullaby" previously mentioned.There were more but I have forgotten them. Laredo was my favoutite as it has a very soothing melody.

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: Bert
Date: 18 Nov 12 - 02:57 AM

Thanks mg, feel free to sing it. And yes I meant the mocking bird one.

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 18 Nov 12 - 03:11 AM

Woody didn't write Hoboes Lullaby, it was Goebel Reeves.

Dave H

Subject: RE: American Lullabies
From: Elmore
Date: 18 Nov 12 - 02:51 PM

Yes, Dave Hanson, that's a common misconception.