Baby's First Lullabies

If ever there was a good decision you made, it was to read the reviews of this product before buying it. If you are looking for a lullaby CD for your child KEEP LOOKING. This CD is terrible! If you play the first two songs and have the volume adjusted to the soothing melody, you are thinking, 'hey this CD isn't half bad.' Then Track 3 (a ridiculously bad rendition of Rock a Bye Baby) comes on at about 350 decibels higher than the prior songs, sending you madly dashing to the CD player to turn the sound down before half the neighborhood comes banging down your door or calls the police -- not to mention the baby you were just trying to get to sleep is wailing in your ear because you were an IDIOT and bought this CD despite the horrible reviews on Amazon! And if you keep listening it will happen again and again! Fun!

As a first time parent I want to give my child every advantage I can. Studies have shown that playing music to your child helps to enhance their learning ability.I saw "Baby's First" cd series and as they were so affordable I decided to go ahead and buy them without hearing them first.My decision has been rewarded! The cd's are very good, and provide hours of music to stimulate my babies mind.Buy this CD today, you won't be disappointed, and neither will your youngsters! :)

Great service....Good album for relaxation.

I got this for my gran daughter maybe she is enjoying it

Do you want to raise a child who has absolutely no musical taste or refinement? Subject him or her to this substandard collection of hack-job performances, and you may get your wish.This CD is obviously a slapped-together production, designed to make a quick buck more than anything else. The production values are absolutely bottom of the barrel.I am only thankful that I didn't pay money for this. It came as a gift, and as a formality I gave it one run-through on the CD player. It has been permanently retired.For the record, I tend not to take the "soothing lullaby" approach with my 4-month-old daughter. More often than not, she gets high-volume, thematically complex music when she is in her swing. She likes it just fine and usually falls into a deep slumber in due course. This weekend we went through the Schubert D. 958, 959, and 960 piano sonatas, played by Murray Perahia, which is as far from the "Baby's First Lullabies" hack-job travesty as you can get. Helen liked it just fine, went to sleep, and (I hope) will emerge from childhood with a more refined musical palate than if she listned to this junk.

If you want to turn your child off classical music forever, this CD may well do the job.It has absolutely nothing to recommend on it.# 1, the volume fluctuates, and like ads on TV, the worst tracks are usually the loudest.# 2, many of the tracks are badly performed; ponderous, scratchy, and amateurish takes on what should be good listening, but isn't.# 3, there are 4 vocals. WARNING to all mothers: Baby might think this awful voice is you singing to him/her, and cause deep feelings of resentment, needing years of psychiatry to unravel.I am a huge believer in the importance and value in what we feed our ears. Many worry about the effects of 2nd hand smoke, I preach about the dangers of 2nd hand boom-box, and the horrors and negativity of rap music. Few things are more important than what your baby listens to, whether verbal or musical, and there are many "Adagio" recordings that are expertly performed on the market that would be a pleasure for baby's ears, an education for his mind, and a joy for his soul; this CD is to be avoided at all cost. Total playing time is 50'29 dreadful minutes.

Flow is everything, which apparently the creators of this CD forgot about.When I think of a lullaby CD, I think of nice, relaxing music that you can have on in the background while you rock your child to sleep for the night. Am I wrong here?So, when we popped this CD in tonight (without ever listening to the CD - our mistake), the first two songs were incredibly soothing, soft and great to calm down our 4-month old.Then we hit #3 - Hush A Bye Baby. Our child woke up and thought it was playtime. The song was an upbeat (and not terribly great) rendition of the old classic. YUCK! The volume was set higher than the other songs, and added to the playtime feel.The next two songs are fine (Fur Elise and Schubert's Serenade in D Minor), but then, once again, we hit a peppy tune (another annoying vocal piece), Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.Then comes the strangest piece of music on the CD - Autumn from The Four Seasons. I don't know who thought it would be a good idea to put this haunting song on a child's lullaby CD, but it is just plain creepy. A lot of harpsichord at the beginning and everything in minor tones. This should be on a Halloween CD, rather than this lullaby CD.My notes could go on, but really, the makers of this CD either didn't intent for it to be a lullaby CD at the end of the day, or they wanted to raise thousands of schitzophrenic babies.Either way, skip this CD and go for another more soothing one.