Golden Slumbers

by Pete Seeger

Sleep, baby, sleep...Generations of children have been soothed to sleep by the comforting sound of lullabies. Twenty-four of these beloved bedtime songs are brought together and performed here by some of the best-known folk singers of all time. Accompanied by the guitar, Pete Seeger, Oscar Brand, and many others lend their warm voices to this treasury of traditional music for sleepy children.

SIDE ONE

All the Pretty Little Horses (Pete Seeger)
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (Oscar Brand)
Sleep, Little One, Sleep (Elizabeth Knight)
Raisins and Almonds (Frank Cooke)
Go To Bed First (Oscar Brand)
Dance to Your Daddy (Jean Ritchie)
Rock-A-Bye Baby (Oscar Brand)
Hush Little Baby (Pete Seeger)
Simba (Oscar Brand)
Bye, Baby Bunting (Ruth Welcome)
Petit Chat Noir (Oscar Brand)
Golden Slumbers(Elizabeth Knight)


SIDE TWO

Prettiest Boy in the County-O (Jean Ritchie)
Bye'n Bye (Pete Seeger)
Sleep, Baby (Juanita Cascone)
Coventry Carol (Oscar Brand)
Cuc-a-Nandy (Robin Roberts)
Kiowa Lullaby (Oscar Brand)
Lalo (Wallace House)
Can Ye Sew Cushions (Robin Roberts)
Who Killed Cock Robin (Oscar Brand)
Dance to Your Daddy (Robin Roberts)
Little Pierrot (Juanita Cascone)
Sleep, Baby, Sleep (Elizabeth Knight)
' Rock-a-bye-Baby, ' ' Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, ' and ' All the Pretty Horses' are just a few of the beautiful songs included in this collection of best-loved lullabies.Performed by folk artist greats Pete Seeger and Oscar Brand, this recording features classic musical gems that have been passed down from generation to generation. Featuring ' Hush Little Baby, ' 'Sleep, Baby, Sleep, ' ' Raisins and Almonds, ' ' Go to Bed First, ' ' Kiowa Lullaby.'

Audio Cassette

First published June 6, 1988

About the author

Peter Seeger, better known as Pete Seeger, was a folk singer, political activist, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. As a member of the Weavers, he had a string of hits, including a 1949 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight Irene" that topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. However, his career as a mainstream performer was seriously curtailed by the Second Red Scare: he came under severe attack as a former member of the Communist Party of the United States of America. Later, he re-emerged on the public scene as a pioneer of protest music in the late 1950s and the 1960s.

He was perhaps best known as the author or co-author of the songs "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)", and "Turn, Turn, Turn!", which have been recorded by many artists both in and outside the folk revival movement and are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for The Kingston Trio (1962), Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962), and Johnny Rivers (1965). "If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and Trini Lopez (1963), while The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s. Seeger was also widely credited with popularizing the traditional song "We Shall Overcome", which was recorded by Joan Baez and many other singer-activists, and became the publicly perceived anthem of the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement soon after musicologist Guy Carawan introduced it at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960.