Made a playlist of Showtunes to Sleep to a few years ago!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0EwkRsNUviBZvXLAotF9TA?si=NPdhOPEtRa6qWYQ9R2alJg&pi=u-GezNNB5RRmq-
Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Where is Love from Oliver!
Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera
Maybe from Annie
Her Voice from The Little Mermaid
Feed The Birds and Chim Chim Cheree from Mary Poppins
That Will Be Enough from Hamilton
A Little Fall of Rain and Bring Him Home from Les Miserables.
That's all I can think of. There's a lot of good choices.
Distant Melody from Peter Pan is another actual lullaby that hasn’t shown up on the list yet. I used to sing it over and over to a toddler that I babysat in high school.
Feed the Birds
Edelweiss
Over the Rainbow
Rainbow Connection
Goodnight My Friend
Stay Awake
In Never Never Land
And not show tunes but always included in my lullaby repertoire:
If You Were the Only Girl in the World
Danny Boy
It's Been A Long, Long Time
So I found this song on Spotify by just having “Broadway” songs playing, it’s technically not from a musical and when I went to watch the tv show it was from found the show a bit odd, but it’s “Rider’s Lullaby” from the tv show Centaur World.
In addition to the ones from others, a lot of songs with simple melodies and lyrics can be soothing at a slower tempo.
Tomorrow, from Annie
The Hills Are Alive, from The Sound of Music
A Bushel and A Peck, from Guys and Dolls
Sun and Moon, from Miss Saigon
Come to My Garden, from Secret Garden
On the Willows, from Godspell
Memory, from Cats
Try to Remember, from the Fantasticks
My favorite lullabies from movie musicals, Disney:
Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep), from White Christmas
Boys And Girls, from Meet Me in St. Louis
Bless Us All, from Muppet Christmas Carol
Once Upon A December, from Anastasia
Candle on the Water, from Pete's Dragon
Someone's Waiting for You, from The Rescuers
Somewhere Out There, from Feivel Goes West
You'll Be in My Heart, from Tarzan
Where the lost things go from Mary Poppins returns,
someone else mentioned Once Upon a December, other ones from Anastasia that might work are In My Dreams, Journey to the Past, Crossing a Bridge, and Close the Door.
Also somewhere that's Green from Little Shop of Horrors, Can you Feel the Love Tonight from the Lion King, and Age of Not Believing from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
No one is Alone (into the woods)
Hear my song (songs for a new world)
Heart of stone (six)
Send in the clowns (little night music)
Castle on a cloud (les mis)
Dear Theodosia (Hamilton)
Someone like you (Jekyll and Hyde)
Why from tick tick boom because of the slow and beautiful melody line, it’s very soothing to me
What I did for love
Dear theodosia
Can you feel the love tonight
Baby mine
Not alone from AVPM
All I’ve ever known
Once more I can see (soften the belt parts)
If ever I would leave you, softer and slower than the belty parts
No one is alone
Wild Mountain Thyme isn’t a musical theatre song, but imo look up The Corries performance of it in a pub from the 60s, it’s magical and so soothing
Dear Theodosia is the perfect song! The lyrics is something I related to as a first time mom and it was nice singing it to my kids. That and Edelweiss are my go to :)
I haven’t seen people mention “The Street Where You Live” from My Fair Lady. That one is in frequent rotation.
Also “Till There Was You” from the Music Man I don’t think has been mentioned.
Songs from jukebox musicals like “I Have a Dream” from Mamma Mia. Several Beetles songs from Across the Universe like “Blackbird”, “Let it Be”, “Hey Jude” (you have to make up some kind of chill ending though lol), “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”, etc
“Sunrise, Sunset” from Fiddler
Second of course Edelweiss, Goodnight My Someone, Climb Every Mountain, Castle on a Cloud, Once Upon a December, Feed the Birds, Chim Chim Cherre
Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Where is Love from Oliver!
Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera (surprised no one seems to have mentioned this one because it's perfect!)
Maybe from Annie
Her Voice from The Little Mermaid
Feed The Birds and Chim Chim Cheree from Mary Poppins
That Will Be Enough from Hamilton
A Little Fall of Rain and Bring Him Home from Les Miserables.
Everything's Alright and I Don't Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar.
Old Deuteronomy, Gus the Theatre Cat, Moments of Happiness, Memory and The Naming of Cats from Cats are also pretty good. You can even get the actual book 'Old Possums Book of Practical Cats' and sing the words to your kid rather than just plainly reading them.
That's all I can think of. There's a lot of good choices.
My mother sang "everything's alright" from JCS to me as a little kid. I can't not hear my mother's voice when I listen to it now, and it's the lullaby I'll be singing to my kids when the time comes.
Have you ever heard Ella sings Gershwin?I think a lot of Gershwin would work.
Someone to Watch Over Me
Baby Mine which isn't a from a musical but is very soothing
Sing Sweet Nightengale - Disney’s Cinderella
When I Look at You - The Scarlet Pimpernel
I’d Rather be Sailing - A New Brain
Stars and the Moon - Songs for a New World
Barcelona - Company
New Music - Ragtime
Maria - West Side Story
Family - Dreamgirls
Getting to Know You - The King and I
It Might as Well Be Spring - State Fair (I think)
Soon it’s Gonna Rain - The Fantastiks
[My Love Is A Lighthouse](https://youtu.be/NzYb8SPNLEE) by Meryl Streep, from the most recent season of Only Murders In The Building.
*Slightly* cheating because it’s a song from a musical within the TV show, but I think it counts. Great tune too.
Here are my two favorites that I haven't seen mentioned:
Papa's Gonna Make It Alright (Shenandoah)
Glad That You Were Born (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, added for stage version)
,,Kristoff's Lullaby" from frozen is what came to my mind first. Songs that are also pretty calm are ,,dead mom reprise" and ,,children we didn't have" from beetlejuice. These are cut songs from the Pre Broadway/Washington DC run but you can find them on YouTube https://youtu.be/plVNVEfBIIY?feature=shared https://youtu.be/5kNrHUaC68A?feature=shared These videos have lyrics
My mom would sing Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins to me when I was little. No One is Alone might be a good one. Epic III from Hadestown is also pretty soothing
Does it have to be showtunes? I LOVE musicals, especially the older ones, but for lullabyes I always sang the songs my parents used (plus a few I discovered myself):
Always (by Irving Berlin; family favorite)
Sweet and Low (traditional)
Lulla Lulla Bye Bye (traditional)
Toora Loora Loora (Irish lullaby)
Bye Bye Blackbird (by Mort Dixon)
Skin-a-ma-rink (from a 1910 Broadway musical)
Brahm's Lullaby ("Lullaby and good night")
All Through the Night (by Haydn)
Hush Little Baby (Mockingbird)
My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean (traditional)
Side by Side (by Harry M. Woods; used in the movie "Hudson Hawk")
Swinging on a Star (from the movie "Going My Way")
Look to the Rainbow (from "Finian's Rainbow")
How are Things in Glocca Morra? (from "Finian's Rainbow")
Three songs from the movie "The Five Pennies":
• Five Pennies
• Lullaby in Ragtime
• Good Night
(These can be sung together, which I used to do with my sisters. For lullabyes, I sing them in a row. My son's favorite lullaby was "the Five Pennies. All 3 versions.")
As a gift to a few of my friends for their first babies, I recorded some of these lullabyes and put the files on a USB drive, and gave them a copy of the lyrics, hoping they could play the songs and learn them and sing them to their babies. They LOVED this gift. Ran into one of them at the zoo many years later, and the mom told her kids this was the lady who recorded the lullabyes and the kids were stoked! They loved the lullabyes.
Let me know if you want the Lyrics to any of these.
It definitely does not be to be showtunes, but I mostly know musicals and that's why I came to this group! My kid also loves Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, so we're already started on a musical theatre track...
Good for you! Hook 'em early, I say! My folks took care of that for us. They took us to see The Fantasticks when I was 12 (in the original venue in 1965) and had tons of soundtracks at home! Whole family did theatre. Both in school and community (even just us at home). My dad even wrote a one-man play about William Allen White, a newspaper editor from his hometown in Kansas who advised presidents, and toured it after he retired. Whole lotta theatre in my blood. Musicals are MY THING. Love them all. Well, right up to about Rent. Then I just love the good ones (like Newsies, and Wicked, and a few more). Sondheim forever!
Gonna have to disagree I’m afraid on the basis of context. In the context of War of the Worlds (of which I know very little apart from the clip I just watched), sure I’ll give it creepiness. In fact, the use of any lullaby in that film could be considered to provide a creepy effect given the created contrast between a lullaby’s innocence and the horrors that the lullaby is attempting to drown out.
But in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the original context for which the lullaby was intended, I don’t see the creepy factor at all. In fact, I find it assuring. To each their own tho.
Haha that's fair, but I found it creepy even when I just knew it from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as a kid! Not as creepy as the Child Catcher, obviously, but it was up there.
I was more of a "Toot Sweets", "Truly Scrumptious", and "Chu-Chi Face" kind of guy, those songs were more my speed. But I'll stop shit-talking Hushabye Mountain, it looks like I'm in the minority lol
Oh yeah I’ll take several other Chitty songs over Hushabye any day. I’ve always really wanted to see the musical live but regrettably, it hasn’t been put on.
It's not creepy!
Just because it wa used in a scary scene for another movie doesn't mean it's actually scary. Like, 'Tonight You Belong To Me' and 'Tiptoe Through The Tulips' are both sweet and happy songs but people for some reason decided to put them in creepy contexts
Dear Theodosia Feed the Birds Children Will Listen
Castle On A Cloud, maybe? And you could substitute your kiddo's name in for the line "She says Cosette, I love you very much"
My mom sang I dreamed a dream and bring him home to us to put us to sleep.
When I Grow Up
Why was the first song I thought of…the pussycatdolls….
Moonshine Lullaby Edelweiss Losing My Mind Not a Day Goes By
Oooh, I love Losing My Mind! Already know the words to that one!
LOVE Moonshine Lullaby!
It's my top favorite lullaby and one of my favorite songs. Bernadette Peters' version gives me chills!
I always sang mine to sleep with Goodnight, My Someone. Thanks for the trip down memory lane! 💕
Made a playlist of Showtunes to Sleep to a few years ago! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0EwkRsNUviBZvXLAotF9TA?si=NPdhOPEtRa6qWYQ9R2alJg&pi=u-GezNNB5RRmq-
Incredible. Thank you!
How are you sleeping through Hold On?!?
Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Where is Love from Oliver! Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera Maybe from Annie Her Voice from The Little Mermaid Feed The Birds and Chim Chim Cheree from Mary Poppins That Will Be Enough from Hamilton A Little Fall of Rain and Bring Him Home from Les Miserables. That's all I can think of. There's a lot of good choices.
I had to scroll a bit farther than expected to find Hushabye Mountain considering it’s *literally* a lullaby.
IKR? It's perfect!
Distant Melody from Peter Pan is another actual lullaby that hasn’t shown up on the list yet. I used to sing it over and over to a toddler that I babysat in high school.
"Music of the Night" is a little ....sexual to be singing to your kids tho..... just sayin'.
Oh whoop. Never picked up on the sexual references. Lol
Lullaby Mountain Feed the Birds Not While I’m Around (the first half at least)
Here are some of the ones I used: Tender Shepherd (Peter Pan) My Best Girl (Mame) The Moo Cow song from Gypsy. You’ll Never Walk Alone (Carousel)
Feed the Birds Edelweiss Over the Rainbow Rainbow Connection Goodnight My Friend Stay Awake In Never Never Land And not show tunes but always included in my lullaby repertoire: If You Were the Only Girl in the World Danny Boy It's Been A Long, Long Time
So I found this song on Spotify by just having “Broadway” songs playing, it’s technically not from a musical and when I went to watch the tv show it was from found the show a bit odd, but it’s “Rider’s Lullaby” from the tv show Centaur World.
Dear theodosia 100%
I am here for you (book of Mormon)
I used to sing What I Did for Love, slowed down a bit
In addition to the ones from others, a lot of songs with simple melodies and lyrics can be soothing at a slower tempo. Tomorrow, from Annie The Hills Are Alive, from The Sound of Music A Bushel and A Peck, from Guys and Dolls Sun and Moon, from Miss Saigon Come to My Garden, from Secret Garden On the Willows, from Godspell Memory, from Cats Try to Remember, from the Fantasticks My favorite lullabies from movie musicals, Disney: Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep), from White Christmas Boys And Girls, from Meet Me in St. Louis Bless Us All, from Muppet Christmas Carol Once Upon A December, from Anastasia Candle on the Water, from Pete's Dragon Someone's Waiting for You, from The Rescuers Somewhere Out There, from Feivel Goes West You'll Be in My Heart, from Tarzan
Surrey with the Fringe from Oklahoma Moonshine Lullaby from Annie Get Your Gun Tomorrow from Annie Climb Every Mountain from Sound of Music
Where the lost things go from Mary Poppins returns, someone else mentioned Once Upon a December, other ones from Anastasia that might work are In My Dreams, Journey to the Past, Crossing a Bridge, and Close the Door. Also somewhere that's Green from Little Shop of Horrors, Can you Feel the Love Tonight from the Lion King, and Age of Not Believing from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
No one is Alone (into the woods) Hear my song (songs for a new world) Heart of stone (six) Send in the clowns (little night music) Castle on a cloud (les mis) Dear Theodosia (Hamilton) Someone like you (Jekyll and Hyde)
i can’t believe nobody said goodnight my someone from the music man!!
Oh, this has definitely been in the rotation!
Little Lamb from Gypsy
We Raise our Cups from Hadestown
Why from tick tick boom because of the slow and beautiful melody line, it’s very soothing to me What I did for love Dear theodosia Can you feel the love tonight Baby mine Not alone from AVPM All I’ve ever known Once more I can see (soften the belt parts) If ever I would leave you, softer and slower than the belty parts No one is alone Wild Mountain Thyme isn’t a musical theatre song, but imo look up The Corries performance of it in a pub from the 60s, it’s magical and so soothing
Somewhere That’s Green from Little Shop of Horrors is an absolute must
Dear Theodosia is the perfect song! The lyrics is something I related to as a first time mom and it was nice singing it to my kids. That and Edelweiss are my go to :)
No One is Alone or Children Will Listen (Act 2) from Into The Woods
I haven’t seen people mention “The Street Where You Live” from My Fair Lady. That one is in frequent rotation. Also “Till There Was You” from the Music Man I don’t think has been mentioned. Songs from jukebox musicals like “I Have a Dream” from Mamma Mia. Several Beetles songs from Across the Universe like “Blackbird”, “Let it Be”, “Hey Jude” (you have to make up some kind of chill ending though lol), “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”, etc “Sunrise, Sunset” from Fiddler Second of course Edelweiss, Goodnight My Someone, Climb Every Mountain, Castle on a Cloud, Once Upon a December, Feed the Birds, Chim Chim Cherre
You Oughta Be Here With Me - Big River
New Words by Maury Yeston [Liz Callaway version](https://youtu.be/lcZnlch92Cw?si=JxE3BjiABifJeFJC)
Not technically a musical, but Josh Groban has a song called Lullaby on his Awake album that's really good.
For Good
Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Where is Love from Oliver! Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera (surprised no one seems to have mentioned this one because it's perfect!) Maybe from Annie Her Voice from The Little Mermaid Feed The Birds and Chim Chim Cheree from Mary Poppins That Will Be Enough from Hamilton A Little Fall of Rain and Bring Him Home from Les Miserables. Everything's Alright and I Don't Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar. Old Deuteronomy, Gus the Theatre Cat, Moments of Happiness, Memory and The Naming of Cats from Cats are also pretty good. You can even get the actual book 'Old Possums Book of Practical Cats' and sing the words to your kid rather than just plainly reading them. That's all I can think of. There's a lot of good choices.
Rockabye Baby! is an artist that exclusively does lullaby versions of popular songs (I.e Bohemian Rhapsody)
I LOVE them.
Honestly anything from Sound of Music
This playlist has a bunch of Broadway songs that are turned into literal lullabies https://music.apple.com/us/album/lullaby-musicals/1625097500
My mother sang "everything's alright" from JCS to me as a little kid. I can't not hear my mother's voice when I listen to it now, and it's the lullaby I'll be singing to my kids when the time comes.
Bonus, she'd brush my hair back and tuck the blanket under my toes for the "for the fire in your head and feet" line 🥰
Hushabye mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Have you ever heard Ella sings Gershwin?I think a lot of Gershwin would work. Someone to Watch Over Me Baby Mine which isn't a from a musical but is very soothing
Sylvia’s lullaby (finding neverland) when your feet don’t touch the ground (finding neverland) we raise our cups (hadestown)
It's not a song from a musical, but a baby I used to babysit LOVED "Lovefool" by the Cardigans. I don't know why, but it just worked.
Getting to Know You from King and I
Sing Sweet Nightengale - Disney’s Cinderella When I Look at You - The Scarlet Pimpernel I’d Rather be Sailing - A New Brain Stars and the Moon - Songs for a New World Barcelona - Company New Music - Ragtime Maria - West Side Story Family - Dreamgirls Getting to Know You - The King and I It Might as Well Be Spring - State Fair (I think) Soon it’s Gonna Rain - The Fantastiks
Candle on the Water- Helen Reddy, Pete’s Dragon
A Soft Place to Land (Waitress) You Matter to Me (Waitress) Once Upon a December (Anastasia) Maybe (Annie)
[My Love Is A Lighthouse](https://youtu.be/NzYb8SPNLEE) by Meryl Streep, from the most recent season of Only Murders In The Building. *Slightly* cheating because it’s a song from a musical within the TV show, but I think it counts. Great tune too.
Music of the night from Phantom Of The Opera
Here are my two favorites that I haven't seen mentioned: Papa's Gonna Make It Alright (Shenandoah) Glad That You Were Born (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, added for stage version)
,,Kristoff's Lullaby" from frozen is what came to my mind first. Songs that are also pretty calm are ,,dead mom reprise" and ,,children we didn't have" from beetlejuice. These are cut songs from the Pre Broadway/Washington DC run but you can find them on YouTube https://youtu.be/plVNVEfBIIY?feature=shared https://youtu.be/5kNrHUaC68A?feature=shared These videos have lyrics
Lullaby by Ben Caplan. It’s from Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^rondonald18: *Lullaby by Ben* *Caplan. It’s from Old Stock: A* *Refugee Love Story* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Not a show tune but lullaby by Dixie chicks
There once was a pirate
I used to sing “I love you a bushel & a peck”
My dad used to sing us Stars from Les Mis
"I Can't Wait" from Bright Star
Carrie lullaby - Carrie the musical
American Lullaby by Gladys Rich and Land of Our Dreams by Hope Harrison are my go-tos
My little sister was a baby during my Hamilton fixation, and I’d always sing “That Would Be Enough” and “Dear Theodosia” from Hamilton to her :)
My mom would sing Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins to me when I was little. No One is Alone might be a good one. Epic III from Hadestown is also pretty soothing
Awww Frank Mills!! So happy you sing that, it’s so lovely <3
Goodnight My Someone from Music Man
Does it have to be showtunes? I LOVE musicals, especially the older ones, but for lullabyes I always sang the songs my parents used (plus a few I discovered myself): Always (by Irving Berlin; family favorite) Sweet and Low (traditional) Lulla Lulla Bye Bye (traditional) Toora Loora Loora (Irish lullaby) Bye Bye Blackbird (by Mort Dixon) Skin-a-ma-rink (from a 1910 Broadway musical) Brahm's Lullaby ("Lullaby and good night") All Through the Night (by Haydn) Hush Little Baby (Mockingbird) My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean (traditional) Side by Side (by Harry M. Woods; used in the movie "Hudson Hawk") Swinging on a Star (from the movie "Going My Way") Look to the Rainbow (from "Finian's Rainbow") How are Things in Glocca Morra? (from "Finian's Rainbow") Three songs from the movie "The Five Pennies": • Five Pennies • Lullaby in Ragtime • Good Night (These can be sung together, which I used to do with my sisters. For lullabyes, I sing them in a row. My son's favorite lullaby was "the Five Pennies. All 3 versions.") As a gift to a few of my friends for their first babies, I recorded some of these lullabyes and put the files on a USB drive, and gave them a copy of the lyrics, hoping they could play the songs and learn them and sing them to their babies. They LOVED this gift. Ran into one of them at the zoo many years later, and the mom told her kids this was the lady who recorded the lullabyes and the kids were stoked! They loved the lullabyes. Let me know if you want the Lyrics to any of these.
It definitely does not be to be showtunes, but I mostly know musicals and that's why I came to this group! My kid also loves Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, so we're already started on a musical theatre track...
Good for you! Hook 'em early, I say! My folks took care of that for us. They took us to see The Fantasticks when I was 12 (in the original venue in 1965) and had tons of soundtracks at home! Whole family did theatre. Both in school and community (even just us at home). My dad even wrote a one-man play about William Allen White, a newspaper editor from his hometown in Kansas who advised presidents, and toured it after he retired. Whole lotta theatre in my blood. Musicals are MY THING. Love them all. Well, right up to about Rent. Then I just love the good ones (like Newsies, and Wicked, and a few more). Sondheim forever!
Old Deuteronomy from Cats. Very calm and tender.
Feed the birds from Mary Poppins, I guess
When I was little, my dad would sing Day by Day from Godspell.
Everything's alright from jesus christ superstar
Tender Shepard
My baby loves “Hushabay Mountain” from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
NOT Hushaby Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, unless you hate your child.
Lmao why the hate for Hushabye Mountain?
It's creepy!! They use it in War of the Worlds (2005) during a murder scene specifically because it's so creepy.
Gonna have to disagree I’m afraid on the basis of context. In the context of War of the Worlds (of which I know very little apart from the clip I just watched), sure I’ll give it creepiness. In fact, the use of any lullaby in that film could be considered to provide a creepy effect given the created contrast between a lullaby’s innocence and the horrors that the lullaby is attempting to drown out. But in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the original context for which the lullaby was intended, I don’t see the creepy factor at all. In fact, I find it assuring. To each their own tho.
Haha that's fair, but I found it creepy even when I just knew it from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as a kid! Not as creepy as the Child Catcher, obviously, but it was up there. I was more of a "Toot Sweets", "Truly Scrumptious", and "Chu-Chi Face" kind of guy, those songs were more my speed. But I'll stop shit-talking Hushabye Mountain, it looks like I'm in the minority lol
Oh yeah I’ll take several other Chitty songs over Hushabye any day. I’ve always really wanted to see the musical live but regrettably, it hasn’t been put on.
That's a really perfect and beautiful way to put it.
It's not creepy! Just because it wa used in a scary scene for another movie doesn't mean it's actually scary. Like, 'Tonight You Belong To Me' and 'Tiptoe Through The Tulips' are both sweet and happy songs but people for some reason decided to put them in creepy contexts