Babylight - Songs of Everlasting Joy

Babylight CD Cover

"In today's world we don't have time to wait until these
children get into Primary or even Nursery to begin speaking to them about their divine heritage; we are to start at birth. We need more than 'Eensy Weensy Spider' and 'Baby Beluga'."

So said Linda Coltrin to me two years ago and started us on the journey that would produce "Babylight". Using the melodies of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig von Beethoven, Franz Josef Haydn, Richard Wagner, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt,
Antonin Dvorak, Giuseppe Verdi, Robert Schumann, Nicolai
Rimsky-Korsakov, Charles Gounod, Bedrich Smetana, Frederic Chopin, and some living composers (Jon Schmidt, Michael & Angela Webb, Coltrin & Romney) we began creating gentle songs that teach of our relationship to God and to each other in families.

Early on we were urged to take the Baby Einstein route and "keep the budget low". But we want our grandchildren to love organic and orchestral sounds and textures as well as the sounds modern technology allows. So our hearts over-ruled our heads…and we're not the least bit sorry!

Christeena Riggs (who played both Eponine and Cosette in Les
Miserables on Broadway) and David Osmond ("Joseph" in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat National Tour) sing the mother and father roles with great tenderness. And our child vocalists (Sarah Adamson, Zack Adamson, Jack Ahlander, Alex Brown, Hannah Huber, Ella Larson, Isaac Murdock, Brieanna Rodriguez) who ranged in age from three to eleven years old remind us that there is much we are to learn from them.

A wonderful spirit accompanies the singing of these songs. And the purpose of the CD is to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers by helping you sing these songs to your little ones. Eye-to-eye contact accompanied by singing creates a powerful bonding experience.

There will be finger play videos (similar in concept to "Eensy Weensy Spider" mentioned previously), background information on the artists and songs, and more at our website, www.childslight.com.

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  The latter part of 2007 has been filled to overflowing with projects I've loved being involved with: Kay Ward's "Near Unto Bethlehem" CD (see www.heritageartsrecordings.com), "Babylight" which is featured here, and the album I do in support of the Primary Sacrament Meeting Presentation each year. This year's Primary album is entitled "I Am A Child of God", and is also available on my "Products" page.
  In addition, I composed and recorded a new song for the Boy Scouts of America's "Learning For Life" program. That song is called "One Child At a Time" and will be posted to this website soon.
  I'm beginning three new projects I'll be excited to share with you as they get a little closer to completion. So come back often and see what's new—there will be a lot the first three months of 2008!

Here are some links to sites with which Clive is affiliated.

Enoch Train

Caboose

Bearfoot Band

UPHA

Clog America
Clog America is an organization of dancers and musicians that tour every year, sometimes twice, to countries throughout the world representing the United States in foreign folk festivals.

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Iba Designs is the web site of Clive's son Daniel. He has started a design studio which is responsible for this website as well as a few others floating around the world wide web.