Mommy loves you, loves you baby.

This was my "oh wow" as "Suzie" was getting to sleep tonight; as I was listening to the lullaby music in her room.

Every night since they have been born, each of the girls has listened to the same CD, an out of print thing called "Love A Byes." I am not even sure how we got started with this. My guess is that "cheap ol Dad" found it on sale somewhere and bought it.

All in all, we have listened to parts of it with "Kenzo" for nearly eight years (roughly 2500 times), more than six years with "Mabel" (about 2000 listens) and most all of it every night as "Suzie" struggles to get settled (about 3500 times.) So in my time as a Dad I have heard this particular CD around 8,000 times.

Tonight I remembered the most thing amazing thing about this record, one that I hadn't thought of in years. On the CD, there is a brief little lilting song with the most simple of all lyrics:

"Mommy loves you, loves you baby. Mommy loves you, Mommy loves you.

Jesus loves you, loves you baby. Jesus loves you, Jesus loves you."

As I heard the song tonight, for the 8,001 time, I, for some strange reason, remembered back to when "Suzie" was six months old and very, very sick. As in intensive care unit for 10 days, on a ventilator, calling everyone in from out of town sick. After she had rounded the corner from the worst of the bacterial meningitis, we were moved into a private room.

The first night in that private room "Suzie" was having a horrible time sleeping. Her mom, my beautiful bride was mucho pregnato with child #2, so she was trying to catch up on some much-needed sleep after the anxiety of the previous days.

As a result, I spent most of the night sitting in a rocking chair with "Suzie." She had all kinds of tubes and wires and monitors so she could just not get comfortable. As ne newared around 3:00 am, I had sung her every song I knew and frankly out of desperation I started singing through the "Love A Byes" (which I had only heard about 150 times at that point.) I got to the "Mommy loves you" part and just began to insert any and all names my sleep -deprived mind could think of..."Nana loves you...Pop-Pop loves you...The mailman loves you..." Not much later I had run completely out of names, and decided to, what the heck, use the dogs names..."Bongo loves you, loves you baby..."

As I was singing the sweet song with the silly dog names, "Suzie" looked up at me and smiled. It was the first time since she had gotten so desperately sick that she had smiled. So I just kept on singing the dogs names, and she kept on smiling. "Briley loves you, loves you, love you baby."

I don't know why I haven't remembered that for such a long time. I guess the next 8000 listens won't be so bad after all.

Sweet dreams, everyone.

Comments

[Amy]

Hi! I actually ran across your site by searching on google for the very cd that you described. It is indeed out of print, and I can find it nowhere! I grew up with it too :) Anyway, I thought the story you shared was really sweet! Amazing how songs can bring vivid memories to mind. Blessings,

Amy

[Rebecca]

I also grew up with Love-a-byes. But one day, when I was trying to play it in my radio-clock-tape deck, it started sounding funny, so I fast forwarded it. Unfortunately, this ruined the tape. My dad said he could fix it, but I knew it would never be the same again. The tape was given to me by my great aunt for Christmas one year, but it felt like I had had it forever. When I broke it, a special part of my life was destroyed. One day when I was scrolling through our email, I noticed one about loveabyes. I eagerly opened it, to find out that my mom had been looking for a recording for me. Sadly, it was no longer available anywhere, so I gave up hope of ever hearing it again. But then, just last Saturday, I received a new cd for my birthday. It was entitled `Love-a-byes; Quiet Songs of Love`. My original copy had been quiet songs of god`s love, but this one had only the words changed. Thankfully, I still remember what I consider to be the original words, and sing them in my head. Mom is still looking for `my` copy, but for now I will be satisfyed with this one. It`s nice to know that there are still some copies out there, somewhere.

[Lisa Coonan]

I also have sung this CD to both of my girls and many daycare children over the years. I have it on cassette and would give anything to get it on CD. It is the best!! And believe me I have heard many lullaby cd's over the years. If anyone ever finds it, please contact me at lcoonan@comcast.net.
Thanks!!

[Rheannon Adams]

My mother bought this "Love-a-byes" cassette when my first son was born over 11 years ago.It has been the center of our bedtime routine with our six kids from the day they were all born. Needless to say, I know all the songs by heart!! What I love even more is the message the words can say to you as a mom. They're like love notes from God, the way He truely sees us,thinks about us,and wishes for us and our future with Him. I too, wish this was on CD and would love more info on the writers, producers and singers. jcadams7@msn.com

[Rheannon Adams]

I think I might have found a copy @ www.swordpublishers.com/SWMusic.htm

[Nancy McClain]

Our only son recieved "Love-a-byes" at our baby shower in 1988. We listened to it all the time. My son got his hands on it when he was small and tore it up, we luckily found another copy that year, but I have since lost it. We have 3 beautiful grandbabies and would love to share that with them. I hated to hear that it is out of print. But I am now glad to know the exact name of the tape

[Nancy McClain]

Our only son recieved "Love-a-byes" at our baby shower in 1988. We listened to it all the time. My son got his hands on it when he was small and tore it up, we luckily found another copy that year, but I have since lost it. We have 3 beautiful grandbabies and would love to share that with them. I hated to hear that it is out of print. But I am now glad to know the exact name of the tape

[Julie]

This CD was produced by Brentwood Music. The CD and Tapes have two different covers for their artwork; I have owned both of them. I wish they would re-produce it, or I wish you could find it on Itunes. My daughter still has a copy of the CD, with most songs intact. I can try to find out more info for anyone if they want me too. fourbluesixpink@yahoo.com

[Julie]

Right now, someone on ebay has a copy of Love-A-Byes for sale. (Today is December 28, 2007) It is item number: 370009382418.

Julie

[beni]

Really perfect!l

[Jordan]

Aww my mom used to sing this to me when i was a little boy, i used to get sad when i listened to it

[Steve & Christine Peloquin]

We are going to try to hook up a cable between our Steroe and Computer to record the casette onto the computer and then write the songs onto a cd. I will let you know if it works (it should) and let you all know how to do it.

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Don't loose hope if you're looking for the cd. I just happened to search it on ebay today and there it was. Needless to say it's now mine, but there must be more out there. My 4 siblings and I grew up listening to the tape before we went to bed. Now that I'm pregnant with my first child, I couldn't imagine them growing up without the same songs to fall asleep to.

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[Thomas]

Regarding Love-A-Byes: Quiet Songs of God's Love

My mother recently called up Brentwood and they were able to send her a copy of the CD. I grew up with the cassette but we lost it, still having the CD is better than nothing. (I do not know if Brentwood can make a copy of the cassette ... she didn't think to ask at the time)