the world sings goodnight</itle> </head> <body bgcolor="#330099" text="white" alink="#ffb592" link="#ffdb0a" vlink="#ef8b55"> <img src="country.gif" width="680" height="14" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="0"> <p><img src="pg.2lullscript.gif" width="390" height="86" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3"></p> <p> <table width="580" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" height="525"> <tr height="245"> <td width="33%" height="245"> <img src="littledrum.jpeg" width="72" height="132" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3"><img src="senegal.gif" width="72" height="24" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3">Yammar Thiam- official royal drummer of Senegal - sings in the Senegalize native language "woluff". He could not conceive of singing a lullaby without a baby to lull to sleep, so he tenderly cradled his drum and began to sing.</td> <td width="33%" height="245"><img src="sweden.gif" width="72" height="24" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3">Kai Soderman is famous in his homeland consisdered the "Frank Sinatra of Sweden". He raised his children in America where he often sang them a haunting lullaby about the tender birch tree asleep in the ground during the long winter. <p><img src="littledutch.jpeg" width="65" height="80" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3"> </td> <td width="34%" height="245"><img src="littleharp.jpeg" width="72" height="75" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3"><img src="israel.gif" width="72" height="24" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3"> The lullaby from Israel sung by Keri Ben-zvi is also a prayer "oh Lord, I pray these things never end: The sand and the sea, the rush of the water, the crash of the heavens, the prayer of the heart".</td> </tr> <tr height="232"> <td width="33%" height="232"><img src="littlebali.jpeg" width="58" height="85" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3"> <img src="vietnam.gif" width="86" height="24" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3">In the lullaby from Vietnam, sung by Duong Kim Loi, a mother promises to help her child over the creaking, swaying unstable bamboo bridges of Vietnam. And thus help him on his path.</td> <td width="33%" height="232"> <div align="right"> <img src="nepal.gif" width="86" height="24" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3">In the Nepalese lullaby, a poor mother pleads with her baby to go to sleep so she can leave her child with her in-laws and go to work in the fields. </div> <div align="right"> <p><img src="littleegypt.jpeg" width="100" height="114" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="0"></div> </td> <td width="34%" height="232"> <img src="littleperu.jpeg" width="58" height="87" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3"><img src="bolivia.gif" width="94" height="24" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3">In the sad little lullaby from Bolivia sung by Marcella Illanes, the refrain cries "sawdust to the children of San Juan, they ask for bread but they get none, they ask for cheese but get only bones".</td> </tr> <tr height="27"> <td width="33%" height="27"> </td> <td width="33%" height="27"> </td> <td width="34%" height="27"> </td> </tr> </table> <img src="pg.2albscript.gif" width="432" height="86" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3"></p> <center> <p><img src="wsg1big.jpeg" width="158" height="153" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3"></p> </center> <center> <p><font size="6">THE WORLD SINGS GOODNIGHT</font></p> </center> <center> <p><font size="6"><i>#3 on Billboard magazine's World music chart</i></font></p> </center> <center> <p><font size="5"><i>"Poignantly powerful...global lessons on love, togetherness"</i></font> <font size="1"><i>Chicago Tribune</i></font></p> </center> <center> <p><font size="4"><i>"The songs offer a sense of comfort and peace not only to children, but to adults as well."</i></font><font size="4"> </font><font size="2"><i>The Christian Science Monitor</i></font></p> </center> <center> <p> <table width="268" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <center> A GLORIOUS COLLECTION of lullabies from 33 cultures around the world including Nepal, Argentina, Sweden, Egypt and Switzerland. All these tender songs are sung by real folks: grandmothers, brothers, aunts and nannies, all singing in their native languages</center> <center> <p><a href="connex.html"><font size="2"><i>ordering info</i></font></a></center> </td> </tr> </table> </p> </center> <center> <p> </p> </center> <center> <p><img src="ws2big.jpeg" width="139" height="140" align="BOTTOM" naturalsizeflag="3"></p> </center> <center> <p><font size="6">THE WORLD SINGS GOODNIGHT</font><font size="7"> </font><font size="5"><i>Volume 2</i></font></p> </center> <center> <p><font size="6"><i>Sales benefit "Save the Children"</i></font></p> </center> <center> <p><font size="4"><i>As an encore to the becalming first edition...</i></font></p> </center> <center> <p><font size="4"><i>moving and intimate lullabies from around the world.</i></font><font size="4"> </font><font size="2"><i>Connecting Link</i></font></p> </center> <center> <p><font size="4"><i>"The lullabies speak deeply about who we are as a world community of people...pristinely beautiful..."</i></font><font size="4"> </font><font size="2"><i>The Denver Post</i></font></p> </center> <center> <p> <table width="268" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <center> A LUMINOUS ENCORE for the much acclaimed volume of lullabies from around the globe. One-of-a-kind songs from Ireland, the Gypsy culture, Lebanon, Hawaii, Serbia, Indonesia and many more. 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