4 Classic Rock Artists Singing Famous Lullabies

When it comes to classic rock, songs don’t just range from those that will enliven your spirit to those that will make you shed a tear as you think of your long lost love. Sometimes classic rock icons will take up their six-strings and get behind a microphone and sing their heart out, performing a child’s lullaby. Hey, even they have kids who need to get to bed, right?

Here below, we wanted to explore four such examples. A quartet of tracks that demonstrate some of the biggest names in classic rock singing three lullabies we all know well. But this time it’s not your aunt or grandmother singing them sweetly in your ear—it’s a famous rocker. Indeed, these are four classic rock artists singing famous lullabies.

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“3 Is the Magic Number” by Jeff Buckley (1995)

While Jeff Buckley passed away young and sadly didn’t enjoy a lengthy music career, he did leave music fans with one of the greatest rock albums of all time, Grace. But he also left fans with a great rendition of the Schoolhouse Rock song “3 Is the Magic Number,” which was originally written for the educational cartoon by Bob Dorough. Want to hear a bootleg version from the mid-’90s of one of the greatest singers ever croon out about why the number three is so great? This is your jam.

“Hush, Little Baby” by Lisa Loeb from Nursery Rhyme Parade! (2016)

Known for her song “Stay (I Missed You),” the 1990s songwriting star Lisa Loeb later turned to recording kids’ music. And one of her best is a soft, sweet rendition of “Hush, Little Baby” from her 2016 album Nursery Rhyme Parade! Loeb knows how to get an audience into the palm of her hands and especially so when it’s a group of youngsters. Check out why here below.

“Three Blind Mice” by Chris Ballew (aka Caspar Babypants) from Here I Am (2009)

This song comes from the debut album from Chris Ballew’s alter ego, Caspar Babypants, which he created to write and record kids music. Fans of the frontman for the 1990s rock band The Presidents of the United States of America can check out his goofier side here as he performs a rendition of the classic kids nursery rhyme “Three Blind Mice.”

“The Itsy Bitsy Spider” by Little Richard from For Our Children (1993)

This is a song you might not believe is real until you hear it—the iconic singer Little Richard performing a rendition of the rainy day nursery rhyme, “The Itsy Bitsy Spider.” Check out his vibrant voice as he sings about the water spout and the spider crawling up it on a damp day for the 1993 Disney album For Our Children.

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