John Cech

That’s Michael Armstrong performing a glockenspiel, mellotron, and vibraphone version of the Eagle’s famous “Hotel California,” on a new series of CDs called Rockabye Baby! from Baby Rock Records.

“Sakura, Sakura” that describes their beautiful (and all-too-fleeting) flowers. Listen closely, and you can hear the blossoms falling.

That’s the African Children’s Choir with their glad spin on the ancient African saying, “It takes a village to raise a child.”

This is the melancholy first notes for Young Andersen, a new film from Denmark about the teenage years of Hans Christian Andersen, who was born this week in 1805.

That’s John Lithgow with the chorus for the famous Jimmy Durante number “Inka Dinka Doo.” It’s on a new CD of upbeat sing-along songs for kids and their families called The Sunny Side of the Street.

That’s Jerry Garcia and David Grisman with their nonsense song, “Hopalong Peter.” It’s on a new CD called Bright Spaces 2, a compilation of songs from growing artists who are redeveloping that new/old genre that’s called family music.