Songs from a Parent to a Child

Songs from a Parent to a Child
Studio album by Art Garfunkel
Released	June 3, 1997
Recorded	1997
Genre	Folk
Length	36:01
Label	Columbia
Producer	Art Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel chronology
Across America (1997) Songs from a Parent to a Child (1997) Simply The Best (1998)

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Songs from a Parent to a Child is the eighth solo studio album by Art Garfunkel and his first new studio release since Lefty nine years earlier. Released as a concept album in 1997, it features his son, wife and a host of celebrity musicians, and was built on the concept of children's songs. The cover photograph was taken by Douglas Foulke on Bow Bridge, Central Park, New York City. The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Album for Children.

Track listing

1. "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?" (Traditional) - 1:51
2. "Morning Has Broken" (Eleanor Farjeon) - 2:53
3. "Daydream" (John Sebastian) - 2:44
4. "Baby Mine" (Ned Washington, Frank Churchill) - 3:39
5. "Secret O' Life" (James Taylor) – 3:36
6. "The Things We've Handed Down" (Marc Cohn) - 4:37
7. "You're A Wonderful One" (Holland–Dozier–Holland) - 3:12
8. "Good Luck Charm" (Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold) - 2:26
9. "I Will" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:17
10. "Lasso The Moon" (Billy Simon, Lowell Alexander) - 3:28
11. "Dreamland" (Mary Chapin Carpenter) - 3:10
12. "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (Reprise)" (Traditional) - 1:41
13. "The Lord's Prayer / Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" (Albert Hay Malotte/Traditional) - 3:52

Personnel

• Art Garfunkel – vocals
• James Garfunkel, Kim Garfunkel, Merry Clayton, Maxine Waters, Julia Tillman Waters – backing vocals
• Steve Gadd, Bill Maxwell, Russ Kunkel, Chris Parker – drums
• Lee Sklar, Mark Egan, Freddie Washington – bass guitar
• Warren Bernhardt – piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ B3
• Eric Weissberg – dobro, acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin
• Billy Preston – piano, Hammond organ
• John Sebastian - guitar, harmonica, whistling
• Paulinho da Costa, Raphael Padilla – percussion
• Dean Parks, Tony Maiden, Stuart Breed – guitar
• Oscar Brashear – trumpet
• Curtis Amy – tenor saxophone
• Bob McChesney – trombone
• Jeff Mironov – electric guitar
• Dan Higgins, Lisa Edelstein – flute
• Joseph Stone – oboe, English horn
• Jimmy Webb – piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ