Another.

Baby Snooze-A-Thon Motel:

At Last - Etta James
Azure - Ella Fitzgerald
When You Wish Upon A Star - Petra Haden And Bill Frisell
Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten
I Won't Grow Up - Rickie Lee Jones
Rickover's Dream - Michael Hedges
Bear Swim - Richard Thompson
Nature Boy - Big Star
Contrapunctus IV - Glenn Gould (piano side)
Rothko Chapel 5 - Morton Feldman
I Am a Cinematographer - The Palace Brothers
After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
River Man - Nick Drake
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Leo Kottke
Rock 'N' Roll Singer - Mark Kozelek
Lazy Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
The Dark End of the Street [Live] - Richard & Linda Thompson
Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine
I Had a Dream - K. McCarty
Boa Constrictor - The Magnetic Fields
Dragonflies - Devendra Banhart
Thicker Than a Smokey - Gary Higgins
Bird on a Wire - Johnny Cash
I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos
When She Sang About Angels - The Go-Betweens
I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton

Here's an up mix.

Baby Dance Party!:

ABC - Jackson Five
I Want Candy - The Strangeloves
Do You Wanna Dance? - The Ramones
Go Monkey Go - Devo
Hoodoo Voodoo - Billy Bragg/Wilco
Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen
Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Don't Tell Your Mama, Don't Tell Your Papa - Beau Jocque
Memphis Exorcism - Squirrel Nut Zippers
Guns of Navarone - The Skatalites
Rivers Of Babylon - The Melodians
Mâ - Tom Zé
Mah-Na-Mah-Na
007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
My Adidas - Run-DMC
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) - Michael Jackson
Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express
Get Rhythm - Johnny Cash
I'm a Little Dinosaur [Live] - Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
Gimme Gimme Good Lovin - Crazy Elephant
Picture Book - The Kinks
Sheena Is a Punk Rocker - The Ramones
Psycho - The Sonics
Let`s Have A Party - Wanda Jackson
Three Is A Magic Number - Bob Dorough

Oh, wow, these are wonderful guys. I don't even plan on having kids, but if I did I'd want them to go to bed listening to this!

I guess I'm thinking of songs with sitars that became hits/popular in their own right, not because they were covers of already popular songs.

I don't think "Norwegian Wood" was released as a single, but there's I find something irresistible about the sound. And nobody can accuse me of being Beatles-centric.

Edited to fix perceived typo.

If you have some favorites for kids, I'd love suggestions.

Also, I was waiting for his arrival, but I was planning on sending you my standard "new kid" music package (now with world music!). I'll go ahead and send now if you're prepping things already. If you already have any of them, let me know.

For future reference of those interested, I usually include:
Disney Songs the Satchmo Way (if available)
Bernstein's Children's Classics (Prokofiev, Saint-Saens, Britten)
Not for Kids Only (Jerry Garcia, David Grisman)
African Playground (Putumayo)

ETA: line breaks!

Best '60s pop use of sitar - "Mother's Little Helper"?

I'd go with "Paint it Black" over "Mother's Little Helper". At least I seem to recall there's sitar when I play the song in my head - it may be the monkey crack talking.

I'd go with "Paint it Black" over "Mother's Little Helper".

They both definitely rank highly....

Now I'm wondering - how big of a "fad" was the sitar back in the psychedelic days? I know the Beatles really popularized it and the Stones jumped on the bandwagon (and then jumped off shortly after) - how many other popular rock groups of that era used the sitar?

Feeling cautiously optimistic, I downloaded iTunes 7 last night. I'm down 17 songs, from 27,932 to 27,915, but I guess they could have been duplicates.

I don't know how much of a fad the sitar was. You don't hear it that much on either of the Nuggets sets, for instance, but that may have had a lot to do with price.

megan - I do not have ANY of those. feel free to wait until he arrives. I think the mixes I am making will only be on my iPod. I do not plan to take a computer or a CD player since bag space will be a huge issue (orphanage supplies going over and items from Ethiopia for our house on the way back). IOW - THANKS!

I know the Beatles really popularized it and the Stones jumped on the bandwagon (and then jumped off shortly after) - how many other popular rock groups of that era used the sitar?

I'm reading Marianne Faithfull's autobiography now (great read, incidentally! Drugs! Sex! Dressing up in funny costumes! Travel to exotic locations! Gossip!) and they certainly listened to a lot of sitar. It was de rigeuer for dropping acid. But using sitar in pop songs wasn't nearly as common as other sixties musical fads like the electric harpsichord (my fav) or the Moog.