“i will hold your tiny hand”
Parents' Choice GOLD Award
American Library Association Notable Children's Recording
Children's Music Web Award:
Classic Lullaby

Special Thanks:
Don and John for being lifetime soul buddies and always sharing wonderful arrangement and production suggestions. Sarah for her dedication and ever beautiful voice. Jeff Berkson and Brad Hall for the gifts of their friendship and their songs. Tom Greensfelder for so beautifully realizing the obtuse suggestion of "elegant but playful." Mark Levison for his valuable assistance and good natured cattle prodding. Q and Ross for their years of friendship and patience. My extended family of musicians and friends who have supported this project from the beginning for having given so willingly of their time and talents.

Dedication:
This project has truly been a labor of love - the love of the family into which I was so fortunate to have been born and the love of my own young family of which I am so fortunate to be a part. It is all about family. It is always about family.

But this is most specifically dedicated to Bea, to Robert, to Mom, to Ken, and to dear old Dad, who, if he were still alive, would be certain to be good for at least a couple hundred copies. I love you all.

Arranged, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by:
Steve Rashid between January 1989 and August 1992.

Recorded at:
Q&R Recording Studios and Woodside Avenue Music Productions, Inc.

Digitally mixed and mastered at:
Woodside Avenue Music Productions, Inc.

Also thanks to:
Paul Barrosse and Victoria Zielinski, Sam Fishkin, Tim Hale, Nicole Hollander, Doug Lyke, Justin Niebank, Suzanne Plunkett, Ralph Quinney, Mark Springer, Jim Duncan and Konrad Strauss.

Front cover photo by:
Robert G. Rashid, Sr. (That's Dad and me when I was 2 1/2)

Design by:
Tom Greensfelder, printed in Canada

Except as noted, all songs copyright and published 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 Steve Rashid, Used Camel Music - BMI

From Night Until Dawn choreography by Bea Rashid.

This recording © (p) 1992 Steve Rashid

Contact Information:
Woodside Avenue Music Productions, Inc.
1618 Orrington Avenue, Suite 203
Evanston, IL 60201
847.864.6655

"Cozy enough to soothe even the crankiest child and enchant the ears of weary parents . . . This is the ideal way to unwind."
Pamela Goodes and Linda Wallace
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

"Jazzy, sophisticated lullabies."
Karin DeStefano and Kimberly Seals
CHILD MAGAZINE

"This is the coolest -- in the warmest way possible . . . with lyrics as stunning as the arrangements. These are love songs of the highest caliber."
Joan Logghe
MOTHERING MAGAZINE

"Man this is good stuff! You can't just sing this to a kid -- you gotta play this on the radio! It's for young'ns and it's for us older ones, too."
Spike O'Dell
WGN RADIO

"Steve Rashid's warm vocals are ideal for the blend of jazz and rock, folk and pure fun delivered here."
Jim Chase
L.A. PARENT

"It's wonderful, a 12-tune collection that is at once charming, sophisticated, tender and witty."
Rick Kogan
CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"This is music that honors not only the child who listens but the childlike quality in everyone who hears it"
Stuart Rosenberg
WBEZ RADIO

" . . . evening songs and lullabies that come from the heart and soothe the spirit. These are gentle songs that are as comfortable as an old rocking chair."
Nancy Maes
CHICAGO TRIBUNE