Precious Child – Love Songs & Lullabies Wins a Parents’ Choice Gold Award! Thank you to Parents’ Choice for this top honor!

Sophisticated instrumental arrangements, layered harmonies and tender lyrics add up to a lovely album of quiet-time songs created by the late guitarist Joe Beck (who played with Miles Davis and other jazz greats) and his collaborator, vocalist, musician and composer Darryl Tookes. Beck and Tookes’ original songs and arrangements of traditional lullabies (“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”; “Rock A Bye Baby,” “Brahm’s Lullaby”) come with a rhythmic beat, silky smooth harmonics and resonant parental love. Highlights: The joyful celebration of fatherhood in the title track; the warm reassurance of “Daddy’s Always Here,” and a deeply moving expression of the overwhelming desire parents feel protect their children from all dangers and hurts in “I Love You Too Much.”

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Thanks to Phil’s Picks for this amazing review of Precious Child. “There is pure musical beauty contained from beginning to end in this compilation of songs.” – philspicks. Precious Child – Love Songs & Lullabies Is One of This Year’s Most Surprisingly Enjoyable Children’s Albums

Tom Haugen reviewed the album for The Daily Vault.

As They Grow Up reviewed Precious Child – Love Songs & Lullabies. As They Grow Up: Precious Child CD Review.

Darryl Tookes was featured in the Huffington Post. “Friends Rain Plans, Love Songs & Lullabies: Conversations with Smokey Robinson, Israel Nash & Darryl Tookes” – Huffington Post.

Darryl was interviewed on News 12 on the program “Our Lives.” The full interview is on YouTube – Darryl Tookes – Precious Child: Love Songs & Lullabies Interview News 12.

The album has been reviewed for NYParenting, Take It From Me, and featured in the eHow article “10 Indie Kids’ Music That Adults Will Actually Want to Listen To.”

Check out producer Mary McKenna’s feature in the LoHud Journal News, The Feemont Tribune, and The Rockland Times. Way to go, Mary! “Pomona music producer releases album of lullabies” – LoHud Journal News. “FHS grad works with celebrites, produces CD” – Freemont Tribune. “Pomona Resident Promoting Children and Parents Album ‘Precious Child Love Songs & Lullabies” – Rockland Times.

Precious Child: Love Songs & Lullabies is available for purchase on iTunes

Or you can purchase a physical CD from the MGP Store