Birthday Mix for the Six-year-old.

For the third year running, we've kept track of songs Liv has liked and put them on a CD as a mix. Then we make copies and hand them out at her birthday in "goody bags." I hope that we can look back fondly on the music that has interested our NOW SIX YEAR OLD GIRL (wow!). For the record, the songs of 2009 were:

• Carmen Suite: Habanera - Bizet
• Carmencita - Devendra Banhard
• Comic Strip - Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot
• Do The Del Viking - Patrice Holloway
• Escribeme Pronto - Mexican Institute of Sound
• Give Me A Kiss - Van Morrison
• Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
• Good To Sea - Pinback
• Harmony - Sly and the Family Stone
• Heat Wave - Martha and the Vandellas
• Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain and Tenille
• Pairon Main Bandan Hai - from the film Meer Saara
• Photosynthesis - The Hot Toddies
• Red Sun - Anoushka Shankar
• Search and Destroy - Peaches
• Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
• Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - She and Him
• Yes We Can Can - Pointer Sisters (*)
• You Are the Blood - Sufjan Stevens

(*) Liv told me today that the Pointer Sisters song is a mistake, she didn't ask for it. And I remembered that she spent a few weeks asking for "Rock the Casbah." So mistakes were made!