To give you an idea of our "style", the songs for her first slideshow were:What Can I Do But Love You by Joy Williams, Shes Gotta Way by Billy Joel, and 1,2,3,4 by The Plain White Ts (right? I never remember who sings that).
Here are the few Im thinking about for this year, but Id love other ideas of any genre: Life Less Ordinary by Carbon Leaf, Father Daughter by Al Simon, Everybody by Ingrid Micaelson, Charmed Life by Joy Williams (what is with me and Joy Williams!?)
Re: Songs for a birthday slideshow?
Here are a few we used for DDs 1st birthday slideshow:
Smile - Uncle Cracker
I hope you Dance - Lee Ann Womack
My Little Girl - Jack Johnson
My Wish - Rascal Flatts
Hope this helps.
Picture Book by the Kinks
Everything by Ben Harper
My Darling by Wilco
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This is what we used for my son's 1st year slideshow:
Lullaby- Dixie Chicks
Smile- Uncle Kracker
Songbird- Fleetwood Mac (although we used the Glee version bc I liked the sound of it better)
I don't know if you are using whole songs or segments of songs but the Never Grow Up song by Taylor Swift is so adorable. Towards the end it doesn't really fit for a baby's slideshow but I used that for my title screen song, just the beginning of it.