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I have heard this before and I am skeptical. I doubt that any study conducted that reflects these findings randomly assigned children to classical music versus other music conditions.

Parents who play classical music for their children may tend to have children with higher math skills. This may be due to the music or it may be due to the heritability of mathematical ability. Parents with higher mathematical ability may have children with higher mathematical ability. They may also listen to classical music more often than parents with lower mathematical ability. The music didn't make the children smarter, the parents did. We can't make any conclusions without controlling for the genes of the parents.

Back on topic:

My daughter likes vocal jazz like Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Prima, and Harry Connick, Jr. She likes the following albums produced specifically for children:

Jazz for Kids: Sing Clap Wiggle & Shake I really like this album. It has a good variety and they're not overly childish songs.

Buzz Buzz by Laurie Berkner Some childish songs, but a good variety. I didn't like it at first, but now I don't mind it.

Songs I Heard by Harry Connick, Jr. A decent album with songs from Mary Poppins, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, The Sound of Music, and a few others. I do think that Harry Connick, Jr. is a bit bland though.

She also likes the Disney song collections. I'm really sick of Chim, Chimeny, Chim, Chimeny, Chim Chim, Cheroo, etc. My head is going to exploded if I hear the Mary Poppins tunes much more.