Developing brains need songs. Research is clear on that. Songs awaken memories too. They're the hooks to hang your memories on. They're also very useful in engaging kids in learning, and in creating lively classrooms.
Recordings are good, but our own voices are better.
So I hope you'll sing, even if you don't feel you're very good at it. Use recordings to learn a song, to appreciate how someone else does it, to sing along. Parents and teachers today must prepare children for an unfamiliar technological frontier, far from traditional choices and boundaries. Our children will confront the challenge of pushing on humanity's borders, and they will travel in the company of rapidly evolving species of virtual companions. In the long run, the best preparation may be simply to help them become as human as possible.