Children's Records! Do you remember yours?

sharon lois and bram..bought it again recently for my kids but wasn't in very good shape..


Bob Schneider - Listen to the Children.. i remember seeing him at my local library and my parents had this record

 

I have no idea why I remember this one but I do. I had several 78s and this was one of them. Haven't heard it in over 55 years but here it is on YouTube.

 

My first Sun Ra record.

 

I had a nice assortment of Disney records. Some of them would be re-bought due loss or damage but this was a one & done. FWIW it failed to get me in the Mouseketeers.

 

Did you at least have the hat?

 

Not something I bought. Probably a hand-me-down.

Despite the claim that everyone in the family would be entertained, I don't believe anyone was.

 

One thing about this album (edit--WALT DISNEY'S MERRIEST SONGS, Disneyland DL 3510, from 1968), you couldn't in one sense classify it as a kiddie record--the bass response isn't rolled off to allow it to track on your typical kiddie player. It will skip all over the place on them. (I found that out all too well as a kid. Found a nice copy again just a few years ago.) But play it on quality equipment, and you'll be in for a few surprises.

 

The Stooges didn't but Canned Heat did (WARNING: This is awful!):

 

Yes I do,but they were all-DOO-WOP!!

 

Frankie Howerd - Peter & The Wolf

Second record bought for me by my parents, I was aged 6 years old.

 

Did Peter tame the Wolf with LSD in this version?!

 

I know! Even worse, Howerd’s schtick, having found success with Up Pompeii! - Wikipedia ! was full of double entendres and innuendo - looking back on it I have no idea what my parents were thinking, unless it was that I would be listening to it a lot, so they might as well enjoy it also...

 

That I can distinctly remember?

The Soupy Sales Show, 1961.

 

Belated addition to the thread, but being born in the 90s I had cassettes. Some of my favourite ones were:

The Muppets - Favourite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets
Play School (Australian kids' TV show) - There's a Bear In There, Oomba Baroomba
Raffi - Singable Songs for the Very Young, More Singable Songs
Sesame Street - Born to Add, Sesame Road
The Wiggles - Yummy Yummy, Big Red Car
Various - Two, Three (from the 0-9 series, where Australian rock artists did cover versions of songs like Let's Twist Again and See Ya Later Alligator)

Also managed to pick up vinyl copies of There's a Bear In There, More Singable Songs and the 0-9 series during my collecting adventures the last few years; now to track down Singable Songs for the Very Young (I wore out about 5 copies of that album on cassette).

 

Over the past few years, I've been trying to put together a complete collection of Young People's Records and Children's Records Guild recordings which were put out on 78 (and later, 45 and LP) from about 1946 through the early 1950s. Between the two labels, they released about 190 or so recordings, of which I have about 160. If anyone would like to have a listen to any of these, here is a YouTube playlist.

Young People's Records / Children's Record Guild - YouTube

 

I had this one. Wasn't till I thought to look it up on YouTube just now that I found out the voice was Pinto Colvig, who did Goofy for Disney — and also, for a year or so, Bluto on the Max Fleischer Popeyes. (Note that the YouTube poster misspelled his name.)

 

Here's one I listened to again and again as a kid. Speaking of great voice talent — Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd) and June Foray (all the female characters)!

Funny thing is, I didn't have the picture book that went with this, only the record. So I just used my imagination.

After more years than I'd care to tell, I saw the picture book for the very first time when looking this up on YouTube just now.

 

The first I remember was a set of 78s of Johnny Mercer singing songs and telling the Tales from Uncle Remus.
Kind of a Walt Disney's Song of the South soundtrack for kids.

 

One more post that may relate to the overall intent of this forum even better.

I had two 45s as a kid that were versions of "Catch a Falling Star" and "Purple People Eater." Thing is, they were kids-label knock-offs, rather than the genuine recordings by Perry Como and Sheb Wooley.

Several years later, when I finally heard the actual hit versions of these two songs, they sounded "funny" to me because I was so used to the versions I'd listened to so often in my younger days.

 

The Story of Return of the Jedi LP and picture book.

 

When I was really young, my records were primarily Disney productions. The Jungle Book, Mary Poppins, The Haunted Mansion, etc. They featured stories plus music. Slightly older, I'd get records for my birthday or Christmas and they were usually bugglegum type compilations. (Think 1910 Fruitgum Company - and "Yummy Yummy Yummy.") My family also had a couple Monkees albums, which I still associate with bubblegum rock, which is probably why I still have no interest in them. And of course The Archies, who additionally gave way to an awkward sexual awakening. That Veronica and those short skirts, man. But I digress.

Slightly older still, it was all Elvis (Presley) all of the time because that's what my mom listened to. In fact my first concert was in '76 as a boy of 12 was seeing Elvis at the Syracuse War Memorial. Then I started listening to my sister's 45s and K-Tel comps, eventually getting one of the latter myself.

After that I explored my own music. My first love was ELO and that holds true today. But hey, Elvis is still cool as well.

 

Let me think back...

I had a record of "Peter and the Wolf", which helped teach me the sounds of different instruments.

I had a record of "Tubby the Tuba".

I had a couple of those records where you set the mirrored carousel on the spindle and you could watch the cartoon characters on the label move.

Later I got some Disney soundtracks like "Peter Pan".

I had a set of LPs that had various genres of music on each. One had folk songs like "The Erie Canal" and "John Henry". One was classical music. My favorite was all Gilbert and Sullivan - I especially loved that one!

 

I remember having a couple Disney albums as well as a CD of Thomas the Tank Engine songs as a kid, loved both.

 

Humphrey B Bear ! 2 volumes to this