Awesome Children's Records: S&D etc

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hey y'all, just got back from Thanksgiving at my parents house' and found my stash of kiddie records that I kept from when I was a kid. along with The Count Counts and On Top of Spaghetti, I saved my collection of [i]Let's Pretend[i] records - an amazing radio-play series of fairy tales and chilren's literature acted out with full sound effects, music and everything. I'd listen to these for days - pure imagination mind movies, which is what the best children's records provide.

And they had super 70s psychedelic covers too -

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/lets-pretend1-panorama.jpg

post your favorites, memories, phonographs, anything to do w/ the greasy kids' stuff.

black lightning light (herb albert), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Tin T Hall's childrens records is awesome!

ian, Saturday, 19 December 2009 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link

TOM T Hall.

ian, Saturday, 19 December 2009 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/4448/4b2882c960556102413b.jpg
this Popeye picture disk was my favorite record as a kid

that and some Howdy Doody 45s handed down from my dad

professional log roller Lizzie Hoeschler (los blue jeans), Saturday, 19 December 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

We have that Popeye picture disc at the store where I work right now.

IMO, the best kid record I am aware of is this Seasame Street record full of funky soul:

http://www.vaiden.net/roosevelt_franklin.jpg

Kelsey Glamour (Nijoli), Sunday, 3 January 2010 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link

where do you work Nij?

ian, Sunday, 3 January 2010 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link

This one has a nice album jacket by Michael Hurley, who I believe recorded for the same label:

http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=4125&name=Will+Wright+%26+Jim+Reiman

Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 3 January 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link

the one Hurley LP on Rooster is nearly impossible to find!

ian, Monday, 4 January 2010 00:04 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah they all burned up in a barn fire along with the masters, kind of puts a damper on things!

sleeve, Monday, 4 January 2010 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link

but great, now I have another impossible-to-find LP to seek out for my Hurley collection.

sleeve, Monday, 4 January 2010 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link

(I mean the kids' one)

sleeve, Monday, 4 January 2010 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.arawa.fm/2009/12/pac-man-xmas.html

this pacman record sounds twisted

jaxon, Monday, 4 January 2010 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link

I've only got the cd, but the Bruce Haack - The Electronic Record For Children is super fab

jaxon, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about... if anyone has kids or wants to check 'em out, mp3s here - http://www.artsreformation.com/records/ . I loaded them up on my daughter's new mp3 player so I don't have to flip (or wear out) the records anymore.

and they're extra great because they're from the 70s or earlier so not sanitized or PC - people are mean and violent, witches and giants are scary. we haven't let her listen to Bluebeard yet (which terrified me as a kid), so Bluebeard: The Record has taken on the same forbidden allure of Bluebeard's locked room in the story ;)

Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Monday, 27 December 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link

completely forgot but I was traumatised by that as well, probably listened to most of them via library loan. I still get flashes of the Bluebeard feeling when I watch CSI .

also on that page WAHT
• POS 1039 Lauren Bacall reads James Thurber's The 13 Clocks (Part 1) mp3s
• POS 1040 Lauren Bacall reads James Thurber's The 13 Clocks (Part 2) mp3s

funnest read out loud book

Snop Snitchin, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link

best store i've ever been to that i mentioned on 2010 purchase thread was called Wombleton, named after the Wombles. they had tons of records of theirs there. sorta glammy pop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxkqoNi8I4

jaxon, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link

also the goodies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXq8rELhUkw

jaxon, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDxe2Yhj0ec

jaxon, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu92/damien_stone/free-2-b-u-and-me.jpg

kinda goes w/o saying. have listened to this 1000x and still rules

Mangrove Earthshoe (herb albert), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

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