Bozo and the Big Top Circus Parade

Here's a record starring Bozo the Clown, as voiced by TV Bozo Larry Harmon. The record is dated 1973 but I'm thinking it's a reprint of an earlier edition (I'm sure one of you nice people reading this can confirm that). The highlight is Bozo's stirring Shatner-esque rendition of "The Marines' Hymn". Also included in the zip file is the back cover which has cut-out figures so you can make your own circus parade! The songs and story intertwine so the track divisions are somewhat arbitrary here. Hope you like it!

Songs featured: I Love a Parade, Washington Post March, The Marines' Hymn, Caissons Go Rolling Along, El Capitan, Merry Go Round Song, Anchors Aweigh, Dixie, Stars and Stripes Forever, I Love a Parade (Finale)

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Bob Hope Doesn't Celebrate Mother's Day...

...but he did celebrate Easter when I wasn't looking! Sorry I missed getting this on here in a more timely manner. Hear jokes (some tangentially related to Easter) about women's dresses and Jack Benny (not necessarily in that order)!

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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

I did some reading up on this one. It's actually not the cast album to the musical. It was a concept album from 1966 simply featuring songs based on the Peanuts characters. The composer, Clark Gesner (who also sings for Linus on this record), was convinced to later make it into a full-fledged musical. The part of Charlie Brown was performed here by Orson Bean, a guy you might recognize from different things depending on how old you are. I remember him as an occasional game show panelist, especially from "Match Game". Others might know his voice as Bilbo Baggins in the animated TV version of "The Hobbit". Some of you might even have a recollection of him as Loren Bray on the show "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman". However you know him, he does a fine job in this. However, he didn't end up taking the role in the eventual Off-Broadway musical. That role went to Gary Burghoff, probably best known as Radar O'Reilly on "M*A*S*H" (and a frequent panelist on "Match Game" himself). That recording has been released on CD, but this one never has. Here's your chance to listen to it and see what you think!

Here's the track list:

1. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
2. Doctor Lucy
3. My Blanket and Me
4. Snoopy
5. The Kite
6. The Baseball Game
7. Little Known Facts
8. Schroeder
9. Suppertime
10. Happiness

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Mother Goose (Plus the Happy Birthday Song) in Hi-Fi

I haven't tried listening to this with earphones to see if they take advantage of being in Hi-Fi. They probably just wanted to say it because it was a big deal back then.

Actually I bought this for the cover. Don't those kids look excited to be there? Also, I'm really concerned about the one standing on the left. What the heck is he supposed to be? The outfit sort of looks like a rabbit or squirrel or something, but there's no ears on the hood!

Anyway, enjoy listening to this while you figure it out!

Here's the track list:

1. Little Bo Peep
2. Ding Dong Bell
3. The Muffin Man
4. Peter Piper
5. There Was a Crooked Man
6. Three Little Pigs
7. 10 Little Indians
8. London Bridges
9. Did You Ever See a Lassie
10. The Little Red Hen
11. Old MacDonald Had a Farm
12. The Bear Went Over the Mountain
13. The Farmer in the Dell
14. Peter Rabbit
15. Mary Had a Little Lamb
16. Georgy Porgy
17. Cock-a-Doodle-Doo
18. Polly, Put the Kettle On
19. Lazy Mary
20. Happy Birthday Party
21. Rumplestiltskin

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Donkey Kong

In this story from 1983, Donkey Kong escapes from the zoo, and it's up to Mario to get him back.
This album includes the songs Donkey Kong Theme, No More Zoo for You, The Climber, On Top of the World, Jump Up, Mario Delivers, and Donkey Kong Theme (Reprise), as well as a cheesy accent from the guy playing Mario. The songs are all mixed in with the story though, so the only track break is between sides. I think you'll enjoy this one!

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Mr. T in "The Dilemma of the Double-Edged Dagger"

Here's a story from 1984 taken from the Mr. T cartoon show where he gets accused of stealing a priceless Aztec dagger, leaving the kids to do most of the work. He does come in at the end and kicks some T butt though!

This is just the record. I might scan in the book later if I get the chance. Hope you like it!

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Creativity starring Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

Here's another album featuring Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. Unfortunately this isn't an album of songs. It almost sounds like our friends at Kid Stuff Records simply took the audio from an episode of the cartoon and stuck it on a record. But they'd never be cheap enough to do that, would they?

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Rainbow Brite: Paint a Rainbow in Your Heart

Here's more fun from Kids Music Fan from Boston!

Here's the track list:

1. Color Symphony
2. Paint a Rainbow
3. Prismatism
4. Rainbow Inside
5. Rainbow Land
6. Starlite Rainbow Brite
7. The Pits
8. Twink of an Eye
9. Bink Bonk
10. Friendship
    

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And here's some songs from the movie "Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer". Thanks again KMFfB!


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The Fabulous Beats Go Country Style!

I'm out of town right now and don't have much time at this computer, but I prepped this one to give you guys something new on the blog.

Here's an odd album from 1964 featuring the Fabulous Beats singing a number of country songs in the style of the Beatles. Is it good? I don't know, but it sure is different!

Here's the track list:

1. Let Me Be the One
2. There She Goes
3. Walkin' After Midnight
4. Lonely Street
5. Release Me
6. Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
7. Am I That Easy to Forget
8. Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On
9. Just Out of Reach
10. Above and Beyond

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Clyde & Phyllis: A Musical Fantasy About the World's First Guitar Playing Elephant

I'm concluding my kids records in space series with what must be one of the all-out craziest Golden Records I've ever heard! As you can gather from the title, Clyde is an elephant that can play guitar with his trunk. He's in love with Phyllis, but their love is doomed because Phyllis is an ant. Depressed, Clyde volunteers to be an astronaut and is shot into space where he lands on the moon. At first the Man in the Moon wants to eat Clyde, but after Clyde plays and sings for him, he changes his mind. When he hears Clyde's tale of woe, he suggests that Clyde and Phyllis live in space together because they'd both be weightless and Clyde couldn't accidentally crush little Phyllis. So they both live happily ever after in space. I told you it was crazy! Even the cover by Joe Oriolo is psychodelically bizarre!

The songs on the album have a very distinct bubblegum sound to them. In fact, Clyde's voice reminds me a lot of Ron Dante (lead singer for the Archies), but Dante didn't do any work for Golden Records that I'm aware of. Anyway, bask in the way-outness of Clyde and Phyllis!

Here's the track list (divided somewhat arbitrarily since the songs and the story intermingle) :

1. Hello! My Name Is Clyde
2. There Was a Zoo
3. The Sad Love Affair of Clyde and Phyllis
4. Poor Old Clyde
5. I'm Off to Cape Kennedy
6. A Tune About the Moon
7. Wake Up Clyde! I've Got Good News
8. We'll Float in Space Together

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The Space Alphabet

Continuing on with our space theme, here's a great kids record that features a song for a planet or other space related word for each letter of the alphabet. They kind of cheat a little (D for Double Star, F for Falling Star, Y for You (?)), and you know what planet they use for the letter U, so get your giggling out of the way right now.

Anyway, hope you like it!

Here's the track list:

1. A - Astronomy and Astronomer
2. B - Big Dipper
3. C - Comets
4. D - Double Star
5. E - Earth
6. F - Falling Star
7. G - Galaxy
8. H - Hydrogen and Helium
9. I - Ionosphere
10. J - Jupiter
11. K - Kepler
12. L - Light Years
13. M - Mars and Mercury
14. N - Neptune
15. O - Orion
16. P - Pluto
17. Q - Quasar
18. R - Radiation
19. S - Saturn
20. T - Telescope
21. U - Uranus
22. V - Venus
23. W - Water Vapor
24. X - X-Ray
25. Y - You
26. Z - Zodiac
27. The Planet Song

The file has been fixed! Someone please try to download it and see if it's OK now. Thanks!

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Journey to the Moon and More About Outer Space

Here's another little tidbit for you. It's another great Golden Record with songs and stories about traveling into space and what the future might hold for us there. Take a listen. I think you'll like it!

I've got a few more space-related kids records coming soon, including the oddest record featuring an elephant and an ant that you've ever heard!

Here's the track list:

1. With a Great Big Noise Like Thunder
2. Meet Space Pilot Jones
3. Rocket to the Moon
4. City in Space
5. Is It Raining in Paris
6. The Story of the Planets
7. The Big TV Show in Space
8. 50 Round Trips
9. Put a Penny in the Scale
10. Window in Space
11. Sea of Showers
12. Rainbow Bay
13. Great Big Noise

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Tupperware's Big Top Jubilee 1978

With all the messing with links that I've been going through lately, I didn't realize that I haven't put anything new up here for a while, so here's something suitably way out to get the party rolling again. This was apparently some sort of musical circus themed show sponsored by Tupperware. There's not a lot of information on the album itself. Presumably the only place you could have bought it was at the show itself, so I guess you knew what you'd be getting yourself in to. Anyway, it's an odd little show with some semi-talented singing, so give it a try!

Here's the track list:

1. Overture
2. I Have Always Wanted to Be in the Circus
3. Early in the Morning
4. The Circus Is Coming
5. Come Gather 'Round
6. We're Ruined
7. Is This the Ending
8. Please Don't Close the Circus
9. Big Top Jubilee

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Captain Kangaroo and His Friends Sing Songs of the Treasure House

Here's a great contribution from "Snappercar" featuring Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Green Jeans, Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit, and all those great characters from the Treasure House. Listening to this you can tell that it's got a lot of mileage on it, even after I was able to do some clean up on it. It even has a few skips in it. However, I still thought it was so cool that it was worth sharing. I think you'll like it too. Thanks Snappercar!

Here's the track list:

1. Getting the Treasure House Ready
2. I Like All Kinds of Animals
3. When Ping Pong Balls Are Falling
4. Finish My Rhyme
5. When Bunny Plays the Piano
6. Fish
7. I Like to Sing
8. What'll I Be Today
9. Tic Tac Toe
10. A Person You Like

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Woody Woodpecker Presents...

Here's a fun album from 1957. Even though Woody Woodpecker is prominently featured on the album cover and is the subject of a few of the songs, don't expect to hear that familiar voice, other than the one used at the very beginning of the cartoons (and that exact same audio clip is used a few times). There's someone that does a voice for Woody in a couple of the songs, but he sounds nothing like the real voice!

Anyhow, there's some neat tunes here and a few stories as well. Hope you like it!

UPDATE: As reader Jon Cooke pointed out, that voice I couldn't identify (and really should have) belongs to cartoon voice veteran Hal Smith, who did quite a few character roles as well, notably Otis the town drunk on "The Andy Griffith Show". Thanks for the info, Jon!

Here's the track list:

1. Woody Woodpecker Song
2. Who's in the Zoo
3. Oswald the Rabbit Hop
4. Zebby the Zebra
5. Woody Woodpecker Waltz
6. Western Pony
7. Woody Woodpecker March
8. Littlest Reindeer
9. Chilly Willy the Penguin
10. Whopper Whale
11. Andy Panda Polka
12. Pepito Chickeeto

UPDATE: This album is now available to purchase in mp3 format from Amazon.com! You can get it here.

More Ninja Turtles!!

And here's more Ninja Turtle music, again courtesy of Kids Music Fan from Boston! There's highlights from the TMNT 3 soundtrack, themes to the new shows, and even the original theme in other languages.

Did you know that in England the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were referred to as the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles because they weren't allowed to use the word Ninja in a kid's show?

I'd give you the track list here, but I'm afraid I might identify stuff wrong, so just download it and enjoy!!

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out of Their Shells

Did you know that in 1990 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles went on a concert tour (or at least guys dressed up to look like them did)? This is the soundtrack to that concert (which I found out was a promotional cassette from Pizza Hut), courtesy of Kids Music Fan from Boston.

NOTE: For some reason, Track 4 (Skipping Stones) is listed twice. I'll try to fix that in the next few days. Until then, just delete the extra one and you're all set!

Here's the track list:

1. Coming Out of Their Shells
2. Sing About It
3. Tubin'
4. Skipping Stones
5. Pizza Power
6. Walk Straight
7. No Treaties
8. Cowabunga
9. April Ballad
10. Count on Us

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And here's a hilarious review of the "Making of the 'Coming Out of Their Shells' Tour" video from Matt at X-Entertainment!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

And here's the soundtrack to the second Ninja Turtles movie, again with the help of Kids Music Fan from Boston. Cowabunga!

Here's the track list:

1. Awesome (You Are My Hero) - Ya Kid K
2. Ninja Rap - Vanilla Ice
3. Find the Key to Your Life - Cathy Dennis and David Morales
4. Moov! - Tribal House
5. Consciousness (That's Your) - Dan Hartman
6. This World - Magnificent Vii
7. Creatures of Habit - Spunkadelic
8. Back to School - Fifth Platoon
9. Cowabunga - Orchestra on the Half Shell
10. Tokka and Rahzar: Monster Mix - Orchestra on the Half Shell

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Soundtrack

In honor of the holiday, and the new movie TMNT (Sidenote: Do you notice that when they want to make something trendy and cool, they just refer to it by its initials, like when the New Kids on the Block became NKOTB? And we all know how well that went!), here's the soundtrack to the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, courtesy of Kids Music Fan from Boston. Thanks KMFFB!

Here's the track list:

1. This Is What We Do - M.C. Hammer
2. Spin That Wheel - Hi Tek 3
3. Family - Riff
4. 9.95 - Spunkadelic
5. Turtle Power - Partners in Kryme
6. Let the Walls Come Down - Jeremy Kemp
7. Every Heart Needs a Home - St. Paul
8. Shredder's Suite - John Du Prez
9. Splinter's Tale I & Splinter's Tale II - John Du Prez
10. Turtle Rhapsody (see note below)
    

ADDED NOTE: Hey guys, I'm afraid I don't have "Turtle Rhapsody". This file was donated to me, so I sent it out just as I got it. If anybody here happens to have a copy of "Turtle Rhapsody", I'll be more than happy to add it on here as well. Thanks!

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Happy St. Patrick's Day from me and Bob Hope!

I couldn't let a holiday go by without a track from "Bob Hope: Thanks for the Holidays". This one is for St. Patrick's Day, and talks about Irish people, drinking, and celebrities you may or may not know. Enjoy!

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(And by the way, also in honor of St. Patrick's Day, I'll also try to feature an album or two today featuring some green individuals you probably are familiar with!)