Switching gears after two days of Peter Pan Records, today's two children's record covers are from Scholastic Records, a division of Scholastic, in the early 1970s. Scholastic was much more generous with its credits than Peter Pan. Here's what we know about these two 33-1/3 rpm records:
The Magic Fish
- 11:28 long
- Published 1972
- Narrated by Alan Mills
- Music composed and conducted by Arthur Rubinstein
- Produced by Robert Mack
- Directed by Bernice Chardiet
- Based on the 1967 text by Freya Littledale
- Illustrations copyright 1967 by Scholastic Magazines Inc. (The artist is Ed Arno, according to the well-loved 1967 book, which gets 4.8 stars (out of 5.0) on Amazon with 39 reviews.)
Choo Choo The Runaway Engine
- 10:58 long
- Published 1974
- Narrated by Alan Mills
- Music composed, arranged and conducted by Albert Hague
- Produced by Robert Mack
- Directed by Bernice Chardiet
- Story by Virginia Lee Burton, aka Virginia Lee Demetrios
- Text and illustrations copyright 1937 by Virginia Lee Demetrios
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