Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Ephemera for Lunch #33:
The Magic Fish and Choo Choo



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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