Relatively little from my early childhood has survived.
My first five or six years.
There's a First Communion Badge [no idea when that was but I assume I was very young] and an Aladdin record released by Lantern and read by a young and as yet unknighted Roger Moore no less. I was 5 years old when I got it. Fifty four years ago!
I have my original record somewhere in the attic together with an empty sleeve I found at a car boot sale. I know its my original record because I signed it as a kid. Alas, part of the record has snapped off, as if bitten!
I have a vague memory of listening to talking books like this. You know, where you follow the story with your finger in a separate printed booklet that came with it.
This was the same with Lantern's Aladdin.
You can experience this once more - or perhaps for the first time - courtesy of You Tube, as amazingly, the record, story and booklet are all there!
So, sit back and enjoy. It's 1966 again.
I'm not sure if these old talking records are collectable nowadays but obviously this particular copy is of great personal importance to me.
Did you listen to records like this readers?
I see the photo has been reversed, placing Rog's parting on the other side. He did good hair, did Rog - and he was a better actor than he got (or gave himself) credit for.
ReplyDeleteTardy reply here Kid. I agree, Roger was always good to watch on TV or on film. I enjoyed his Bond and I used to watch The Saint religiously. I think my fave role he had was in the Persuaders with Tony Curtis. It had everything: exotic places, fast cars and cool capers!
DeleteDefinitely.The Disney movie stories were recorded in 2 different ways;in a condensed version(7 inch record with a small picture book)sold in stores,or a deluxe LP with a more complete story and story pages inside the LP jacket which I remember being for sale at movie theatre lobbies.We also had a bunch of ghost story records(with or without books)that were especially played at Halloween.There was the aforementioned GIJoe storybook and a collection of shark adventure tales called Jaws of the Shark on Peter Pan records that got heavy play.I still have a book and record from the 80's about a controversial comedy sketch called The Mr.Bill show,about a little guy made of Play Doh who gets mercilessly abused by his co host"Mr Hands".It was a late night program, not intended for kids,and the record in this set is one of those thin, floppy clear plastic records that were popular then.
ReplyDeleteI remember those floppy plastic records. they came free with stuff in the Seventies. I always enjoyed playing them on my record player Bri.
DeleteI do not remember any clear, floppy plastic records. But if they were given away as freebies with various products that would explain it, as we in NZ very seldom got the free goodies that came with so many products in Britain and the US. Just cereal toys, cards with various foods (but not tea). Greggs jellys came with bird cards, which you glued into an album. Supermarkets today sometimes have promotions. Then the fast food chains came along, offering toys with their children's meals, but these are disappearing fast. Not much fun stuff for children (and 'grown-ups') to collect these days.
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