Re: [ARSCLIST] National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) Study

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl Miller wrote:

 On Mon, 15 May 2006, Tom Fine wrote:

 > Kiddie records and novelty things are another matter, but I question the 
historical value of
 most of
 > that stuff.

 Some of the kiddie records are quite fascinating. A friend of mine
 recently finished (about to be published) a book on the story of the Young
 Peoples Records. Some of them featured the likes of musicians Henry Brant,
 Alex North, Walter Hendl, Douglas Moore, et al. They were highly creative
 and featured imaginative writing. I have been working with the author of
 the book who is in contact with the family of the founder, in an attempt
 to reissue some of them.

 The man who set up the label eventually ended up working with someone with
 mail order experience...to make a long story short, which brought me to
 the discs issued by the American Recording Society...something else I
 would like to issue.

 There were some amazing things done on kiddie records, things like
 "Sparky's Magic Piano" "Alice in Orchestralia," etc.

 Karl


I've done a compilation for Naxos Audio Books that should be released in the 
next couple of months, "Children's Favourites Volume II". Includes YPR's 
"Little Brass Band", The Weavers' "Train to the Zoo" (in a cleaner transfer 
than Bear Family managed to dredge up), Kleinsinger-Tripp's "The Story of 
Celeste", as well as a lot of concessions to popular taste (crap like "I 
Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas").

Alice in Orchestralia is worth doing one of these days, as is The Man who 
Invented Music (both by Don Gillis).

dl