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Golden Records | |
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Parent company | Verse Music Group |
Founded | 1948 |
Founder | Arthur Shimkin |
Genre | Children's music |
Country of origin | U.S. |
Location | New York City |
Official website | www |
Golden Records was a Simon & Schuster record label based in New York City. It was conceived and founded in 1948 by the Grammy Award-winning children's music producer, Arthur Shimkin, then a new recruit in the S&S business department. Shimkin went on to found Sesame Street Records with Children's Television Workshop in 1970. [1] Golden was one of the first children's music labels to combine story with melody. It featured music to accompany Little Golden Books.[ clarification needed ] However, they were not the first instance of a published series which combined books and records. This distinction goes to Bubble Books, published between 1917 and 1922. [2]
The label is mainly remembered for its children's music releases during the 1950s on a subsidiary label, Little Golden Records, which released singles rather than albums. As originally issued from 1948 to 1962, 78 r.p.m. Little Golden Records were six inches (15 cm) in diameter and made of bright yellow plastic (orange plastic was used for a few titles). Each side played for a maximum of about one minute and forty-five seconds at 78 rpm, a speed phased out for most records during the 1950s but a universal standard speed still included on nearly all record players throughout the 1960s. Early releases had illustrated paper labels; on later releases the label was printed directly onto the plastic. They were sold in colorfully illustrated sleeves that included a printed retail price: 25 cents on early sleeves, 29 cents on later ones and through to the end of the series. Many titles were also issued or re-issued as standard 7-inch 45 r.p.m. records. 7-inch EPs as well as 12-inch LPs were also issued.
The music included classic nursery rhymes, fairy tales, Christmas tunes & other holiday jingles, nature, Bible stories and an extensive collection of educational songs. Golden Records featured children's recordings by Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, Kay Lande, Alfred Hitchcock, Johnny Cash, Captain Kangaroo, Art Carney, and many more.[ citation needed ]
Golden Records also issued educational records, such as A Golden Treasury of Poetry, a collection of classic poems read by Alexander Scourby, with commentary written by Louis Untermeyer. [3]
In 2009, Micro Werks released two CDs of the Best of Golden Records. [4] In 2011, Verse Music Group acquired the Golden Records catalog along with the rights to the Golden Records name and began preparations to reissue the catalog [5] with the first batch of reissues in 2012. [6] In 2015, Verse Music Group was acquired by BMG Rights Management; coincidentally, BMG's parent Bertelsmann owns Random House, the current distributor of Golden Books.
Title | Year | Pr. # |
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GL298B "Down By The Station"/Anne Lloyd, The Sandpipers, Mitch Miller and Orchestra: The Saggy Baggy Elephant | R42 | |
The Seven Sneezes/My Toothbrush Song | R43 | |
The Magic Golden Record - also The Dancing Record | R44 | |
The Little Fat Policeman - also The Safety Song | R45 | |
Brave Cowboy Bill | R46 | |
R47 | ||
R48 | ||
R49 | ||
R50 | ||
Doctor Dan, the Bandage Man and Billy Boy | R51 | |
R52 | ||
R53 | ||
The Happy Man and His Dump Truck | R54 | |
R55 | ||
R56 | ||
R57 | ||
R58 | ||
Little Lulu and Lavender's Blue | R59 | |
The Chocolate Cowboy and Daddy's Whistle | R74 | |
Tawny Scrawny Lion | 1952 | R77 |
Introducing Rootie Kazootie and the Polka Dottie Polka | R98 | |
Rootie Kazootie in Polka Dottie's Garden | R109 | |
From Samuel Goldwyn's Production - Hans Christian Andersen - Thumbelina and Wonderful Copenhagen | 1953 | R130 |
Rootie Kazootie and Mr. Deetle Dootle | R131 | |
Rootie Kazootie and Gala Poochie | R147 | |
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans sing Happy Trails to You and A Cowboy Needs a Horse | R176 | |
The Daffy Duck Song | 1955 | R186 |
Sylvester the Cat | R203 | |
Porky Pig | R206 | |
Yosemite Sam | R215 | |
”Annie Oakley sings Ten Gallon Hat and I Gotta | R227 | |
Roy Rogers sings The Lord's Prayer | R240 | |
Bugs Bunny, Railroad Engineer and Yosemite Sam, Hold-Up Man | R243B "Counting Song" Keith0Bergman-Luboff, The Sandpipers, Mitch Miller and Orchestra | R249 |
Cowboy Daffy Duck | 1954 | R250 |
Happy Birthday | R374 | |
Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear | 1958 | R550 |
Huckleberry Hound presents: Mr. Jinks and Boo Boo Bear | 1959 | R591 |
Yogi Bear presents: Cindy Bear and Snooper & Blabber | 1960 | R643 |
Romper Room Sing-A-Long Songs | R631 | |
Huckleberry Hound presents Hokey Wolf and Ding-a-Ling: A Wolf's Work is Never Done | 1961 | R660 |
Yogi Bear: TV Theme Song/Before Yogi | 1961 | R663 |
Popeye: Songs of Health | R664 | |
Songs from the Flintstones | R680 | |
Popeye: Songs of Safety | R687 | |
TV Theme Songs of Touché Turtle and Dum Dum | 1962 | R700 |
The Jetsons Theme Song and Eep Oop Ork | 1962 | R720 |
The Flintstones: Dino the Dino | 1963 | R739 |
The Flintstones: Lullaby of Pebbles | 1963 | R740 |
Songs of the Jetsons featuring Jane Jetson and daughter, Judy: Push Button Blues & Rama Rama Zoom | R755 | |
Songs of the Singing Nun: Dominique and I Go My Merry Way (Tous Les Chemins) | R765 | |
The Campaign Songs of Bill Hanna & Joe Barbera's Magilla Gorilla & Yogi Bear | R768 | |
Astro Boy: Theme Song | 1964 | R776 |
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