Thanks to a link from BoingBoing, I saw Kiddie Records Weekly. That’s just awesome! They’re taking a bunch of old vinyl albums of kid's shows from the 1940s and 50s and releasing 1 each week for the entire year 2005 - free for download.
I’d found Gerald McBoingBoing a while back from another source, and it’s one of Evan’s favorite tracks on my iPod (after D-O-G Spells Dog, by Mel Blanc - I even get to perform that one sometimes). Really looking forward to getting all of these classic shows!
Now, if only they had an RSS feed with enclosures so I could automagically download every show when they’re released, rather than having to remember to check once a week. I just know that I’m going to miss a couple…
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I am looking for an old 45 rpm RCA Victor 2 record set of the poem, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, an expanded version of the original written by Robert May for Montgomery Ward company in Chicago.
It was probably recorded in 1949. I do not know the name of the male artist who read the poem for the record, but the records were yellow in color with a blue RCA Victor label.
Gloria - I don’t have any old vinyl myself - I’m just leeching off of the Classic Kiddie Records website as they publish stuff… They do have a forum on their website, and it seems as though lots of people with the old vinyl are taking requests.