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Posted by Bruce on June 23, 2010 in Childrens, Xmas with No Comments


The final bit of art by George Peed, and the second last chapter in my 12 Discs of Christmas Spectacular

 

Record Title: The Little Drummer Boy

Category: Childrens, Christmas

Label: Peter Pan

Distributed in Australia by Rainbow Products

Catalogue Number: RXM 005 (original release number 8088)

Side 1

The Little Drummer Boy

The First Noel

Deck The Halls

Come All Ye Faithful

Silent Night

Silver Bells

All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth

Jingle Bell Rock

Side 2

Winter Wonderland

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

‘Twas The Night Before Christmas

Jingle Bells

Good King Wenceslas

All Through The Night

Joy To The World

 


More from Peter Pan records’ Peppermint Candy Kids.

There are a few repeat tracks from yesterday’s 14 Christmas Favourites, but there are a few new songs here.

We are now at the home stretch.  Visit here tomorrow for the 12th (and final) disc of Christmas.

Posted by Bruce on June 22, 2010 in Childrens, Xmas with No Comments


Here is the first of the two remaining pieces of cover art by George Peed that I have in my collection.

LP Title: 14 Christmas Favourites

 Performed by the Peppermint Candy Kids

Label: Peter Pan (Released in Australia by Rainbow Products)

Catalogue Number RXM 007 (original Peter Pan Records Catalogue Number not known.  Contact me if you have any info)

Category: Kids/Christmas

Side 1

Santa Claus is Coming To Town

Winter Wonderland

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

White Christmas

Jingle Bells

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

Side 2

The Twelve Days of Christmas

Deck the Halls

The First Noel

O Come All Ye Faithful

Joy To The World

Good King Wenceslas

Silent Night


This is the first of two LPs by the Peppermint Candy Kids (although a few of the tracks seem to be sung by adults) :?

Over the years Rainbow have repackaged these songs into a number of LP’s (including “Frosty the Snowman” and “Santa Claus is Coming To Town”) (and you’ll probably find the CDs of these releases in store at Christmastime.)

On tomorrow’s post, I’ll bring you the second LP in the collection

Posted by Bruce on June 4, 2010 in Labels with No Comments


I have been busy over the last couple of hours completing my daily posts for “The 12 Discs of Christmas”.  It’s just been completed, and now that I have finished the series up ready for posting from June 13, I now have a mini labels gallery (I’m doing the CBS gallery next week) and today, its for Peter Pan Records

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while but decided on a mini galley due to the fact that nearly every release has it’s own unique label design (depending on the property they used)

The label in the 1970′s was generally in a canary yellow.  the first one is for their Book & Record series

The next label is a generic label that was used for a number of releases:

It wasn’t the Peter Pan label that had a generic label design.  Even their Power Records label had a (rare) generic label design, and it appears below.

by the late 70′s the label changed from yellow to a bluish green colour, as evidenced by this latter entry in their Power/Peter Pan big book and record series

Later on in the year, when I post other Peter Pan or Power Records from my collection, I’ll add not only the cover art, but also the label.

Posted by Bruce on March 20, 2010 in Childrens with No Comments


for the second (and final post tonight) a final bit of cover art by George Peed for his character, Irwin the Dynamic (or disco depending on the era) Duck. (correction: there are two more pirces of cover art, but they won’t be seen until Christmastime)

LP Title: Irwin Sings Sesame Street Hits

Category: Childrens

Label: Peter Pan Records

Released in Australia by Rainbow Products

Catalogue Number: RPG 6030 (original cat no. 156)

 ©1980, Peter Pan Industries


Side 1

  1. Welcome
  2. The Happiest Street in the World
  3. What Makes Music
  4. Being Green
  5. Disco Frog

Side 2

  1. Sing
  2. Ten Cookies
  3. Doin’ The Trash
  4. Me Lost Me Cookie At The Disco
  5. Sesame Street Fever

Irwin (and Friends) perform songs that either appeared on “Sesame Street” and/or on the Sesame Street disco LP’s (“Sesame Street Fever” and “Sesame Disco”)

Although Irwin starred in a huge number of LP’s on Peter Pan in the 1970′s and Early 80′s (this one, from 1980), only two of his LP’s ever appeared in Australia to my knowledge  (the other being “Disco Fever”)

I’m trying to locate the “Sesame Disco” LP, and will include this down the track.

 

Posted by Bruce on January 4, 2010 in Spoken Word/Sound Effects with No Comments


Here’s another George C. Peed cover from my vaults:

 

LP: Ghostly Sounds

Record Label: Peter Pan Records

U.S. Catalogue Number: 8125

Category: Spoken Word/Sound Effects

Narration by Peter Waldren

Produced by Gershon Kingsley

Australian release history: released as LF 2030 by Landfall Press and as RPG 6015 by Rainbow Products (the Australian releases did not have any credits)

Released: 1970 (U.S.) 1976 (Landfall release – Australia) and 1981 (Rainbow re-release)

 

Side 1:

Ghostly Sounds

Side 2:

The Ghosts from Outer Space

 

This is not your average childrens release from Peter Pan.  It’s a collection of “spooky” sound effects, great for any Halloween party.

Most of the “effects” on these LPs were basically vocal effects (Witches Cackling, Jack-O-Lanterns Laughing) and Musical effects (Goblins)

George’s artwork would be the precursor of the later Peter Pan release “Monster Mash” (although not as scary)

My favourite is the story on side 2, “The Ghosts from Outer Space” (with a bit of re-working, this could be an interesting cartoon)

to complete this post, here is the back cover…

As a side note, Power Records released an LP with the same title (release No. 8145)  I wonder if this is a re-package of this release?

Posted by Bruce on November 8, 2009 in Childrens with No Comments


 

A Peter Pan Narrated Book and Record

Category: Childrens/Licensed Characters

Starring Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Sylvester and “Granny”

Illustrations by George C. Peed

Catalogue Number 1972

Released: 1973

Once again into the archive, and today I am bringing out a rarity from the Peter Pan catalogue.

the company was famous for releasing many cartoon characters (Hanna-Barbera’s “the Flintstones” and Yogi Bear, King Features’ Popeye and others) on record (and in this case, on book and record).

It was around this time that the company got hold of the Looney Tunes license from Warner Bros (and also getting the services of Mel Blanc in the bargain)

the big drawback for this though is there wasn’t enough of a budget left for a full orchestral accompaniment, just a tinny electronic organ.

Mel would perform many of the Looney Tune characters for this and a 12′ book and record (including character he never originally voiced).  On this record, he also had to do the voice of “Granny” (even though it was obvious that Granny’s original voice talent was Bea Benederet, and June Foray (her current voice)

here’s the setup:

 

Granny, finally fed up with the cat and the canary’s shenanigans, decides to get a new pet.

Bugs turns up at Granny’s, and with the old saying “Two’s Company, Three’s A Crowd” ringing in their ears, Tweety and Sylvester plot to oust the rabbit, usually the plan backfires…

Usually with the hapless puddy on the receiving end of Granny’s broom

After nearly bringing down the house, Bugs leaves, deciding that being a pet is too noisy.  Things get back to normal… with the usual results…

In case anyone is wondering how Mel did Granny, if you recall the Flintstones episode where Barney is dressed up as an old lady, that would give you a fair idea.

Posted by Bruce on October 22, 2009 in Childrens with No Comments


Star Trek Volume 1 (Power Records, release number 8158)

Star Trek Volume 2 (NZ Pressing) (TRO 207, originally 8168)

Record Label: Power Records division of Peter Pan Industries

Category: Childrens (licensed characters)

LP Info (Volume 1, original U.S. pressing, Volume 2, New Zealand pressing)

Catalogue No.: 8158 (Volume 1) TRO 207 (Music World N.Z. pressing) and 8168 (original catalogue number for volume 2)

Cover illustrations: not known.

Release 1976 (Australia), c. 1976-1977 (New Zealand)


Release No. 8158

Side 1: Passage To Moauv, The Crier In Emptiness (Part 1)

Side 2: The Crier In Emptiness (Part 2), In Vino Veritas

(Writer Credits not known)

Release No. TRO 267 (U.S. 8168)

Side 1: A Mirror For Futility (Written by Alan Dean Foster), The Time Stealer (Written by Cary Bates and Neil Adams)

Side 2: The Logistics For Stampede (Written by Alan Dean Foster), To Starve A Fleaver (Written by Alan Dean Foster)


These are the first two (of a series of three) LP’s based on the Star Trek series produced by the Power Records division of Peter Pan.

I’m not sure whether Gene Roddenberry (creator of the Star Trek series) had any input into any of the LP’s,. I would also be interested to find out if the artwork could have been done by Filmation for Paramount.

It seems to me that they seem to have approximated the voices of the original cast for both of these LPs.

Two episodes from volume 1 were later re-packaged as book and record sets (“Passage To Moauv” (which I originally had up until the late 70′s) and “The Crier In Emptiness” (which I still have, I’ll have to dig through my record library and post in a later update))

One thing about the New Zealand pressing of volume 2, is that it misses out on the excellent artwork (at the bottom of the post, I have a scan of the back cover art from volume 1.  The N.Z. pressing had a repeat of the track listing and a listing of other releases in the series.)

Back cover for Volume 1

For a complete history of Peter Pan records, go here

Posted by Bruce on October 21, 2009 in Childrens with No Comments


for a more or less complete history of Peter Pan records go here

Monster Mash - Released locally by Landfall Press

Record Label: Peter Pan Records

Category: Children’s

Locally manufactured in Australia by Landfall Press

Catalogue Number: LF 2032

Original PPI Catalogue Number: (8126)

Cover Illustrations: George C. Peed

Australian Release year: 1976

Side 1: Monster Mash, Purple People Eater, Feet Up, Pat ‘Em On The Po-Po, Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, Little Blue Man

Side 2: Witch Doctor, (A) Dinner With Drac, Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It’s Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight, Mama Look A Boo-Boo, Big Bad John


A fun collection of cover songs originally made famous by Bobby (Boris) Pickett, Sheb Wooley, Ross Bagdasarian (David Seville), Lonnie Donnegan, Harry Belafonte and others.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this LP would have been originally released under the Power Records label, but I could be wrong.

All the cover art (except for the Power Records licensed character series (a few of which I will show a bit later on in the week, or early next)) for the label during this period were drawn by George C. Peed (who is releated to Disney story man Bill Peet)

You will see a bit more of George’s work down the track in the blog.

Posted by Bruce on October 20, 2009 in Labels with No Comments


I have just struck an archive of all the posts I did in 2007, and rather than upload the database and muck around trying to merge the old posts to the new, I’m going to re-construct them here,

Power Records

For close on to 80 years, Peter Pan Records have been entertaining kids of all ages in the U.S., and in the 1970′s it was launched in Australia.

The blog will list the recordings that were made in the 1970′s and released throughout the 70′s and 1980′s, under the Peter Pan Records (young kids) label and the Power Records (older kids)  labels that I have in my collection, as well as associated label Tifton.

Historically these recordings were released (and in many cases locally manufactured) thoughout Australia by a number of record labels including Summit, Landfall Press and finally, Rainbow Products (who continue to release their product to this very day)

On the other side of the Tasman, many of these records were released under the Music World label.

In 2003, Peter Pan Industries changed their name to Inspired Corporation in honour of their 75th anniversary.

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