Did Magoo say Wi-Fi ? In 1956!!! Great stuff! Jim Backus and Dennis Farnon taking this way beyond a kiddie record. Documents a past when people (99% males!) cared about hi-fi equipment. The instrumental sections were released on cd on the Basta label.

I wonder if the designers of WEM Copy-Cat echo ever heard this record?

I remember this one. It was adapted as a Mel-O-Toon in 1960, albeit with off-model characters and the bell dings maintained.

I thought Bread And Jam For Frances was only a the name of a Switchblade Symphony album but know I know it was actually a book for children....gothic people are wierd....

Cool.. I like this.

I love this man's voice.

I know this is over 60 years old, but by today's standards the story is quite racist and narrowminded, even for kids. Just look at 08:16.

My parents bought this record when I was born in 1953. I still have the old 78 rpm record. It is great to hear it again!!

8:20 DATS RACIST!!!!

Not racist at all.

Wow, some powerfully racist stuff, here. I mean, that parrot done called Bozo a "cracker". I'm quite offended.

No offense to Jim Henson Inc., Disney, and the Muppets but the Ritts Puppets (or, shall we say, RUPPETS?) Rock! Too bad they disappeared long ago from the public eye. I know most all of the Ritts's may be dead by now but when that 2011 Disney Muppets w/Amy Adams came out I secretly wished for Amanda Seyfried [if not Amy Adams HERSELF] to come out with a "Ritts Puppets" flick![Of course Amy Adams would be promoting the rivals!] LOL. I recall the excellent Better Business Bereau ads from 1973-78. Every time I hear a reference on radio to the BBB I always fondly recall Abdominable, Magnolia, Flamingo and the others. Just one last thing: What did Jim Henson say about them, or did he ever hang out with the Ritts's? Finally. They were on the 1972-73 NBC season of the Pink Panther.

The music was by Albert Hay Mallotte, who also wrote the setting of "The Lord's Prayer" one hears at weddings.

cool ;)

We had this record and used to listen to it all the time! Love it, thanks for posting this.

Super cool! Thanks for sharing this audio gem! I wanted to buy this record as a kid but my parents thought horror stories were bad for kids! That made me love them even more. Well after many decades of wanting to hear this again a big THANK YOU!!!!!

What a cool old disc! This is real early Dennis. They left the hair uncolored for only a short while. Then the yellow filled the area from eyes up to the top of his head.

Precious. And that's the way I remember Molly Bee. I was a big fan of her's and watched Hometown Jamboree a lot. She had her own show for a while which I watched on Sundays. Our family went in person to see her tape her show one Sunday. I got to meet her. A gracious person, a gifted entertainer. She deserved to succeed, and she accomplished that.

I had this record when I was a kid and nearly wore it out playing it for over 10 years! It is actually the soundtrack from an unsold TV pilot for NBC-TV titled "ADVENTURES IN SPACE" made in 1958, when this soundtrack album was released. I would love to have this on a CDR!

I miss my bear.

chicken salad sandwich

I treated myself to the 45 the other day, in the cardboard sleeve. (EPA 1-1362). It was from Record Lane, Lowell-Lawrence, presumably Massachusetts. I paid 27 cents for it! Second best two bits I ever spent.

I had this when I was a kid too. I was singing this song to my kids and grandkids today try to remember the words and then found this on RU-vid this is awesome thank you for putting it together

Thank you for uploading this. I've been looking for it for ages. The record I had growing up had this story on one side and Kate Smith telling the story of Johnny Appleseed on the other side. This was always my favourite though! Who doesn't love Celeste's tune?!

These stories were so sad and beautiful at the same time , then you have sterling's voice, perfect.

Favorite Spike jones song lol love it :)

I was astonished that my husband hadn't ever heard this. At 67 he must have been born too soon. THANK YOU - what a treat.

Don't know when this was recorded, but Martha Wentworth was Old Nancy of the radio program "Witch's Tale" using stories similar to this.

That's because it's the same voice actor. Sterling did Winnie the Pooh and the Stork from Dumbo as well. :)

My son really enjoyed the story.

What is the musical underscore to this?

Recorded in early 1946.

The "Lieutenant" is played by Bob Hastings (he also appeared in several episodes of NBC Radio's "X MINUS ONE" during this period).

"THE HECTOR HEATHCOTE SHOW" was on NBC's Saturday morning schedule in the 1963-'64 season, featuring Hector {"The Minute and a Half Man", who always got mixed up in one historical event after another}, Sidney the elephant, and Hashimoto, the Japanese mouse. For this album, soundtracks from those cartoons were used- this one, "Cherry Blossom Festival", was also released theatrically in 1963. Tom Morrison, story editor of "Terrytoons" and the voice of Mighty Mouse, is the opening narrator.

Haven't heard it since "Children's Favourites" on the old BBC Light Programme ! Something I saw today triggered the memory so I put it in the search box and bingo ! This came up first. Thank you very much !

a friend of mine gave me this record when i was a kid. this is the first time i've heard the record since the 1950's.

I remember reading this story as a child, but I did not know a record of it existed up til now

Really, REALLY sounding like a cross between Cheshire cat and Kaa!

Possibly the worst music ever written?

A blast from the past

Our dad used to play this for us when he was baby sitting way back in the day.

You can stream the entire LP at the KRW site!

This is brilliant... I'm too young to have know anything about it but what a recording! ....very technical production too. :) Nice one. I'm going to check out other Tex Ritter material.

No Way!!!!! Wow, thank you so much.

No part 2? Will we never know the "secret of the canals"? ("It's a gigantic bird!" Sorry, I wore the grooves on this one when I was eight. ;-)

I had this record when I was a kid. It had a scratch in it, and would play "red birds green birds red birds green birds" over and over. I can still remember learning from this record that it would take 3 weeks to count to a million.

This was originally released in 1956 (featuring Daws Butler as "Waldo").

That's because he was actually voiced by Pinto Colvig, the original voice of Goofy!

Love it, I used to have this 78.

Bozo sounds like Goofy.