Records

When I was little, we had a record player and a lot of children's records.  Our Golden Records and Spear Records singles were 78 RPM, from back in the time when you could still buy 78s.  The Goldens were in yellow vinyl, while the Spears were red and even white!  

Our Peter Pan Records singles were mostly 45s, with the extra-big holes that required a special setup on the player.  One of my favorites was a Peter Pan of George Cohan's showtune "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy."

We had several LPs in Golden Records' Child's Introduction series.  One was "A Child's Introduction to the Great Composers," with thirty cuts of famous pieces of music, stuff like Liszt's Liebestraum Nocturne, Verdi's Anvil Chorus, Rimsky-Korsakov's Dance of the Tumblers and Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, all arranged by the famous Mitch Miller.  We also had "A Child's Introduction to the Nutcracker Suite," narrated by Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), and "A Child's Introduction to Gilbert and Sullivan."

And we also got a Disneyland Records LP of the soundtrack of the 1961 Disney movie BABES IN TOYLAND.  Particularly memorable was a dirge that went "Slowly, slowly, he sank into the sea..."