I actually think that I heard these records for hte first time in third grade at Corinth Elementary School (or as I would call it, School #5 on my dozen schools from kindergarten to high school). One of the unique children’s classroom tools that I recall – and was glad to find many years ago at a yard sale – brought me back to my days as an elementary school student in upstate New York. Over the years, there has been a rise in collecting “school-related educational materials.” Much of the learning tools available for children in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s were items that one would find in the “open classroom,” where instead of your teacher lecturing on reading, writing and arithmetic for four hours before recess, and for three hours after that, the teacher might have specialized reading or listening materials available for children to improve their mental stabilities. And we could sing along with the songs too – all the Disney songs like “Heigh-Ho,” or “Cruella De Vil,” or “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,” or the very same “knock-off” recordings from the Cricket or Simon Says labels. These were the records we could play on the big phonograph when our parents were done listening to their Limelighters or Chad Mitchell Trio or “Sing Along With Mitch” albums. They might have a label on them like Disneyland or Peter Pan or Cricket, but these records were our treasure troves as we grew up. It starts when our parents buy us our very first 45s. It was a theory I once postulated when I wrote for the music collector’s magazine Goldmine many years ago. Note: I wrote this article for the February 2007 edition of the Journal of Antiques and Collectibles.
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