Various Artists – All Aboard “The Runaway Train” – Classic Tunes & Tales To Grow Up With

Memories, memories, memories! Funny how some things from the earliest years of your life stay with you forever. Television, providing most of today's entertainment for children, had very little to do with the memories evoked by the songs and stories contained on this disc. They come mostly from the cinema screen and from listening to the radio or, as it was better known in Britain, the wireless. For those lucky enough to own a gramophone, there were treasured records, all long since completely worn-out from continual playing. The BBC in London broadcast "Children's Hour" (although it was not always an hour long) from 1926 until 1961. In the USA there was "Coast To Coast On A Bus", also known as "The White Rabbit Line" (1927 - 1934), Dorothy Gordon with songs and folk tales (1936-1939), and "The Horn And Hardart Children's Hour" which ran from 1931 right through to 1957 with juvenile variety, to name but three programmes.

Also Available JASCD377 "Another Ride On The Runaway Train"

Track Listing

1. PARADE OF THE TIN SOLDIERS - New Light Symphony Orchestra
2. THE WOODY WOODPECKER - Mel Blanc
3. THE RUNAWAY TRAIN - Carson Robison & His Pioneers
4. LITTLE GINGER BREAD MAN - A Story by Dwight Weist
5. MR. FROGGIE WENT A COURTIN' - Burl Ives
6. I'M POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN - Billy Costello
7. HEIGH-HO / DIG DIG DIG - Lyn Murray Orchestra & Chorus
8. TUBBY THE TUBA - Danny Kaye
9. DRY BONES - Fred Waring & His Glee Club
10. ONE-ZY, TWO-ZY - Phil Harris & Alice Jr
11. ANIMAL CRACKERS IN MY SOUP - Shirley Temple
12. TRAINS - Reginald Gardiner
13. THE TEDDY BEAR'S PICNIC - Val Rosing w. Henry Hall & His Orch
14. WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD - Victor Young Orchestra & The Ken Darby Singers
15. THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF - Frank Luther
16. GETTING NOWHERE - Bing Crosby
17. LITTLE MAN, YOU'VE HAD A BUSY DAY - Perry Como