Golden Records featured children's recordings by Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, Kay Lande, Alfred Hitchcock, Johnny Cash, Captain Kangaroo, Art Carney, and many more. The music included classic nursery rhymes, fairy tales, Christmas tunes & other holiday jingles, nature, Bible stories and an extensive collection of educational songs. 7-inch EPs as well as 12-inch LPs were also issued. Many titles were also issued or re-issued as standard 7-inch 45 r.p.m. They were sold in colorfully illustrated sleeves that included a printed retail price: 25 cents on early sleeves, 29 cents on later ones and through to the end of the series. Early releases had illustrated paper labels on later releases the label was printed directly onto the plastic. ![]() Each side played for a maximum of about one minute and forty-five seconds at 78 rpm, a speed phased out for most records during the 1950s but a universal standard speed still included on nearly all record players throughout the 1960s. Little Golden Records were six inches (15 cm) in diameter and made of bright yellow plastic (orange plastic was used for a few titles). As originally issued from 1948 to 1962, 78 r.p.m. The label is mainly remembered for its children's music releases during the 1950s on a subsidiary label, Little Golden Records, which released singles rather than albums. This distinction goes to Bubble Books, published between 19. However, they were not the first instance of a published series which combined books and records. It featured music to accompany Little Golden Books. Golden was one of the first children's music labels to combine story with melody. Shimkin went on to found Sesame Street Records with Children's Television Workshop in 1970. It was conceived and founded in 1948 by the Grammy Award-winning children's music producer, Arthur Shimkin, then a new recruit in the S&S business department. Golden Records was a Simon & Schuster record label based in New York City.
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