“Songs and Stories About the Justice League of America” starring The Flash, Plastic Man, Metamorpho (The Element Man), Wonder Woman and Aquaman!  And the villians!  Fumo, The Fire Giant; The Plastic Men; Brunhilde; Mr. Big and, my favorite, The Dehydrator (naturally Aquaman hates him).  This is an LP from 1975 on POWER Records, a division of Peter Pan Records.

(21 votes, average: 3.48 out of 5)

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An audio comic book/musical from Archie Comics on Tifton Records with book, music and lyrics by Bean Clayton and Raol Alland  “Idol-ness in Riverdale” (no date on the record – early 70’s?)  The Archie look that I grew up with in the sixties and seventies was the work of pin-up and glamour girl illustrator Dan DeCarlo whose previous cartoons were most seen in the “adult” men’s digests of the Forties and Fifties (with titles like “Humorama”, “Gee-whiz”, “Eyeful of Fun” and “Romp” to name a few).   He toned down his sexy drawings to make the Riverdale teens suitable for young readers, but I’m sure that Betty and Veronica couldn’t help but spark many tween libidos – and Josie and the Pussycats – forget about it.

(22 votes, average: 3.18 out of 5)

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Japanese animation soundtrack on King Records

(41 votes, average: 3.46 out of 5)

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“Rock ‘n’ Roll Disco” with Fat Albert and the Junkyard Band!  Kid Stuff Records (1980)  Produced by Bill Cosby  Back cover:

(27 votes, average: 3.48 out of 5)

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The Official Adventures of Flash Gordon Starring Buster Crabbe  (Astonishing tales on the Planet Mongo!) Leo Records  Not to be confused with Flesh Gordon the X-rated, 1974 remake.

(39 votes, average: 3.77 out of 5)

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Some of you may remember the Saturday morning animated cartoon series The Harlem Globetrotters as I surely do.  (1970-1972 on CBS)  Hanna-Barbera meets Meadowlark Lemon and “Curley” Reese and the high-flyin’, high-fivin’, slam-dunkin’est squad ever to cross 125th street!  And don’t forget their fictional bus driver and manager Granny, and Dribbles, their dog mascot.  Josie and the Pussycats, Hanna-Barbera’s other 1970 series, premiered 30 minutes earlier on the same day and network. 

This soundtrack album, The Globetrotters, was produced by Jeff Barry and released in 1970 by Kirshner Records.  It includes tunes heard in episodes of the series (during the basketball game sequences). Don Kirschener served as music supervisor for both the series and the record. Globetrotter frontman Meadowlark Lemon was the only member of the team to be actually involved with the project, adding occasional background vocals to some tracks.  Among those actors also providing voices for the series are Scatman Crothers, Stu gilliam and Eddie (“Rochester”) Anderson.

Check out the cartoon series here!

(31 votes, average: 3.45 out of 5)

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“A Charlie Brown Christmas”  Charles Schulz  (Charlie Brown Records)  The 1966 Emmy and Peapody Award-winning, Primetime CBS-TV special that became an annual holiday ritual for kids of all ages.  Repelled by the commercialism he sees around him, Charlie Brown tries to find the true meaning of Christmas.

The soundtrack by jazz composer Vince Guaraldi has become as well-known as the story itself.  In particular, the instrumental “Linus and Lucy”  has come to be regarded as the signature musical theme of the Peanuts specials. Additionally “Christmas Time is Here” has become a popular Christmas tune. A soundtrack album for the special was released by Fantasy Records and remains a perennial best-seller. (While the soundtrack contains some music that does not appear in the TV special, it also fails to include two musical themes which appear in the special. Both of those missing themes are, however, available on another album by the Vince Guaraldi Trio entitled Charlie Brown’s Holiday Hits.)

(32 votes, average: 3.72 out of 5)

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Les Aventures de TINTIN et Milou (Snowy his faithful fox terrier)  By Herge the Belgian comic book artist and author who created Tintin in 1929.  Currently Tintin the MAJOR MOTION PICTURE is under production at Peter Jackson’s WETA Studios in New Zealand.  Mel James and friends are working on the details now.  (Some say that God is in the details.  Others that the devil is!)

(31 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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Walt Disney’s “Historias Infantis Musicadas”  with “Pinocchio” and “Os 3 Porquinhos”  On Continental Records Brazil

(19 votes, average: 2.84 out of 5)

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“Monster Shindig”  Super-Snooper and Blabber Mouse with The Gruesomes (of the Flintstones), Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man.  Songs:  “The Monster Shindig” and “The Monster Jerk”  Hanna-Barbera Original T.V. Stars.    This brings back fond memories of a childhood spent in front of the TV on Saturday Mornings and coloring books, board games, comics, puzzles, lunch boxes, notebooks and records.

(28 votes, average: 3.79 out of 5)

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