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.

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!

“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.)

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!)

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

“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.

Brave Raideen (1976)

“Judo Boy”  Polydor Records.

Another fantastic Hanna-Barbera record.  Fred and Barney do “Mary Poppins”

“Yogi Bear and The Three Stooges Meet The Mad, Mad, Dr. No-No”  Featuring the song “Yogi Bear”.  Hanna-Barbera Records Cartoon Series.