CHILDREN’S FAVOURITES THE UGLY DUCKLING • THUMBELINA THE LION AND ALBERT And many more JUNIOR CLASSICS

CHILDREN’S FAVOURITES

NA241312D 1 I’m Hans Christian Andersen (Frank Loesser) 2:29 Danny Kaye with Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra Decca 28381, mx L 6862; recorded 13 August 1952, Los Angeles 2 The Ugly Duckling (Frank Loesser) 3:07 Danny Kaye with Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra Decca 28382, mx L 6862; recorded 13 August 1952, Los Angeles 3 Inchworm (Frank Loesser) 3:16 Danny Kaye with Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra & Chorus Decca 28381, mx L 6859-A; recorded 13 August 1952, Los Angeles 4 Thumbelina (Frank Loesser) 1:49 Danny Kaye with Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra & Chorus Decca 28380, mx L 6855; recorded 11 August 1952, Los Angeles 5 The King’s New Clothes (Frank Loesser) 3:37 Danny Kaye with Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra & Chorus Decca 28382, mx WL 6858-A; recorded 11 August 1952, Los Angeles 6 Wonderful Copenhagen (Frank Loesser) 2:10 Danny Kaye with Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra & Chorus Decca 28379, mx L 6856; recorded 11 August 1952, Los Angeles 7 Popo the Puppet (Sylvia Fine) 3:10 Danny Kaye with chorus & orchestra Decca 27199, mx WL 5710-A; recorded 27 June 1950, Los Angeles

2 8 Little Brass Band (Walter Hendl-Brown) 6:29 Frank Gallop with orchestra Young People’s Records 703, mx YPR 703A/B; recorded 1947, New York 9 The Lion and Albert (Marriott Edge) 4:21 Stanley Holloway with Wolseley Charles, piano Columbia DX 353, mx CAX 6343-1; recorded 16 March 1932 10 Mr Toad (Adapted by Alan W. Livingston) 10:36 ["The Merrily Song" by Morey–Gilbert–Churchill–Wolcott] Basil Rathbone & Original Cast with Billy May’s Orchestra Capitol EAS 3048/89-30114, mx 3695/6; recorded 19 July 1949, Hollywood 11 I’m Late (Sammy Fain–Bob Hilliard) 2:05 Danny Kaye with Dave Terry’s Orchestra Decca 27564, mx WL 80664-A; recorded 9 March 1951, New York 12 I’m a little teapot (Clarence Kelley–Geo. H. Sanders) 2:24 Kitty Kallen with Tony Mottola’s Orchestra Decca K-137/88176, mx 86516; recorded 2 July 1954, New York 13 Sparky’s Music Mix-up (Alan Livingston–Billy May) 18:55 Tom Reddy, narrator, with Henry Blair, June Foray, Virginia Gregg & cast Orchestra conducted by Billy May, with Stan Kenton & His Orchestra* Capitol CCN 3019, 30050/2, mx 3647, 3650, 3645, 3648, 3649, 3660; recorded 4 & 20 May 1949, Hollywood *"Machito" (Pete Rugolo) recorded 13 February 1947, Hollywood

3 14 Kleinbahnfahrt (Choo Choo Train Ride) (Otto Rathke) 2:55 Hans Schindler & His Orchestra Telefunken A 1149, mx 18530; recorded c. 1933, Berlin 15 Daffy Duck’s Rhapsody (Mike Maltese–Warren Foster) 3:07 Mel Blanc with Billy May’s Music Capitol 32018, mx 6023; recorded 1 May 1950, Hollywood 16 Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (Leon Jessel) 2:26 International Novelty Orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret Victor 12-80674, mx BVE 26372-4; 25 January 1928, New York 17 I’m a lonely little petunia in an onion patch (Kamano–Faber–Hartmann) 3:03 Two Ton Baker, The Merry Music Maker Mercury 7048, mx 959; recorded 1947, Chicago 18 The Tubby the Tuba Song (George Kleinsinger–Paul Tripp) 2:50 Danny Kaye with orchestra Decca 27199, mxWL 5711-A; recorded 27 June 1950, Los Angeles 19 The Funniest Song in the World (Abrashkin–Gordon) 6:19 Groucho Marx with orchestra Young People’s Records YPR 719; recorded 1947, New York 20 I know an old lady (Alan Mills–Rose Bonne) 2:30 Alan Mills, with guitar RCA Victor 57-0051; recorded 1952, Montreal

4 21 The Story of Celeste (George Kleinsinger–Paul Tripp) 13:08 Victor Jory with orchestra conducted by Ray Bloch Signature C-1 (12001/2), mx SRC 299/302; recorded 1946, New York 22 I want a hippopotamus for Christmas (John Rox) 2:37 Gayla Peevey with orchestra conducted by Norman Leyden Columbia J 186, mx CO 49818; recorded 27th September 1953, New York 23 Train to the Zoo 7:07 Norman Rose, narrator, and The Weavers Children’s Record Guild CRG 1001, mx 1001A/B; recorded February 1950, New York 24 One String Fiddle (Erick Berry–Lillian Webster) 13:30 Paul Wing, narrator; Frank Novak, violin; Clark D. Whipple, Hammond Organ Victor Y 319 (41-0006/7), mx D5-AB-0187/90; recorded 6 April 1945, New York 25 The Musicians (Charles Grean–Tom Glazer) 2:36 Dinah Shore, Betty Hutton, Tony Martin & Phil Harris with Henri René’s Orchestra RCA Victor 20-4225, mx E1 VB 698; recorded 24 July,1951, Hollywood 26 The green grass grew all around (Traditional) 3:08 Tex Ritter with guitars Capitol 25014, mx 3174-2D; recorded 1947, Hollywood 27 I Wuv a Wabbit (Berle–Drake–Martell) 2:58 Two Ton Baker, The Merry Music Maker Mercury 7019, mx 743; recorded 1947, Chicago 28 Fuzzy Wuzzy (Al Hoffman–-Milton Drake–Jerry Livingston) 2:52 The Jesters & Milt Herth’s Trio Decca 18688, mx 72828A; recorded 16 April 1945, New York

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CHILDREN’S FAVOURITES THE UGLY DUCKLING • THUMBELINA • THE LION AND ALBERT

‘Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint was one of his first hits, but it was Hans you can at it,’ said Danny Kaye, and his love Christian Andersen (1952) which endeared of life shines through his great recordings. him to generations of children with its He was born David Daniel Kaminsky in hugely popular songs. Brooklyn, New York, on 18 January 1913 to The selection on this album are among Ukrainian immigrant parents. He was a the most well-known from his whole career. natural entertainer from an early age, and The original film album sold over a million though his family wanted him to become a copies. doctor, he dropped out of high school to go When his film career waned, Danny Kaye on the road as an entertainer. transferred to television both as a performer The strong charisma and remarkable and a presenter. And he took up the baton, ability with tongue-twisters showed itself conducting orchestras of classical music. early, but he came up the hard way in From 1957 until his death, he served as showbiz, working as a barman and doing a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, the other jobs before performance on stage United Nations’ children’s section, travelling started to earn him a real living. He toured the world (frequently flying himself as he the US with various vaudeville acts and, in was a skilled pilot), working for charities of the early 1930s, even toured the Far East, all kinds and compering shows. On one trip, performing in China, Japan and Malaya! in 1975, he flew to 65 US and Canadian In 1941, Danny Kaye made his first cities in five days which put him in the impact on Broadway, a year after he married Guinness Book of Records as the World’s Sylvia Fine who was to guide his career – and Fastest-Flying Entertainer. write some of the lyrics that helped make He said, ‘I believe deeply that children him famous. are more powerful than oil, more beautiful In the late 1940s, he made his film than rivers, more precious than any other breakthrough as his personality shone on big natural resource a country can have. I feel screen. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1949) that the most rewarding thing I have ever 6 done in my life is to be associated with whenever called upon to make a public UNICEF.’ recitation. Danny Kaye’s remarkable talents as a Children’s stories with music were performer, as heard on this disc in the hugely popular in the mid-20th century and medley from Hans Christian Andersen, and thousands of short-play recordings were songs such as Tubby the Tuba, continue to released with entertaining covers. One of the touch the lives of successive generations of most successful was the Sparky series, the adults and children alike. endearing story of a young boy who wanted He died in Los Angeles, California on 3 to play music and be a star but encountered March 1987. all kinds of obstacles in the process. Entertaining they certainly were, and The long career of Stanley Holloway innovative, with all kinds of overdubbing and enriched the English stage and screen for special effects which were quite well over half a century. His strong revolutionary for the time. But they also had personality filled the stage (1956) and the a (not very subtle) message which, curiously, cinema screen (1964) in My Fair Lady with make them all the more charming in the 21st his performance of Alfred J. Doolittle, Eliza’s century. Tom Reddy narrates Sparky’s Music father. He had originally trained as an opera Mix-Up, with Stan Kenton and his orchestra singer, but found that revue was more his playing a gloriously inventive score where forte. major concertos are abridged to spectacular He is also remembered for his recordings effect! of numerous monologues, the most famous The skilful combination of light-hearted of which is The Lion and Albert, delivered in words, unforgettable characterisations and a broad northern voice. The adventures of some truly imaginative arrangements made the Ramsbottom family was originally these children’s favourites immensely written by Marriot Edgar, Holloway’s partner popular and, remarkably in a world of in the Co-Optimists, in the 1930s, but computer games and hi-definition television, Holloway made it his own. His famous they still have not lost their effect. recording dates from 1932 but it lived on in the minds of countless would-be Holloways Notes by Nicolas Soames in the decades which followed, as they belted it out with varying degrees of success 7

Lyrics from selected songs

The Lion and Albert There’s a famous seaside place called Now Albert had heard about Lions, Blackpool, How they was ferocious and wild – That’s noted for fresh air and fun, To see Wallace lying so peaceful, And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom Well, it didn’t seem right to the child. Went there with young Albert, their son. So straightway the brave little feller, A grand little lad was young Albert, Not showing a morsel of fear, All dressed in his best; quite a swell Took his stick with its ‘orse’s ‘ead ‘andle With a stick with an ‘orse’s ‘ead ‘andle, And pushed it in Wallace’s ear. The finest that Woolworth could sell. You could see that the Lion didn’t like it, They didn’t think much to the Ocean: For giving a kind of a roll, The waves, they was fiddlin’ and small, He pulled Albert inside the cage with ‘im, There was no wrecks and nobody drownded, And swallowed the little lad ‘ole. Fact, nothing to laugh at at all. Then Pa, who had seen the occurrence, So, seeking for further amusement, And didn’t know what to do next, They paid and went into the Zoo, Said ‘Mother! Yon Lion’s ‘et Albert’, Where they’d Lions and Tigers and Camels, And Mother said ‘Ee, I am vexed!’ And old ale and sandwiches too. Then Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom – There were one great big Lion called Wallace; Quite rightly, when all’s said and done – His nose were all covered with scars – Complained to the Animal Keeper He lay in a somnolent posture, That the Lion had eaten their son. With the side of his face on the bars.

8 The keeper was quite nice about it; The Magistrate gave his opinion He said ‘What a nasty mishap. That no one was really to blame, Are you sure that it’s your boy he’s eaten?’ And he said that he hoped the Ramsbottoms Pa said ‘Am I sure? There’s his cap!’ Would have further sons to their name.

The manager had to be sent for, At that Mother got proper blazing, He came and said ‘What’s to do?’ ‘And thank you, sir, kindly,’ said she. Pa said ‘Yon Lion’s ‘et Albert, ‘What, waste all our lives raising children And ‘im in his Sunday clothes, too.’ To feed ruddy Lions? Not me!’

Then Mother said, ‘Right’s right, young feller, I’m late, I’m late I think it’s a shame and a sin For a very important date For a lion to go and eat Albert, No time to say ‘Hello’, ‘Goodbye’ And after we’ve paid to come in.’ I’m late, I’m late, I’m late No, no, no, no The manager wanted no trouble, No, no, no, I’m overdue He took out his purse right away, I’m really stew Saying ‘How much to settle the matter?’ No time to say ‘Goodbye’, ‘Hello’ And Pa said ‘What do you usually pay?’ I’m late, I’m late, I’m late

But Mother had turned a bit awkward I’m a little teapot When she thought where her Albert had gone. I’m a little teapot, short and stout She said ‘No! someone’s got to be Here is my handle, here is my spout summonsed’– When I get all steamed up, hear me shout So that was decided upon. Just tip me over and pour me out!

Then off they went to the P’lice Station, I’m a clever teapot, yes it’s true In front of the Magistrate chap; Here’s an example of what I can do They told ‘im what happened to Albert, I can change my handle to my spout And proved it by showing his cap. Just tip me over and pour me out.

9 I’m a lonely little petunia in an onion I’m a lonely little petunia in an onion patch, patch oh won’t you come and play with me Of all the saddest words That I have ever heard Tubby the Tuba The saddest is the story There once was a band, best in the land Told me by a bird Everybody said oh my, they’re grand He had spent about and hour But oh, how they laughed when the tuba Chatting with a flower went by and here ís the tale the flower told With an oompah pah, and a great big sigh I’m a lonely little petunia in an onion patch, Tubby the tuba puffing away never had a an onion patch, an onion patch tune to play I’m a lonely little petunia in an onion patch Always dreamed he’d sing a song instead of and all I do is cry all day puffing all day long Boo hoo, boo hoo With his oompah, oom pah pah, oom pah, The air ís so strong it takes my breath away oompah pah pah I’m a lonely little petunia in an onion patch, Tubby said oh, gosh oh, gee, wish I had a oh won’t you come and play with me melody Who put me in this bed? I’d be better off I know if I didn’t have to I’ll bet his face is red blow I call him down with every teardrop that I This oompah, oom pah pah, oompah, oom shed pah pah If I only had him here Then a friendly frog came by and said now I’d take him by the ear Tubby don’t you cry And make him share my misery Take my bullfrog serenade and you’ll be the I’m a lonely little petunia in an onion patch, star of the big parade an onion patch, an onion patch Tubby sang the song so grand, now he’s I’m a lonely little petunia in an onion patch leader of the band and all I do is cry all day He’s as famous as can be with Tubby the Boo hoo, boo hoo tuba’s melody The air ís so strong it takes my breath away Then a friendly frog came by and said now (Feee-you!) Tubby don’t you cry 10 Take my bullfrog serenade and you’ll be the She swallowed the cat to catch the bird star of the big parade She swallowed the bird to catch the spider Tubby sang the song so grand, now he’s That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside leader of the band her He’s as famous as can be with Tubby the She swallowed the spider to catch the fly tuba’s melody But I don’t know why she swallowed that fly Tubby the tuba’s melody Perhaps she’ll die

I know an old lady I know an old lady who swallowed a dog I know an old lady who swallowed a fly What a hog to swallow a dog! I don’t know why she swallowed the fly She swallowed the dog to catch the cat Perhaps she’ll die She swallowed the cat to catch the bird She swallowed the bird to catch the spider I know an old lady who swallowed a spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her her She swallowed the spider to catch the fly She swallowed the spider to catch the fly But I don’t know why she swallowed that fly But I don’t know why she swallowed the fly Perhaps she’ll die Perhaps she’ll die I know an old lady who swallowed a goat I know an old lady who swallowed a bird Opened her throat and down went the goat! How absurd to swallow a bird She swallowed the goat to catch the dog She swallowed the bird to catch the spider She swallowed the dog to catch the cat That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside She swallowed the cat to catch the bird her She swallowed the bird to catch the spider She swallowed the spider to catch the fly That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside But I don’t know why she swallowed the fly her Perhaps she’ll die She swallowed the spider to catch the fly But I don’t know why she swallowed that fly I know an old lady who swallowed a cat Perhaps she’ll die Imagine that. She swallowed a cat. 11 I know an old lady who swallowed a cow I want a hippopotamus for Christmas I don’t know how she swallowed the cow Only a hippopotamus will do She swallowed the cow to catch the goat No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses She swallowed the goat to catch the dog I only like hippopotamuses She swallowed the dog to catch the cat And hippopotamuses like me too She swallowed the cat to catch the bird Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but She swallowed the bird to catch the spider then That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian her There’s lots of room for him in our two-car She swallowed the spider to catch the fly garage But I don’t know why she swallowed that fly I’d feed him there and wash him there and Perhaps she’ll die give him his massage I know an old lady who swallowed a horse I can see me now on Christmas morning, She’s dead of course! creeping down the stairs Oh what joy and what surprise I want a hippopotamus For Christmas when I open up my eyes I want a hippopotamus for Christmas to see a hippo hero standing there Only a hippopotamus will do I want a hippopotamus for Christmas Don’t want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy Only a hippopotamus will do I want a hippopotamus to play with and No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses enjoy I only like hippopotamuseses I want a hippopotamus for Christmas I don’t think Santa Claus will mind, do you? He won’t have to use our dirty chimney flue Just bring him through the front door, that’s the easy thing to do I can see me now on Christmas morning, creeping down the stairs Oh what joy and what surprise when I open up my eyes to see a hippo hero standing there 12 Produced by Nicolas Soames ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. UNAUTHORISED PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, Compiled by David Lennick BROADCASTING AND COPYING OF THESE COMPACT DISCS PROHIBITED. p Mastered by Rachel Smith 2006 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd. © 2006 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd. Made in Germany. Cover Picture: Hannah Davies 2:15:51 Total time Total . , retain a , retain Hans Christian Andersen The Lion and Albert, Tubby the Tuba, the Tuba, Albert, Tubby The Lion and m and amuse listeners of all generations. m and amuse listeners .naxosaudiobooks.com View our catalogue online at online catalogue our View www s entertainer of all. Included in this programme are many of many are in this programme s entertainer of all. Included en’

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