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July 2, 2014 by tomdalzell

Peter and the Wolf Record Album Covers

Gabby, it seems, was especially fond of Peter and the Wolf.  More to the point, he was especially fond of Peter and the Wolf record album covers.  He did not claim to have listened to each record that he owns, and he was not obsessive about the condition of the albums themselves.   Simply put, he was fascinated by our unquestioning embrace of a piece of state-sponsored music from the Stalin-era Soviet Union.  And, in some case, he was amused by the narrators; Captain Kangaroo, William F. Buckley, and Sean Connery were his favorites.  He also was drawn to the cover art.  Here are the photos he sent of his collection.

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CHAN 10484 Antonion Bandera Arthur Godfrey 2 Arthur Godfrey Beatrice Lillie Boris Karlaoff Bowie Bowie : Ormandy 2 Bowie : Ormandy 3 Bowie : Ormandy Captain Kangaroo Chris Rashka Chuck Jones

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Chuck Jones 2 Cyril Ritchard David Franklin Disney 1 Disney 3 Dudley Moore Edna Everage Eleanor Roosevelt Frank Phillips Genedai ??? George Raft Golden Stars Hermione Gingold Ithac Perlman Jack Lemmon Jacqueline du Pre Spanish Jacqueline du Pre Jeremy Nicholas Jimmy Smith Joaquin Pertierra John Gielguld John Gielguld 2 Jonathan Winters Jose Ferrer 2 Jose Ferrer Spanish OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Julian Rose Leonard Bernstein Leoni Jansen leonor Watling Leopold Stokowski Lina Prokofiev Lloyd Bridges Lorne Green Melissa Joan Hart Mia Farrow Michael Flanders Michael Flanders Michel Flanders 2 No name Not named Otto Patrick Stewart Peter Pan 3 Peter Pan Orchestra Peter Ustinov Pierre Perret Ralph Richardson 2 Ralph Richardson Reginald Carol 2 Reginald Carol Richad Bkaer Richad Briers Richard Baker Richard Hale Richard Hale 1939 Richard Hale 1939 2 Sean Connery Soviet-looking Spanish 2 Spanish 3 SPanish Stephan Remmler Stephen Simon Sterling Holloway 2 Sterling Holloway 3 Sterling Holloway 4 Sterling Holloway 5 Sterling Holloway Sting Sting 2 Sting 3 Vic Stanz Victor Jory Viv Stanshall Weird Al Will Geer William F. Buckley Yadujpg

 And that’s not counting the French ones.  For whatever reason, Gabby mixed the Spanish ones (Pedro y el Lobo) in with the English ones.

Pierre BookExcept in French it is Pierre et Le Loup.  And here are his photos of his Pierre album covers:

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And then the German ones:

08bf6d04-5087-43fc-b6c2-3057943f85ea-0 51bZQRwn2vL._SY300_ 51IOo+ckofL._SY300_ 51Rd9ihZm-L 51sjvOwuHIL._SX300_ 419hxx8kqCL 274499_1_f 0001715379_500 2948167576 2966829981 c59ar778.j31 horstbuchholz-peterundderwolf Loriots-Peter-und-der-Wolf LP9228 MI0001180537 MI0002941173 MI0003083874 p33pw_orange_play_500 serge_prokofieff-peter_und_der_wolf(2)Exhausting, no?   I asked my friend about Gabby’s collection.  At first, he just pulled out a sheet of paper from a a file on his desk.

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I know what he means.   He remembered what Gabby had told us about the night he and Young Emily knew what was going to happen with them, a night that involved her grandmother’s collection of three wise monkey figures.  He went back to the albums, reading out loud some of the narrators, pointing out the especially good graphics.

Good 1 Good 2

And the especially bad graphics.

Bad

And then he said, simply enough:

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