Material Type

Artifact

Date Range From

1950

Date Range To

1960

Materials

PAPER, INK, VINYL

No. Pieces

2

Length

25.7

Width

25.6

Description

A. PAPER RECORD SLEEVE, 25.7 CM L X 25.6 CM W. RECORD SLEEVE HAS YELLOWED TAPE ALONG SIDE AND BOTTOM EDGES. FRONT OF SLEEVE DEPICTS IMAGE OF YELLOW SKY, MOUNTAINS, CACTUS, AND THREE CHILD CHARACTERS RIDING HORSES. SLEEVE HAS RED TEXT INSIDE A ROPE LASSO HELD BY THE FRONT CHARACTER IN UPPER LEFT CORNER, “TINY ROUND-UP TIME”, WITH GREEN TEXT BESIDE, “AT THE KIDDIE KORRAL WITH YOUR SINGING PAL FLOYD WORTHINGTON”; SLEEVE HAS BLUE AND RED TEXT ALONG LOWER EDGE, “LYRIC RECORDS, STORY AND MUSICAL SETTING BY WILLIAM KAYE AND FREDERICK KRAMER, UNBREAKABLE RECORD”. FRONT OF SLEEVE HAS RED AND WHITE LABEL IN UPPER RIGHT CORNER WITH BLACK HANDWRITTEN TEXT, “JENSEN”. BACK OF SLEEVE HAS THREE BLUE IMAGES OF A CHILD CHARACTER ON A HORSE, A MAN ON A HORSE SHOOTING A GUN, AND FIRST NATIONS INDIVIDUALS ON HORSES BESIDE A COVERED WAGON; BACK OF SLEEVE HAS RED POEM BESIDE THE IMAGES. BACK OF SLEEVE HAS RED AND BLUE TEXT ALONG LOWER EDGE, “OTHER LYRIC RECORDS, MFG. AND SOLD BY EMPIRE RECORD CORP., 2060 FIRST AVE., N.Y. 29, N.Y.” BACK HAS BLACK HANDWRITTEN “J” IN UPPER RIGHT CORNER. BACK IS YELLOWED AND TORN; UPPER EDGE IS TORN AND CREASED; OVERALL GOOD CONDITION. B. VINYL RECORD, 24.7 CM DIAMETER. BLACK VINYL RECORD WITH WHITE PAPER CENTER AND RED TEXT; FRONT OF CENTER HAS TEXT, “LYRIC RECORDS, PART 1 404 A, TINY ROUND-UP TIME, AT THE KIDDIE KORRAL, FEATURING YOUR SINGING PAL FLOYD WORTHINGTON”. FRONT OF CENTER HAS RED AND WHITE LABEL WITH BLUE HANDWRITTEN TEXT “JENSEN”. BACK OF RED HAS WHITE CENTER WITH RED TEXT, “LYRIC RECORDS, PART 2 404 B, TINY ROUND-UP TIME, AT THE KIDDIE KORRAL, FEATURING YOUR SINGING PAL FLOYD WORTHINGTON”. RECORD CENTER IS YELLOWED AND WORN AROUND THE CUT-OUT HOLE IN THE CENTER; RECORD HAS MINOR GRIME AND DUST; BACK OF RECORD HAS MINOR SCRATCHING; OVERALL VERY GOOD CONDITION.

Subjects

SOUND COMMUNICATION T&E

Historical Association

LEISURE

EDUCATION

History

ON FEBRUARY 5, 2019, COLLECTIONS TECHNICIAN KEVIN MACLEAN INTERVIEWED BARB CAVERS REGARDING HER DONATION OF ITEMS FROM HER HOME AND TEACHING CAREER. ON THE “TINY ROUND-UP TIME” RECORD, CAVERS RECALLED, “[THIS RECORD] I WOULD THINK, MY MOTHER BOUGHT. I HAVE A COLLECTION OF PROBABLY TEN OR TWELVE RECORDS…THE ‘TINY ROUNDUP TIME’…I THINK I HAD THREE…THEY LIST ON THE BACK. THEY HAD THE ‘KIDDY BANDWAGON’, AND THE ‘KIDDY CARNIVAL’…THIS IS THE…WESTERN ONES, AND THEY ARE REALLY AN INTERESTING WEIGHT, BECAUSE THEY ARE REALLY THICK, AND THEY ARE, THEORETICALLY, UNBREAKABLE, BUT I KNOW I KEPT ONE THAT HAD A BIG CHUNK OUT OF IT…[THE RECORD IS] NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT, WITH SOME OF THE SONGS THAT ARE ON IT, BUT I LISTENED TO THEM OVER…AND OVER AGAIN.” “[I LIKED THE RECORDS] BECAUSE OF THE MUSIC—THE SONGS—I LOVE TO SING. I WAS ALWAYS SINGING. IF WE TRAVELED IN THE CAR, I’D BE SINGING, AND WOULD SING EVERY SONG I KNEW. I STARTED IN A JUNIOR CHOIR WITH ANNE CAMPBELL WHEN I WAS IN GRADE FOUR…I WOULD HAVE LISTENED TO THESE RECORDS, ALL OF THEM…BECAUSE I KNOW I LISTENED TO THEM WHEN WE LIVED ON SOUTH PARKSIDE, AND I WOULD BE IN GRADE FIVE AND SIX, SO I WAS STILL LISTENING TO THEM JUST BECAUSE I LIKED THEM.” “I’D SING ALONG WITH THEM, OR PROBABLY PLAY ALL PARTS IN THE STORY RECORDS. I REALLY LIKED THE ONES LIKE ‘ROBIN HOOD’, AND ‘PETER PAN’. BOTH HAVE THE STORY PRINTED OUT, AND I REALLY LIKED THAT, EVEN WHEN I WAS A GOOD READER. I READ A LOT…I WOULD ALWAYS TAKE OUT SIX BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY, SO I READ EVERY DAY…I WOULD PLAY…WITH THE PRECURSOR TO LEGO—THEY WERE RUBBER MINI-BRICKS, OR PUZZLES…I WOULD DO IT IN THE LIVING ROOM, IN FRONT OF THE RECORD PLAYER.” “WHEN I WAS FIRST MARRIED WE LIVED IN A FAIRLY SMALL APARTMENT [IN 1968]…I HAD THE RECORDS BECAUSE I KNOW I USED THEM IN MY FIRST FEW YEARS OF TEACHING…[I] PROBABLY HAD THE BOOKS AS WELL, BECAUSE I PROBABLY TOOK THEM. I TOOK ALL OF MY OWN PERSONAL BOOKS AND RECORDS INTO THE CLASSROOM AND USED THEM. THE MUSIC BOX, I NEVER WOULD HAVE TAKEN TO SCHOOL…I MAY HAVE GOT THEM ALL WHEN I GOT MARRIED, AND MY MOTHER MIGHT HAVE SAID, ‘HERE.’” “I WAS VERY LUCKY IN SO MANY WAYS AS A CHILD. WE WERE REALLY PRIVILEGED CHILDREN. I HAD THINGS THAT MANY OF MY FRIENDS NEVER HAD…I READ…BUT DIDN’T HAVE A LARGE PERSONAL COLLECTION OF BOOKS…THE BOOKS THAT WE HAD WERE SPECIAL. THE FACT THAT WE HAD RECORDS…WAS VERY SPECIAL, VERY UNIQUE. I DON’T KNOW IF ANY OF MY FRIENDS HAD THEM.” CAVERS ELABORATED ON HER USE OF RECORDS IN HER CLASSROOM AS A TEACHER, NOTING, “WHEN I STARTED TEACHING, THERE WAS NO CURRICULUM. THERE WERE TEXT BOOKS…YOU HAD A READER, YOU HAD A SPELLER, YOU HAD A MATH TEXT. YOU CERTAINLY DIDN’T HAVE A SOCIAL STUDIES TEXT BOOK. I FOUND READING OUT OF A READER REALLY BORING, AND I WASN’T AT MY BEST WHEN I WAS DOING THAT, SO I ALWAYS TRIED TO BRING IN MORE THINGS THAT I WAS INTERESTED IN, AND I WOULD BE A BETTER TEACHER BECAUSE I WOULD BE MORE ENGAGED AND MORE ANIMATED. THE KIDS LIKED WHENEVER YOU BROUGHT SOMETHING FROM YOUR HOME…” “NOBODY REALLY CARED WHAT YOU DID IN YOUR CLASSROOM, REALLY. IT’S JUST HARD TO BELIEVE THAT IT WAS SO UNSTRUCTURED AT THAT TIME. IT WAS PROBABLY A COMBINATION OF READING AND LISTENING…AND SPEAKING, AND MUSIC ROLLED INTO ONE. I’M SURE I JUST DID IT BECAUSE IT WAS FUN.” FOR MORE INFORMATION INCLUDING LETHBRIDGE HERALD ARTICLES AND THE FULL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION, PLEASE SEE THE PERMANENT FILE P20190005001-GA.

Catalogue Number

P20190005019

Acquisition Date

2019-02

Collection

Museum

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