Material Type

Artifact

Date Range From

1950

Date Range To

1960

Materials

PAPER, VINYL, INK

No. Pieces

3

Length

25.5

Width

26

Description

A. SLEEVE, 26CM W X 25.5CM L. PAPER RECORD SLEEVE WITH YELLOWED TAPE AROUND RIGHT AND BOTTOM EDGES. SLEEVE OPENS AT TOP. FRONT IS YELLOW WITH IMAGE OF FIGURE WEARING GREEN OUTFIT, BLOWING A HORN, HOLDING A BOW, AND WEARING A SWORD AND ARROW QUIVER; CENTRAL FIGURE IS SURROUNDED BY IMAGES OF GREEN FIGURES CARRYING SWORDS, BOWS, AND A STAFF IN MOVEMENT, A RED CASTLE, AND RED FIGURE CARRYING A SWORD AND RUNNING. FRONT HAS BLACK TEXT AT TOP WITH RED AND GREEN ARROW THROUGH, “ROBIN HOOD”, WITH BLACK TEXT BELOW “WRITTEN BY RAY ABRASHKIN, MUSIC BY HERBERT HAUFRECHT”. FRONT HAS RED BANNER WITH GOLD AND BLACK TEXT LISTING VOICE ACTORS, “WILLIAM MCGRAW, ROBIN HOOD, GEORGE KASELY, SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM, J. ALDEN EDKINS, LITTLE JOHN, EMILE ROLAND, THE HERALD, DON LORING ROGERS, ELWYN, VIVIANE F. BAUER, SHERIFF’S DAUGHTER, ALEXANDER SCOURBY, NARRATOR”. FRONT HAS BLACK BAR WITH GOLD TEXT RUNNING DOWN LEFT SIDE, “YOUNG PEOPLE’S RECORDS, INC” WITH RED AND WHITE SQUARE LABEL ABOVE TEXT AND BLACK, HANDWRITTEN TEXT “JENSEN”. FRONT HAS BLACK TEXT ALONG BOTTOM EDGE, COVERED BY TAPE, “ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS CONDUCTED BY MAX GOBERMAN”. BACK OF SLEEVE IS YELLOW WITH BLACK BAR AND YELLOW TEXT RUNNING DOWN RIGHTT SIDE, “YOUNG PEOPLE’S RECORDS, INC.”; BACK HAS GREEN AND BLACK TEXT “TO PARENTS:” WITH NOTES AND STANDARDS ON THE EDITION OF “ROBIN HOOD” PRESENTED ON THE RECORD; BACK OF SLEEVE HAS BLACK, HANDWRITTEN “J” IN UPPER RIGHT CORNER. SLEEVE OPENS UP IN CENTER; SLEEVE IS WHITE IN CENTER WITH GREEN, BLACK, AND RED TEXT “ROBIN HOOD” AND TRANSCRIBED STORY DIALOGUE WITH CHARACTERS. LOWER EDGE OF RIGHT FLAP HAS BLACK TEXT COVERED BY THE TAPE, “COPYRIGHT MCML YOUNG PEOPLE’S RECORDS INC., MADE IN U.S.A.” SLEEVE IS WORN; SLEEVE HAS TEARING ON FRONT AND ALONG UPPER EDGE; SLEEVE HAS BLACK STAINING ON BACK; OVERALL GOOD CONDITION. B. RECORD “1, 2”, 24.8 CM DIAMETER. BLACK VINYL RECORD WITH PAPER CENTER AND HOLE IN MIDDLE. PAPER CENTER IS GREEN WITH PINK, DARK GREEN, AND WHITE TEXT, “YOUNG PEOPLES RECORDS, 1-1010 A, TOLD BY ALEXANDER SCOURBY, ROBIN HOOD (ABRASHKIN-HAUFRECHT), ORCHESTRA & CHORUS CONDUCTED BY MAX GOBERMAN, WILLIAM MCGRAW AS ROBIN HOOD, J. ALDEN EDKINS AS LITTLE JOHN, FOR NON COMMERCIAL USE ON PHONOGRAPHS IN HOMES ONLY TRADE MARK REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. MADE IN U.S.A.”. RECORD HAS RED AND WHITE LABEL ON FRONT OF CENTER WITH BLACK HANDWRITTEN TEXT “JENSEN”. BACK OF RECORD HAS GREEN PAPER CENTER WITH GREEN IMAGE OF CHILD LISTENING TO A RECORD ON A PINK BACKGROUND, AND PINK, DARK GREEN, AND WHITE TEXT “YOUNG PEOPLES RECORDS, 2-1010 B, TOLD BY ALEXANDER SCOURBY, ROBIN HOOD (ABRASHKIN-HAUFRECHT), ORCHESTRA & CHORUS CONDUCTED BY MAX GOBERMAN, GEORGE RASELY AS THE SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM, DON LORING ROGERS AS ELWYN; VIVIANE F. BAUER AS THE SHERIFF’S DAUGHTER, FOR NON COMMERCIAL USE ON PHONOGRAPHS IN HOMES ONLY TRADE MARK REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. MADE IN U.S.A”. RECORD HAS MINOR DUST AND GRIME BUILT UP; PAPER CENTER IS WORN ON FRONT AND BACK; RECORD HAS MINOR SCRATCHING; OVERALL VERY GOOD CONDITION. C. RECORD “3, 4”, 24.8 CM DIAMETER. BLACK VINYL RECORD WITH PAPER CENTER AND HOLE IN MIDDLE. PAPER CENTER IS GREEN WITH GREEN IMAGE OF A CHILD LISTENING TO A RECORD ON A PINK BACKGROUND, WITH PINK, DARK GREEN, AND WHITE TEXT, “YOUNG PEOPLES RECORDS, 3-1011 A, TOLD BY ALEXANDER SCOURBY, ROBIN HOOD (ABRASHKIN-HAUFRECHT), ORCHESTRA & CHORUS CONDUCTED BY MAX GOBERMAN, EMILE ROLAND AS THE HERALD, FOR NON COMMERCIAL USE ON PHONOGRAPHS IN HOMES ONLY TRADE MARK REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. MADE IN U.S.A.”. RECORD HAS BLACK HANDWRITTEN “J” ON FRONT OF CENTER. BACK OF RECORD HAS GREEN PAPER CENTER WITH GREEN IMAGE OF CHILD LISTENING TO A RECORD ON A PINK BACKGROUND, AND PINK, DARK GREEN, AND WHITE TEXT “YOUNG PEOPLES RECORDS, 4-1011 B, TOLD BY ALEXANDER SCOURBY, ROBIN HOOD (ABRASHKIN-HAUFRECHT), ORCHESTRA & CHORUS CONDUCTED BY MAX GOBERMAN, GEORGE RASELY AS THE SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM, WILLIAM MCGRAW AS ROBIN HOOD, FOR NON COMMERCIAL USE ON PHONOGRAPHS IN HOMES ONLY TRADE MARK REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. MADE IN U.S.A”. RECORD HAS MINOR DUST AND GRIME BUILT UP; PAPER CENTER IS WORN ON FRONT AND BACK; 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 “ROBIN HOOD” RECORD, CAVERS RECALLED, “THIS ‘ROBIN HOOD’ ONE—IT WOULD BE AFTER ‘PETER PAN’. THIS IS THE ONE THAT I TOOK TO SCHOOL DURING MY FIRST YEAR OF TEACHING (IT WOULD BE SPRING OF 1969) [I WAS TEACHING GRADE FOUR AT WESTMINSTER SCHOOL], AND THE KIDS LISTENED TO IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AND THEN DECIDED WE WOULD PUT ON A PLAY. EVERYBODY HAD A PART, AND I GOT SOME BROAD CLOTH AND MADE THEM LITTLE COLLARS THAT LOOKED LIKE THE ROBIN HOOD LITTLE CAPELET, AND MUST HAVE HAD HATS AS WELL. I DON’T REMEMBER WHAT WE DRESSED EVERYONE ELSE IN, BUT I REMEMBER MAKING THOSE (THEY WERE JUST SIMPLE). WE PUT ON THIS PLAY, HAD THEIR PARENTS COME AND WATCH THEM, SO THAT WAS FUN…THERE’S SINGING IN IT, AND LOTS OF REPETITION, SO THE KIDS LIKED IT AND I HAD FUN SHARING IT WITH THEM.” “THESE, I WOULD THINK, MY MOTHER BOUGHT. I HAVE A COLLECTION OF PROBABLY TEN OR TWELVE RECORDS…[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

P20190005020

Acquisition Date

2019-02

Collection

Museum

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