Links
- The
Little Wonder Record And Bubble Book Site In the early 1900s,
Little Wonder records revolutionized recorded popular music, and
Bubble Books--"their offspring"--launched the first book/record
series for children. Merle Sprinzen, perhaps the leading collector of this label, has created this
site. It includes a vast amount of historical and discographic information, a music library for
listening to some of the tunes, and items for sale.
- Mainspring
Press Mainspring Press was founded by Allan Sutton in Denver,
Colorado, in 1999 with a dual purpose: to publish high-quality,
peer-reviewed books for researchers, librarians, archivists, and
collectors of historic recordings; and to provide the record-collecting
community with a free online journal.
- Judy Gail Krasnow
Just about the most 'feel-good' site that's connected to children's records. Created by Judy Krasnow,
daughter of Hecky Krasno, famous children's record producer and writer for Columbia Records in the late
1940s and early 1950s. This was what I refer to as the Golden Age of Children's Records. You can find out
about Judy's newly published book of life growing up in the Krasno household during the creation and
recording of such kiddie 78 standards as "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Frosty The Snowman", and
"Captain Kangaroo".
- All about the Children's Record Guild
and Young People's Records From David Bonner comes the only Website devoted to the most creative,
prolific, and innovative kiddie record labels of the 1940s and 50s: Children's Record Guild (CRG) and
Young Peoples' Records (YPR). Bonner is the world's leading expert on these pioneering companies and he
has cobbled together a wealth of historical and background information which is published in his new book
Revolutionizing Children's Records: The Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild series
(The Scarecrow Press).
- Mechanical
Music Extravaganza Semi-annual Wayne, New Jersey antique show for talking machines, music boxes,
78rpm and cylinder records, and everything mechanically musical. In my opinion, one of the best of it's
kind on the East Coast. Promoted by Michael Devecka..
- Ty's
Record Page "Billions" of links to record and phonograph sites, all courtesy of collector and
historian Tyrone Settlemier of Albany, Oregon.
- The Home of Classic
Children's Stories & Songs From New Zealand, Don Linden's passion for vintage children's records is
borne out his great presentation.
- Tim
Gracyk's Home Page Tim's Articles About Phonographs and Old
Records.
- The Mettavant
Project: Toy movie projectors From France comes Claude Mettavant's great site devoted to toy
movie projectors, some of which play in synch with children's records.
- The
Internet Museum of Flexi/Cardboard/ Oddity Records
Michael Cumella of New York City's Upper West Side has created one of the most unusual and interesting
phonograph Websites I have ever come across. Includes .wav files and .mpg files. Outstanding!
- Nauck's Vintage
Records 78 rpm and cylinder record auction company, founded and owned by Texan, Kurt Nauck. This is
The website for finding the rarest and most unusual 78-rpm records offered at auction.
- Mr. Pop History
Gary West's knowledgeable site at which he answers pop culture questions from the 1950's - 1990's.
Also, browse through the 1960's week-by-week in the best-ever look at that decade.
- Steve's
Comedy And Dementia Collection While this is a general comedy source site, generous attention is
given to "silly" kiddie records. Thanks to Steve Stortz for shining a light on this genre of records!
- The
Durium Hit Of The Week Site From The Netherlands, Hans Koert
offers this fascinating site listing everything you ever wanted
to know about the popular flexi Durium Hit Of the Week records
(and more) from the 1930s. Hans has many other projects going on which you can view
at his main Website (including links and his blog), The Hans Kurts Projects
- The "Dutch Kiddie Rekord King"
This fine site is also from The Netherlands. Created by Peter Oosterhout, the "Dutch Kiddie Record King"
it is all about Dutch children's records from the period 1930-1990. Mostly it is about 7" vinyl (45 rpm),
but there are also some pictures and sounds from 10" 78 rpm records. Be prepared: the text is entirely in
Dutch.
- The
"Song Of The South" site Christian Willis is proud to be able
to offer you the most complete and comprehensive database of information
on Walt Disney's Song of the South, featuring Uncle Remus.
- Mystery
Train This site specializes in rare and collectible recordings
on vinyl, and has thousands of them available for sale on their
web site.
- POVonline
Mark Evanier has created and compiled a fascinating and extensive
"point of view" Webzine of all of our favorite pop characters,
both fictional and non-fictional.
- Canadian Antique
Phonograph Society If you are interested in phonographs, gramophones
and the history of recorded sound, then the Canadian Antique Phonograph
Society (CAPS) is for you. This site provides a glimpse of the
Society's programs and activities, and highlights from its bi-monthly
publication Antique Phonograph News.
- Wolverine
Antique Music Society: WAMS Web: Shellac-to-Silicon A Source of Antique Phonographic Resources.
- Michigan
Antique Phonograph Society (MAPS) The largest Gramophone society in the world.
- Darrell
Lehman's Bubble Book Site This site has a page devoted just to Columbia's pioneering children's
record series from the World War I era known as "Bubble Books".
- Famous
78 rpm Collector's Photo Gallery Assembled by Darrell Lehman. See above link for Darrell's main site.
- Birgit Lotz
Verlag This is a German site specializing in 78rpm gramophone
discs, phonograph cylinders, sheet music, needle tins, catalogs,
books, photographs, postcardsÊand just about any other ephemera
and collectibles. They have international mail auctions.
- The
Crockett Johnson Homepage has a page on The Carrot Seed record (for which Crockett Johnson drew the
cover.)
- Audio
Finders Comprehensive resources for finding recorded sound
on the internet and around the world.
- Ourworld
Music, classical, opera, vocal and gilbert and sullivan links.
- Phonograph
Companion: Phonograph Related Links Phonograph Companion,
Helping The World Find Phonograph Items.
- Record
Collecting Resources: website from Finland!
- Talkin'
'bout Tot Music A conversation with kiddie record fan, Joe
Jack Talcum.
- World
of Gramophones One of the internet's largest portals for old
music and the machines that made it happen. Includes dozens of
services, storefronts, live auction, history, and a whole lot
more. This site is currently not that active, but fun to visit anyway.
- Antique
Radio Resources Radio and phonograph related sites on the
internet.
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