Rhymes And Stories
Two selections from M.G.M.’s Great Children’s Stories series, Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes (M.G.M. mono ME6024 39s 6d) and Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland (M.G.M. ME6021 39s 6d) have a strong American flavour.
The nursery rhymes are sung by children who work well as a chorus, especially the boys. The singing is clear, fresh and free from the sentimentality and moralising sometimes found in American collections of children’s rhymes, though the between-sdng patter, also provided by the children, is a little cloying. The accompanying electric organ produces a wide range of clever sound effects. Children listening to this record will probably want to join in.
“Peter Pan” and “Alice In Wonderland,” both in dramatised form with a narrator, have been so condensed that their magic and emotional impact have been lost.' The Disney-type sound effects do little to preserve the flavour of the originals, although the inclusion of some of the logic and word puzzles partly redeems “Alice in Wonderland.?
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 12
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162Rhymes And Stories Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 12
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