I found something interesting today.This is an eighteen page hardbound book,published by David McKay,of selections from "A Child's Garden of Verses".It is ten inches square,and illustrated by H.Willebeek le Mair.What makes it interesting is,it says it's a "talking book",published by The Talking Book Company of New York.It came with a record of the poems,with original music written by Helen Meyers,and sung by Josephine Therese.I can find out nothing about these women.The record was made by RCA,who placed their logo on the cover.The book has two copyright dates,of 1926,and 1940.Is it a 1940 reissue of a 1926 record? I can find nothing about the company,but there is one of these up for sale on AbeBooks,and like my copy,it has no record.There is also reference to a "Little Black Sambo",in the same series owned by the Library of Congress. http://scholar.qsensei.com/content/17q6zm/sources/original This was all I could find.What I was wondering,was could
this somehow be a successor to the Talking Book Corporation,who made those records on cards,with Emerson?Are there more of these 1940 records in Peter Muldavin's book?
Roger
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