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Finally! I recently managed to obtain an original Golden Record of the Laurel & Hardy theme song from Larry Harmon's animated '60s TV show. Regular readers may recall that I recorded the song from YouTube some months back and made my own cd to replace the single I had as a kid. (Well, it wasn't actually 'mine' - it must've been acquired by either my father or brother, but I played it more often than them.)
There were different versions of this record, though the content is the exact same in all of them. I believe it was first released in America in 1963 as a 78 rpm 6 inch record (yellow vinyl), as well as in Britain by Goldentone Records (orange vinyl, also 6 inch). At some stage, the US single also became available as a 45 rpm 7 inch single (black vinyl), which is the one pictured above. (I scanned the sleeve with the single still in it, which is why you can see the shape of the record.)
The one I had as a kid was orange vinyl, and if it ever shows up on eBay, I'll buy it if I can, but in the meantime I'm just happy to have an 'official' recording of the song. Actually, I probably prefer 45 rpm for a single, and the sleeve isn't radically different to the Goldentone one, so I won't be too disappointed if the original remains beyond my grasp. One look at the cover and I'm once more a child on the living-room carpet, sat in front of our old wooden cabinet record player, singing along to this humorous ditty.
Just to remind you all in case you missed it before, below is what the Goldentone one looked like, along with the cd I made for myself.
