THE STORY OF SLEEPING BEAUTY

Playing Forgotten Music on 78 RPM Records by Curt HahnCRICKET RECORDS THE STORY OF SLEEPING BEAUTYAll credit due to the artist, musicians and Record Companies  No profit or income derived from this podcast.Have a historic 78 RPM and story you want to share with my listeners?  Contact me at:www.facebook.com/s3productions2 or [email protected] STORY OF SLEEPING BEAUTY Part 1 / Part 2 CRICKET RECORDS C132 1953Norman Rose (1917 – 2004) was an actor, film narrator and radio announcer whose velvety baritone was often called "the Voice of God" by colleagues. He was best known as the voice of fictitious coffee grower Juan Valdez in the Colombian coffee television commercials.Pickwick Records (originally formed as Pickwick Sales Corporation, later Pickwick International) was founded in 1950 by Cy Leslie, whose first business was a prerecorded greeting card service that in 1946 turned into Voco Records, a label of children's records. In 1957, after successfully marketing their Cricket children's label of 78 and 45rpm records,Cy Leslie reorganized Pickwick Sales Corp. in 1952 out of Voco, which had begun in 1946 producing recorded greeting cards, elaborately designed kiddie picture discs with cardboard backings and finally multicolored vinyl records. Cricket was the successor to Voco, making its debut with Pickwick itself on May 25, 1953; "my wife's birthday" as Leslie later recalled. Cricket was the first product line offered by Pickwick Sales Corp. According to Leslie, "Good fortune introduced me to an early genius, Eli Oberstein. He owned a vast catalog which included many children's albums, which he agreed to lease, thus beginning Pickwick's first licensing – The Pickwick Cricket line of children's records.