RARE/VINTAGE 1965 HANNA BARBERA DROP INS VOL.1 RECORD NUMBER 850 OUT OF 1000.
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This is a rare piece of animation history and a Mid century collectors piece; the 1965 Hanna Barbera Drop Ins record only distributed to radio stations. Only a 1000 were produced. The record is in great shape but the album cover has a tear but overall in good shaps.
Some of you might recall that back in the mid-1960s, Hanna-Barbera Productions started their own short-lived record label to cash in on the recording trend. In addition to albums and singles of their cartoon songs and other recording artists, they also had the "Cartoon Series" LPs; which would feature a story with popular H-B cartoon characters, also including a few songs (sometimes made just for the record). To help promote this new record label and the "Cartoon Series" albums, Hanna-Barbera offered this record to radio stations. One side contained several of their famous sound effects, the other containing various clips (dialogue bits and sound effects) from some of their "Cartoon Series" releases. It was never sold to the public, and only 1,000 were issued (this copy is number 850.) I think some of these leaked out to rival animation studios, which would explain why some of these sounds showed up in DePatie-Freleng and Filmation's work, etc. I am also certain the cover artwork was designed by Iwao Takamoto, judging by how Fred Flintstone and Huckleberry Hound appear.
I think there were supposed to be more, judging by the "Volume 1," but this is the only one offered, to my knowledge.
The first side features an introduction by that classic Emmy-winning cartoon star Huckleberry Hound explaining the purpose of this record (pretty amusing, actually), and then forty of H-B's sound effects, including some not on the professional 5-disc H-B sound effects library from Sound Ideas I also have, but it also misses some of their other more famous sounds (where's the "bongo run," the "Gazoo fade-in," the big "chomp" and some of their others? :P )
The other side does have some additional sound effects, along with a bunch of dialogue clips (some with effects in them too), many of them taken from the above-mentioned "cartoon series" LPs. There are a few sound clips of Fred Flintstone (no Yabba-dabba-doo! though), Magilla Gorilla, Mr. Peebles and Super Snooper (the detective cat), but most of the others sound like more generic characters, most likely lifted off some of the above-mentioned H-B cartoon-themed records. These dialogue clips were performed by June Foray, Daws Butler, Don Messick, Paul Frees, Bea Benaderet, Alan Melvin, Howard Morris and Alan Reed.
Hmm, that could make for an interesting trivia game: name those famous cartoon voice actors!
Some of the dialogue clips are fun. One I like is of a wolf that is apparently pretending to be a police offer to Little Red Riding Hood. There is also a fake news announcement about the Big Bad Wolf being about and to watch for him. I also enjoy one with a guy saying "If I'm not telling the truth, may I get struck by lightning!" *cue Castle Thunder sound effect*
There is even Fred Flintstone burning the hairs off his tongue.
Makes a great collectors item and have any questions send a message.
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