How The Circus Learned To Smile-by Frank Tashlin

[jazzman78]

I am mainly a record collector for about 40 year who also love classic annimation I fell in love with it in the early 50's when my family got their first TV.

For the first time last week. I found a copy of a 2 - 78 set called "How The Circus Learned to Smile" The records were made by Spike Jones and his City Slickers and the story was by Frank Tashlin!! with music by Edward Pripps and it was issued around 1952/3

Did Tashklin write any other children's stories and were they ever recorded?

[Sogturtle]

I am mainly a record collector for about 40 year who also love classic annimation I fell in love with it in the early 50's when my family got their first TV.

For the first time last week. I found a copy of a 2 - 78 set called "How The Circus Learned to Smile" The records were made by Spike Jones and his City Slickers and the story was by Frank Tashlin!! with music by Edward Pripps and it was issued around 1952/3

Did Tashklin write any other children's stories and were they ever recorded?

Jazzman78~

Hmmmm... Now that's something new on moi:) ... I never knew Tashlin was the writer of any stories for records:eek: So I have to ask... Is this purely a story record or a musical record with story elements or what??:confused: I'd LOVE to hear that recording!!

And Frank did write several books, one of which ("The Bear That Wasn't") was of course later made into an MGM cartoon by Chuck Jones (with Tashlin as co-producer).

[jazzman78]

It's mainly a story with music and sound effects. The cover is gatefold and there are cartoon drawings on the cover and inside - however there is not artist credited or signature that I can find in any of the drawings. But it looks like commercial art of the time and I doubt if it was drawn by Tashlin.

As far as a copy write me privately

Henry Schmidt