Playhouse Records is a

record label A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produ ...

founded by Jim Copp and Ed Brown in 1958 to release

children's music Children's music or kids' music is music composed and performed for children. In European-influenced contexts this means music, usually songs, written specifically for a juvenile audience. The composers are usually adults. Children's music has hi ...

. Over the course of 13 years, Copp and Brown wrote, recorded, designed, produced and promoted nine albums of their own material and continued to run the label until 1978 when Ed Brown died from pancreatic cancer. The label resumed production and distribution of Copp and Brown's material on cassette and CD under the direction of Ted and Laura Leyhe in the 1990s.

Discography

The Original LPs

* ''Jim Copp Tales'' (1958) * ''Fable Forest'' (1959) * ''Thimble Corner'' (1960) * ''East of Flumdiddle'' (1961) * ''A Fidgetty Frolic'' (1962) * ''A Journey to San Francisco with The Glups'' (1963) * ''Gumdrop Follies'' (1965) * ''Schoolmates'' (1968) * ''The Sea of Glup'' (1971) All nine of the original LPs were rereleased on cassette. ''Jim Copp Tales'', ''Thimble Corner'', ''East of Flumdiddle'', ''A Fidgetty Frolic'', ''A Journey to San Francisco with The Glups'' and ''Schoolmates'' have been released in their entirety on CD.

CD Collections

* ''Agnes Mouthwash and Friends'' * ''Flibbertigibbets On Parade''

References

External links

Official site
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Discography

The Original LPs

CD Collections

See also

References

External links