Hi

I had also been looking for these as had them as a child, can still sing many of the songs ...("Why do I do it, what can it be, there's naughtiness in everyone but twice as much in me, I'd give the world if only I could, now and again, be good!").

I have now found this site and it looks like the chap can provide them on CD (although I have emailed him, he is away until the end of July, so i will have to wait and see if he can actually deliver!). I have just had a baby and am all nostalgic for things of my childhood and wanting to get them for him!

http://www.minigroove.nl/english12.html

Hope this is helpful.

I realise this is a really old post but I have found these fabulous stories and songs for download at http://www.vivien-leigh.com/potter.html

Enjoy everyone!

Hi Jess,
Are you trying specifically to get this version - it's really old and scratchy and not v good quality, but it's the one I grew up with and so love it - or do you just want to get a version of Peter Rabbit on CD. Because there are loads of new ones and they'd be much better quality - I can send you the link to lots of the ones that I found. I think particularly after the Beatrix Potter film last year (year before?) there were lots. If you especially want this one I can try to sort out working how to get it to you? But if you don't know this version, then I'd probably stick with a newer one if I was you as will be much much better quality.
- Hayley

We have this LP! Dd1, who's 20, remembers it vividly. Must excavate it and put it onto CD or something. We have also recently acquired DVD's of the Beatrix Potter stories.

HayleyK,

Congratulations on getting Peter Rabbit on CD! I wouldn't know where to begin looking for an album or a CD recording of this masterpiece. Would you be willing to send me a copy? I will be happy to pay you in advance for all costs (CD, shipping to the US, etc.) via PayPal (or other method if you'd prefer). I know we don't know each other and this is a lot to ask of a stranger but I'm sure I'd regret not giving it a try...
Thanks,
Jess

Nope...I had Peter and the Wolf narrated by Angela Rippon, though...

WOW, my most vivid child hood recollection is this album. Had it on tape, still have tape box but no tape. DD thinks I'm crazy when I read the story to her and add in the songs. I can recall it so vividly

finally got one and now have it safetly on CD and am loving it! Thanks so much to everyone for helping me find it!!!

Will sell mine Hayley!!

Oh God am I going to have to go into the loft to get it??!!

I know I've got it somewhere; had a cream/whiteish cover with the characters all around the outside didn't it?

I'm 34.

I had it as a child, in fact my parents still have it somewhere lovingly stored away with a tonne of other LP's. Has reminded me to search it out....um but no record player to play it on. Oh .

Remember Wendy Craig's voice, just lovely!

<alycay now pondering a return to the shop to buy it and make Fast Buck on ebay>

I don't have a record player either and have just bid up to £35 to buy a vinyl version of this on ebay.....I must be really keen....or a bit nuts...

I saw this in my local charity shop this week and was tempted to buy it, I had it as a child. Then I remembered I haven't had a record player for the last 16 yrs!

I am so so excited! I'm going in search again now!!! Thank you thank you. Can't quite work out why this became so important to me to find, but it really did!!!

Ooooooh, bumping this thread as I can vividly remember getting this for my 3rd birthday in 1976! I would LOVE to get a copy of this for my DD. "Tomorrow is another day..!"

Hi

I know this is an old thread but I have been desperately trying to get hold of these tapes (or records or CD's) - did anyone manage to get hold of them. I am always singing these songs to my daughter, she particulary loves "Why do I do it?" and "We're a happy family..."

I would be very grateful to hear from anyone who has these versions or knows where I can get hold of them.

Thanks

Hi,
Just read all the Beatrix Potter thread, and I am sooo excited. I had the record too and now have two children and am desperate for them to have it. Have we established whether it was Vivien Leigh or Wendy Craig?
Thanks to all who share and helped me in the right direction of finding this record!

by the way, in this version I'm absolutely positive she uses her British accent.

I went to my parent's yesterday and found the album which I now have before me.
It's The Beatrix Potter Stories 1; The stories dramatised with music. Music and Lyrics by Cyril Ornadel and David Croft. Narrated by Vivien Leigh.

Now I just need a record player...

Its definitely not the Vivien Leigh one - I bought that one from ebay in America and she's got a really strong American accent and the songs are all different. My mum thinks that it isn't the Wendy Craig one, but I haven't tried that one yet, so think I might just in case. I really want to find it, it's driving me crazy! I've bought three different ones and had to send them back. Any chance you can ask your mum if she remembers? I would be really really grateful. Bizare what becomes really important to you when you have children!!

I gave up looking for it. We had it on vinyl and I know it's at my mum's somewhere.
I'm pretty sure it was the Vivien Leigh one, not Wendy Craig.

That has brought back some memories. We used to have it on a cartridge type thing. Is it 8 track or is that something else. Anyway loved listening to the stories, especially Peter Rabit.

Am so hoping you are still checking this message thread - I am desperately trying to find the tape with the songs "flopsy and mopsy, how can they be sweeter and funny little cotton tail and peter" and "we don't care", "bright and clean" and "when the troubles of the day are over". It is definitely the same one Cupcake is talking about. Did you ever manage to track it down? If so which tape is it - I've tried so many. The Wendy Craig ones I can find don't have flopsy bunnies on it and I'm not sure it was read by her in any event.

Gig and Pony, Gig and Pony, trotting along the road, with a brand new bonnet in our Sunday best, isn't it a handsome load?.......

Underneath the old puss cat, you and me together, facing stormy weather, talking of this and that, underneath the old puss cat....

Oooh this takes me back!!

I also had Tubby the Tuba AND Sparky's Magic Piano!!

ooh - how did "gig and pony" go? Is it the one about Mr and Mrs McGregor?

We had the Wendy craig one and Tubby the Tuba!

I had this album too!! I still remember all the songs and sing them to dd especially "Gig and Pony", "Underneath the Old Puss Cat" and Mrs Tiggywinkles "Nice and Clean"! My copy was a vinyl album and was narrated by Vivien Leigh. Off to search Ebay now as I have been wondering how to get hold of this for ages.

The ones narrated by Vivien Leigh are MUCH older. I still have mine, the tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Mrs Tiggywinkle, on Red Vinyl 45's.

I'm nearly 45 myself.

Oh, and does anyone remember Tubby the Tuba, told by Danny Kaye? I've got that too.

And a Winnie the Pooh, narrated by Ian Carmichael.

ahh - I was searching it on ebay and there were some with Wendy Craig on but because it was a different collection from mine I thought it might be another version. There were also ones narrated by Vivien Leigh but Wendy Craigs voice seems more familiar to me.

Just remembered Wendy Craig

Can't rem her name but it was the woman in Butterflies that narrated taht I think. Wendy something.

It had the stories of Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, the Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs Tiggy Winkle. It was narrated by a woman and full of songs. In particular:
"we're a happy family, yes a happy family
and we live at the foot of an old fir tree.
Flopsy and Mopsy, how could they be sweeter
and funny little Cotton-tail
and Peter."

and also Peter's lament:
"why do I do it? What can it be?
The others may be naughty but they're not as bad as me.
I'd give the world if only I could
now and again be good.
I think a halo would suit me dangling over my ears.
When they behold me they wouldn't scold me,
they'd say well done instead."

Does anyone else remember this or is it just me? I seem to constantly have these songs on my head!
I'm 31 so it would have been around in the mid to late 70's, if not earlier.