Playhouse Records is the record label

Record label

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 founded by Jim Copp and Ed Brown

Jim Copp and Ed Brown

Jim Copp and Ed Brown, better known as Copp and Brown, recorded and released nine albums of stories and songs for children between 1958 and 1971. Jim Copp wrote all of the stories and songs, and played and recorded all of the music. Ed Brown designed and illustrated all of the duo's album covers...

 in 1958

1958 in music

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 to release albums of children's music

Children's music

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. Over the course of 13 years, Copp and Brown wrote, recorded, designed, produced and promoted nine LP

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s of their own material and continued to run the label until 1978 when Ed Brown died from cancer

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 of the pancreas

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. The label resumed production and distribution of Copp and Brown's material on cassette

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 and compact disc

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 under the direction of Ted and Laura Leyhe in the 1990s.

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

Compact Cassette

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. 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.