Story and Travels Of Babar Frank Luther Decca ‎DU 90009 1947 Jean de Brunhoff

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Frank Luther (2) ‎– Babar Label: Decca ‎– DU 90009, Decca ‎– C.U. 104 Format: Vinyl, 12", 78 RPM  Country: US Released: 1947 Genre: Children's Style: Story Tracklist A1a Babar Theme A1b Elephant Lullaby A2 Shirt And Collar A3 Look At The Birdie A4 A Little Celery A5 1-2-3-4 A6 In The Tub A7 2 And 2 A8 My Mother A9 Hurray, Hurree A10 Goodbye A11 Long Live King Babar B1a Babar Theme B1b Celeste And Me B2 God Has Saved Us B3 Igglety Pigglety B4 Good Afternoon B5 It's Nice To Sail B6 It's King Babar B7 Sliding Song B8 Brave Rhinoceroses B9 Long Live King Babar Companies, etc. Manufactured By – Decca Records, Inc. Credits Adapted By – Frank Luther (2) Lyrics By – Frank Luther (2) Music By – Frank Luther (2) Vocals [Sung And Told By] – Frank Luther (2) Written-By – Jean de Brunhoff Notes Based On "The Story Of Babar" and "The Travels Of Babar". Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Stamped): WX73898 A 6W Matrix / Runout (Stamped): WX73897 A 6 Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): 73898 Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): 73897
Frank Luther (August 4, 1899[1] - November 16, 1980) was an American country music singer, dance band vocalist, playwright, songwriter and pianist.
Frank Luther's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame represents what was to become his chief claim to fame. Early in his recording career, he made some 7" shellac records for children. Several sets were made for Victor in 1933. In 1934, however, Jack Kapp signed Frank to record for the new 35-cent blue label Decca company. He began by making a series of hillbilly records, but did two 78rpm albums of songs for children a few months later. "Mother Goose Songs" and "Nursery Rhymes," the first two albums, featured Frank's tenor voice in brief interpretations of traditional children's tunes, tied together with gentle and pleasant narration. At one point in the Decca set, Luther introduced a lullaby by calmly saying, "Mother tucks you in, kisses you, and leaves you in the nice, friendly darkness. Mother's so wonderful, isn't she? Love her every day you live. She loves you so much." Two pediatricians told Luther that they had used his record to calm small children who feared being in the dark. Child psychologists began to endorse the Luther recordings. The first two albums sold in enormous quantity, and were pressed numerous times.
Frank Luther's country music days came to a halt, and he did fewer dance band vocal choruses. He was now in demand as Decca's performer of children's songs and stories. Selling even better were the classic "Winnie-the-Pooh" and "Babar the Elephant" sets. A Luther-composed "Alice in Wonderland" album, a true-to-the-original album of songs from Disney's "Snow White, "Tuneful Tales," "Manners Can Be Fun," "Raggedy Ann Songs," and hundreds more established Frank Luther as the dean of children's recordings. Decca claimed, in 1946, that 85% of the records for young people sold in the English-speaking world were Luther's.

Babar the Elephant (UK: /ˈbæbɑːr/, US: /bəˈbɑːr/; French pronunciation: [babaʁ]) is a fictional character who first appeared in 1931 in the French children's book Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff.[1]
The book is based on a tale that Brunhoff's wife, Cécile, had invented for their children.[2] It tells of a young elephant, named Babar, whose mother is killed by a hunter. Babar escapes, and in the process leaves the jungle, visits a big city, and returns to bring the benefits of civilization to his fellow elephants. Just as he returns to his community of elephants, their king dies from eating a bad mushroom. Because of his travels and civilization, Babar is appointed king of the elephant kingdom. He marries his cousin, and they subsequently have children and teach them valuable lessons.

After Babar's mother is shot by a hunter, he flees the jungle and finds his way to an unspecified big city with no particular characteristics.[5] He is befriended by The Old Lady, who buys him clothes and hires him a tutor. Babar's cousins Celeste and Arthur find him in the big city and help him return to the Elephant realm. Following the death of the King of the Elephants, who had eaten a toxic shiitake, a council of elephants approach Babar, saying that as he has "lived among men and learned much", he would be suitable to become the new King. Babar is crowned King of the Elephants and marries his cousin Celeste.[6]
In Jean de Brunhoff's second Babar book, The Travels of Babar, when the married couple leave by balloon on their honeymoon:
"...stormy winds down the balloon on an island, and yet again will the royal couple escape by whale, be marooned on an even smaller island and be rescued by a passing ocean liner only to be turned over to an animal trainer and put to work in a circus. And when they escape and return home, what awaits them but war with the rhinoceroses."[7]
Babar wins the war by having the elephants paint monster faces on their backsides, which cause the frightened rhinoceroses to run away. After the victory celebrations, the book ends with Babar, Celeste and The Old Lady sitting together and discussing how Babar can rule wisely and make all the elephants happy.[8]
In the third book, Babar the King, he founds the city of Celesteville.[citation needed]
Among Babar's other associates in the various incarnations of the series are the monkey Zephir, the old elephant counsellor Cornelius (also later Pompadour who was created for the Babar TV series), Babar's cousin Arthur, and Babar's children, Pom, Flora, and Alexander. Later, a second daughter, Isabelle, was introduced. The Old Lady comes to live in the Kingdom as an honoured guest. Despite the presence of these counsellors, Babar's rule seems to be totally independent of any elected body, and completely autocratic; however, his leadership style seems to be one that works for the overall benefit of his elephant subjects—a form of benevolent dictator.[citation needed]
Besides his Westernizing policies, Babar engages in warfare with the warlike rhinoceroses of a hostile bordering nation, who are led by Lord Rataxes. Much later, in Babar and the Adventures of Badou, Pom grew up and became the father of Prince Babar II (known as Badou) Babar's grandson.
History In 1931, Jean de Brunhoff introduced Babar in Histoire de Babar, and Babar enjoyed immediate success.In 1933, A.A. Milne introduced an English-language version, The Story of Babar, in Britain and the United States.
Before his death in 1937, Jean de Brunhoff published six more stories. His son Laurent de Brunhoff, also a writer and illustrator, carried on the series from 1946, beginning with Babar et Le Coquin d'Arthur.[