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Carrots Grow from Carrot Seeds

 Carrots Grow from Carrot Seeds

When I was small, my parents subscribed to a children's record service for a while, which regularly sent us 45 RPM records that contained stories read aloud.  While looking for something else entirely, I came across a YouTube video with one of those stories on it-- The Carrot Seed.  Here's a link to the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHxLfBSU-9E

My brothers and sisters and I were allowed to get these records out whenever we wanted, and play them on the Hi-Fi (family record player) 'all by ourselves.'  I played that record over and over from about 1962 to 1968, and so did my siblings.  It was very scratched and dirty, and probably was eventually broken.  In any event, I had not heard the recording from the early 1970's until it popped up on YouTube in 2022.

The recording is pretty much as I remember it-- Oddly, listening to the grit-free, skip-free version, I remember the scratches and skips from the original record.  The boy who plants the carrot seed seemed to have a much higher, shriller voice.  Listening to it when I was younger, he sounded a lot like me.

Adult-me noticed the beany-cap worn by the little boy-- Children don't wear beanies anymore.  And the Dad's pipe--Dad's don't smoke pipes anymore, at least not in childrens' books.

While the little boy is not named in the story, his picture looks a lot like that of Gerald McBoingBoing, a minor cartoon character appearing elsewhere.  Was there a series of these stories? Not that I could find...

The only other twist to the story is hinted at in other YouTube videos.  One of them is titled "The Carrot Seed - Teaching Children Loyalty to the Unseen Reality."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6om80svwO6M&t=9s

Apparently The Carrot Seed book was latched onto by one Neville Lancelot Goddard, a mystic and self-help teacher who taught people that they could bring about changes to their lives , wealth, possessions etc by envisioning them as a first step.  This was also known as 'positive confession,' or 'blab-it and grab-it.'

Was there a hidden agenda in the Childrens' Record Guild, to program children with hidden messages?  I doubt it.  Chances are, Goddard found some common features to his teachings, and promoted the childrens' book for his own purposes.

Remembering 'The Carrot Seed' brought back memories of other records of the early 1960's--

"Look at Michie Banjo"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqWxkZZKvy8

"Peter, Please it's Pancakes"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3xVhe7AaAY

"Who Wants A Ride in my little red wagon?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcFf8teWCTo

"Blue Tail Fly." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6JnKyDBOFA


Here is a link to the listings of The Childrens' Record Guild;

https://www.discogs.com/label/228286-The-Childrens-Record-Guild?page=2


Happy Listening!


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