Star Wars (Read-Along Book and Record)

©1979 Black Falcon, Ltd.

A job well done, Disney! It's impressive how they managed to squeeze the storyline of the ENTIRE first Star Wars movie (later "Episode IV: A New Hope") into one little 7" record! They could have used a better voice actor for Darth Vader though.... Boo for no James Earl Jones! Maybe it's not a bad thing Vader's imposing, sinister voice today is being kept alive with the help of AI.

Recorded on a period-perfect Fisher-Price 825 record player, a VERY well-kept example, with a Logitech mic to get a direct sound from the mono speaker. I was very sad that I had to let this piece go when downsizing...

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[TheSultan]

I use to own that record as a kid and even had the record player by fisher price to play it on this video brought back. memories

[Squeekers]

OMG I loved this as a child! Thank you SO MUCH for uploading this!

[fishininjun]

I had so many story books like this! ad the same record player. Im almost in tears...

[OldMusicOnVinyl]

@SlimeAmTheBest Yeah. I mentioned in the description that for this readalong they could have used a better actor for Darth Vader. Nevertheless, they managed to squeeze the entire storyline into one 7" record, which is very remarkable! The vinyl/book format surely beats the living daylights out of all that electronic LeapFrog stuff they have out nowadays. Personally, I really like the Wookiee sounds.

[Bookwyrm]

Oh, the flashback that this brought on.

[KenzieSFT]

I remember this. I also had one that was with the Hoojibs, which I see is on here as well.

[Shadow]

Hey thanks for posting this. I dug my copy out the other day. My record player isn't set up at present. I haven't heard this in about 30 odd years. I was mistaken, for some reason I always thought Mark Hamill narrated this for some reason, Obviously not.

[OldMusicOnVinyl]

I never knew that storybook records were ever factory-sealed like full-length LPs before, so sealed copies must be as rare as hen's teeth. ;) Hold on to them for as long as possible.

[basslvck]

could plz upload more of this kind of stuff???

[danielmkubacki]

I had a copy of this record, I gave it to Tink.

[OldMusicOnVinyl]

Yep. It's bound to nostalge' ya.

[curewindy]

from Okinawa Japan.
I have the Record, too.

[michaelmiller]

This Shawappa guy posted a much better version years ago...

[lookingjust]

This is awesome - though I don't totally get it; Disney would surely have fully licensed everything but then they used voice actors instead of original audio clips... Guess that was more taboo then than now, or were they afraid of disenfranchising the movie? Doesn't make a ton of sense either way ... maybe Lucas didn't own the rights to the movie but did the script or something. But then there are movie shots in it.... 

[michaelmiller]

You do know that this book came out about 30 years before Disney bought Lucasfilm, right?