MACDONALD JUNIOR REFERENCE LIBRARY

 

Primarily a series of informative books for children, published by Macdonald between 1968 and 1974.  However, several volumes in the series were accompanied by EPs, which earned them a page on this site.  The EPs from the '60s had yellow labels with the words 'Junior Reference Library' at the top and a reference to Macdonald at the bottom (1), while the '70s versions had neither - if you came across one that has been separated from its companion volume there was no way of knowing what company was responsible for it (2).  Pressing was done through a company called Procaudio (q.v.), which seems to have specialized in sound / spoken word records, and catalogue numbers were taken from Procaudio's own PC-000 series.  PC-035 / 036 'Insects - Sounds From The Insect World' (1969) was re-pressed and repackaged as 'Animal Sounds - Insects' in 1970, with the same numbers.  Thanks to Fokeman of the 45cat site for permission to use his scan of that EP here. 






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