Rare Recorded Editions SRRE 152/3

This recording circulated privately throughout the 1960s and '70s until it fell into the hands of Michael Thomas, the one-man entrepreneur of the Rare Recorded Editions label, who seems to have issued it without knowing the source. The album cover omits the singers' names and credits the fictitious Orphean Singers and Orchestra under conductor James Walters.

Michael Walters (no relation to the above) reports that the recording is complete except for the Mother Hubbard song with the preceeding dialogue, which was cut from the stage performance, not merely from the tape. The stage production was given several times between 15 and 20 April 1963. It is not clear if this is a transcription of a single performance or a composite, but Ian Bond reports that there has definitely been editing:

Anyone who owns these discs only has to listen to the end of "'Neath my lattice" into "Tramps and scamps". There is a very definite break in the recording. The intro to the next number is heard to start but is faded out and then faded back in from the start. There are also less obvious but still noticeable edits at other points.