DANISH CHILDREN´S RECORDS

SOME OF THE FUNKY BITS OF MY CHILDHOOD.

The Danish market weren´t exactly overfed with funky childrens records. But from time to time you bump into an attempt made to bring the funk to the children.

BENNYS BADEKAR

The most famous of them all and also the rarest to my knowledge is "BENNYS BADEKAR" O.S.T which means something like "Bennys bathtub" (lower left corner). An hour long cartoon filled with psychadelic animations. Story is about a boy and his tadpole who experiences that a whole world exists in his bathtub... Not many copies of this EP has survived...or are busted up. Im lucky cause I found an NM copy... 

Released on Fiasco Records in 1970.

(bjarne rostvold and niels henning orsted is among the musicians)

The funky song is when Benny meets an octopus who he becomes friend with. Peter Belli on vocals.... :

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4az6M_2-8Is 

CIRKELINE

(on top of bennys badekar) Cirkeline is a famous danish cartoon created in 1957. This EP is from 1968. Also on fiasco records. (musicians includes Bjarne Rostvold, Gert Rostvold, and Lars Black).

Again funkyness involving a tadpole... and a funk/pop "tad pole -song-" with kind of nusery-rhymes to it on top.

"Bim Bam Busse Jeg er en haletudse"

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 http://www.divshare.com/download/14860577-36d

RYTMISK MUSIKALSK HILSEN (Break - nursery rhymes)

(bottom middle)

LP by Grethe Agatz on KMF records from 1975.

Contains a break which is also known outside of Denmark. A lot of japanese diggers came to denmark to get a hold of this record back in the days.

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http://www.divshare.com/download/14860580-504

JEG HAR SET DET SELV (Boogie track)

(left bottom)

LP by Lotte Kærså on Mascot Records from 1979 . An LP with songs and games to play.

There is a kind of a Boogie track on this one called "Hjemme i vores gård" which means something like "back at our yard"

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http://www.divshare.com/download/14860581-81f

BØRNEROCK (funk/rockish track)

(top right)

LP recorded live in 81 at childrens rockfestival different places in Denmark. 

Features a track called "Funki" with a tekst which sounds like they have taken Lee Dorseys "everything I do gonh be funky (from now on)" and translated in to danish.

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http://www.divshare.com/download/14860579-271

Actually as a child I only knew Bennys Badekar and Cirkeline and had them on tape. - I discovered the others throug a lot of digging... well here they are.