On the subject of tigers! (From Eric Beheim)

TIGER-1, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Frank Buck’s final recorded performance was TIGER, an album of children’s records adapted from two stories in Buck’s first book BRING ‘EM BACK ALIVE: “Man Eater,” (describing the capture of a man eating tiger) and “Loose on Board,” (telling about the recapture of an escaped leopard onboard a ship at sea.) To simplify things a bit, the tiger takes the role of both cats. He is also “downgraded” from a man-eater into a cow killer. (According to Peter Muldavin, the author of THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO VINTAGE CHILDREN’S RECORDS, the album’s producer’s 8-year old daughter attended the recording session and later had bad dreams and sleepless nights after hearing a story about a tiger killing and eating a man. It was then decided that a cow killing tiger would be less upsetting to young, impressionable children, and the story line was changed accordingly.) TIGER was produced like an old time show, with sound effects, a full cast of actors, and an animal imitator who growls like a tiger. Radio actor Merrill E. Joels serves as the narrator Captain Harry Curtis, and Frank Buck plays himself.