Copp and Brown recorded and released nine albums of stories and songs for children between 1958 and 1971. Jim Copp (1913-1999) wrote all of the stories and songs, and played and recorded all of the music. Ed Brown (d. 1978) designed and illustrated all of the duo's album covers. Both men performed the various characters' voices, often with the help of tape manipulation and were among the first to devise and use multi-track recording for children'...
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Copp and Brown recorded and released nine albums of stories and songs for children between 1958 and 1971. Jim Copp (1913-1999) wrote all of the stories and songs, and played and recorded all of the music. Ed Brown (d. 1978) designed and illustrated all of the duo's album covers. Both men performed the various characters' voices, often with the help of tape manipulation and were among the first to devise and use multi-track recording for children's records. Copp and Brown's work has been compared to that of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Dr. Seuss, and Pee Wee Herman.
Jim Copp was born in Los Angeles and spent time in Alabama and Washington D.C. before attending Stanford University and then Harvard. He had a career as a cabaret piano comic in New York City under the name "James Copp the III and His Things", and shared stages with Teddy Wilson, Lena Horne, Art Tatum, Billie Holiday and others. During World War II Copp commanded an intelligence unit in Germany before returning to his career...
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