Never Be Afraid
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| Never Be Afraid: A Musical Version of The Emperor's New Clothes | ||||
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| Released | March 1958 | |||
| Recorded | April 25, 1957 | |||
| Genre | Vocal | |||
| Length | 14:49 | |||
| Label | Golden Records (A198:22) | |||
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Never Be Afraid is an LP album by Bing Crosby made for children by Golden Records in 1957. It is a musical adaptation of The Emperor's New Clothes, the fairy story with a moral by Hans Christian Andersen. The music was by Lew Spence and the lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Keith.[1]
The album has never been issued on commercial CD. The song "Never Be Afraid" was issued as a single by Kapp Records (KAPP195) in October 1957.[2]
In April 1957, Golden Records recorded a number of new children's records. Bing Crosby was enlisted to read and sing four of the stories and in addition to Never Be Afraid there were Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, A Christmas Story - An Axe, An Apple and a Buckskin Jacket, and Jack B. Nimble – A Mother Goose Fantasy.[3]
