My Fun-to-Read Book Vinyl Record: Tom Savage

This item is a 7-inch vinyl record, likely a flexi-disc or a small-format 33 1/3 RPM record, specifically designed as a 'read-along' accompaniment for the 'My Fun-to-Read' book series. The visual focal point is a vibrant blue center label with black typography featuring a stylized three-masted sailing ship logo at the top. The label text indicates the title 'Tom Savage' and identifies the narrator as 'Read by Jack Karey.' It bears the serial or catalog number 'SS-25815-07A.' The record is housed in a square, off-white semi-transparent parchment or wax-paper inner sleeve that shows significant signs of age and handling, including jagged tears and losses along the upper edge and general creasing. These records were mass-produced in the 1960s and 1970s as educational aids for children, intended to play on standard turntables while the child followed along in a corresponding illustrated book. The condition of the sleeve is poor, though the vinyl itself appears intact through the paper. Its value is primarily nostalgic or as a replacement piece for a collector looking to complete the specific storybook set.