, meaning Tokyo Children Club, is an early childhood education program published in Japan in an audio-visual format, distributed monthly on a record. The 7-inch record contained stories and songs, accompanied by a picture book that could be bound in a special folder. The early-childhood education program came in two courses: a 2-4 year old course and a 5-7 year old course. Each of the courses was designed to complete in 12 months. In addition on a quarterly basis, the Club sent out supplemental stories, songs and other music on a 12-inch record. The recitations on Side A were by, and on Side B, . The records were monaural recordings at 33-1/3 rpm. Presently, the recordings have gone out of print, making their procurement quite difficult.
The programs were designed to familiarize children with stories and songs from around the world, with emphasis on European orchestral works. Main story narration often featured Classical music as a background music in order to help set the tone of the story. The bullets found in the index to each lesson were color-coded: red for the main story, blue for the songs and yellow for the occasional extra story. In the original course series, the main stories and songs were bulleted with a star and the extra stories with a circle. However, in later course series, they switched their bullets to red circles, blue squares and yellow triangles, keeping the same color code as before.
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| 1 | Song: Song: Cuckoo, Cuckoo Story: | ||
| 2 | Song: Song: Song: | ||
| 3 | Story: | Song: Story: | |
| 4 | Song: Song: Song: | ||
| 5 | Song: Story: County Mouse and Tokyo Mouse | ||
| 6 | Story: | Song: Song: Song: | |
| 7 | Song: Song: | ||
| 8 | Song: Song: Song: | ||
| 9 | Song: Story: | ||
| 10 | Song: Song: Song: | ||
| 11 | Song: Story: | ||
| 12 | Song: Song: Song: |
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| 1 | Song: London Bridge is Falling Down Song: Song: Song: | ||
| 2 | Song: Song: Story: | ||
| 3 | Song: Song: Song: Song: | ||
| 4 | Song: Do-Re-Mi Song: Story: | ||
| 5 | Story: The Three Wishes | Song: Song: Song: Song: | |
| 6 | Song: Song: Story: | ||
| 7 | Story: The Dog and the Shadow | Song: Song: Song: Song: | |
| 8 | Song: Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree Story: | ||
| 9 | Story: King Midas Has Donkey's Ears | Song: Song: Song: Song: | |
| 10 | Song: Song: Story: | ||
| 11 | Story: The Adventures of Mouse Deer | Song: Song: Song: Song: | |
| 12 | Story: Ivan the Fool | Song: Song: Story: |
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| 1 | Song: Song: Frère Jacques Song: | ||
| 2 | Story: | Song: Song: Song: | |
| 3 | Song: Story: | ||
| 4 | Story: | Song: Song: Song: | |
| 5 | Story: Seven Stars (Russian Folktale) | Song: Story: | |
| 6 | Story: | Song: Song: Ten Little Indians Song: | |
| 7 | Song: Story: | ||
| 8 | Song: Song: Song: | ||
| 9 | Song: Merrily We Roll Along (song) Story: | ||
| 10 | Song: Song: Song: | ||
| 11 | Song: Story: | ||
| 12 | Story: The Giant Corn (American Folktale) | Song: Song: |
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| 1 | Story: | Song: Song: Song: | |
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| 5 | Song: Song: Song: | ||
| 6 | Song: Song: Story: | ||
| 7 | Song: Song: I've Been Working on the Railroad Song: Doctor Eisenbart Song: | ||
| 8 | Song: Song: The Old Gray Mare Story: | ||
| 9 | Song: Song: Song: Song: | ||
| 10 | Story: | Song: Song: Story: | |
| 11 | Song: Song: Song: Song: | ||
| 12 | Song: Song: Story: |
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| Song: Jingle Bells | ||
| Song: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | ||
| Song: Joy to the World | ||
| Song: O Tannenbaum | ||
| Song: Silent Night | ||
| Song: | Singing lessons | |
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| Song: | Story: Thumbelina | |
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| Story (1) | Story (3) | |
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| Song: Sur le pont d'Avignon | ||
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The Kodomo Concert Hall series were recordings of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.
| Unit | Side A | Side B | |
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| Kodomo Concert Hall No. 1: | 1. Tchaikovsky: Mazurka 2. Strauss: Radetzky March 3. Bizet: Carmen, Act 1, Prelude 4. Rodgers: Do-Re-Mi | 1. Brahms: Hungarian Dances 2. Schubert: Three Marches Militaires, March No. 1 in D major, 2nd movement 3. Bizet: L'Arlésienne, Suite No. 2, 4th movement: Farandole 4. Strauss: Tales from the Vienna Woods | |
| Kodomo Concert Hall No. 2 | Swan Lake | ||
| Kodomo Concert Hall No. 3 | |||
| Kodomo Concert Hall No. 4 | A Musical play: Maya the Bee | ||
| Kodomo Concert Hall No. 5 | The Nutcracker | ||
| Kodomo Concert Hall No. 6 | Peter and the Wolf | ||
| Kodomo Concert Hall No. 7 | |||
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The Tokyo Kodomo Club issued two courses of children’s songs in English for the Japanese audience in the series. These songs were sung by Esther Ghan and her children.[1] The course was designed similarly to their Japanese courses, where the lesson units were distributed monthly on a record. Each of the courses was designed to complete in 12 months, with the course set spanning two years. For the older children, in a set of six lesson units and a Christmas supplement were provided. It also spanned over two years.
| Unit | Side A | Side B | |
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| 1 | Ten Little Indians | (same as Side A) | |
| 2 | Are You Sleeping ? | (same as Side A) | |
| 3 | London Bridge | (same as Side A) | |
| 4 | (same as Side A) | ||
| 5 | A Tisket, a Tasket | (same as Side A) | |
| 6 | (same as Side A) | ||
| 7 | My Bonnie | (same as Side A) | |
| 8 | Sailing, Sailing | Lovely May | |
| 9 | The Mulberry Bush | (same as Side A) | |
| 10 | Mary Had a Little Lamb | (same as Side A) | |
| 11 | Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star | (same as Side A) | |
| 12 | Hush, Little Baby | (same as Side A) |
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| 1 | Six Little Ducks | (same as Side A) | |
| 2 | Three Blind Mice | (same as Side A) | |
| 3 | The Little Skunk | (same as Side A) | |
| 4 | Simple Simon | (same as Side A) | |
| 5 | (same as Side A) | ||
| 6 | Sweetly Sings the Donkey | (same as Side A) | |
| 7 | Billy Boy | (same as Side A) | |
| 8 | Row, Row, Row Your Boat | Merrily We Roll Along | |
| 9 | The Muffin Man | (same as Side A) | |
| 10 | Pop Goes the Weasel | (same as Side A) | |
| 11 | Looby Loo | (same as Side A) | |
| 12 | Three Little Kittens | (same as Side A) |
| Unit | Side A | Side B | |
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| 1 | Happy Birthday to You | When The Saints Go Marching In | |
| 2 | Danny Boy | ||
| 3 | You Are My Sunshine | Greensleeves | |
| 4 | Long, Long Ago | Cradle Song | |
| 5 | Do - Re - Mi | Waltzing Matilda | |
| 6 | Sipping Cider Through a Straw | ||
| X'mas | We Wish You a Merry Christmas Jingle Bells | Silent Night Auld Lang Syne |
| Unit | Side A | Side B | |
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| 1 | Michael, Row the Boat Ashore | Rock a Bye, Baby | |
| 2 | Did You Ever See a Lassie? | The Blue Bells of Scotland | |
| 3 | To Market, to Market | Aura Lee | |
| 4 | Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms | Annie Laurie | |
| 5 | Hey, Diddle, Diddle | Early One Morning | |
| 6 | The Man On The Flying Trapeze | Hush - A -Bye | |
| Xmas | Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town Deck the Halls | The Twelve Days of Christmas |
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