a Wonderful Story…”,How is a story CD produced? There are so many components involved. There’s the voices, the music, the singing, those scary sound effects, and we can’t forget the cover design and graphics either. So what’s it like to put all these pieces together and create a suspenseful story tape that has kids sitting on the edge of their seats?
How is a story CD produced? There are so many components involved. There’s the voices, the music, the singing, those scary sound effects, and we can’t forget the cover design and graphics either. So what’s it like to put all these pieces together and create a suspenseful story tape that has kids sitting on the edge of their seats?
Nine-year-old Shimmy from Lakewood likes story tapes with plenty of action. Six-year-old Sarah from Brooklyn loves story tapes with lots of songs and great music. Twelve-year-old Chayala from Yerushalayim thinks the characters voices are the most important factor. Ten-year-old Moishy from Edison, New Jersey loves listening to stories that are funny and suspenseful.
Back in 1989, an incredible story tape was put out in Toronto. The famous composer and writer Abie Rotenberg and his friend, master mechanech and writer Rabbi Shmuel Klein, had just finished producing the first three albums of the Marvelous Midos Machine series. But this time they decided on a different kind of children’s tape, a suspenseful story set in the past. The plot involved an evil count and a plan to steal the sifrei Torah from the Jewish community’s shul. The story was called The Golden Crown.
The Golden Crown was immensely popular. Shortly afterward Abie Rotenberg and Rabbi Klein began writing a script for a sequel. But, “for one reason or another, we weren’t able to finish it,” says Abie Rotenberg. The unfinished script gathered dust for 25 years.
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