Celebrate our fancy feline friends.

Give it up to the kitty with these tunes made just for our aloof companions.

Selections from Tom Jones, Juicebox, Petula Clark, Gary U.S. Bonds, Bob Rivers, The Rooftop Singers, Johnny Preston and others.



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Released by Kenner Toy Company in 1959, The Give-A-Show Projector helped bring Saturday morning favorites to darkened basements and quilt-covered card tables across America.

From Yesterdayland.com:

The Give-A-Show Projector was equal parts slide projector and flashlight. Its plastic casing changed shape and color over the years, but it always contained a bright projector light bulb and a slot that allowed the user to feed a strip of film through the light it emitted to create projected images. To put on a show, the Projector user dimmed the lights and aimed their Give-A- Show Projector at the blank wall of their choice. They then fed a projection strip containing six slides through the side of the Give-A-Show Projector. The end result was a series of four-foot images that told a story to the viewers through words and pictures.



The Give-A-Show took advantage of popular entertainment and obtained the licenses necessary to use some first-rate subjects for the slide shows, especially cartoon characters. As the Give-A-Show became more popular, Kenner started including 45 records to play while projecting the images. Like most filmstrip formats, you change the slide when you hear the tone. Some of the more exciting Adventure Time titles were:

Monkeys in Space
Dinosaur Fight
Monster of the Ocean Deep
and, featured below Giants and Midgets

It's Show Time!



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