In the latest issue of Snoopy Team-Up…

Classic finds

I was zooming through the Internet, looking at jackets of albums with Snoopy-related recordings, the way one does, when I stumbled across this one that I’d not seen before.

Alas, it is not the epic crossover battle that the title and cover image suggests, bringing Mary Tourtel’s Rupert Bear out of the comics pages and into the World War I air conflict. It is, of course, two separate songs being named on this 1973 album – “Rupert”, and the ubiquitous “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron”. I am disappointed indeed.

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The expensive book I’m glad I bought, the discount book I kinda wish I hadn’t

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Italian surprise

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