Saranade

When I was a little girl, I got a dolly called Saranade for Christmas.  She was wonderful!!  She came with a record player, you could switch listening to music through the record player speaker or switch it over to hear the doll sing!  She had a speaker in her belly, and she was special!!

I remember listening to the soundtrack of the Mary Poppins movie on the record player.  I think I liked the record player better than the doll, I wasn't much of a doll person.

Isn't it strange what memories remain with us?  I can remember sitting with this doll on the couch (it was pea green!) And I remember dancing around listening to music on the record player in my bedroom.  As an added bonus, I can recall jumping off the toy box holding an umbrella while dancing around to the song "Chim chiminee chim chim cheree" --  and nope, we didn't float holding that umbrella! 

I don't know what happened to my dolly,  mom's a saver, but she probably got tossed at some point. 

It was a beautiful time being four back then!  RIP Saranade!