Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is an LP album by Bing Crosby made for children by Golden Records in 1957.
More discriminating parents will object to the gore and certain elements of morality involved, but the mass market will not be deterred.
"[4] The New York Times commented: "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, with Crosby again at the controls, is a musical rendition of this old favorite from ‘The Arabian Nights’.
Singing these songs, Crosby is his amiable self, but as a narrator he occasionally sounds as if he has not removed his pipe stem from his mouth!"
"Neither music nor lyrics are in any way distinguished and Crosby’s singing offers nothing noteworthy, His narration, however, is good and it says something for his powers of persuasion that he invests this amoral and unwholesome tale with a modicum of charm…"[5]