A bit of a mystery. 'The Forest Rangers' was a Canadian children's television serial that was picked up in the UK by ITV and ran from 1964-66. The theme music doesn't seem to have been released on record at the time, but for some reason it surfaced on a single some eleven years after the show's run had finished. The label responsible was Little Note records, of whom I know nothing. The 'B' side to '"Forest Rangers" Theme' (which sounds to my ears like the original recording and, despite the claim on the label, isn't stereo) was 'A Song For My City'. Both were written by John Bath, from Rye, and performed by the Graunke Symphony Orchestra, from Munich; Bath himself conducted the 'A' side, Kurt Graunke the 'B'. The catalogue number of the single, which seems to have been Little Note's only release, was LN-1001, and the year of issue was 1977. Unusually for such an obscure record it was listed in Music Master, which gave it as being 'Song For My City' / 'The Forest Rangers Theme' by the Graunke Orchestra, with the number as LN-101 and the year of issue as 1978. According to MM the single manufactured for, and distributed by, Noteworthy, who appear to have been a Canadian music publishing company. Manufacture was by Lyntone, the matrix numbers being LYN-4538 and LYN-4539. There aren't many copies of the record about. It took me eighteen years to find any reference to it other than the one in MM, but fortunately when I did I was able to get hold of a copy and provide a scan here.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.