1983 Star Wars Return of the Jedi Read-Along Story Book and Cassette

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  • *The complete classic story in a 24-Page Book.
    *Filled with full-color photos from the original motion picture.
    *Word-for-word story narration.
    *Dramatic character dialogue.
    *Authentic sound effects and music from the original motion picture.
    *High-quality read-along cassette tape.
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  • @arunkhanna2496
    @arunkhanna2496 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    It is literally making me cry to listen to this after so long. I played this tape to death. I would listen to it and draw the Millennium Falcon, lightsabers, Ewoks, etc....And still, after all these years, I knew every little sound effect and bit of narration before it came. I searched it out after showing Return of the Jedi to my daughters last night for the first time, to huge success. THANK YOU for bringing back this little yet huge piece of my childhood!!! My heart’s full!

  • @pangaeawriter8766
    @pangaeawriter8766 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I had this on a small record as a kid! I remember listening to this SO MANY times! This is a true delight to hear again! I also realized that the voice cast from these read-along recordings were also used in the "Mission to Ord Mantell" story! I recognize C-3PO's voice actor perfectly!

  • @halkanuzman7396
    @halkanuzman7396 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I am having a visceral reaction to this. I haven't heard it since I was a child. I particularly remember listening to it when I would go to sleep at night on my little cassette player. My god. I'm literally experiencing physical sensations in my body. Thank you!!

    • @JamieStallingsworth
      @JamieStallingsworth 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same with me. Im 40yo. Listening to this for the 4th night in a row as I fall asleep

  • @Koldeman
    @Koldeman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Man, I had this when I was a kid. We didn't have a VCR until probably '88 or '89. This is one of the few ways you could relive the movie.
    "Heroes, together to the end..." well...crap. If only my younger self knew what the Mouse was going to do with these beloved characters in the future!

  • @brianbohrson
    @brianbohrson 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "but some ships smashed into the invisible shield". I KNEW IT! this has haunted my memory for so long because i listened to this so many times as a kid. Thank you for putting this on youtube.

    • @tobbiecassin
      @tobbiecassin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's so funny because that was the ONE line I remembered too!

    • @logicaldude3611
      @logicaldude3611 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember that from the book specifically because the movie didn't show that. 4 year old me was like, "Wow, some people didn't turn away in time and actually died."

    • @woodyrulesok
      @woodyrulesok 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ha, yes, that's the one line I remember and think about every so often 30 years later still

    • @RicQuintanilla
      @RicQuintanilla ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ditto!!! I felt they missed a great opportunity in the re-release in the 90s not adding that in.

  • @vegabonzo73
    @vegabonzo73 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Had this as a kid. Brings back so many memories of listening to it over and over.

  • @DontrelleRoosevelt
    @DontrelleRoosevelt 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I can't thank you enough for uploading this, and so professionally put together, too!
    I had this book and tape as a child, and I listened to it dozens of times!
    I always thought the voiceovers were really accurate too!

    • @starwarsradio340
      @starwarsradio340  7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thank you! I wanted to preserve these books in the highest quality that I could so people could enjoy them for years to come.

    • @DontrelleRoosevelt
      @DontrelleRoosevelt 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Star Wars Radio You've done an outstanding job! I'm excited to hear what Attack of the Clones and Sith sound like.

  • @WhiskeyShred
    @WhiskeyShred 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “Little did they know..” is something I always hear in my head every time I watch the movie ...thishas stayed in my head for 36 years!

    • @johna.7362
      @johna.7362 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Little would the listener know of the full story if this read along was the only version they got to experience! No mention of Leia's secret sibling.

  • @evanbenoit1180
    @evanbenoit1180 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh wow, so many memories of listening to this end over end over end on my fisher price tape recorder while driving to the beach for eight hours… gotta forward this to my poor suffering parents who had to listen along with me! (And on our next road trip, force my kids to watch this repeatedly instead of streaming Netflix!)
    I saw ROTJ once in the theatres (I was six!) and then this was my only Star Wars content until we got a VCR in ‘87

  • @josepharrington8391
    @josepharrington8391 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i listened to this hundreds of times as a kid

  • @RicQuintanilla
    @RicQuintanilla ปีที่แล้ว

    SOOOO MANY great memories reading along to this when i was a kid. I had the EP. but still... amazing!! thank you!

  • @harrygreb3457
    @harrygreb3457 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember all 3 of these from childhood, such a beautiful time

  • @QUIZFILTER
    @QUIZFILTER 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    When STAR WARS was 4:3 on crt TVs running off of a VHS next to your IntelliVision

  • @tylermitchell9131
    @tylermitchell9131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I loved this book as a kid! These sound effects are so familiar and take me back. So nostalgic :-)

  • @logicaldude3611
    @logicaldude3611 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I listened to this SO many times as a kid, especially the part where Luke beats Vader and confronts the Emperor.

  • @benbrown4805
    @benbrown4805 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had this when I was kid this brought back great memories thanks for sharing

  • @davidprice5563
    @davidprice5563 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have got to get these (the original SW trilogy) on mp3.
    ......and thanks, for putting these on YT. 👍👍👍

  • @angellohector
    @angellohector 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I can't find my copy but I loved these cassettes!

  • @davideagin5321
    @davideagin5321 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for posting this. I listened to this religiously as a child. I haven't heard it in almost 30 years but I still remember it like it was yesterday. Brought a tear to my eye.

    • @WhiskeyShred
      @WhiskeyShred 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same here! And I instantly thought of Planet of the Hoojibs 😂

  • @Crusader228
    @Crusader228 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I used listen to this when I was a kid! Thank you for posting this!

  • @jspreston2769
    @jspreston2769 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wow i cant believe this thank you so much for uploading it I had this as a kid and listen to it over and over and over again

  • @tonyvogiantzis2081
    @tonyvogiantzis2081 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome I listened to this almost every day these were fantastic.

  • @michaelblaine6494
    @michaelblaine6494 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They also held us over for the 2 and a half years til this came out on VHS. That seems insane now when movies are on vod in no more than 3 months. Theatrical runs were much longer after which there was a period of limbo where they just went away for a while,I don’t miss that shit😆

  • @JoshuaMPatton
    @JoshuaMPatton 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was the best one. Thanks for preserving this!

  • @spinninbackfistz7997
    @spinninbackfistz7997 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    "Kill him Luke!" in a book for kids. Man I miss the 80s lol

    • @alexojideagu
      @alexojideagu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The movie was rated for kids

    • @michaelblaine6494
      @michaelblaine6494 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly,check out the ones for Gremlins. They seemed so normal as a kid but I went back today and they seem a bit intense for kids,I loved it though😉

    • @logicaldude3611
      @logicaldude3611 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol good catch, that wouldn't fly in a book for kids today. It would be rated PG-13 and come with a trigger warning on the front.

    • @russellj.s.257
      @russellj.s.257 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Long before we went woke.

  • @johna.7362
    @johna.7362 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for posting this. As a kid I had the Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back read along but never got to hear the Return of the Jedi. No loss as this version doesn't even mention Leia being Luke's sister.

  • @Blastaar7
    @Blastaar7 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    *tears up* thank you. Thank you for uploading this.

  • @edwinlopezjr
    @edwinlopezjr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good old cassette memories.

  • @number3729
    @number3729 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best kid experience ever.
    "I let this tape rock 'til the tape popped"

  • @blakeallen8224
    @blakeallen8224 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He through the Emperor into a deep pit, AHHHHHHHH. 😂 That always made me laugh when I was little

  • @jayp7819
    @jayp7819 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had this when i was a kid , amazing

  • @KCHunter
    @KCHunter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How interesting they completely omitted Leia and Luke being brother and sister. I guess with only so much time even something that important can be left out of an adaptation.

  • @Aaronwilliam
    @Aaronwilliam ปีที่แล้ว

    Big thankyou for doing this!!!! Means a lot

  • @StevesgamingWorld
    @StevesgamingWorld 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Holy moley!! Just found this channel whilst looking for something else. I had this (among other read-alongs) when I was a child. Thank you. You have another subscriber.

  • @bobt1346
    @bobt1346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's been a long time since I've listened to this, and I never caught it as a kid, but they definitely used voice actors from GI Joe here. I am certain that Arthur Burghardt is voicing Vader, Lee Jeffrey is voicing Lando, and B.J. Ward is voicing Leia, as I can clearly hear the voices of Destro, Stalker, & Scarlett in their performances.

    • @DavidAspmo
      @DavidAspmo ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's also Corey Burton as Luke, using his Spike (from Transformers) voice.

    • @jaysonrogoz8822
      @jaysonrogoz8822 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DavidAspmo no way

  • @djo5773
    @djo5773 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is the story of Star Wars, Return of the Jedi. You can read along with me in your book. You will know it is time to turn the page when you hear R2D2 beep, like this...

  • @stuartrandall2584
    @stuartrandall2584 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had the star wars and empire strikes back versions
    My dad brought what he thought was the return of the Jedi one BUT he'd brought the o.s.t instead either way I was happy my friend had this and we listened to it at least once a week thanks for uploading man

  • @sexobscura
    @sexobscura 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    the *best* cassettes of the series

  • @christianspencer1136
    @christianspencer1136 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have this. A whole box set with a bunch of other 80's storybook adaptations. Return Of The Jedi is on the cover. Though, some books/tapes have been lost over the years.

    • @daphnestark5149
      @daphnestark5149 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No🤔😓😑🌞🇦🇮🌺

  • @M4STERcontrol
    @M4STERcontrol 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh Crap! This is awesome. I remember playing my record so much when I was a kid I broke the record player. Thanks for uploading this.

    • @johna.7362
      @johna.7362 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I didn't know they had a record. My version was the cassette.

    • @johnogrady7066
      @johnogrady7066 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johna.7362 yes,they had both

  • @BigLousClubhouse
    @BigLousClubhouse 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had this as a kid and for YEARS was convinced that the movie version on VHS I had was wrong and that there was another version where some ships smashed into the shield around the Death Star like it says in this book!!!

    • @evanbenoit1180
      @evanbenoit1180 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes!! There are still certain lines from this tape I’m dead certain are in the movie, but aren’t!

  • @collectingmythoughts991
    @collectingmythoughts991 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey, Lando stole Akbar's famous line! lol....Thanks you so much for uploading this. The memories I have as kid with these storybooks.... Hearing them again almost makes me cry lol.

  • @lokibro82
    @lokibro82 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    When I heard the R2D2 page turn I lost it, I was 6 years old again in the car driving around with my mom.

  • @melkatts
    @melkatts 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't think I had this. I had a cassette with dialogue from the actual movie. I found it here on TH-cam.

  • @anniefinch6843
    @anniefinch6843 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this movie for the year of this film was 1983 the same year that Mickey's christmas Carol came out along with other stuff. Most of the film was set in California. For the cast of Star Wars, the redwoods are the biggest trees in the world.

  • @purefoldnz3070
    @purefoldnz3070 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Heroes, together to the end. And there no further adventures and or sequels....ever happened.

  • @michaelblaine6494
    @michaelblaine6494 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    These were how I learned to read

  • @jimmyfigueras4476
    @jimmyfigueras4476 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember having that book

  • @AudioAndroid
    @AudioAndroid 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    YES! I HAVE THIS! AWESOME!

  • @steverouse1976
    @steverouse1976 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Darth Vader sounds like Dark Helmet in this one.

  • @xanderathome
    @xanderathome 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Waking up after being asleep for along time only to be faced Princess Leia's bush!

  • @epicrapfan73
    @epicrapfan73 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These were Disney read-along book and tapes and years and years later, Disney bought Star Wars!

    • @ZakWolf
      @ZakWolf 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I know, right? It's so ironic!

    • @kascnef
      @kascnef 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ZakWolf and now Disney is going to own fox

  • @davidsatzsatz2973
    @davidsatzsatz2973 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gracias por compartirlo

  • @nzgamer1797
    @nzgamer1797 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    "This is the story of a man named Stanley"

  • @mufc7753
    @mufc7753 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The guys voice is from Keeping it real from the Chappelle show.

  • @TheDisproof
    @TheDisproof 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember this well. Always wondered why "some ships crashed into the invisible shield" in this version?

  • @mikedski9698
    @mikedski9698 ปีที่แล้ว

    STAR WARS RETURN OF THE JEDI 40TH ANNIVERSARY 1983-2023!
    MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!

  • @russellj.s.257
    @russellj.s.257 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like how the voice actor that portrays Han Solo sounds like Harrison Ford he also i believe voiced Indiana Jones for Temple of doom and Last crusade,also the actress who voices Liea I think also voiced Marion Ravenwood in the Raiders of the lost ark book and record

  • @marks47
    @marks47 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Heroes, together to the end..." Until along came KK and JJ....

  • @agedragon289
    @agedragon289 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:01 magical sounds

  • @DS-lw4tn
    @DS-lw4tn 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    TPTB will never allow movies of this calibre to ever be made again. The film is spiritual. Good triumphing over pure evil. No Star Wars films ahould have been made after this. The movies were just way too popular to sit on the shelf so they gave you Star Wars Lite in 1999.

  • @mikedski9698
    @mikedski9698 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Return Of The Jedi 1983-2023. 40 years.

  • @HaywardEntertainment
    @HaywardEntertainment 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    5:57--Now that's a Vader voice!

    • @HaywardEntertainment
      @HaywardEntertainment 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not quite James Earl Jones but good enough for a Read Along

  • @MikeDarling
    @MikeDarling 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    For any Dr. Octagon fans, you're looking for 6:52. This is the original sample from Dr. Octagon's self-titled song: th-cam.com/video/VOtpDEOssT4/w-d-xo.html

  • @HexNottingham
    @HexNottingham 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you have access to the bigger, longer ROTJ storybook that came out that had more scenes and the real vocal tracks? I remember how excited I was when the opening Vader scene was included and I heard James Earl Jones. We would play out the audio with our action figures.

  • @My2Cents1
    @My2Cents1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had this, in Swedish. Obviously the Swedish voiced were different but I never thought the orig. US voices would be different as well. What a let-down 😅😋

  • @Gukworks
    @Gukworks 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was at the Moonscape show at the space center in Florida and it had this same narrorator, it was un-mistakable. What is his name?

  • @DanielleBarroisMoses
    @DanielleBarroisMoses 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Omg my brother had this

  • @dannydinosaur73
    @dannydinosaur73 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Guess in this one the actor playing Lando was just told to shout everything he said.

  • @rh5466
    @rh5466 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was actually Lando who proclaimed "It's a trap!"?

  • @HexNottingham
    @HexNottingham 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know I've failed in life when I can do most of these voices better than the chosen actors, but never got into voice acting.

  • @gameshowguy2000
    @gameshowguy2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have this.

  • @briancurry6602
    @briancurry6602 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    never see that coming

  • @nealwhaley63
    @nealwhaley63 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The print book is full of copy errors. How was that much punctuation missed?

  • @jimmymccartney2049
    @jimmymccartney2049 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Music:John Williams(1983)

  • @mikedski9698
    @mikedski9698 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Luke Skywalker:. I am a Jedi, like my father before me.

  • @jimmymccartney2049
    @jimmymccartney2049 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Narrated by:Chuck Riley

    • @jimmymccartney2049
      @jimmymccartney2049 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @1983 Walt Disney Records/Lucasfilm Ltd.

  • @deerfish3000
    @deerfish3000 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nee-they!

  • @Supdude.
    @Supdude. 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lool booosh? I thought it was more like Bosch in pronunciation

    • @mattdawg83686
      @mattdawg83686 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Supdude George Lucas himself pronounced it as Boosh.

  • @colinpkk8444
    @colinpkk8444 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “Hi, It’s Maya from The Egg Band, and this is the story of “A Classic Treasury Of Nursery Rhymes by Tracey Moroney.” You can read along with me in your book. You will know it’s time to turn the page when you hear R2-D2 beep like this. (sound of R2-D2 beeping) Let’s begin now.”

    • @colinpkk8444
      @colinpkk8444 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Artoo-Detoo

    • @colinpkk8444
      @colinpkk8444 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      See-ThreePio

  • @jdsimp4179
    @jdsimp4179 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you should of left in all the audio cassette sequences that were on the original cassette, to keep authenticity. I used to have this cassette, when i was a lot younger, and there were audio sequences on the original cassette before the story, at the end of part 1, beginning of part 2, and right at the end of part 2, shame.

    • @starwarsradio340
      @starwarsradio340  7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm a little confused by your comment. I recorded the full audio cassette and did not edit anything out.

    • @jdsimp4179
      @jdsimp4179 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      hmmmm, I used to have this cassette tape & book, when i was little in the 80s, I now have the original 1980s RAINBOW return of the jedi cassette tape bought off ebay, the one i originally had & lost, included with the same 24 page book. the cassette I have includes extra audio sequences at the times i described. Your version, must have not included them. wondering if your was the Rainbow cassette tape in the 80s. looking at it now, 1983 is the year it says on mine (looking at it through the magnifying glass).

    • @starwarsradio340
      @starwarsradio340  7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      After some research I found that Rainbow produced the Star Wars books and cassettes for the UK. This may be why yours has the additional audio than from the U.S. versions. I’m interested to know what these sound like I may have to get them. Thanks for the info.

    • @silassilas3538
      @silassilas3538 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      This was my favorite comment and it done ✅ with my new version of this app and the best thing I was ever had it was the first day

    • @TwoOnions275
      @TwoOnions275 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@starwarsradio340 I had the vinyl version in the UK and I'm pretty certain it had excerpts from the film on it. I didn't have a VHS player until 1990, but I knew word-for-word certain parts of the film long before then e.g. the 'you may dispense with the pleasantries Commander' bit.

  • @brentscalf9035
    @brentscalf9035 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    It spelled L E I A

  • @retard-face4120
    @retard-face4120 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    12:11: "Go, my son. *LIP-SMACK* Leave me."