Agapeland
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Agapeland, or "Land Called Love," is a fictional place created for a series of children's Christian musical albums by Candle
Candle (band)
Candle is a Christian band that is best known for their Agapeland related children's albums Music Machine and Bullfrogs and Butterflies. They recorded children's albums for Sparrow Records' Birdwing branch....

, Birdwing Kid's Korus, Barry McGuire
Barry McGuire
Barry McGuire is an American singer-songwriter best known for the hit song "Eve of Destruction", and later as a pioneering singer and songwriter of Contemporary Christian Music.-Early life:...

, Tony Salerno
Tony Salerno
Tony Salerno is an American voice actor, ADR director and scriptwriter who has worked with 4Kids Entertainment, Central Park Media and TAJ Productions. He often works as actor or staff crew on anime dubs. He is also credited as Agent Zero, Anthony Salerno and Anthony Haden Salerno...

, Jim and Dee Patton, and Agape Force in the 1970s and 1980s. Many of these have been recently re-released on CD including the multi Dove Award winning Music Machine & Bullfrogs and Butterflies
Bullfrogs and Butterflies
Bullfrogs and Butterflies is a series of Agapeland related Christian albums. The series was an off-shoot of the album titled Agapeland. The series has won two Dove Awards for "Children's Music Album of the Year," and it has been nominated for two Grammy Awards for "Best Recording for...

series.

Musical album releases

  • Agapeland
    Agapeland (album)
    Agapeland is an album by multiple Dove Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated music group Candle. Most of the music on this album was written by Jim and Dee Patton and produced and arragned by Jim Patton. Jim and Dee conceptualized the album and wrote the dialogue...

  • Bullfrogs and Butterflies
    Bullfrogs and Butterflies (album)
    Bullfrogs and Butterflies is the first album in the Dove Award-winning Christian children's series called Bullfrogs and Butterflies. It is set in Agapeland, and is an off-shoot of the Agapeland album...

    (AKA Bullfrogs and Butterflies: God is My Friend) (available on CD)
  • Bullfrogs and Butterflies II
    Bullfrogs and Butterflies II
    Bullfrogs and Butterflies II is the second album in the Dove Award winning Christian children's series called Bullfrogs and Butterflies. It is set in Agapeland, and is an off-shoot of the Agapeland album...

    (AKA Bullfrogs and Butterflies II: God Loves Fun) (available on CD)
  • Bullfrogs and Butterflies III (AKA Bullfrogs and Butterflies III: God is Great) (available on CD)
  • Bullfrogs and Butterflies IV (AKA Bullfrogs and Butterflies IV: I've Been Born Again) (available on CD)
  • Music Machine
    Music Machine (album)
    Music Machine is a Christian children's album by Candle. It is set in Agapeland, and teaches children about the Fruits of the Holy Spirit. It features the characters Stevie and Nancy...

    (AKA Music Machine: Fruit of the Spirit) (available on CD)
  • Music Machine II
    Music Machine II
    Music Machine II is a Christian children's album by Candle that is a continuation of the Music Machine album from 1977. It is set in Agapeland, and teaches children about the Love. It features the characters Stevie and Nancy. It is part of a series of spin-offs of Music Machine albums, books,...

    (AKA Music Machine II: All About Love) (available on CD)
  • Music Machine III
    Music Machine III
    Music Machine III is a Christian children's album. It is not set in Agapeland this time, but it features the characters Stevie and Nancy receiving a miniature music machine from the Conductor in the mail...

    (AKA Music Machine III: The Majesty of God) (available on CD)
  • Music Machine Club Fun Album
    Music Machine Club Fun Album
    Music Machine Club Fun Album is a Christian children's album. It is set in Agapeland, and it features the characters known as Sloops who were introduced in Music Machine II: All About Love. It is part of a series of spin-offs of Music Machine albums, books, and Music Machine movies. Unlike the...

  • Once Upon A Christmas: The Original Story
    Once Upon a Christmas: The Original Story
    Once Upon a Christmas: The Original Story is a Christmas Christian children's album. Although it doesn't bear the "Music Machine" name, it is set in Agapeland, and it features the characters Stevie and Nancy who have only previously appeared in the Music Machine series. It is part of a series of...

    (featuring Stevie and Nancy from Music Machine and the Texas Boys Choir
    Texas Boys Choir
    The Texas Boys Choir was founded under the direction of George Bragg to "provide any boy, regardless of socio-economic or ethnic background a structured environment for the development of a world-class performing choir of boys...

    ) (available on CD)
  • Sir Oliver's Song
    Sir Oliver's Song
    Sir Oliver's Song is a Christian children's album by the Dove Award winning and Grammy Award nominated group Candle. It is an Agapeland related album, and teaches the 10 Commandments through songs that are based on musical styles from around the world...

    (available on CD)
  • Nathaniel the Grublet
    Nathaniel the Grublet
    Nathaniel the Grublet is a Christian children's album by the Dove Award winning and Grammy Award nominated group Candle and Dean Jones. It is an Agapeland related album. In 1987 a live action 30 minute film was released that was based on the original album. The record album included an...

    (available on CD)
  • Ants'hillvania
    Ants'hillvania
    Ants'hillvania is a Sparrow Records production that was written by Jimmy and Carol Owens with Cherry Boone O'Neil and produced by Dan Collins. It is well known for being full of "Ant"-puns...

    (available on CD)
  • Ants'hillvania II: The Honeydew Adventure
    Ants'hillvania II: The Honeydew Adventure
    Ants'hillvania II: The Honeydew Adventure is a the second album in the Agapeland related series, Ants'hillvania. It was written by Jimmy and Carol Owens with Cherry Boone O'Neil. It is well known for being full of "Ant"-puns...

    (available on CD)
  • I Am God's Project
    I Am God's Project
    I Am God's Project is a Grammy Award nominated album from The Birdwing Kids Korus. It was nominated for the Best Recording for Children category for the Grammy Awards of 1983. It is sometimes credited to Heather and Daniel as the recording artist . Songwriter, Linda Gray...

  • Animals and Other Things
  • Gingerbrook Fare: Circus Full of Fun & Learning
  • Gingerbrook Fare: Three Ring Saturday
  • Agapeland For The Whole Family - With The National Philharmonic Orchestra of London
  • Agapeland at Play With Holly Heart
  • Adventures in Agapeland
  • The Story of Little Tree (available on CD)
  • The Amazing Book (available on CD)
  • The Amazing Children (available on CD)
  • The Amazing Miracles (available on CD)
  • The Amazing Bible Stories (available on CD)
  • The Birthday Party (available on CD)
  • Music From Billabong Tales with Uncle Collin and Koala Ted (available on CD)
  • Character Builders Storybook series (on cassette
    Compact Cassette
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    , LP
    LP album
    The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

    , VHS
    VHS
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    , and DVD
    DVD
    A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

    ) (EPISODES Learn More About...: Obedience
    Obedience (human behavior)
    In human behavior, obedience is the quality of being obedient, which describes the act of carrying-out commands or being actuated. Obedience differs from compliance, which is behavior influenced by peers, and from conformity, which is behavior intended to match that of the majority. Obedience can...

    , Self-Control, Goodness, Faith
    Faith
    Faith is confidence or trust in a person or thing, or a belief that is not based on proof. In religion, faith is a belief in a transcendent reality, a religious teacher, a set of teachings or a Supreme Being. Generally speaking, it is offered as a means by which the truth of the proposition,...

    , Honesty
    Honesty
    Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and denotes positive, virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness along with the absence of lying, cheating, or theft....

    , Responsibility
    Moral responsibility
    Moral responsibility usually refers to the idea that a person has moral obligations in certain situations. Disobeying moral obligations, then, becomes grounds for justified punishment. Deciding what justifies punishment, if anything, is a principle concern of ethics.People who have moral...

    , Thankfulness
    Gratitude
    Gratitude, thankfulness, gratefulness, or appreciation is a feeling, emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive. The experience of gratitude has historically been a focus of several world religions, and has been considered extensively by moral...

    , Gentleness
    Gentleness
    Gentleness is a value and quality in one's character. Being gentle has a long history in many, but not all cultures.Gentleness can be viewed as a refinement of character; in difficult times, a thoughtful approach can serve as a model for others; when one thinks only of oneself, and not also of...

    , Sharing
    Sharing
    Sharing the joint use of a resource or space. In its narrow sense, it refers to joint or alternating use of an inherently finite good, such as a common pasture or a shared residence. It is also the process of dividing and distributing. Apart from obvious instances, which we can observe in human...

    , Kindness
    Kindness
    Kindness is the act or the state of being kind, being marked by good and charitable behaviour, pleasant disposition, and concern for others. It is known as a virtue, and recognized as a value in many cultures and religions ....

    , Politeness
    Politeness
    Politeness is best expressed as the practical application of good manners or etiquette. It is a culturally-defined phenomenon, and therefore what is considered polite in one culture can sometimes be quite rude or simply eccentric in another cultural context....

    , Joy
    Happiness
    Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources....

    , Confidence
    Confidence
    Confidence is generally described as a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Self-confidence is having confidence in oneself. Arrogance or hubris in this comparison, is having unmerited...

    , Love
    Love
    Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels...

    , Patience
    Patience
    Patience is the state of endurance under difficult circumstances, which can mean persevering in the face of delay or provocation without acting on annoyance/anger in a negative way; or exhibiting forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties. Patience is the...

    , and Peace
    Peace
    Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the...

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Video releases

  • Billabong Tales: The Cranky Crocodile from Curramulka Creek
  • Billabong Tales: Creator's Pet
  • Music Machine
    Music Machine (1991 film)
    Music Machine, known more commonly as The Music Machine, is a 1991 animated video made by Anthony Paul Productions and Bridgestone Group, directed by Leo Salkin. It is based on Samuel Wright's story of the same name, and the Music Machine albums. The film also spun off a partially animated series...

  • Music Machine: Benny's Biggest Battle
  • Nathaniel the Grublet: The Grublets Learn an Important Lesson about Honesty
  • The Amazing Bible Series
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