Bagpuss rag doll called Madeleine. The wooden woodpecker bookend became the drily academic Professor Yaffle (based on the philosopher Bertrand Russell, whom Postgate had once met), while the mice carved on the side of the "mouse organ" (a small mechanical pipe organ that played rolls of music) woke up and scurried around, singing in high-pitched voices. Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner provided the voices of Madeleine and Gabriel respectively, and put together and performed all the folk songs. All the other voices (including the narrator and one out-of-tune mouse) were provided by Postgate, who also wrote the stories. The toys discussed
A Girl Called Dusty multi-track master tapes no longer were to be found in the Philips Records archives, the vast majority of the tracks on the 1997 version are in mono or in some cases re-created stereo mixes using alternate vocal takes. The current CD version of "A Girl Called Dusty", which still remains in print, is consequently radically different from the original album, as produced by Johnny Franz and Springfield herself. The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Side A Side B Bonus tracks 1997 CD re-issue A Girl Called Dusty A Girl Called Dusty