Name: Mimi
Made by and When: Remco, 1973
Material: Rigid plastic body and legs, soft-vinyl face and arms
Marks: (On the head) HONG KONG (on a raised vinyl panel) / REMCO INC. / 19©72; (on the back) SOUND DEVICE / MADE IN JAPAN (On the lower back) ©1973 / REMCO IND. INC. / HARRISON, N.J.
Height: 20 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Black-short curly-rooted hair, brown-painted eyes with painted upper and lower eyelashes, parted lips with orange lip color
Clothes: Orange jersey-knit backless halter top attached to a heavy twill purple skirt, dark and light purple twill jacket, purple tam with an orange pom-pom on the top, white panties, purple opaque tights, and purple pumps.
Other: Mimi is a 20-inch, battery-operated, world-traveler doll with a voice box and records that play “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” in 8 different languages. Mimi’s voice box sings fluently in English, French, German, Greek, Polish, Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian. Six extra boxed fashions, sold separately, represent six different nationalities and included song sheets and two extra records in each. Boxed fashions representing Greece and France were not made. Three of the extra boxed fashions are illustrated in the gallery photos.
Gallery
Video, Mimi the 1970s Singing Doll by Remco
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