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!

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!

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!

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

"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

6 жыл бұрын

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

@logicaldude3611

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@RicQuintanilla

Жыл бұрын

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

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

7 жыл бұрын

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

7 жыл бұрын

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

“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

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

i listened to this hundreds of times as a kid

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

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

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😆

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

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

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

@alexojideagu

5 жыл бұрын

The movie was rated for kids

@michaelblaine6494

4 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

Long before we went woke.

This was the best one. Thanks for preserving this!

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.

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

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

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.

I had this when i was a kid , amazing

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@jaysonrogoz8822

Жыл бұрын

@@DavidAspmo no way

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

Good old cassette memories.

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

5 жыл бұрын

No🤔😓😑🌞🇦🇮🌺

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.

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

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@johnogrady7066

4 жыл бұрын

@@johna.7362 yes,they had both

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.

YES! I HAVE THIS! AWESOME!

the *best* cassettes of the series

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

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.

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

I remember having that book

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

These were how I learned to read

Darth Vader sounds like Dark Helmet in this one.

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

@Tree_Stabbing_Troy_Lmafo

4 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Ill probably always laugh at that part now.

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

Gracias por compartirlo

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

@ZakWolf

7 жыл бұрын

I know, right? It's so ironic!

@kascnef

6 жыл бұрын

@@ZakWolf and now Disney is going to own fox

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...

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

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

2:01 magical sounds

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

"This is the story of a man named Stanley"

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

@HaywardEntertainment

3 жыл бұрын

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

For any Dr. Octagon fans, you're looking for 6:52. This is the original sample from Dr. Octagon's self-titled song: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iIOo0qZ-f9bZhJc.html

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

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 😅😋

Return Of The Jedi 1983-2023. 40 years.

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.

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?

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.

Omg my brother had this

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

I have this.

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

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.

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

never see that coming

Music:John Williams(1983)

@jimmymccartney2049

8 ай бұрын

Directed by:Richard Marquand

@jimmymccartney2049

8 ай бұрын

1918

Nee-they!

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

Narrated by:Chuck Riley

@jimmymccartney2049

8 ай бұрын

@1983 Walt Disney Records/Lucasfilm Ltd.

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

@mattdawg83686

6 жыл бұрын

Supdude George Lucas himself pronounced it as Boosh.

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

7 жыл бұрын

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

@jdsimp4179

7 жыл бұрын

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

7 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

It spelled L E I A

“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

3 сағат бұрын

Artoo-Detoo

@colinpkk8444

3 сағат бұрын

See-ThreePio

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