Charmin' Chatty

Here are some of the highlights about Charmin' Chatty:

Came out in 1963 - manufactured by Mattel
Choice of blonde or redhead
Wears round black eye glasses - Mattel wanted her to look "scholarly" - this made her very popular with girls who wore glasses (this is before the era of contact lenses!)
25 inches tall
Her voice is provided by Maureen McCormick (Marsha of the Brady Bunch)
Came with 5 three-inch plastic records (double sided) which gave her a vocabulary of 120 phrases
Original records were black, but were soon changed to the more commonly found white ones (there were manufacturing issues with the black records)
She "speaks" 7 different languages!
Records are inserted in a slot in her side and activated by pulling a string on the back of her neck (only 2 dolls were made this way - Charmin' Chatty and Cynthia)
Early versions had hard plastic heads and later versions had vinyl heads - the vinyl heads are slightly bigger and the vinyl face has less cheek color
She was a very popular doll and was featured for many years in the doll section of the World Book Encyclopedia
She appeared on the cover of the December, 1963 Saturday Evening Post Magazine which now is worth $40-50 (I have one - didn't pay that for it!!)
Has many different outfits - all came with their own record packets
McCalls produced a pattern so moms and grandmas could make more clothes for her
Had many auxiliary products - paper dolls, story books, games, activity books, puzzles

I haven't been able to verify here original price yet - I know that her "cousin" Chatty Cathy sold for $11.95 in th 1962 Sears Christmas catalog - but she did not have records.

Languages spoken: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese (there was also one who spoke English with a British accent!)
Came dressed in a sailor outfit with saddle shoes and had 8 additional outfit sets that came with their own records: Let's Play Together, Let's Go Shopping, Let's Play Nurse, Let's Play Cinderella, Let's Play Birthday Party, Let's Play Pajama Party, Let's Play Tea Party, Let's Talk 'n Travel in Foreign Lands (this is the most sought-after set and very expensive)
The Let's Go Shopping set record included the phrase "Shall we buy a Barbie doll?" Clever marketing by Mattel!!
Each outfit set came with a matching accessory/prop for the little girl to wear or use
The Charmin' Chatty games also came with a record so that Charmin' could play and call her own moves!
Game titles are: Chatty at the Fair, Chatty Skate 'N Slide, Chatty Animal Round-up, Chatty Animal Friends
Her facial expression is somewhat whimisical - she has side glance eyes and a smile that is called a watermelon mouth
People thought she looked friendly and like she had a sense of humor - she was considered one of the most appealing dolls of the 1960s
She was also manufactured in Canada by Dee & Cee under a license issued to them by Mattel (later became Mattel of Canada) - these are considered rare, difficult to find
the original black records were vulnerable to warping and blistering and were soon replaced by white nylon records