How Are the New York Mets, Star Trek and The Peter Pan Singers Connected?

Who remembers Peter Pan Records?  The label started in the 1950s making childrens 78s, but by the 1970s, they were releasing LPs with recordings of popular hits... proto-Kidz Bop!  I owned two of these albums: one with film hits from 1978-79 (the themes from "Animal House" and "The Main Event" plus "Long Live Rock" from "The Kids Are Alright"), and the album below.  In both cases, I vaguely knew these were NOT the original hits, but I didn't know much else about the generic backing bands or singers.  I still don't, but I do have a new appreciation for what turns out to be pretty high production values.  They clearly made a lot from a little, as evidenced on the "Black and White" LP ("The New Hit!" according to the jacket) profiled here.  Looking at the track list, it's a Three Dog Night cover larded with an album full of racial tolerance pleas, like you might hear in a Guitar Mass.  The drummer on "Move a Little Your Way" is a monster (even if the trumpet solo ends on a near-clam)...


Like most of the songs on "Black and White," that tune was written by someone named Ruth Roberts, who died in 2011.  She also (co?)-wrote the New York Mets 1961 fight song, "Meet the Mets," plus "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues" (recorded by both Buddy Holly and The Beatles).  Her son was also a producer who worked on "Star Trek."  Not a bad track record of creations!

One last note about Peter Pan Records... the logo above has always looked semi-evil to me.  I decided to remove his bangs (pic below), and he looks much happier.  Those bangs were doubling as angry eyebrows!