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MP3:
Fall Semester 1964 (19:24)
Spring Semester 1965 (25:31)
Created as a keepsake for the 1965 graduating class of North High School in Torrance, CA, this album takes you through the school and introduces you to the multiple characters and events there — all with the corniest, dated humor you can imagine.
It's a nice little record of a lost world and ripe for sampling.
The narrator's name is Ralph Lippman.
- Contributed by: John Mitchell
For many years, I have been a big fan of the "UFO Contactees," who were ordinary Janes and Joes like you and me until they were called upon (so they claimed) by benevolent space travelers to spread the word of peace and nuclear disarmament to their fellow earthlings. From the early 1950s until the present day, these people have formed groups and cults that published books and newsletters, held conventions and vied for the hard-earned dollars of the believers. Fortunately for us, they also went into the studio from time to time to commit their philosophy to the eternal vinyl disc.
1966 saw Ken Kesey's first "Acid Test" in San Francisco, John Lennon's "We're bigger than Jesus" comment, the founding of the Church of Satan, and Russia's Venera 3, which became the first manmade object to reach another planet. It also marked the June premiere of Frank Stranges UFO documentary Phenomena 7.7 at Los Angeles' Wilshire Ebell Theater. Stranges wrote many books on contact with space brothers, specifically his friend "Valiant Thor" who looked a bit like Klatuu from The Day The Earth Stood Still. This record appears to be an audio excerpt from the film. Stranges wisely kept the alien contact material out of this narration, opting to convince skeptical listeners that the UFO subject was real and deserved scientific scrutiny-an issue which is still going on, as is the Rev. Stranges. Stranges appeared in public for the first time in ages this year at the Retro UFO Conference in the California desert east of Los Angeles, where I finally met him.
Rev. (he is apparently ordained by some religious order) Stranges was delighted that I had a copy of the record, which he hadn't seen in years. Since I had two, I asked if he wanted one. Unfortunately, he took the copy which was in better shape, but the recording you will hear was ripped from the cleaner one.
Frank Stranges - Flying Saucers Unlimited
1 Flying Saucers Unlimited - Side 1 (6:21)
2 Flying Saucers Unlimited - Side 2 (6:10)
Images: Front, Back, Vinyl
In 1947, Allen Michael was sitting in his truck in Long Beach when he was beamed up via "an ultraviolet light entwined with gold threads" where space brothers asked him to form a political party based on new age principles. It was not until 1954 that Michael had another contact, described at his website:
It was early one morning, as the sun was rising, and I was on my sundeck on top of my art studio in Long Beach, California. I looked up and a great round cloud was forming overhead. The telepathic Voice in my consciousness told me to follow the cloud to the desert and I would greet my space comrades.
Michael reports that he ended up at Giant Rock, site of the Interplanetary Spacecraft Conventions, which were hosted by flying saucer contactee George Van Tassel from 1954 until his death 23 years later. One wonders if the cloud turned into a "disc of fire" at night.
One year after Frank Stranges released his film, Allen Michael's One World Family Commune was formed in San Francisco. In 1976, they went into the studio to record music based on Michael's space age philosophy. Since it was the mid-1970s, the music was "white people funk."
This is most evident on the first track "Share the World" which opens with a standard wah-wah guitar, and assures us that "We can all share the world/ It's the grooviest thing." The second track, "Sound," is the standout. Michael riffs on the word in glorious echoplex, obviously delighted with studio effects and what was being done with his voice. "My words go forth to fulfill the things for which they are sent...Call forth those who travel on instant, weightless, timeless lightbeams of sound...SOUND...SOOUUNNDD!!" "Man and Woman" appears to be standard new age fare glorifying the roles of the sexes, accompanied by an inexplicable accordion intro and break. On "One World Bill of Rights," Michael's (or the Space People's) words are read by a young woman. Perhaps Michael thought that people would be more apt to listen if a female voice read the new plan for a perfect society.
Quazar - One World Family - Extraterrestrial Music From ETI (1976)
1 Share The World (3:05)
2 Sound (2:12)
3 Man and Woman (3:07)
4 World Bill Of Rights (1:18)
Images: Front, Back
Enjoy and spread the word of the Space Brothers!
For more serious UFO discussion and more on the UFO contactees, please visit my blog at www.ufomystic.com.
- Contributed by: Spacebrother
MP3:
01. Come, Come, Come to the Fair (0:27)
02. Enjoy Our Dairy Products (0:28)
03. The Finest Dairy Products (0:30)
04. There's Fun in Your Feet (0:30)
05. A Fountain Pen with Purple Ink (0:29)
06. Many Items Made of Plastic (0:28)
07. We Even Bless You If You Sneeze (0:30)
08. My Favorite Department Store (0:31)
09. Our Diaper Service (0:29)
10. We Serve Your Baby and You (0:30)
11. It's Discount Priced (0:28)
12. Down, Down, Down (0:31)
13. All at Discount Savings (0:29)
14. At Your Discount Store (0:30)
15. Be There Early on Dollar Day (0:31)
16. Dollar Day Is on Its Way (0:30)
17. Dollar Day Is Here Again (0:29)
18. Shop Downtown (0:26)
19. A Downtown Shopping Spree (0:32)
20. Curtains and Draperies (0:33)
21. Your Private Dining Room (0:31)
22. Serves You Right in the Car (0:26)
23. Drive-In Movie (0:30)
24. Your Complete Drug Store (0:27)
25. Since I Found a New Machine (0:32)
26. Get Dressed Up for Easter Day (0:25)
27. Get Ready for the Easter Parade (0:32)
28. Here's Where to Start Your Easter Parade (0:29)
29. Step Into Easter (0:29)
30. The Latest Easter Ware (0:29)
31. locked groove (0:30)
Presented here is a 1963 generic commercial jingle album The Money Maker. Not many words are needed to describe this... it simply speaks for itself.
- Contributed by: Perry Amberson
Image: Record
Media: LP
Album: The Money Maker
Label: CRC (Commercial Recording Corporation)
Catalog: 103A/B
Date: 1963
MP3:
1 Quiet Village (3:56)
2 Taboo (4:25)
3 Caravan (2:52)
4 Avante Garde Village (4:38)
The Ensemble Of Seven's careful interpretations of these "classic" exotic numbers will have both the audiophile and the swinger in you returning time and time again. Whether you are throwing a party or getting together with your fellow Hi-Fi connoisseurs, you must agree that this is the sonic thrill of the decade.
- Contributed by: The ToD
Images: Front Cover, Back Cover
Media: 10" EP
Album: Exotic Fantasies
Artist: Ensemble Of Seven
Label: Ectoplasm
Catalog: ROV-010-3
Date: 1996
Record Inscription: "Music As Furniture"......What are the vinyl messages on the run-out groove that I am calling "record inscriptions?" Well, here I am using that phrase to refer to the sometime cryptic text, typically in upper case, which appears just beyond the outer edge of a vinyl LP and is not any of the identifying serial numbers. These have always fascinated me and sometimes their meaning is obvious, sometimes not.
I've found about 5 of these 45's during various visits over the years to Deseret Industries in Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah (one of theme was too warped to post). As The Lost Media Archive I think we try to pride ourselves by trying to have one of the largest private owned collections of old LDS media in the realms of filmstrips and educational video. It's not only a historical element of our own faith, but that of the heavy culture in our location. Church libraries all over the state (and world) are tossing out old videos, tapes, filmstrips and records due to new format technology, and lack of space. Pick it up! This stuff is a lot of fun and I doubt most of it will ever be reissued.
With that said, I don't think these came from church libraries, but from the archives of local radio stations. I still remember the visual versions of some of these on TV during the 70's and early 80's.
Give Your Children Everything... Give Them Your Time! (1974)
01 Fish Story (1:00)
02 Sunrise (0:59)
03 Date Night (0:30)
04 YEP (0:30)
05 As Much As Anybody (0:31)
06 To It Man (0:58)
07 Take The Time (Jingle) (1:00)
08 Take The Time (Jingle) (0:30)
Images: Front, Back, Inside 1, Inside 2
MP3:
1 Gefilte Joe and the Fish - Fairfax Avenue (3:36)
2 Oy George - Be True to Your Shul (2:42)
3 Georgie Girl - Yes I Really Want to Hurt You (2:54)
4 The Screaming Faloshes - Rasta Jew (3:48)
This is Kosher Club, an EP of novelty Jewish songs that Rhino Records put out near the end of their indie-novelty label silliness in 1984. The label had been running for a good six or seven years now, and it's a wonder that they were still cool with letting fun stuff like this come out instead of concentrating on business and the bottom line. And sort of odd that old-style Jewish humor like this saw the light of day in rather "PC" 1984 (another great, and in fact better release on Rhino that year was Amazing Adult Fantasy by Barnes & Barnes- and it's been rereleased on Oglio! Go check it out!) But whatever. We have it, and while it's, in my opinion, not the best of Rhino's novelty output (compared to Fred Blassie's sublime discography, for example-- and I still want to hear things like The International Elvis Impersonators' Convention), it's still a good laugh and it's some solid, well-done music. Something of note is that "Be True to Your Shul" is actually a remake of a version heard on 1978's The Rhino Royale. It's not any better than the original, so if you don't have that platter, don't bother looking for it, even though it did come pressed on red, white and blue vinyl! Also know that Gefilte Joe and the Fish had songs on various other Rhino novelty discs, and that they were fronted by Rhino's real-life co-founder, Richard Foos. They briefly changed their name to the Yiddish People during the disco craze and bastardized "Macho Man" into "Matzoh Man"-- genius! Anyway, enjoy, and hopefully if 365 Days comes back again, I'll have more Rhino goodness for you.
- Contributed by: The Swill Man
Images: Front Cover
Media: LP
Album: Kosher Club
Label: Rhino
Catalog: RNEP-608
Credits:
Date: 1948
MP3:
01 Cab Driver (3:02)
02 Medley (3:39)
03 Help Yourself (2:52)
04 Sunrise Sunset (2:40)
05 Red Roses (3:08)
06 Muskrat Ramble (1:59)
07 Gentle on my mind (3:16)
08 Tijuana Taxi (2:10)
09 Please Release Me (3:29)
10 Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (3:50)
11 Kansas City (2:28)
12 Patricia (3:06)
Transport yourself to Del Webb's Mountain Shadows in Scottsdate, AZ, one evening in... I'm guessing the 1960s... for superior lounge style entertainment from Dick and Libby Halleman — in stereo. The Hallemans are all over the place, though at times echo their obvious heroes, Louis Prima and Keely Smith. Sometimes, they rock, rather.
Lawrence Welk loved the group. On the back he writes, "I want to congratulate you on this wonderful little band. It is truly the best little dance band I have heard in many years. If we can come up with more bands like this, I think the music and dance business could be brought back."
Research has shown that Dick and Libby actually played the Phoenix Rotary Club in 1999 - most recently, Dick was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
- Contributed by: John Mitchell
Image: Cover
MP3:
01 Turn On (13:55)
02 Imagination (2:30)
03 I Only Have Eyes For You (2:43)
04 I'll See You In My Dreams (2:36)
05 Goin' Out Of My Head (2:35)
06 You Stepped Out Of A Dream (2:22)
This has been posted online before by the wonderful website PCL LinkDump (which I recommend be a companion read next to the WFMU blogging blob). I figured Pat deserved a place within the 365 Days Archives and I am very happy to squeeze it in as the year is almost over. Check out PCL for more information on the talented Pat Collins and a comment from Pat's daughter!
Goin' Out Of My Head?! Just listen to Goin' Out Of My Head! Yowza!
- Contributed by: Sid Safari
Images: Front Cover, Back Cover
Media: LP
Album: The Hip Hypnotist
Label: Warner Bros
Catalog: 1751
Date: 1968
MP3:
The Beautiful Garbage Can (5:46)
The Little Chicken (7:17)
Squeaky's New House (7:43)
Hillel's Love for Torah (10:21)
This is probably my last contribution to the 365 Days Project, but it's a pip. This earnest quartet of Jewish children's stories plays like a grade-school pageant, down to the stilted performances from young children (and adults) and lone piano plunking out a near-constant underscore.
My favorite story has always been The Beautiful Garbage Can, in which a garbage can grows big and strong when little Chani won't eat everything on her plate. The story includes the deathless line, "Oh, my! What a beautiful garbage can you have!" Garbage Can's narration also includes the telling line, "What do you think of that? Let me tell you." And in Hillel's Love for Torah, the piano gets so dramatic that you actually start to fear for little Hillel's life. (SPOILER ALERT: He lives.)
There are at least two or three other Mitzvah Tree albums out there (and by "out there," I mean buried at my mother's house somewhere).
Please do not play on the Sabbath or Holidays.
- Contributed by: Corey K.
Images: Jacket Cover, Jacket Back, Label (front), Label (back)
Media: 33rpm vinyl album
Album: Stories Under the Mitzvah Tree
Label: House of Menorah and Torah Umesorah
Credits: Morah Blanka (Mrs. Blanka Rosenfeld); see Jacket Back for more credits
Date: 1973
MP3:
01 Everything I've Got (2:11)
02 Take Him (2:51)
03 I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair (2:27)
04 To Keep My Love Alive (3:27)
05 Without You (1:50)
06 You Irritate Me So (2:29)
07 Boy What Love Has Done To Me! (3:02)
08 Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love (2:14)
09 I Hate Men (2:13)
10 What Is A Man? (2:12)
That "quicker picker upper" Bounty spokeswoman, with Emmy and Tony nominations, Rhoda's mom Ida, yes... Nancy Walker with Sid Bass and his Orchestra. Songs of a scorned woman? No, just light hearted irritation of relationships, i guess. The title track was from "Kiss Me Kate", in fact all the songs are from broadway shows. Enjoy!
- Contributed by: Evil Pain Clown
Images: Front Cover, Back Cover
Media: LP
Album: I Hate Men
Label: RCA Camden
Catalog: CAS561
Credits: with Sid Bass and his Orchestra
Date: 1959
I was going to upload a strange cabaret song I found by Maltese singer Amadeo Carmel called My London when it suddenly occurred to me just how many odd/quirky London-themed singles and album tracks I had in my collection. So I decided to make up a themed compilation to highlight some artists you don't see every day and their unusual interpretations on different/unusual areas of London. Some of them are comedy songs, some of them are deadly serious. A couple of them are just deadly! You could call it Capitol punishment...
Continue reading "365 Days #337 - The London Nobody Knows (mp3s)" »
I'm a huge, HUGE collector of "Music for/Music to" records. This one comes like a piece of collecting heaven, where even the tracks have titles like "Music For Travel Scenes", "Music for Water Activities", "Music for Family Fun", etc.
I have other "music for home movie" records, but this one seems to be the best I've ever come across. The instrumentals are great, and sound like they were ripped off the soundtracks of Mental Hygene films of the 50's. My favorite track is "Music for Children's Activities".
MP3:
01 Music For Family Fun (1:46)
02 Music For Family Fun (0:34)
03 Music For Majestic Scenes (1:16)
04 Music For Majestic Scenes (0:39)
05 Music For Travel Scenes (2:28)
06 Music For Water Activities (1:25)
07 Music For Party Scenes (2:34)
08 Music For Vacation Fun (2:15)
09 Music For Sports Events (1:49)
10 Music For Children's Activities (1:11)
11 Music For Children's Activities (1:08)
12 Music For All Kinds Of Fun (4:41)
13 Traffic (1:07)
14 Laugh, Large Crowd (0:22)
15 Applause, Large Crowd (0:21)
16 Crowd, Large (0:47)
17 Children Playing Outdoors (1:02)
18 Dog Barking, Puppy (0:21)
19 Dog Barking, Full-Grown (0:26)
20 Cat Meow (0:17)
21 Motorboat, Start-Run-Stop (1:00)
22 Diving Board, Children (0:23)
23 Slide Whistle, Three (0:11)
24 Automobile, Start-Pull Away (0:12)
25 Bo-ing Effect, Three (0:13)
There are absolutely no credits for the musicians on this LP, other than the fact that it was put out by the Eastman Kodak Company.
Dig it.
- Contributed by: B.C. Sterrett (The Lost Media Archive)
Images: Front Cover, Label (Side One), Label (Side Two), Back Cover Titles
Six scratchy pop-filled 33 1/3 rpm records (to accompany a filmstrip or slides?) from the National Safety Council (in collaboration with the United States Department of Labor on 5 of the discs) from well over 50 years ago.
Open for Infection - Part 1 (8:24)
Open for Infection - Part 2 (7:31)
Image: Open for Infection
Follow The Leader - Part 1 (9:14)
Follow The Leader - Part 2 (9:34)
Image: Follow The Leader
Right Dress - Part 1 (10:23)
Right Dress - Part 2 (10:28)
Image: Right Dress
Principles and Interest - Part 1 (10:03)
Principles and Interest - Part 2 (8:53)
Image: Principles and Interest
Stop, Look and Listen - Part 1 (8:29)
Stop, Look and Listen - Part 2 (7:54)
Image: Stop, Look and Listen
Production with Safety - Part 1 (8:50)
Production with Safety - Part 2 (7:53)
Image: Production with Safety
Picked up the lot at a second hand furniture store in Oakland, California in 2005. The shopkeeper pointed to me a corner of broken down tables and chairs and cabinets that were free and on the way out the door. I took a look figuring I could always use something (or possibly restore something). It was all trash, but... looking inside a small side table cabinet I saw a box in the far back. I pulled it out and dusted it off and looked inside and there they were, these 6 records. No paper sleeves, just the vinyl and layers of dust about them. I asked the store owner how much and (bless her heart) she let me have them for free. So here they are. For two years they have been collecting dust at my home so it's about time they got shared, for everyone's safety.
- Contributed by: Otis Fodder
MP3:
The Amazing Theory of Names Demonstrated at the Village Vanguard (18:17)
The True and Authentic History of Vermont Jazz (13:57)
An Expose of Hi-Fidelity (4:50)
Sound Droodles (3:02)
Roger Price is my favorite forgotten comic, though this album may only give you the slightest idea why. Mr. Price is the self-same Price who co-created Mad Libs with Leonard Stern, and is therefore the Price in Price/Stern/Sloan (or pss!) – but that's not why, either. He also wrote for Bob Hope, Harvey Kurtzman's Mad and Steve Allen's Tonight Show, but that's also not why.
In the early 1950s, Roger Price invented the Droodle. That's why.
More specifically, Roger Price is aces with me because of the two collections of Droodles published by pss! – a little red book called "Droodles" and a little green book called "Oodles of Droodles" (formerly "Droodles #2"). I've had them since I was very young, and they were a major force in shaping my sense of humor. It's not the Droodles themselves so much, though they were certainly amusing and clever, as the commentary beneath them, which would often be ambling monologues only tangentially related to the picture above. Check out the "Crookshank" essay on the back of the "Roger and Over" record jacket for a sample of what I'm talking about.
Droodles were so popular for a brief period in the mid-1950s that Price hosted a game show for a while based on the concept. One Droodle, "Boat Arriving Too Late To Save a Drowning Witch," was used by Frank Zappa as an album cover in 1982. Tallfellow Press (founded by Stern and Sloan after selling pss! to Penguin in the early 1990s, shortly after Mr. Price passed away) keeps Droodles in print, though I don't know if the book they publish is a complete collection of the two books I grew up with, or just a "greatest of." Regardless, you should go right out and purchase whatever Droodle stuff you can get a hold of (the covers of my battered 1970s copies are scanned below to help you locate 'em in used bookstores and such, if you wanna go for the originals rather than the "new" collection).
The first side of the album starts out with an annoying series of pops and a skip right over the first punchline, but don't worry, it clears up right after that.
Incidentally, upon discovering this album, I was surprised to find that Mr. Price sounds somewhat like Hanna-Barbera's Mr. Jinks, right down to the constant use of 1950s "hipster" lingo... albeit with a not-as-exaggerated accent. Compare the stuff on the album with the recording on this page of Daws Butler doing the Jinks voice to tell a hilarious version of "Mary Had a Li'l Lamb." Could Price have been Butler's inspiration when creating the voice... ?
- Contributed by: Corey K.
Images: Jacket Cover, Jacket Back, Label (front), Label (back), Droodles book covers
Media: 33rpm vinyl album
Album: Roger and Over
Label: A.A. Records
Catalog: AR-1
Credits: Roger Price (featuring Sascha Burland, Don Elliott and the Vermont Jazz All-Stars with Meatloaf Pope, Pig-Meat Oaks, Fats Mush, One-Eye Muffin, Nutsy Gasaway, Bombo (at the piano) and Ma Kennedy!
Date: 1960
This recording is from a cassette recorded by a fellah named Lee. He was, or still is, a mental patient in the state of Nevada. He had a lot of money from an unknown source, and would buy expensive bass guitars from the guitar shop where I was working. I would talk to him and try to get info as to his life and such but he was too shy. Nice guy, mid 40s, 6'2, 170 or so pounds, Hungarian/Slavic features, fairly gray line short hair.
Lee spoke very slow with a midwestern accent. I'm guessing Kansas or Nebraska. He always rode a bike everywhere and carried an expensive bass guitar on his back. He said that he wanted to start recording songs that he had written. We all looked at each other like there was no way.
One day in 2001 when I was at work, a co-worker had run over from the large recording studio next door. Breathlessly he said that Lee was next door recording and that I had to go check it out.
Well, this is what I heard...
1 Lee One (7:04)
2 Lee Two (5:01)
3 Lee Three (7:22)
4 Lee Four (2:16)
5 Lee Five (8:51)
6 Lee Six (0:06)
7 Lee Seven (6:14)
8 Lee Eight (1:54)
9 Lee Nine (5:52)
I was so amazed and impressed I begged Lee for a tape for two weeks until he finally gave me one. He thought that his music wasn't really any good. I told him no, not only was it good, but I was going to share it with others who will love it as much as I do.
- Contributed by: Mister Dan
MP3 (update: files removed at owners request)
01 Other Four Letter Words (6:24)
02 Essence Of It's Own (5:44)
03 It's True (3:17)
04 Greatest Hits - Love Your Navel (2:24)
05 In The Middle Of Nothing (4:12)
06 Baked Beans (3:38)
07 They're Through (5:54)
08 Today (1:26)
09 Eine Kleine Hayakawa (1:25)
10 Do You Understand What I Am Trying To Say? (3:19)
11 Trouble (2:18)
12 Poop for Sopranos And Orchestra (7:57)
13 This Is The Word (1:43)
Rock and other four letter words: Created By J Marks and Shipen Lebzelter; Featuring a cast of thousands, Including the voices, Comments, yawns and blurbs of bunches of international rock stars and various other good people: Music to live and die by, and other zook zounds and voices of the first national nothing.
This album is dedicated to Karlheinz Stockhausen, who destroyed our ears so we could hear.
- Contributed by: The ToD
Images: Front Cover
Media: 12" LP
Artist: Many
Album: Rock And Other Four Letter Words
Label: Columbia
Catalog: MS 7193
Date: !968
Some detritus found among 45s left over mostly from college radio in the 70s:
Dingetje - Ik Ga Weg Leen (3:00)
Rob de Nijs - Bier is Bitter (3:36)
Humpback Whale - Also Sprach Zarathustra [kazoo] (1:05)
Before mashups really got rolling, here was a doozy from some tunes typically much older than the genre:
Knack and Beatles - My Sharona/Love Me Do (2:33)
An unusual pair of songs for a medley:
New Christy Minstrels - Hey Jude - Atlantis (3:30)
When novelty songs about hippies were funny:
Rocki Lane and the Gross Group - Happy Hairy Hippy Harry Claus (2:31)
A bouncy lighthearted number about terrorism:
Village Sound - Hey Jack (Don't Hijack My Plane) (2:39)
To finish, some lovely Finnish covers:
Virve "Vicky" Rosti - I Will Survive (3:43)
Pentti Oskari Kankaan and Seinahullua Veljesta - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy (4:16)
- Contributed by: Kevin Killion
Ronnie Gaylord and Burt Bonaldie made up the singing duo of The Gaylords, a popular lounge pop act back in the 50's. Here is their American Hits, sung in Italian. In Yakety Yak, instead of "don't talk back" it's "shut upa you face" (long before the novelty number in the 70's).
MP3:
01 Yakety Yak (1:52)
02 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini (2:20)
03 Witch Doctor (2:16)
04 All Shook Up (1:51)
05 Oh Lonesome Me (2:32)
06 Blueberry Hill (2:19)
07 Charlie Brown (2:31)
08 Personality (2:33)
09 I'm Walking (2:16)
10 Only You (And You Alone) (2:37)
11 Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream) (2:50)
12 Tom Dooley (2:51)
Also, I added a great little rock'n'roll number by The Gaylords from my 45 collection called "Ma Ma Ma Marie".
13 Ma Ma Ma Marie (2:03)
- Contributed by: Evil Pain Clown
Images: Front Cover, Back Cover
Media: LP
Album: Sing American Hits In Italian
Label: Mercury
Catalog: MG 20620
Media: 45 Single
Song: Ma Ma Ma Marie
Label: Mercury
Catalog: 71337x45
Year: 1958
Here are two flexi records that I have had since i was a wee lad.
Starting off we have The Muppet Show Fan Club from 1977). A blue flexi that came with being in the official super stupendous fan club! And at that time being in the Muppet Show Fan Club was as cool as being in the KISS Army. Be in one of those and you'd have clout mister in the schoolyard.
Welcome to The Muppet Show Fan Club (3:20)
And then, a record that still to this day I know every single word, it's the official soundtrack for... the Mr. Bill Show. This red flexi was included 1979 book. You can still order the book (click here and select the "misc" section) and I'm pretty sure the audio flexi is available with it (almost 30 years later!). If you like what you hear on this flexi consider buying the book for a mere 7 bucks USD and think back (if you were alive) to the time when Mr Bill's skits were featured on Saturday Night Live! And don't touch that dial quite yet... Mr Bill (aka Walter Williams) has a wonderful blog online!
The official soundtrack for the Mr. Bill Show (Book) (4:08)
Hope you delight in these two fun flexi recordings taking you back to the late 1970s.
- Contributed by: Senor Fiesta
Images: Muppet Show, Mr. Bill Show
Here's a collection of three songs about a little crippled boy and the truck drivers who loved him. The CB radio craze conspired with Red Sovine's penchant for mawkish 18-wheeler-oriented recitations to make this one of the surprise hits of the mid-70s. Even more surprisingly, Diana Williams' amateurish sequel was picked up by a major label and became an international hit. John Texas Rocker unsuccessfully attempted to jump on the TB bandwagon with his unauthorized sequel, but seemed to be too preoccupied with having Teddy Bear interact with the star of a previous Sovine hit, "Phantom 309," to advance the story in a meaningful way. At least we get to find out that (1.) Gawd himself has a CB and (2.) he doesn't mind letting little Teddy Bear use it to stay in touch with his gear-jammin' buddies.
1. Red Sovine - Teddy Bear (5:13)
Gusto Records 45 SD-142 (1976)
2. Diana Williams - Teddy Bear's Last Ride (4:11)
Capitol Records 45 4317 (1976)
3. John Texas Rocker - Teddy Bears' Epitaph (4:51)
CGS/Beck Records 45 CGS-1002 (Date Unknown)
Pardon the surface noise. My copy of "Teddy Bear" isn't in bad shape, but the sequels are pretty rough. I think, however, that the scratches add something to the listening experience. And lest this little collection of maudlin tripe reflect too poorly on the South (which has a rich and varied cultural history of which the majority of its current residents are blissfully unaware), bear in mind that "Teddy Bear's Last Ride" was also a huge hit in the U.K. Not only is bad taste timeless, it's also apparently universal.
- Contributed by: Perry Amberson
Images: Red Sovine, Diana Williams, John Texas Rocker
