Perhaps some of you may fondly recall at times a favorite venue for magically finding unusual old vinyl on a regular basis. A treasure trove/mother lode of incredibly cheap wonders to delight the ear and eye. For me, still in my earlier collecting days, aside from salivating over big trunks of old, unbagged comic books at the Skyview Flea Market, one of my most magical places for vinyl excavation during my early 1980's days in Santa Cruz was going to the Goodwill Bargain Barn, where my girlfriend would peruse the clothing by the pound, under the watchful eye of the unforgettable 'Ray' the proprietor (for which priviledge people lined up way before they opened the doors), while I would troll the newest cardboard barrels of records that had come in that week, often digging crazily through a whole barrel full of lps, before they even made it out onto the rough table that they would be 'displayed' on.
Many a wonder flowed into that big old barnlike building, and for a mere twenty-five cents each, the records were often in remarkably good condition after their journey through the barrel and worse. Today's goodie is one of the more powerful DJ tools in my kit back in those protean radio DJing days, and must have messed with many episodes and sets over the years, later to be sampled and cut up even more. It struck me the other day while transferring it that the lead male child actor's voice reminded me of TV's Charlie Brown, who was actually voiced by several boys over the years, it turned out I was wrong, but it made for a fun search speculation. The kids are obviously pros (it was made in LA, where there's plenty of voice talent), as the dialogue is not the easiest to comfortably act by kids. Many of us collectors over the years have sought the elusive third volume of this set of sex-ed records: Sex for Adults. I've never seen it. Who has it? Did it ever even come out, I wonder? Many times lps are announced on the back covers of small label records that don't necessarily get released in the form in which they're shown. The second volume, Sex for Teens, I did get, I believe also from the Bargain Barn, and it has appeared here on WFMU already here, courtesy of Otis Fodder. Since there was a good response to that post I've meant for a long time to transfer this baby in it's entirety so that the two known volumes can hang together here in a nice warm place. But it's not a record that one plays a whole lot, and I've certainly slowed down on using it as a DJ anymore. So it took a while to finally play through the whole sexy thing. Tangentally, I like how the authors (Nathan Leichman, PhD, and Stanley Z. Daniels, MD) created a publishing entity (Magic Medicine) for the A.S.C.A.P. rights to the dialogue on the record, so if you wanna do a cover of it, be sure and asign the rights properly! Fun how even a spoken word educational project can be buried deep in the A.S.C.A.P. files.
Sex Explained for Children is a very well produced product, however, and deserves some better modern exposure (why? I dunno, I guess...because I'm a nut for albums, mainly). The first side is a bit dry, going over the basic mechanics of reproduction, but on side two things get fun, as the little boy and the two little girls get down to the making sweet love aspect of it all.
As a side note, some wag who owned the disc previously had added a very clever piece of dialogue to the mouth of the little boy on the cover, written in pencil, which I later inked in for more clarity, as it fits the expression of the boy in the picture SO well. So buckle up your training pants, pour a libation, set up the romantic mood lighting and enjoy some fine sex ed smoothness.
"squirtle sac"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirtle
Posted by: Rec | February 05, 2011 at 10:33 PM
Yes, Sex For Adults exists. Here's my copy of it.
I'd be glad to digitize it for you if I had the hardware to do it. What do I need?
Posted by: Andy Lester | February 05, 2011 at 11:40 PM
this is pretty arcane but it is not impossible to find. i have seen it a few times in my buying travels
Posted by: DJ Handi | February 06, 2011 at 03:33 AM
This comment was posted in 2007:
I have the "Sex For Adults" LP (the cover is currently displayed prominently on my bedroom wall) and I've always wondered what the Kids and Teens versions might sound like, since the Adults LP is closer to pornography than anything educational. It starts out with a couple visiting a doctor to discuss their sex problems, but as the record progresses the doctor goes into ever greater graphic (yet oddly poetic) description of what loving adults can do to pleasure each other. I'm looking forward to checking out just how dirty these teens get ...
Posted by: Fred | June 18, 2007 at 12:12 PM
Posted by: George | February 06, 2011 at 08:09 AM
Poor kids having to read that... At least it's helped clear up a few of my basic misconceptions regarding reproduction.
Posted by: Walter Brennan | February 07, 2011 at 07:00 AM
holy effervescent crap! I found this at a thrift store in DC about 25 years ago, had to pitch it before moving, been looking for another ever since. Got so much sample material out of it.....
Posted by: BSI | February 07, 2011 at 09:57 AM
No more misconceptions for you then, eh, Walter?
Posted by: Richard Brandt | February 07, 2011 at 11:57 AM
Funny that someone(s) have zeroed-in on the one big mis-pronunciation on the album, which always stuck in MY head, unfortunately: "Scortal sac" ...which it appears people have mis-heard, lol. I do like the word 'squirtle', though.
Posted by: Mindwrecker | February 07, 2011 at 01:33 PM
Loved the scortal sac as well. But I got the most mileage out of the girl's delivery of "What's a penis?"
.....too easy, I know. But heck.
Posted by: BSI | February 08, 2011 at 09:10 AM
Aw, gosh yes-! Great Caesar's Ghost I used to play that line a lot...also the boy spelling out the word v-a-g-i-n-a on side two ended up on answering machines and the like.
At least this forced me to follow the link above and look up "Squirtle", which was a bit of a disappointment, but a funny cross-reference just the same. I suppose I'd like a file of 'Sex for Adults', but on second thought- do I REALLY need it, with alla my existing spoken-word drops-?
Posted by: Mindwrecker | February 08, 2011 at 12:08 PM