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Topic: Whats the strangest recording you own?
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Started by: will1410
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I have a lot of strange recordings in my collection, but there's one that qualifies as one of the strangest. Here's the story ...
When I was a kid, one of my favorites toys was my cassette tape recorder. I was always making up crazy stuff, making crazy sounds, singing crazy songs, etc. ... and making recordings of all of this. One summer day when I was 14 or 15 years old, I was at home with two of my best friends, and both of my parents were at work. I had just emerged from the bathroom after a fresh dump (I'll explain why I remember this in a minute), and I walked into our living room and sat down at the piano. I just started playing whatever came into my head, and one of my buddies started singing whatever came into his head. (In order to protect the innocent, I'm not going to mention any names.) My buddy just happened to have my tape recorder in his hands, so he turned it on and recorded what was to follow. Everything was spontaneous; nothing was pre-planned -- it was totally ad-lib. The first song was what I'll call "Three Whole Logs". Being typical adolescent males, my friends had inquired about the results from my visit to the bathroom, and this turned into a song. Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate this song on the tape (even though I KNOW it was recorded). I'll keep looking for it, because it was one of the best songs. In my opinion, the best song was "The Ballad Of Mean Bob". I started out on the piano with a slow riff from an Alice Cooper song, and it developed from there. Since, again, we were typical adolescent males, the theme of the song was sexual in nature. And that brings me to my WARNING: DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS SONG WITH ANYONE NEARBY THAT DOES NOT NEED OR WANT TO HEAR CRUDE SEXUAL HUMOR. You can download it from my website here: www.nworbcire.com/knowtalent/(Lunar_Nuts)_Ballad_Of_Mean_Bob.mp3
Let me know what you think!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I have the WQAM Fabulous 56 Surveys with the Lee Ofman song. It charted for about three weeks around Superbowl 1972 when the Dolphins were undefeated for the whole season and playoffs.
I remember hearing the song on WQAM. I think he also did a version for the Pitt. Steelers.
Another strange recording?
I recorded off the BBC Radio a version of I Want To Hold Your Hand in Japanese. There probably are not too many copies of that, but the BBC has it.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d
-- dementialover: "Miami Dolphins #1," a novelty record done when the Dolphins were trying to get into the Super Bowl, back in the 70s.
It may not be strange, but it is unusual or rare. I've got plenty of weird songs, but I think a lot of people have heard all of them except the Dolphin song.
"Miami has the Dolphins, the greatest football team! Miami Dolphins, No. 1!" That was one of my favorite songs when I was a kid! It was great- as great as the team itself!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d strangest recording I ever owned was a pilot cd found at a pawn store by a wanna-be group. I was lured in by the interesting cover art and the fact I could have it for a buck. I figured if a company had believed in the group enough to make this demo, they must have some talent, right? Wrong! It was bad. It was really REALLY BBBAAAAADDD.
I'd give more info but it WAS used for target practice some years ago. Burying was too good for it.
I can't help but wonder just who told these people they could sing? or play? or write lyrics? Who paid for the cd to be made? Did anyone go mad during the recording process?
History may never know...
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I used to own Volumes One AND Two of "Yodeling Praises Unto the Lord" -- a VERY weird album -- but it been lost over the years. I still have weird albums such as "Morton Downey Jr. Sings!" and "Hey Bing!" (the Big Crosby album with "Hey Jude" on it). My most prized piece of vinyl is the old 78-rpm recording of "Why Do They Always Say "No" (When They Know They Mean "Yes" All The Time)?" sung by the Jim Dandies with Lawrence (Piano Roll) Cook, His "Player Piano" & Orchestra. It was recorded in 1950... and is the most politically incorrect piece of vinyl that I (proudly) own!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d My old roommate 'loaned' me a CD by a group called 'Nine Inch Johnson' with their hit single 'Closer to Hogs' - a parody of Nine Inch Nails' 'Closer'... hilarious!
Good recordings I've personally made (and lost one of) were two full tapes (both sides) of "Da Yoopers" from Michigan... those guys are hilarious!
I also have a special place in my heart for Green Jelly... O_o
Has anyone heard or seen the Leonard Nimoy video of him singing the "Bilbo Baggins" song? Easily findable thru Google.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I think I have to now modify my description of the strangest recording I own because, within the last two weeks, I acquired a copy of the Linda McCartney recording that's available on CELEBRITIES AT THEIR WORST Volume II.
If you haven't heard it, it's a recording that someone made of Linda singing the background parts to "Hey Jude" at some McCartney concert or another. It's a recording that masks out most of the other sounds and focuses specifically on Linda's voice. My guess is that when they performed onstage, Linda was always given a microphone, but the soundmen were given specific instructions to NEVER turn it on.
This recording is truly horriffic!
Of course, the discussion I had with a friend of mine went along the lines of "How come this is just crap, but the Yoko Ono records from the 70s are 'Art.'" My argument is that they're both crap. His argument is that Yoko Ono's records are bad on purpose, which makes them artistic, while Linda McCartney's vocal performance on this track is unintentionally bad, and therefore crap.
To paraphrase SPINAL TAP, there really is just a fine line between clever and stupid.
Will
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Well it is not the strangest but it'l do. I came across a 1979 recording for ABC-TV on a 45RPM record promoting their fall season in the "Still The One" (Orleans) theme highlighting various TV shows like "Mork & Mindy" and "The Ropers" and of course "Happy Days".
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I also have that record of TV's Benson, Robert Gouliamme (sp?), singing disco.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I just found in my old box of LPs a gem that I inherited from my Grandparents! “Songs by Tom Lehrer” Here’s the playlist:
1. Fight Fiercely, Harvard 2. The old dope peddler 3. Be Prepared 4. The Wild West is Where I Want To Be 5. I want to go back to Dixie 6. Lubachevsky 7. The Irish Ballad (This is a truly gruesome song that would make a great Halloween song) 8. The Hunting Song 9. My Home Town 10. When You are Old and Gray 11. I Hold your Hand in Mine 12. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
There are some great liner notes such as: Copies of this record are available at most record stores, or, at $3.98 each, plus 20 cents for mailing, from Tom Lehrer, Box 121, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts. This was “The” recorded that demented me! Finding it again has been such a thrill. This deserves a drink!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I would have to saw that The Talent Show is the strangest one I own. Hours of fun
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Burl Ives...
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d At the risk of getting booted from this site. I've got a Yanni CD. I think I'll use it for target practise someday.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Thinking of a few others in my collection: 2 lps of Bill Cosby singing (Silver THroat & Hooray For the Salvation Army Band) George Burns-A Little Help From my Friends (He does the Beatles song, plus a medley which includes Satisfaction, King of the Road, and others) Rhino's "Wrestling Rocks" lp, which has songs from Fred Blassie, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Johnny Legend, and others. I'll think of others as soon as I remember them.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d The strangest thing that I own is a christmas album by Imelda Marcos (wife of the dictator, and notorious shoe collector)
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d That is a hard question.The strangest recording.Off of the top of my head I can think of several:everything Ihave by Yoko Ono[I think I know what the Ono was for!],"Beat From Another World by Sandy Nelson,and "The 26 Second Song" by Shel Silverstein.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Space Age Bachelor Pad Music by Esquivel and his orchestra.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d run forrest run -by the get some crew
the used music store gave it to my ex because she was from Orlando and did a little dance in the store. She's gone but it has been in my cd alarm clock for the past 7 or 8 years, all the girls try to beat me to the snooze it's so obnoxious.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Depends on who's calling it "strange"; I don't find it strange at all--I think it's wonder full!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I have a clip I recorded off of DMX (digital music express) - it's almost too weird to even describe (I think it was some kind of cross-fading mistake) I was recording 8 hour blocks of music, just regular classic rock then chopping the blocks up to MP3's when I came across songs I liked..
This lasts about 1 minute then the next regular song starts
It's a mix of voices with some black women laughing on one channel and singing "never seem to get away" on the other.
this repeats over & over every 5 seconds with both sounds sweeping across the stereo image wildly, for about a min then fades out
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Yes, Lee Ofman from 1972. WQAM played it, and it reached a high position on the WQAM Fabulous 56 Survey.
I think Lee Ofman also did a song about the Pittsburgh Steelers.
It is kind of a folk song with a guitar.
-- dementialover: "Miami Dolphins #1," a novelty record done when the Dolphins were trying to get into the Super Bowl, back in the 70s.
It may not be strange, but it is unusual or rare. I've got plenty of weird songs, but I think a lot of people have heard all of them except the Dolphin song.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d "Miami Dolphins #1," a novelty record done when the Dolphins were trying to get into the Super Bowl, back in the 70s.
It may not be strange, but it is unusual or rare. I've got plenty of weird songs, but I think a lot of people have heard all of them except the Dolphin song.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Wasn't that LP actually by Irving Taylor on the WB label? c. 1959? I know he wrote "Pachalafaka". RR -- drjtech:
My strangest recording is an old LP by Henry Mancini: "Terribly Sophisticated Songs: Unpopular Songs for Popular People"
The playlist includes "When the Crab Grass Blooms Again", "In A Cafeteria With You", "I'm Filled With That Empty Feeling", "Myrtle", "All Of The Time", "I'll Never Forget Those Unforgettable Never To Be Forgotten Memories", "Pachalafaka", "Anywhere On Earth", "Just My Sol", "I'll Write A Symphony", "We Did The Samba In Shamokin", "Brooklyn Beguine"
Second place goes to my "Great Lost Kinks Album" featuring "When I Turn Out The Living Room Light", and third place goes to my Rusty Warren "Knockers Up!" LP.
-drjtech
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d My strangest recording is an old LP by Henry Mancini: "Terribly Sophisticated Songs: Unpopular Songs for Popular People"
The playlist includes "When the Crab Grass Blooms Again", "In A Cafeteria With You", "I'm Filled With That Empty Feeling", "Myrtle", "All Of The Time", "I'll Never Forget Those Unforgettable Never To Be Forgotten Memories", "Pachalafaka", "Anywhere On Earth", "Just My Sol", "I'll Write A Symphony", "We Did The Samba In Shamokin", "Brooklyn Beguine"
Second place goes to my "Great Lost Kinks Album" featuring "When I Turn Out The Living Room Light", and third place goes to my Rusty Warren "Knockers Up!" LP.
-drjtech
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Patrick Juvet - "Lady Night" You're my lady lady lady lady lady niiiiight!!! It was a 1974 hit, I believe. It makes you go disco each time. And you also have "swiiiss kiiiss" on the same side of the LP.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Boy...this is a tough question, but I have a few very odd recordings. In no particular order:
A collection of old classic songs sung by Brent Spiner (aka Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation) called "Old Yellow Eyes is Back"
A tape that Nortel Networks put out in about 1996 for christmas. They issued the tape to employees. It contains a bunch of songs that are take offs of popular tunes that take about how great Nortel technology is. My favorite is a spoof of "All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth", it's "All I Want is an OC-192 for Christmas"
I also have the three songs that Van Morrisen recorded to get out of his recording contract after "Brown Eyed Girl" made it big. They are "You've Got Ringworm", "Do You Want a Danish", and "You Whistle and I'll Say France".
Those Van Morrisen songs are availible here:
www.otisfodder.com/projects/365days.html
Along with a whole bunch of weird stuff that you'll like find nowhere else.
God bless the internet.
Dr. Faustus
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I got the Mrs. Miller interview disk. Made as a promo/to radio stations for that album. -Tim
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Rooster Rap by the Watermelons
Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits by Mrs. Miller (the original album)
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Lil Orly and the Pancake, Tanced around the heder.
Lil Orly ate the Pancake, with some powdered chedder.
-- Rack_Mama_Sal: I can't decide: 78 rpm: "Little Orly and the Pancake" (like Chapin's "30,000 lbs of Bananas" but the pancake is the runaway and all the farm animals are trying to catch and eat it) !
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d These Boots Were Made for Walkin' by Cripin (yes George McFly himself) Glover. (1-7-90)
Or any early Throbbing Gristle. Actually a friend burned ma a Throbbing Gristle CD (20 JAzz Funk Greats) last night, and I was slightly disappointed. It was actually Listenable, I mean it had a beat and everything. Which makes it even more strange, because it's totally like any TG I'd ever heard before.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d What is so strange about Little Arrows? It is a reference to cupid. He does sound gay when singing it though. Is that it?
=== 45 rpm: "Little Arrows" by Leapy Lee
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Dion doing the Jimi Hendrix song Purple Haze is quite weird. Dion did it in the same arrangement as Abraham, Martin and John.
Also Stairway To Heaven by Rolf Harris in the same arrangement as Tie Me Kangaroo Down is good.
I have a CD by Big Daddy called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Every song in order is done in a fifties arrangement.
I always liked Another Jelly Donut by Rick Dees. What I like is that he was a Memphis deejay in Elvis' hometown when he did it. That took B---s.
In the strange but true catagory, a fifties R & B artist recorded his last song called, What Am I Living For? He died shortly after recording it and did not live to see its release.
Buddy Holly just before he died recorded It Doesn't Matter (Anymore).
I could go on and on.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Barnes & Barnes "Zabagabee" on casset and The Residents "Assorted Secrets" on casset, I don't think it was every for sale. It was a consert give-away.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I can't decide: 78 rpm: "Little Orly and the Pancake" (like Chapin's "30,000 lbs of Bananas" but the pancake is the runaway and all the farm animals are trying to catch and eat it) 45 rpm: "Little Arrows" by Leapy Lee 45 rpm: "Who Will Answer?" by Ed Ames, who played Daniel Boone's indian sidekick on tv (he talks his way through this schmaltzy, overdramatized condemnation of society's ills) 33 rpm: "Don't Sit Down on the Plexiglas Toilet" by (you won't believe this...)....STYX!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" on 8-track. Never got to listen to it, tho.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d "B" side of the 45RPM version of "They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha." It is the same song played backward.
I heard that someone played it on a jukebox and it cleared a restaurant faster than if someone called, "Fire!"
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Will1410: It's funny you mention Whamco. For the past month I've been involved in remastering (aka declicking and depopping) the original NBC Source Whamco albums for the Whamco page (location: www.swerbach.com/serbach/whamco/index02.htm). There were three regular lps, plus a 4th, "The Best of Whamco," which featured the funniest stuff from the early lps plus 8 unreleased tracks. Those "spots" are still funny twenty-five years later.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Actually come to think of it, the Subgenius Hour of Slack, or the Puzzling evidence show are even stranger than that.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d That would have to be either Captain Beefhart's Trout Mask Replica, or the Fugs first album.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I would have to say that the "strangest" recording that I own is one of myself snoring, after a date told me that I snore and sound like a wounded moose giving birth to a baby rhino.
I set the tape recorder right before I fell asleep and when hearing it in the morning I had to admit that she was right.
Let me know if anyone wants copies.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I'm surprised I didn't respond to this one earlier. However I have a lot of strange recordings--it is hard to pick some out. From myself singing "Taste of Dorm Food" at AlCon (1998), to an LP of the 1963 Ford car and truck introduction show. Other things include a CBS News/Walter Cronkite 7" 33 on man landing on the moon, a WRIF LP, "Meet The Bruiser" with The Morning Crew doing various songs allong with show routines.
-Tim
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText That Bob Rivers site is a blast! Thanks for the link. "Downtown in the 90s" is one of my favorites.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText That was the "Fox" on The Man Show, right? He was hysterical. Too bad he died.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText A few years back, an enterprising gentleman named Bill Foster, who went by the stage name of "Bill the Fox" took a two-car garage in Santa Monica, and built it into a nightclub. He played and sang a lot of fifties and sixties "party songs", as well as many Demento favorites. He performed this gig for a decade, or more.
An old college roommate recorded a few performances there. These are my most unusual recordings.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText I think this may have been where the people that made SCROOGED got the idea for that portion of the movie. One of the stories has a very similar plot.
And I've also liked the few homemade records I've heard. In fact one of the ones I've heard is a recording of my Grandfather singing "Rose Marie" (my mother's name is Rose Marie) and a Christmas song. It's not only great because my Grandfather died in 1972, but also because when he made the record, no one knew that within a year he was going to develop throat cancer and have to have his voice box removed. He made the recording in about 1955 and by 1956 he could no longer talk.
See you all later,
George
--- fakepope: Strange about the Six Million Dollar Man Xmas record. Lee Majors was featured at the very beginning of Scrooged saving Claus from international terrorists.
Some of the strangest things I own are"
2 Jandek LP's. A truly strange man from Houston who had a documentary made about him recently featuring the good Dr.
1 home made 10" record I found at an estate sale of someone playing the piano very badly (I love that one)
1 "Whistling" 10" 78 which I found at a thrift store. I loved this song so much that I put in into a short film I directed.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText "Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep" is a Bob Rivers parody and you can access it any time you like at the Bob Rivers make your own station website at www.bobrivers.com/audiovault/streaming/custom.asp
This is a site that gives you a list of a lot of Bob Rivers songs and you can add them into a playlist and then stream them over your computer for your own enjoyment.
See you all later,
George
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText I going strictly from memory here ... but wasn't that a Bob Rivers parody?
--- john72ss: i forget the name of the band....but i have a song called dirty dees done with sheep!! its got the music from the ac/dc song dirty deeds done dirt cheap!...... omg! this song is sooooo funny!....i'm sure the dr. coulnd not play it over the air!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText i forget the name of the band....but i have a song called dirty dees done with sheep!! its got the music from the ac/dc song dirty deeds done dirt cheap!...... omg! this song is sooooo funny!....i'm sure the dr. coulnd not play it over the air!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText You know, speaking of commercials, I also have mp3 copies of some of the WHAMCO ads from the 1980s. There are a couple of commercials for WHAMCO brand wine (one which ends with the sound of the announcer throwing up in the background). They are all pretty strange and very funny.
George
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText I have a record of commercials from the Roma Wine Company, Fresno, California.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText Strange about the Six Million Dollar Man Xmas record. Lee Majors was featured at the very beginning of Scrooged saving Claus from international terrorists.
Some of the strangest things I own are"
2 Jandek LP's. A truly strange man from Houston who had a documentary made about him recently featuring the good Dr.
1 home made 10" record I found at an estate sale of someone playing the piano very badly (I love that one)
1 "Whistling" 10" 78 which I found at a thrift store. I loved this song so much that I put in into a short film I directed.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText "What About Silicones" sounds like it might be like THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF CHEMISTRY which was recently available in the a.b.s.m.comedy usenet group. I downloaded it along with MUSIC TO SELL BREAD BY. They're both horrible too. I think you lose something in music when it's commissioned specifically to sell or promote a product. It works sometimes in commercials, but in longer formats, something very bad seems to happen.
And it wasn't too long ago, either, that I downloaded PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD by The Shaggs. That might be one of the worst things ever recorded - yet it falls into the "so bad it's funny" catagory.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText Here is a few off the top of my head: "What About Silicones" produced by GE for silicone convention (a musical!) The Travis Allan Band "A Place In Time" 1983 Texas rock. Another of "so bad it's bad." Remember beauty is in the eye (ear) of the beholder.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText I own two records that I rank as the strangest things in my collection.
One of them is the SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN'S CHRISTMAS ADVENTURES.
This 12' LP was produced in 1978 by the good people at Peter Pan Records and includes 4 Six Million Dollar Man adventures produced especially for Vinyl. The episodes include "The Toymaker," "The Kris Kringle Caper," "Elves' Revolt," and, "Christmas Lights."
In all honesty, I've only listened to the album twice, but that's because the real value is in the illustrations on the front and back of the cover. A nice illustration of Colnel Austin dressed as Santa appears on the cover - with an Appollo rocket taking off in the background - and 4 smaller illustrations showing exciting scenes from the stories on the album.
The other gem in my collection is titled PLUMBING'S PARTY RECORD. Let me just type out the heading from the front of the album for you:
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PLUMBING'S PARTY RECORD
Starring Sonny Mars as Rocky Reamer, A plumbing contractor from Horsebend, Wyoming, and Linda Merril as Sybil Wahr, who Rocky meets at a big city plumbing convention.
On side two, these dance favorites:
Let Yourself Go The Sweetest Sounds I'll Remember April There's No Business Like Show Business Hernando's Hideway
Prepared and distributed exclusively within the plumbing industry by JUST fashions in stainless steel.
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If you think this record sounds bad, that's because it is.
This is one of those records that isn't so bad it's funny - it's so bad it's bad.
See you all later,
George
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