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I was talking to my teenage niece about records... (Original Post) Archae May 2012 OP
I think I remember the Archies and the Banana Splits... Phentex May 2012 #1
Oh wow. Kadie May 2012 #7
Did a Youtube search for "Cereal Box Records" Archae May 2012 #9
Square records! I used to cut the corners off to make them round. Populist_Prole May 2012 #2
IIRC, Mad, being Mad had one that hifiguy May 2012 #3
Actually it was a tune called "It's A Gas!" Archae May 2012 #4
OMG - I had that disco Mad cyberswede May 2012 #8
No sound on work computer but I am SO mentally bookmarking hifiguy May 2012 #10
"She Lets Me Watch Her Mom and Pop Fight" LiberalEsto May 2012 #11
'Gall in the Family Fare' Populist_Prole May 2012 #5
I've still got my copy of sharp_stick May 2012 #6
Technically I think those were called 'sound sheets' WhoIsNumberNone May 2012 #12
Yesss! guitar man May 2012 #13

Phentex

(16,334 posts)
1. I think I remember the Archies and the Banana Splits...
Fri May 4, 2012, 12:36 PM
May 2012

on Sugar Smacks or something? I do remember the box records but only vaguely.

Takes ya back!

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
2. Square records! I used to cut the corners off to make them round.
Fri May 4, 2012, 12:39 PM
May 2012

I believe MAD magazine had them too. Some were funny as hell.

Archae

(46,337 posts)
4. Actually it was a tune called "It's A Gas!"
Fri May 4, 2012, 01:09 PM
May 2012

In the late 70's MAD re-made the tune, but set it to a disco beat.

60's version:



70's version:

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hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
10. No sound on work computer but I am SO mentally bookmarking
Fri May 4, 2012, 02:04 PM
May 2012

that for hilarity at home this evening.

 

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)
11. "She Lets Me Watch Her Mom and Pop Fight"
Fri May 4, 2012, 08:49 PM
May 2012

I think that was on the other side. My brother and I loved it.


"...on Friday night, it's something wonderful to see
when the pop comes home with only half his check.
We split a candy bar and watch World War 3.
It's got necking beat to hecK!"

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
6. I've still got my copy of
Fri May 4, 2012, 01:17 PM
May 2012

"Billy And The Boingers Bootleg" plastic record from the Billy And The Boingers Bloom County book from the mid 80's.



Can't play it anymore, but I've still got it.

On edit: Here's one side of a bad recording.

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
12. Technically I think those were called 'sound sheets'
Fri May 4, 2012, 10:44 PM
May 2012

I had a couple of them that came out of magazines- One I wish I still had came out of National Geographic and was a little audio-documentary of the space program.

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