That's a cool player. I wonder if it worked well.
The K-Tel record alone belongs in this thread. I remember those TV commercials. Where else could someone get all of Boxcar Willie's hits in one record set?
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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 2
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That's a cool player. I wonder if it worked well.
The K-Tel record alone belongs in this thread. I remember those TV commercials. Where else could someone get all of Boxcar Willie's hits in one record set?
You are close but it was not Boxcar Willie; it was Slim Whitman, "America's favorite folk singer,". At the time of those TV ads, Slim Whitman had sold more records in the U.K. than The Beatles and Elvis Presley combined.
He is an American country music and Western music singer and songwriter instrumentalist known for his yodeling abilities and his smooth high octave falsetto. He has sold in excess of 120 million records. He is consistently more popular throughout Europe, and in particular Britain, than in his native America, particularly with his covers of pop standards and movie songs, love songs, folk tunes and gospel melodic hymns. His 1955 hit single "Rose Marie" held the Guinness World Record for the longest time at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart until Bryan Adams broke the record in 1991 after 36 years.
I hear that story (which is true) and I can't help but think of David Hasselhoff and his being a SERIOUS recording artist in Germany.
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Amazing! I can't believe how I've forgotten about them. So cereal boxes was the medium of choice for giving out free music before the onset of the internet - not counting your buddies mix tapes of course, whether by cassette or 8 track.
Recording on 8 track was kind of tough because you invariably had one or two songs record over the "loop connector" part of the tape.
We had an 8 track in a console pretty much like this one from Montgomery Wards.
Recording on 8 track was kind of tough because you invariably had one or two songs record over the "loop connector" part of the tape.
We had an 8 track in a console pretty much like this one from Montgomery Wards.
Sometimes, magazines would also have "square" paper or cardboard records attached to them. You could cut the circle around the record or leave them square. I still have a few of them.
I do! I remember getting the Archies' "Sugar Sugar" off a cereal box (boy, am I old!).
Who remembers cereal box records? They were cardboard records on the back of the box or inside the box on a sheet of cardboard and you had to cut them out.
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I remember those big time never really thought much about it as a kid but now looking back it was kinda amazing.
Who remembers cereal box records? They were cardboard records on the back of the box or inside the box on a sheet of cardboard and you had to cut them out.
In the picture above, we had the haunted house record on the bottom left that came from a cereal box - either a box of Count Chocula or Boo Berry. I still remember the voices and creaking hinges from that thing.
Corgi Cars.
Oh I remember those always expensive I had 3 when I was a kid
Jerky Boys movie DVD in Region 1 format. Yeah, it wasn't a 5-star movie but it still had its funny moments. I'd like to own/watch it again but they haven't released the R1 format for many years.
Seemingly the only place you can find one is The Jerky Boys website, but they're charging $30. That price includes a personalized message/autograph, but I'm still not willing to pay that much.
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Seemingly the only place you can find one is The Jerky Boys website, but they're charging $30. That price includes a personalized message/autograph, but I'm still not willing to pay that much.
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