# Cereal Box Records **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189 "2020-06-07T03:17:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/1 "2020-06-07T03:17:58Z")
These were actual '45 records printed on the back of cereal boxes. The Archies, The Monkees and Bobby Sherman were among the pop stars with records on the backs of Post and Kelloggs cereal boxes starting in the '50s and up through the early '80s. What brings this up is the reappearance of a (perhaps false) memory. I think that, as a child, I once saw a record by the comedy duo Homer And Jethro on the back of a Kellogg’s Corn Flakes box. Does anyone else remember these records, and can anyone else confirm my memory of that particular record? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/2 "2020-06-07T03:41:02Z")
I definitely remember these; I had at least one from the Archies, and one from Bobby Sherman, in the very early '70s. I don’t remember a comedy record, however. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/3 "2020-06-07T03:44:16Z")
I remember seeing those a few times. As could be expected, the sound quality was very poor, even by my grade-school standards. Maybe you’re thinking of something like this? > **[1960's Kelloggs Homer & Jethro Promo brochure cereal box radio | eBay](https://www.ebay.com/itm/1960s-Kelloggs-Homer-Jethro-Promo-brochure-cereal-box-radio-/183778926918)** > > Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1960's Kelloggs Homer & Jethro Promo brochure cereal box radio at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/4 "2020-06-07T03:45:17Z")
The one that really sticks in my memory is [#8 here](https://www.mrbreakfast.com/list.asp?id=5): The Honey Comb Ghost Stories records. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/5 "2020-06-07T04:12:26Z")
I remember these. The ones I cut out were on the back of my Sugar Crisp cereal boxes… ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/6 "2020-06-07T05:23:56Z")
I do remember cardboard records, although I was too old to be [exposed to the ones on cereal boxes](https://www.irememberjfk.com/cardboard-records/) much. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/7 "2020-06-07T06:24:19Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I do remember cardboard records, although I was too old to be [exposed to the ones on cereal boxes](https://www.irememberjfk.com/cardboard-records/) much. I assume the recording was on the side inside the box? The outside looks like normal cardboard. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/8 "2020-06-07T06:53:00Z")
I remember these records but not one by Homer and Jethro. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/9 "2020-06-07T13:14:53Z")
When I read the title of this thread, I knew exactly what you were talking about and I hadn’t thought of them until I read the title of this thread. I think I remember the Archies’ record. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/10 "2020-06-07T13:54:41Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > These were actual '45 records printed on the back of cereal boxes. The Archies, The Monkees and Bobby Sherman were among the pop stars with records on the backs of Post and Kelloggs cereal boxes starting in the '50s and up through the early '80s. What brings this up is the reappearance of a (perhaps false) memory. I think that, as a child, I once saw a record by the comedy duo Homer And Jethro on the back of a Kellogg’s Corn Flakes box. Does anyone else remember these records, and can anyone else confirm my memory of that particular record? Yeah, I had “Pleasant Valley Sunday” by the Monkees - looked just like this [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/168110998561005899/](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/168110998561005899/) See also [Top 10 Cereal Box Records | MrBreakfast.com](https://www.mrbreakfast.com/list.asp?id=5) ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/11 "2020-06-07T14:32:39Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I assume the recording was on the side inside the box? The outside looks like normal cardboard. I don’t think so. I had a couple of these, including The Archie’s record. From what I remember, you had to cut it off of the box. You played the colorful part of the record that’s shown on the back of the box. The backside of the record was the plain cardboard on the inside of the box. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/12 "2020-06-07T14:35:55Z")
I’m also pretty sure the record was on the outside of the box. I remember “Sugar sugar” on Super Sugar Crisps. (A cereal that’s since been renamed to avoid advertising how much sugar it contains. Oh, times have changed.) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/13 "2020-06-07T14:37:03Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > I don’t think so. I had a couple of these, including The Archie’s record. From what I remember, you had to cut it off of the box. You played the colorful part of the record that’s shown on the back of the box. The backside of the record was the plain cardboard on the inside of the box. That’s my recollection, too. You had to work hard to flatten the record enough to get it to play, and the sound was horrible (even on my dad’s high tech fancy _stereo_ Hi-Fi player. But hey, free records! ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/14 "2020-06-07T14:37:51Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > I don’t think so. I had a couple of these, including The Archie’s record. From what I remember, you had to cut it off of the box. You played the colorful part of the record that’s shown on the back of the box. The backside of the record was the plain cardboard on the inside of the box. Yeah, that matches my memory. Cereal box manufacture is set up to put images, etc, on the outside, anyway - it would be hard to arrange to put anything on the inside, wouldn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/15 "2020-06-07T14:42:33Z")
I think I have a picture somewhere of myself and my sister playing one on my Fisher Price record player. I’m pretty sure the colorful part had the grooves. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/16 "2020-06-07T14:45:52Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Yeah, that matches my memory. Cereal box manufacture is set up to put images, etc, on the outside, anyway - it would be hard to arrange to put anything on the inside, wouldn’t it? Well, they do print coupons and stuff on the inside cardboard of boxes. I suppose they could print stuff on both sides while it’s flat, then fold it up as needed. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/17 "2020-06-07T15:37:56Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Well, they do print coupons and stuff on the inside cardboard of boxes. I suppose they could print stuff on both sides while it’s flat, then fold it up as needed. I didn’t know that (or hadn’t noticed it). Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/18 "2020-06-07T16:24:25Z")
I’ve done some searching and I can’t find anything about a Homer & Jethro song on a cereal box record. It’s easy to find mentions of cereal box records. It’s easy to find mentions of the fact that they appeared in Kellogg’s commercials singing songs they wrote for the commercials (as in the first link below). The closest I can find to anything about them and cereal boxes is someone selling a brochure about them attached to a cereal box (as in the second link below), but this is apparently just a brochure and not a record: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1960s-Kelloggs-Homer-Jethro-Promo-brochure-cereal-box-radio/183778926918?\_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D225074%26meid%3Ded72eb1b4f0846bd86cbdc22a1e962d5%26pid%3D100667%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26mehot%3Dnone%26sd%3D183778926918%26itm%3D183778926918%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2334524&\_trksid=p2334524.c100667.m2042 ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/19 "2020-06-07T16:29:28Z")
I remember these but I don’t remember ever cutting them out and playing them. I probably only saw them at the store or at friends’ houses since our family didn’t buy sugar coated cereal. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/20 "2020-06-07T16:41:46Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I remember these but I don’t remember ever cutting them out and playing them. I probably only saw them at the store or at friends’ houses since our family didn’t buy sugar coated cereal. Yeah, I knew it happened, don’t recall actually seeing one. There was a time when .45 records were being distributed in all sorts of interesting ways including in the pages of magazines. Those were stamped on very thin flexible plastic, don’t know how well they worked. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189.md?page=2)