# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**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, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/21 "2020-06-07T16:57:45Z")
I remember records from issues of _National Geographic_. (One was whale songs.) ---
**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, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/22 "2020-06-07T17:01:22Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > 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.) [This web site](https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/remembering-era-cereal-box-records/) illustrates that, indeed, the records were on the outsides of the boxes. I’m pretty sure that the records were thin sheets of vinyl or plastic that were glued to the backs of the boxes. ---
**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, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/23 "2020-06-07T17:28:27Z")
[The Flexi-disc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc) The article didn’t mention a cereal box but there were a number of others produced. ---
**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, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/24 "2020-06-07T17:57:17Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I remember records from issues of _National Geographic_. (One was whale songs.) And I remember “[Super Spectacular Day](https://kurtsthoughts.com/2010/03/22/memories-of-mad-magazine%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Csuper-spectacular-day%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-the-record-with-random-endings/)” from Mad Magazine. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/25 "2020-06-07T18:12:33Z")
I had a set of three records of Halloween-themed stories from the back of cereal boxes ---
**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, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/26 "2020-06-07T18:22:08Z")
These bring back memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbkt70hzqNw ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/27 "2020-06-07T19:01:11Z")
IIRC you could play them maybe 4 times max before they turned into a prop from _Mission: Impossible._ ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/28 "2020-06-07T19:27:02Z")
I remember the Archies and the Monkees records in particular; probably had others too. I recall having some of the flexi-discs too, specifically “Makin’ Out,” also from [Mad Magazine](https://www.madcoversite.com/madss026.html). Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/29 "2020-06-08T02:24:54Z")
Yep I remember them. Thank you for the flashback. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/30 "2020-06-08T03:57:21Z")
I remember Homer & Jethro doing commercials for Kellogg’s corn flakes (“Ooh, that’s corny! Corny as Kellogg’s Corn flakes!), and it wouldn’t surprise me if they put one of those 60-second tracks on a cereal box. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/31 "2020-06-08T03:59:21Z")
I remember Homer & Jethro doing commercials for Kellogg’s corn flakes (“Ooh, that’s corny! Corny as Kellogg’s Corn flakes!), and it wouldn’t surprise me if they put one of those 60-second tracks on a cereal box. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/32 "2020-06-08T07:00:42Z")
On some of them, didn’t it instruct you to place or tape a coin to it to help give it enough weight that the needle wouldn’t stick in the groove? ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/33 "2020-06-08T18:33:24Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I recall having some of the flexi-discs too, specifically “Makin’ Out,” also from [Mad Magazine](https://www.madcoversite.com/madss026.html). Good times. Yes indeed. The MAD spoof ‘Gall in the Family Fare’ ( ‘All in the Family’ ) was another crack-up. I always took the scissors and rounded off the square corners of those flex-discs. It just seemed to weird to me to have a square record. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/34 "2020-06-08T21:26:00Z")
Another MAD cardboard record - from 1966… [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-v9Y5n9usI) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2020, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189/35 "2020-06-09T01:26:33Z")
My lovely wife exclaims, “Oh! Yeah, I think I got ‘Sugar, Sugar’ that way!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-box-records/855189.md?page=1)