I remember records from issues of National Geographic. (One was whale songs.)
This web site 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.
The article didn’t mention a cereal box but there were a number of others produced.
And I remember “Super Spectacular Day” from Mad Magazine.
I had a set of three records of Halloween-themed stories from the back of cereal boxes
These bring back memories:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbkt70hzqNwIIRC you could play them maybe 4 times max before they turned into a prop from Mission: Impossible.
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. Good times.
Yep I remember them. Thank you for the flashback.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Another MAD cardboard record - from 1966…
My lovely wife exclaims, “Oh! Yeah, I think I got ‘Sugar, Sugar’ that way!”