# Strangest bit of vinyl in your record collection **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324 "2004-08-30T23:55:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Frank\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Frank\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_2)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/21 "2004-08-31T13:36:05Z")
Not strange like the other oddball records listed, but odd anyway: I have a bootleg Pink Floyd record from 1974, “Raving and Drooling”. The strange thing is on one of the sides instead of a live recording of Shine On You Crazy Diamond there’s a Joni Mitchell set. It’s some kind of misprinting as the label gives no indication that Joni Mitchell should be on the record. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/22 "2004-08-31T14:05:28Z")
Hey, **Frank #2** , that’s how they pressed up the record! From the listing in The Last Wacks (Hot Wacks Book XV), comes this information: RAVING AND DROOLING Beacon Island Records 25722 Sides 1 & 2: Rerelease of “Ohm Suite Ohm” (TAKRL 1933) - which is a rerelease of “Fillmore West” (CBM 3903), sourced from a 1971 NET-TV special. Side 3: Rerelease of Side 1 of “Raving And Drooling” (TAKRL 1973), which is a rerelease of “British Winter Tour '74” (PFL 7501), recorded at Trentham Gardens, Stoke, Nov 19, 1974 Side 4: Rerelease of Joni Mitchell - “For Free”, originally Midnite Records (no #), sourced from a 1969 NET-TV special. This is the more rare of the two bootlegs called “Raving And Drooling.” Hang on to it! ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/23 "2004-08-31T14:13:03Z")
A _very_ scratched up “Rods N’ Ratfinks” by [Mr. Gasser & the Weirdos](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4781CDF49A97620C8852D1599E620D210DF4BF58150234558C0B73844810473FD04BADACCAEF875B47DE3FE2EAE5A0ED9C8EC468DA1&sql=11:70qpg4jttv3z~T1). You have to be an old man like me to know who Ed “Big Daddy” Roth was, but he created custom hot rods and amazing cartoons (including the [“Rat Fink”](http://www.edroth.com/nonflash/Shopping/Decals/index.html)), and to my thirteen year-old mind was the coolest man who ever lived! When I got this album (my very first LP! - before that all I has were 45s) for Christmans, it was the best present ever! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/24 "2004-08-31T14:23:25Z")
[Finks of Today](http://www.derfcity.com/o/finks.html), Derf’s tribute to Big Daddy. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/25 "2004-08-31T14:33:17Z")
**Jim Nabors Sings Love Me With Your Heart** My brother collects records (he currently has over 4,000), so whenever my husband and I go to garage sales, we pick up any oddballs we can find. We bought Jim Nabors for a dime. This weekend, we picked up Guy Lombardo for a dime, too. We were going to get the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rappers Delight” 12-inch single, but it had animal feces on it. :eek: My brother already has it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/26 "2004-08-31T14:33:50Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#): > > [Finks of Today](http://www.derfcity.com/o/finks.html), Derf’s tribute to Big Daddy. How very cool! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/27 "2004-08-31T15:29:31Z")
Hamsters ate my post (or maybe, as Opus discovered on Sunday, maybe it was Dick Cheney.) I gotta go now, but I’ll repost it later. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/28 "2004-08-31T16:14:32Z")
> [@Laughing Lagomorph](#): > > Probably my extended single of “Tarzan Boy” by the sadly departed Baltimora. Heh…I have that, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/29 "2004-08-31T16:56:31Z")
1. Strange in a cool way, I found a 45 of _Mule Skinner Blues_ by [the Fendermen](http://www.tsimon.com/fendermen.htm) at the thrift store for a quarter. It features a wacked-out “hee-hee-hee-hee-hee” chorus. I’d never heard of the Fendermen before, but man, that was an awesome version of the song. 2. There was another 45 is the same stack, by a sixties country-rock band whose name escapes me, entitled _Who Stole my Underwear?_ The chorus goes: “Whooooooooooooooo stole my underwear?.. Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit was my only pair.” Classic. 3. My wife went through a phase collecting disaster-song 78s. Train wrecks, ships sinking, mine fires, ou name it. I suppose that counts as strange, especially by today’s standards. ---
**Author:** ![Cherry2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cherry2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cherry2000)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/30 "2004-08-31T21:55:08Z")
Dunno if this weird or cool, but I have the 12" single of a song called _Cha Cha Heels_ by Eartha Kit (yep…Catwoman!) and Bronski Beat. Her voice is very unusual, if anyone recalls from the old Zap! Biff! Pow! days 😛 It’s a fast dance clubish kind of song…complete with growls from Eartha and cat meows in the background. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/31 "2004-08-31T21:58:19Z")
> [@Cherry2000](#): > > Dunno if this weird or cool, but I have the 12" single of a song called _Cha Cha Heels_ by Eartha Kit (yep…Catwoman!) and Bronski Beat. Her voice is very unusual, if anyone recalls from the old Zap! Biff! Pow! days 😛 > > It’s a fast dance clubish kind of song…complete with growls from Eartha and cat meows in the background. I have that on CD. It was written for Divine, based on her character from Female Trouble. Divine died before she could record it, but Eartha did a damn fine job. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/32 "2004-09-01T00:34:04Z")
I remember when I was a kid we had a Christmas album that was red see-through vinyl. I can’t remember who the album was by, I just remember looking through the vinyl and the whole world turned red. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/33 "2004-09-01T01:01:17Z")
Weird and prized: A Red Chinese 33 rpm 10-incher **Songs of the Motherland** , including my favorite song title of all time, “The Daring Women Electricians.” Scary, sub-operatic worker bee music. I hope one day to meet a daring woman electrician and play it for her. Somewhere in storage I have a Yiddish instruction LP. Its kept mainly for the fact that in the section “At the Dentist,” one of the useful phrases is “Cocaine makes it painless.” I guess they were working from an old text. Not to forget The Irving Fields Trio, **Bagels and Bongos**. Featuring the classic “Havana Negilah.” [You can’t make this stuff up.](http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1132) ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/34 "2004-09-01T01:35:19Z")
I now have a record that easily trumps my op: _ **Richard Harris - A Tramp Shining** _ _Yes…_ it does feature **MacArthur Park**. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Grundlepuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Grundlepuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grundlepuck)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/35 "2004-09-01T01:44:10Z")
The wonderfully uncomfortable **Hey Bing/Hey Jude** – an entire album of Bing Crosby singing 60’s pop songs, including (as the title suggests) “Hey Jude”. If you can find a copy anywhere I would recommend picking up this album and experiencing it while you still can – there is probably a pretty good chance that sometime in the future they will travel back in time and prevent him from recording this. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/36 "2004-09-01T01:49:38Z")
I’m not if it’s the song title as I haven’t actually looked at it in years, but the chorus goes “Making other people happy makes you happy too” and it’s Col. Sanders with some unidentified backing group. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/37 "2004-09-01T01:50:48Z")
Stick a “sure” in there somewhere if you’d be so good. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/38 "2004-09-01T02:06:20Z")
I remember that I also have a single called “The No. 7 Theme”, by Orchestra and Chorus under the direction of Mitchell Ayres (worked with Perry Como in the '50s). They gave them away at the 1964 Canadian National Exhibition as a promotional gimmick for No. 7 brand cigarettes. It came in a red cardboard sleeve, same picture on both sides, of some cigarette smoke wafting in the air. The music is inoffensive, nondescript, with the melody whistled by an expert whistler, except for the last verse, sung in “doo doo doo” by a basso. The only other feature of this composition that sets it apart from any other, is the break where everyone sings, in harmony, “Who cares?” This was supposed to sell a product?!! ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/39 "2004-09-01T04:36:46Z")
> [@Mockingbird](#): > > I now have a record that easily trumps my op: > > _ **Richard Harris - A Tramp Shining** _ > > _Yes…_ it does feature **MacArthur Park**. My parents have that! Well, I’m guessing it’s my mom’s, no doubt purchased because she fell in love with _Camelot_ as a teenager. They also have one that consists of songs played on a steam calliope. I have no idea why they would own this… ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/40 "2004-09-01T05:35:03Z")
Credit my wife with this one (in mint condition, yet!) The LP is entitled **Sippin’ ‘n Chippin’** by that killer instrumental group **The T-Bones**. It must be explained that back in 1966, there was an Alka-Seltzer commerial so popular that the instrumental soundtrack was expanded to make a hit record called “No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach’s In)” The commercial featured just stomachs, of all varying shapes and sizes, thus the title. The instrumental track was light and bouncy in a pop vein, and caught on. I can’t recall if the T-Bones were the actual performers on the commercial, but they’re the ones who grabbed onto the song and cracked the Billboard Hot 100 with it. The group apparently worked the Hot Car subgenre of rock prior to their breakthrough hit. Allmusic lists four albums, “Boss Drag at the Beach” and “Boss Drag” (both 1964), the “No Matter What Shape” album in 1966 and this Sippin’ ‘n Chippin’ also in 1966. This strange masterpiece features, as the back of the album jacket says “their interpretations of top hits.” If you can imagine it, the album covers such real music as “Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog” and “Satisfaction.” Of course it also has the “Cinnamint Shuffle (Mexican Shuffle)” and a version of “Spanish Flea” not to mention the title cut. Here’s an indication - there is a photo of the band on the back with five guys. Nowhere are they identified by name, though right underneath the phot, it lits, the producer, arranger, art director, cover photographer and cover model by name. Not the hottest of promotions by Liberty Records. Oh, and did I mention it’s the mono version? (LRP-3446). The album back notes that it’s also available in stereo (LST-7446). One of these days I’ll have to get looped and listen to it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324.md?page=3)