# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/61 "2004-09-02T20:56:42Z")
[Cerrone](http://mclub.te.net.ua/images/alb/cover1212_14054.jpg) - the music is nothing special, but the cover… hoo boy! **A Lesson In Love** by Dr. Murray Banks - scientific love lessons filtered through some Catskills style comedy. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/62 "2004-09-02T21:52:53Z")
I can’t match some of the really rare ones that have been mentioned, but I’d be willing to bet I have a couple of 45s that nobody else has, or at least will admit to. How about: La la la (If I had you) **Bobby Sherman** Him **Rupert Holmes** (Yes, I also have The Pina Colada Song) or Carey Lynn Javes **Zager and Evans** The flipside of this is something called _Mr. Turnkey_, which is one of the creepiest songs I’ve ever heard in my life. I look at my 45 collection and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/63 "2004-09-02T21:56:10Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > I’ve got a 78 RPM recording of “Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo, I Don’t Wanan Leave the Jungle)”, does that count? “Bongo bongo bongo, I don’ wanna leave the Congo, Oh nononono; Bingle bangle bungle, I’m so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go.” 😃 I have **Purple People Eater** , by Sheb Wooley on 45. I also have two copies of **A Child’s Christmas In Wales** , read by Dylan Thomas himself, on 33. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/64 "2004-09-02T22:04:46Z")
Hey, **AskNott** , I’ve never met anyone else who had a copy of _The Masked Marauders!_. Actually, I’ve got two copies of it… I just had to pitch in here because since I read your post, I’ve had the following in my head: “…with our feet in the fireplace, eatin’ Ed’s home cookin’, overlookin’ scenic Hudson’s Bay…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/65 "2004-09-02T23:04:51Z")
> [@Mockingbird](#): > > Boot to the Head is by the Frantics. I hve both of their albums and a large mp3 collection of their weekly radio show I found on the original and lamented Napster. They get posted to Usenet occasionally, which is where I got them. They were a great group! I can’t understand why they didn’t make a big splash in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/66 "2004-09-03T01:05:22Z")
Bunches of really, _really_ obscure musicals; _Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick_-A soundtrack starring Dinah Shore and Robert Merrill (who apparently got fired from the Metropolitan Opera for appearing in this) _My Fur Lady_-A crappy Canadian musical done by some college or other. It’s terribily topical…and I do mean “terribly”. Tom Leher albums from this same time period can be understood by reasonably educated people. This mocks people that no-one in the world has ever heard of. And the singing is terrible. And the plot is just dumb (Princess Aurora, an Innuit from the kingdom of Mucklucka comes down to Canada and observes all our strange customs and people.). The only reason it’s interesting is that some (4?) of the songs were by Galt MacDermot (the guy who would later do “Hair”) One of my rarest is _Jeeves_ (not the later remake “By Jeeves”) This album by Andrew Lloyd Webber has some of the same songs as the remake, but um…forgets that Wodehouse is supposed to be, well, funny. More later. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![International\_Playboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/48db29/32.png) [@International\_Playboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/International_Playboy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/67 "2004-09-03T01:38:25Z")
For my collection, it would probably be a Wild Man Fischer album and an unopened Jim and Tammy Faye Baker album on vinyl and on CD, a Yma Sumac collection CD. ---
**Author:** ![International\_Playboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/48db29/32.png) [@International\_Playboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/International_Playboy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/68 "2004-09-03T02:30:31Z")
I meant to mention “What A Shame Mary Jane Had A Pain At the Party,” by the Beatles. This has a picture of them with airbrushed crewcuts and is ringed with black and white pictures of topless girls wearing Halloween masks. I also just thought of the LP, “Chevrolet Sings of Safe Driving and You,” and I’m getting a used copy of Wayne Newton’s LP, “Dreams of the Every Day Housewife” in the mail. Anyone have a copy of Newton singing “Bessie the Heifer, Queen of All the Cows” that they want to part with? ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/69 "2004-09-03T06:27:38Z")
I’ve got Napoleon XIV’s “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” It’s in pretty good condition aside from the fact that it always skips on “and grab the brass rings”. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_C.Mulligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@Chad\_C.Mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_C.Mulligan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/70 "2004-09-05T00:43:38Z")
A 12" Club Remix of one hit Can Con wonders **Kon Kan** performing “Puss N’ Boots / These Boots Are Made For Walkin’”, which heavily samples both **Led Zeppelin** and **Nancy Sinatra**. I’m not proud, I’m just sayin’ … ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/71 "2004-09-05T06:51:46Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I was going to say [Chipmunk Punk](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4791FDB47A57020CE873B5DDEB17AF501CA4EFB803E2D595B92B63E45911E7AE84AF095C5AEF975AB7BAFFF2AE85305D2C2E454FFCC0640&sql=10:lq2ibkr96akz), but then I remembered I have a copy of Myron Floren’s _Disco Polka_. Sorry – no link. 😃 [Link](http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/01-2.html) (scroll down to the bottom of the page), because I guess I’m more sadistic than you are. Since I’m 20, I don’t really own any vinyl, except for a record I got for free because I was volunteering at my local library a few years back and it didn’t sell at the book sale. It’s of poets reading their works, and includes Sylvia Plath, Ogden Nash, Dylan Thomas, and probably some other famous ones I’m forgetting. Now, I know I just posted in the poetry thread saying that I detest most poetry (Ogden Nash I do like, though), but I seem to recall that the Dylan Thomas track is excellent. I never really listened to the words, because the man’s speaking voice is just so engrossing in itself. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/72 "2004-09-05T08:10:15Z")
> [@Chad C. Mulligan](#): > > A 12" Club Remix of one hit Can Con wonders **Kon Kan** performing “Puss N’ Boots / These Boots Are Made For Walkin’”, which heavily samples both **Led Zeppelin** and **Nancy Sinatra**. > > I’m not proud, I’m just sayin’ … Kon Kan’s one hit was ‘I Beg Your Pardon’ which featured Lynn Anderson’s Rose Garden(as in I never promised you). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/73 "2004-09-05T12:28:26Z")
> [@Already in Use](#): > > [Link](http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/01-2.html) (scroll down to the bottom of the page), because I guess I’m more sadistic than you are. Nah – just a more patient googler, or one with a faster connection than I’ve got (well, that would be just about everyone). Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/74 "2004-09-05T14:52:41Z")
My weirdest would have to be **A Cabbage Patch Christmas** (ah, nostalgia), and [Vaughn Meader’s The First Family](http://www.tommcmahon.net/2004/06/vaughn_meaders_.html). ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Missinne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jeff\_Missinne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Missinne)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/75 "2013-08-23T20:16:19Z")
Youse guys have already described a bunch of old vinyl I already have! But let’s see if I can come up with a few more… You’re My Girl: Romantic Reflections by Jack Webb. You ain’t lived till you’ve heard Sergeant Friday try to play Barry White. His reading of “Try A Little Tenderness” is a Golden Throats classic, but that’s just the beginning. :smack: Inner Views - Sonny Bono. His only LP without Cher. Sounds like Bugs Bunny trying to sing Motown style. And he wanted to prove he was a serious singer-songwriter, so some of the tracks run 7 to 13 minutes each. Now there was a man who knew talent when he married it. :rolleyes: There’s A Really Big Shew Tonight - Ed Sullivan with the Kirby Stone Four. 45 rpm single. Give “Smiling Ed” credit; he played it for laffs on this one. 🙂 Born To Sing - Phyllis Diller. Gagged-up (like a hairball) versions of everything from “Satisfaction” to “One For My Baby.” 😉 Berries In Salinas - Flip Wilson. 45 rpm single. A countrypolitan “story-song” that proves all black people do not have soul. :dubious: Joey Bishop Sings Country Western Hits. You should see the cover. “Rat Packster” Joey strumming a guitar, wearing a Porter Wagoner suit in turquoise blue. From the arrangements, you’d think his buddies Frank or Dean were doing the singing. Too bad they weren’t…:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/76 "2013-08-23T20:19:47Z")
Anyone got any vinyl from [The Zombies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zombies)? (Yeah, right, like you weren’t think it). I do have the LP of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1975 flop Jeeves. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/77 "2013-08-23T20:34:16Z")
Realized this was a zombie thread when I saw the “I got it on usenet” comment. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/78 "2013-08-23T20:37:21Z")
I have a 45 of Dick Van Dyke singing _Hushabye Mountain_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/79 "2013-08-23T20:48:38Z")
Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart. Dear Cecil it is damn strange, and I can’t believe I am the first to post it this decade. ---
**Author:** ![ruh-roh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ruh-roh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruh-roh)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/80 "2013-08-23T21:57:38Z")
" Sports Cars at Sebring" 40 minutes of different 60’s era sports cars revving their engines or sometimes zooming by the microphone while going down the track. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324.md?page=5)