# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/81 "2013-08-23T22:37:37Z")
Teach Your Bird To Mimic Movie Quotes. Exactly what it sounds like. Good torture soundtrack tho. And I posted knowing this is a zombie. ---
**Author:** ![chancetx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@chancetx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chancetx)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/82 "2013-08-24T00:40:47Z")
I own a 45 by Phoebe Cates singing “Paradise,” the theme song to her “Blue Lagoon” ripoff from 1982. Some tween singer named Kaci actually recorded a remake of this obscurity about 10 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/83 "2013-08-24T01:18:12Z")
It’s not vinyl, but a polycarbonate CD, but it’s arguably the weirdest GOOD thing in my collection. Sandra Boynton’s **Grunt**. Yes, that Sandra Boynton, the cartoonist, maker of greeting cards, writer of kids’ Board Books, and author of **Chocolate: The Consuming Passion**. She, in collaboration with a talented set of college kids, did a parody of the once-popular album **Chant** : > **[The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos - Chant - Amazon.com Music](https://www.amazon.com/Chant-Benedictine-Monks-Santo-Domingo/dp/B000002SKX)** > > CD Only Boynton’s parody of this is “Pigorian Chant”, with lyrics in Pig Latin, and in latin-like English, and first-year Latin, and some wonderfully atrocious puns (“Gloria in eggshells each day-o”). If someone played this in the background, you’d swear it was real Gregorian chant, unless you listened closely. Arguably the most extended and would have been the least-appreciated joke album ever made, were it not for Boynton’s cartoo animals, which grace the cover (which parodies that of “Chant”) and ever page of the libretto: > **[Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo: Boynton, Sandra:...](https://www.amazon.com/Grunt-Pigorian-Chant-Snouto-Domoinko/dp/0761105948)** > > Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo \[Boynton, Sandra\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo “Snouto Domingo de Silo” instead of “Santo Domingo de Silos” . _Snort!_ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/84 "2013-08-24T02:39:29Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It’s not vinyl, but a polycarbonate CD, but it’s arguably the weirdest GOOD thing in my collection. > > Sandra Boynton’s **Grunt**. > Yes, that Sandra Boynton, the cartoonist, maker of greeting cards, writer of kids’ Board Books, and author of **Chocolate: The Consuming Passion**. She, in collaboration with a talented set of college kids, did a parody of the once-popular album **Chant** : > > [The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos - Chant - Amazon.com Music](http://www.amazon.com/Chant-Benedictine-Monks-Santo-Domingo/dp/B000002SKX) > > Only Boynton’s parody of this is “Pigorian Chant”, with lyrics in Pig Latin, and in latin-like English, and first-year Latin, and some wonderfully atrocious puns (“Gloria in eggshells each day-o”). If someone played this in the background, you’d swear it was real Gregorian chant, unless you listened closely. Arguably the most extended and would have been the least-appreciated joke album ever made, were it not for Boynton’s cartoo animals, which grace the cover (which parodies that of “Chant”) and ever page of the libretto: > > [Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo: Boynton, Sandra: 9780761105947: Amazon.com: Books](http://www.amazon.com/Grunt-Pigorian-Chant-Snouto-Domoinko/dp/0761105948) > > “Snouto Domingo de Silo” instead of “Santo Domingo de Silos” . _Snort!_ Good to know. We have “Rhinoceros Tap” and love “Philadelphia Chickens” and look forward to this obviously fine addition. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/85 "2013-08-24T03:35:07Z")
The Mae West Christmas album, _Mae in December._ Tony Randall’s \*Warm and Wavery, \*containing the forgettable “When Banana Skins Are Falling I’ll Come Sliding Back to You.” ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/86 "2013-08-24T06:21:12Z")
Probably my LP of Wynder K. Frog’s album **Out of the Frying Pan.** > **[Wynder K. Frog - Out Of The Frying Pan](https://www.discogs.com/release/713974-Wynder-K-Frog-Out-Of-The-Frying-Pan)** > > View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1968 Vinyl release of "Out Of The Frying Pan" on Discogs. A buddy gave it to me for helping clean out the house after his dad died. Weirdest thing I ever saw, or heard. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/87 "2013-08-24T08:45:20Z")
I’m gonna cheat: not only was it not vinyl, but I don’t have it any more. I was thrilled, as a teenager in the mid-80’s, to run across a copy of “Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends” on clearance on 8-track. Sadly, the rubber drive wheels on many 8-tracks turned had to goo by that point in history, and this tape was one of the afflicted. My friends and I were crushed that we only got to hear about half a song before the tape and player were too gooed to function. Wish we had known how bad it was. Well, we had heard it was bad, but with those names attached, SURELY there was a decent track or two! I won a vinyl copy of “Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk” off a radio station contest in the late 70’s. Suppose that was the weirdest actual vinyl. Doesn’t really rank with the rest of the entries here. I probably did better (worse?) with my CD purchases. I own a copy of Edger Winter’s, “[Mission: Earth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Earth_%28album%29)”. I may still have a copy of “Wurlitzer music” around here as well. Yeah, the Wurlitzer got first billing on that recording. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/88 "2013-08-24T16:21:22Z")
I have the[Ethel Merman Sings Disco](http://www.amazon.com/Ethel-Merman-Disco-Album/dp/B000084TTG) album. Hmm…wonder where I could sell this…any buyers out there? ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/89 "2013-08-24T17:16:51Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > I have the[Ethel Merman Sings Disco](http://www.amazon.com/Ethel-Merman-Disco-Album/dp/B000084TTG) album. > > Hmm…wonder where I could sell this…any buyers out there? I might pay you to not mention it again… ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/90 "2013-08-24T18:01:33Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > I might pay you to not mention it again… There’s no business like show business like no business I knoooooooooooow! Send me a dollar and I will try to get that song out of your head now… BTW, I had that disco version as my ring tone on my phone for about a year…got lots of laughs whenever the phone would ring! ---
**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 24, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/91 "2013-08-24T22:13:29Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > I have the[Ethel Merman Sings Disco](http://www.amazon.com/Ethel-Merman-Disco-Album/dp/B000084TTG) album. > > Hmm…wonder where I could sell this…any buyers out there? I could be reached. Might look good on my shelf in between my Eddie Albert and Allen Ludden albums…😃 ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/92 "2013-08-25T02:30:55Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Tony Randall’s \*Warm and Wavery, \*containing the forgettable “When Banana Skins Are Falling I’ll Come Sliding Back to You.” Huh. The same song appears on my contribution to the thread: [The Odd Couple Sings](http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/03/365_days_74_ton.html) My absolute hands down favorite track is You’re So Vain. ---
**Author:** ![tsar4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@tsar4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsar4)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/93 "2013-08-25T13:05:48Z")
Probably the 3 record set of “Baseball Tips from the Stars” on Mars (as in the candy bar) records. They have Ernie Banks, Stan Musial, Duke Snider, Don Drysdale, Warren Spann, Willie Mays, Gil Hodges, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/94 "2013-08-25T13:32:11Z")
Almost ten years, and no one has mentioned [Jonathan and Darlene Edwards?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_and_Darlene_Edwards_in_Paris) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/95 "2013-08-25T20:03:32Z")
> [@Mockingbird](#): > > I now have a record that easily trumps my op: > > _ **Richard Harris - A Tramp Shining** _ > > _Yes…_ it does feature **MacArthur Park**. > > :eek: I loved Richard Harris back when this and _My Boy_ came out. Now I’m heading out to play soccer, and I know I’ll be singing \*A Tramp Shining \*to myself: “She called me again…” Fun to picture Dumbledore singing these songs… same voice! My vinyl that always gets a double-take from guests: _Knockers Up!_ (Rusty Warren, pretty risque for the 50s) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/96 "2013-08-26T02:27:22Z")
Raymond Lewenthal, at the piano, playing “Grotesqueries of Alkan.” The LP came with a mini-LP, where Lewenthal explains Alkan’s music. A music-appreciation lecture, and one of the best I’ve ever heard. “As tu dejeuner, jaco.” ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/97 "2013-08-27T18:26:23Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I loved Richard Harris back when this and _My Boy_ came out. Now I’m heading out to play soccer, and I know I’ll be singing \*A Tramp Shining \*to myself: “She called me again…” Fun to picture Dumbledore singing these songs… same voice! > My vinyl that always gets a double-take from guests: _Knockers Up!_ (Rusty Warren, pretty risque for the 50s) I’ll see your ‘A Tramp Shining’ and raise you [‘The Yard Goes on Forever’](http://www.discogs.com/Richard-Harris-The-Yard-Went-On-Forever/release/588987). ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/98 "2013-08-27T18:38:04Z")
Only two to contribute: “The Yama, Yama Man” has the actor George Segal singing and playing banjo for 1920s songs. It is I assure you rather strange. Also an album of newspaper columnist Art Buckwald reading a number of his columns called “Sex and the College Boy.” Actually, it is very entertaining and somewhat autobiographical. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/99 "2013-08-27T19:36:35Z")
> [@digs](#): > > My vinyl that always gets a double-take from guests: _Knockers Up!_ (Rusty Warren, pretty risque for the 50s) My father had that album, but when he died my mother destroyed it (along with some Redd Foxx and Woody Woodbury albums). If I would have known she was going to do that, I would have pirated them away. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324/100 "2013-08-27T20:55:18Z")
Flaunt It by Sigue Sigue Sputnik from 1986. They were something of an intentional parody of overcommercialized music, including ads between tracks on the album. They advertisted the album heavily, hoping to prove out the cliche that anybody can become superstars by having connections and throwing marketing around. It didn’t much work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-bit-of-vinyl-in-your-record-collection/262324.md?page=6)