Teach Your Bird To Mimic Movie Quotes.
Exactly what it sounds like. Good torture soundtrack tho.
And I posted knowing this is a zombie.
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.
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:
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:
“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.
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.”
Probably my LP of Wynder K. Frog’s album Out of the Frying Pan.
A buddy gave it to me for helping clean out the house after his dad died. Weirdest thing I ever saw, or heard.
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”. I may still have a copy of “Wurlitzer music” around here as well. Yeah, the Wurlitzer got first billing on that recording.
I have theEthel Merman Sings Disco album.
Hmm…wonder where I could sell this…any buyers out there?
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!
I could be reached. Might look good on my shelf in between my Eddie Albert and Allen Ludden albums…
Huh. The same song appears on my contribution to the thread:
The Odd Couple Sings My absolute hands down favorite track is You’re So Vain.
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.
Almost ten years, and no one has mentioned Jonathan and Darlene Edwards?
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)
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.”
I’ll see your ‘A Tramp Shining’ and raise you ‘The Yard Goes on Forever’.
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.
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.
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.