Hello! No better way to start at the beginning. Simply put, the first record I owned. This is not my rip, my copy is almost unplayable. It took me a while to learn to treat records as a collector. Thus was released in 1962-63. It speaks volumes about the times it was created. The record is most famous for "Alfred E. Newman's" vocal on "It's a Gas" but there are some other tracks that are worth checking out, like "She Let's Me Watch Her Mom And Pop Fight", about a guy who loves a girl ONLY because ............. kinda like a teen version of S&M with some voyeurism thrown in. Still worth a listen and holds a place dear to my heart.
Let's Do The Fink
Her Mustache
Biggest Mouth In Town
Her Dads Got Money
His Hair
Its A Gas
Don't Put Onions On Your Hamburger
Loving A Siamese Twin
She Lets Me Watch Her Mom And Pop Fight
The Braces On Your Teeth
Contact Lenses
The Neighbourhood Draft Board
A Mad Extra
Special 2019 re-post bonus! Assorted bitrates but good-enough sounding and all you need for your aural Alfred E. Neuman cravings!
Zippy
26 comments:
Hola!
Excellent first post - you're clearly a man of refinement and distinction.
Joy is when you suddenly have every issue of MAD (through 2002, I think) on a dvd called Absolutely MAD...and hopelessly OOP!
What, me ebay?
I wish I had a copy of it. And congratulations, Kwai|!! You made it to the beginning of the blog and got the prize!
That Absolutely Mad package is available as a torrent download for Absolutely Free! I have it nestlign on my hard drive, and while it's no substitute for flicking through nice old furry paper copies, it's great to have it all (including the EC comics).
Do a search for > Absolutely Mad torrent download < and benefit from the wonderment of internetular connectivityness!
(Hey, Kwangers, I was here first! I get a stainless-steel No Prize!)
Whatdayamean no prize? I saw googled it and found it. My childhood is hidden in there. BTW, Mad was the only magazine I can think of that didn't have ads. Mad was/is always funny and always cool.
"No-prize" - what Stan Lee used to award from the bullpen on the letters page of every Marvel comic from the sixties.
Today, Mad ain't funny and it ain't cool not no more nohow. Plus it has ads. Yeeeuch.
Hey, Frank - this is cool - nobody knows we're down here in the boiler room. We can smoke an' stuff!
.Said..., I quit cigarettes a while back but I got a pack of Zig-Zags if you got something to smoke!
BTW, if you DL'd the Mad set look again at any '60's issue and I don't think you will see ads in it. And yes, it is funny. But I read it in the '60s............
Frank, I said "today", referring to the current travesty of a madgazine. I bought and saved most of the Mads from about 67 to 70, then sold them, like you do. I was always impressed by the lack of ads, too.
Does Mad even exist today? I thought they shut their doors 10+ years ago. ............ so you got somthing to smoke before we get discovered?
Last time I was able to look, about five years back, it was still there, but it was a depressing thumb-through. Loads of ads for computer games and ringtones. I loved the ads in the EC comics, though. The ads in Marvel comics made me yearn to live in America. Well, I was young and naive.
Back in the day, it was Mad that used to take my allowance, not the comic books. Comics were more popular and there was a huge selection that came out every week. 12 cents, I think they cost. A mad magazine was twice that price, but never tired of them when I was a kid. I was lucky too that my older cousin, who turned me on to Mad (and Fink Along With Mad!) gave me his Mad collection, dating back to 1962.
What I never had, and still lust after, is that cardboard cut-out model of the Mad Dirigible they gave away with one of their annuals. Those annuals were all pretty special, with great free gifts, but that one was the best.
What I also miss is my Alfred E. Newman model kit that I made when I was a kid. It was made my Aurora, the same company that did the Universal monsters (Frankenstein, ETC). They never re-issued it, as far as I could see. But the Mad Special issues used to have cool stuff. I liked the records that were included in some of them.
Wow! I had the Dracula, Frankenstein and Mummy kits. I remember painting Dracula's shoes brown, for some reason. Also mixing the white paint for the Mummy wrong, so it never dried. I loved the little landscapes you got to stand them in. But my best kits were Revel hot-rods.
BAck in the '60s Revelle made Rat Fink slot cars, little race cars that you took to a a race track. Well, I built mine and was too impatient for the glue to dry, so I put it on the track and it caught fire. The track owners were not too happy with me.
I built those monster models when I was a kid and then built 80's-90's reissues with my sons. Spent months painting it so it was just perfect. They still have those models too.
Speaking of models, I had an unopened Monkees car kit too. My sons have it now, but I wish it was in my hands.
Wow, I remember the Monkees car kit. Used to have one along with all the Famous Monsters line. Tried to put together the Star Trek Enterprise model, but it was a piece of crap. Never looked good. My favorite toy was probably the James Bond attache' case. It's long lost now along with my original G.I. Joes. They'd be worth a tidy little sum now. Oh well, there's always dope.
My favourite "toy" car was the Corgi James Bond Aston. It was even a NEWS ITEM at the time, and the first toy craze I was aware of to leave shops empty of stock. Wire wheels? Check. Bulletproof screen? Check. Battering rams and dual machine guns? Check. WORKING EJECTOR SEAT!!!??? HOLY CRAP!!! You even got a spare Villain in the secret compartment in the box, because they knew you were going to eject that sucker down the nearest drain ...
Used to customise my car kits. Added real carpet to my Revell ford hotrod, chopped the tail and raised a GTO.
All trashed long ago, but what the hell - the pleasure's still keen as a knife ...
The whole kit-n-kaboodle:
https://saas.cloudike.com/public/pUOKQ0g3ysz2aFMr2WiRX18D
I see time travel is possible then.
Wow - really excited to see AYBCS again! Also enjoying the old "friends" that I haven' seen for too long. Looking forward to fun reads and revelations. Welcome back, BF!!
Love your blog--worked my way back to this first post! - Stinky
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Boy I had most of these when I was young. Nice to "Go Back" . Thank you.
Takes me back, I had this as one of my first five albums too. It's too bad the the Zippy link is dead and that there's no Yandex; I haven't heard this in years (apart from It's A Gas").
Link no longer works.
I too bought this around 1962 (Burrrrp) and haven't seen it for ages. Unfortunately File has expired and does not exist anymore on this server. Sigh. I got a smile out of seeing the cover and the post, thanks anyway. Great blog.
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