ADVENTURES IN CERPTSLAND VOLUME TWENTY: NO FORCED CUDDLES!!!!

 

Some Liner Notes:

Yes, I managed to find YET ANOTHER version of PLAYMATES; this time from this 78 rpm Golden Records yellow 78.

The two brief excerpts from the 1945 old radio show THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES starring Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce are from this Murray Hill Records Box Set from the 1970's I just got STILL SEALED!  I've been buying and listening to Murray Hill Records of old radio shows since I first borrowed some from the library at Marlton Middle School in 1978!!!!!  Murray Hill Records is a beloved label to me as I have since bought copies of all the records I took out from that library (including the 3 record box set of THE SHADOW starring Orson Welles) and many more

Another new acquisition is WALT DISNEY'S SILLY SYMPHONIES from which I get the perennial "Johnny Fedora & Alice Blue Bonnet" as well as the absolutely unhinged "The Gingerbread Man".  Seriously . . . this song will test the sanity of ANYONE listening . . . and it goes on and on and on endlessly repeating it's madness!!!!!!

I recently got four vinyl releases from the great Waxwork Records and selections from dem can be heard on this Cerpts CD: DAWN OF THE DEAD, HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, WHITE ZOMBIE and MY BLOODY VALENTINE

The two classic Jack Benny routines are from Radiola Record's THE JACK BENNY STORY; a 2 record set I've owned since about 1980.

The BEDKNOBS & BROOMSTICKS selections heard here are from this WALT DISNEY'S THE STORY OF BEDKNOBS & BROOMSTICKS record which manages to NOT include Angela Lansbury or David Tomlinson -- in fact, Dallas McKennon is the only person credited or heard really.

The scary stories read by Ralph Bell, Robert Dryden and Daniel Ocko heard here are from the two classic early 1970's Troll Records (out of a total of 4) that I own:  SCARY SPOOKY STORIES and GREAT GHOST STORIES.  One day . . . I WILL get the other two!

All the Tammy Grimes trax are from my most treasured vinyl copy of GOREY BY GRIMES (Tammy Grimes reading the stories and poems of Edward Gorey) which I found around 1981 in a Wee Three Records store in the Moorestown Mall.

The Vincent Price spooky stories heard here are from one of a quartet of such albums (the only one I've managed to track down and own) called TALES OF WITCHES, GHOSTS & GOBLINS BY VINCENT PRICE.  I have all 4 of them on cd, though.

The Bob McFadden & Dor (codename for Rod McKuen) are obviously from the album SONGS OUR MUMMY TAUGHT US which featured the classic track "The Mummy".

You will find all the stories from Power Records' THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. II here.

More flexi-discs!  First we have my new acquisition:  SPACE VISITOR: A SUMMER WEEKLY READER STORY on an Eva-Tone soundsheet.  When I was a lil tot, I got the Weekly Reader when I was in grade school; never got the damn thing delivered in summer though.  Bad parenting!

Next we have a cardboard record (!) of NIXON'S THE ONE featuring excerpts from Nixon's Inauguration Speech accompanied by a narrator assuring us that only Nixon can save us all.

Then we have ANOTHER cardboard record!!!  This time it's Red Skelton doing a (mostly serious) routine/speech about "THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE" which was given out by Burger King!

All the Orson Welles tracks are the entire album called THE BEGATTING OF THE PRESIDENT; a satirical (and beautifully written and witty) take on the political shenanigans of LBJ, Nixon, Etc. from 1969 done in the style of the Bible.

Then we have another record from a couple years later called THE WATERGATE COMEDY HOUR featuring such luminaries as Frank Welker (the voice of Scooby-Doo & Freddy), Fannie Flagg, Avery Schreiber, etc.  The whole album is included here.

I've included 2 stories (out of 4) from the Power Records' first BATMAN album that I've had since about 1975.  I bought it at the Listening Book record store that was in the Pennsauken Mart when my Grandfather took me there every weekend as a kid.  Check that awesome Neal Adams artwork!  I love this record -- all through the decades!

Next we have a short extract from WALT DISNEY'S THE STORY OF PINOCCHIO record I've had since I was knee high to a zygote.  Note the "Magic Window" die-cut cover!

We have a couple tracks from WALT DISNEY'S HAPPY BIRTHDAY! AND SONGS FOR EVERY HOLIDAY where I got APRIL FOOL by Jimmy Dodd (is that short for "Doddy"???), TRICK OR TREAT from the classic Donald Duck Halloween cartoon sung here by a coupla Mouseketeers apparently, a "4th of July" song apparently from the Sons of Liberty Disney film of Johnny Tremaine and the eponymouse Happy Birthday song.

I have a rather lengthy (about 15 minutes or so) excerpt from THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW AUDIENCE PARTICI-SAY IT!-PATION album.  This is taken from my CD of the album.  However, I just discovered that I still have in my possession the vinyl LP of the album that I borrowed from my Doddy Cheeks back in the late 1980's and apparently NEVER GAVE BACK TO HIM!!!!  What kinda late fees are we lookin' at here???

In my neverending quest to find every flexi-disc ever made, I just bought this flexi-disc advertising a JIM REEVES: GOLDEN MEMORIES record collection put out by WRC Records that is a British flexi-disc.  I've never before seen or known of any British-made flexidiscs before so this was a real find!  I guess "Lyntone" is the British equivalent of Eva-Tone Soundsheets!

Towards the end of this Cerpts CD, we have some very old and familiar songs I put on some of the very first Cerpts Tapes I ever made for my Doddy Cheeks back in 1985.  This is a handful of songs from 2 of the 3 first Dr. Demento records I ever had (before getting the Dr. Demento Novelty Record vinyl box set around the same time (but these three records shown above I got in the very early 1980's).  Don't worry -- the FIRST Dr. Demento record will feature on an upcoming Cerpts CD!