Not sure if you are familiar with Michael Shelley on WFMU. Several years ago, for his promo giveaway he had current artists cover 70s music and packaged it like your bubble gum album. https://youtu.be/ugCIWENzdY0
It amazed me at the time, and still does that two songs about getting head: "Yummy Yummy, Yummy" & "Chewy Chewy, "were top ten hits. Much more blatant about subject content than "My Boy Lollypop." My earliest memory of novelty tunes was hearing Sheb Wooley's "Purple People Eater" on my parent's car radio.
K-Tel's repackages were the best. I still regret not ordering one of Wolfman Jack's "Fantastic 48 Hits" package that he advertised on XERF in the sixties. He would exclaim that he would include a "free picture of Jessus Christ that glows in the dark if you ordered now!"
Very cool "rememberies," Dan! What couldn't help enter my noggin as I watched/heard the K-Tel ad was the Credibility Gap's early '70s audio parody, "16 Golden Bits"! If I may, I think you'll dig it...it'll help to know, too, that the Gap was an early '70s L.A.-based comedy troupe, most of whom later leapt to the screen as Spinal Tap, and other classic comedies, and their Harry Shearer went on to become all the non-Simpsons voices on "The Simpsons"! Here 'tis (ignore The Kings album cover used as the only visual): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLD1rywXMJk
Credibility Gap: David Lander, Shearer, Michael McKean, and Richard Beebe
Love me some bubblegum! Glad your buddy's mom had your back with it, lol.
Not sure if you are familiar with Michael Shelley on WFMU. Several years ago, for his promo giveaway he had current artists cover 70s music and packaged it like your bubble gum album. https://youtu.be/ugCIWENzdY0
That Trashmen clip is amazing. And Clark's whole attitude drips of "well, this is the last time I'll ever be seeing you, so good luck!"
It amazed me at the time, and still does that two songs about getting head: "Yummy Yummy, Yummy" & "Chewy Chewy, "were top ten hits. Much more blatant about subject content than "My Boy Lollypop." My earliest memory of novelty tunes was hearing Sheb Wooley's "Purple People Eater" on my parent's car radio.
K-Tel's repackages were the best. I still regret not ordering one of Wolfman Jack's "Fantastic 48 Hits" package that he advertised on XERF in the sixties. He would exclaim that he would include a "free picture of Jessus Christ that glows in the dark if you ordered now!"
Very cool "rememberies," Dan! What couldn't help enter my noggin as I watched/heard the K-Tel ad was the Credibility Gap's early '70s audio parody, "16 Golden Bits"! If I may, I think you'll dig it...it'll help to know, too, that the Gap was an early '70s L.A.-based comedy troupe, most of whom later leapt to the screen as Spinal Tap, and other classic comedies, and their Harry Shearer went on to become all the non-Simpsons voices on "The Simpsons"! Here 'tis (ignore The Kings album cover used as the only visual): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLD1rywXMJk
Credibility Gap: David Lander, Shearer, Michael McKean, and Richard Beebe