MAD Magazine "Fink Along With Mad" (Big Top, 12-1306, 1962)
The second of two MAD LPs released on Big Top, this gem was written and produced by Norm Blagman & Sam Bobrick, and performed by Jeanne Hayes, Mike Russo & The Dellwoods (seems that the sax solo on “It’s A Gas” was even played by Mr. King Curtis!). A few of these songs were also issued as cardboard records in the mag in ’62 (a tradition that continued with Eva-Tone sheets til the 80’s. I can still sing every damn version of the 1980 “It’s a Super Spectacular Day” flexi thanks to a foolish decision to tape record all 8 endings in a row. Man, it took forever to get that last one.)
Back to 1962, this vinyl rip is from a friend (at 160 kbps), but since I’ve been playing it over & over this weekend I figured the time was right to share it all the same. There’s some catchy Teen-Pop/ R+R on here, and I’m sure that the social anxiety humor (roundly eclipsed by more counter-cultural forces a little later in the decade) served an important function for weirdo youth. Oh, and it’s phunny.
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Cool, thanks!
(and the next time my band is in Cleveland I’ll do my best to take you up on that beer)
I grew up in the Carthay Circle section of L.A. and Sam Bobrick was our next door neighbor. He also wrote “It’s a Gas”…I used to watch Winchell Mahoney time at his house. Cool to see this, had no idea he wrote this one too.
Wow! That’s pretty damn cool. The same team (Blagman/ Bobrick) wrote the earlier Big Top/ MAD lp as well.
Here’s a (non-audio) link. Anyone have this to share?
Thanks for this, I’ve always wanted to hear this stuff. As a kid I had Mad Disco and the Super Spetacular Day flexi. Since you went to the hard work of isolating all the individual endings, can you post those as well. In fact, please post any other Mad recordings you have. I can’t get enough.
Oh, that tape is (sadly) long, long gone. All of the endings were included on the Totally MAD CD Rom that came out a few years back though, so maybe you can scare one of those up.
I had the super spectacular flexi-disc as well……if anyone knows of a mp3 copy it would be much appreciated.
I did manage to find a partial .iso file from the totally mad cd series…..all 8 versions were there…..low grade wav form tho….if anyone wants it leave a post here…ill check back.
Yessir, I’d love to hear them again; lo-fi is a-okay with me.
Um… This link took me to the RapidShare site. Sorry I came in late, but I hate to miss this one…
Ok these are 128kb mono mp3’s (all 8 endings) i had to post to angelfire, hope this works…i really hate angelfire…..Enjoy
http://www.angelfire.com/mi3/mi22/ssdmad.zip
ok lets try this again
http://www.angelfire.com
/mi3/mi22/ssdmad.zip
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Totally fantastic! I’m gonna up this into the main section — thanks a lot!
Well, I was compiling a set of Mother’s Day CDs and from Mason William’s Classical Gas, I recalled Alfred E. Newman’s “It’s a Gas” — so thanks for posting it — and all the other cool stuff! My early education was all Mad Magazine and Superman. I can even remember the night my brother and I fought over the Mad Magazine with the black plastic insert of “It’s a Gas” on the way to get ice cream with Dad. Laughing along with “It’s a Gas” was one of the few things my brother and I did which wasn’t fighting!
Jeez, I feel old!
Jason, You have a band?
You have some esplainin’ to do!
If you can give me some mp3s, I can post them in my blog. My Speciality for the Fink Along with Mad album, and by the way, I linked this page from my blog!
It would be outtasight, groovy, even, if someone arose with a Mad Magazine flexi-disc from the mid 1960s titled “She Got a Nose Job.”
A wonderful titty whose words I still partially recall;
“She gotta’ nose job she gotta’ nose job now it’s turned up instead of hangin’ down.
She gotta’ nose job she gotta’ nose job….now she’s the prettiest gal in town… nose job”
Such fine music about a pertinent topic.
obbop: You can actually find that song here on the full MAD lp “MAD Twists Rock n Roll” (hosted by PCL Linkdump). Enjoy!