Do you still have that Mad record?

I remembar that...
I may still have that down in the garage

When I met Nathan, he had a very nice Sony stereo system with a 5 disk CD player in his dorm room. During a visit to Colorado, I noticed that his nice stereo system had a piece missing from it that had never been taken out of its packaging. :eek:

Once we moved into our first house we hooked up the brand new record player its slightly used stereo mates. I dragged my vinyl out of storage and had fun spinning records for the first time in a few years. When we moved out of that house, the record palyer went back into storage. :(

Yup. Separated at birth, you and he.

Super! Spectacular!

What was on the B side?

The MAD record (which I no longer have) did not have a B side. It was one of those flimsy paper-thin flexi-discs, which used to show up in magazines fairly often. (They often advised that the user place a penny or other weight on the record when setting it on the turntable, to prevent slippage.)

Anyway, even though I have not heard that stupid record since sometime in the late Seventies, I still remember the tune, and the words. The song went like this:

"It's a great big beautiful wonderful incredible
Super Spectacular Day
And your heart is humming with good times coming
And you've got that lovely feeling things are going your way
All those bells are ringing and a little bird singing as he sits on your windowsill
Saying 'yesiree, I can plainly see, it will surely be, most definitely
A Super Spectacular Day....UNTIL..."

Then, the various alternate endings give reasons why it turns out not to be such a super spectacular day after all. I don't remember any of these, as I only heard them once (not even all of them). But I do remember one of them began with the phrase "You develop a twitch and a horrible itch." You get the idea.

Oh man, I have a little case of the small Disney records still stocked away. I also own a stereo with a record player. Of course, it's the stereo that's sitting in a rubbermaid bin at my mom's house...

Stupid earthquake killed the LCD, so I can't see to tune the radio anymore. But I keep hoping someday to have a place big enough to set this all up and have my records. They just don't make classics like the "It's a Small World" story anymore.

I, sadly, haven't owned a record player in many years. However, every time I move, I still lug 4 large crates or records with me. There is just no way that I would get rid of them. I should really make an investment so that I can transfer them to disc. I have lots of old stuff that will probably never be released on CD.

When we moved to California from NY, the bulkiest (as far as weight and volume) thing we lugged was my record collection - a few thousand lps and over 2k singles. The next time we move, I intend to have pared down my collection to something I can afford to move. My sister is a jazz singer and she's married to a professional musician, so I'll probably give them the bulk of my collection, it's so much better than bringing them to Amoeba and being treated like a junkie.

I'll probably wind up ebaying a bunch of my swankier dupes (I have all of the Esquivel RCAs and more Mancini than you could shake a stick at - but why would you shake a stick at Mancini anyway?).

At this point, my turntable is plugged directly into my G5. I still can't believe no one has collected the Bobby Darin Decca tracks on CD...

I have a record player hooked up to my system, but I rarely use it. Long, long ago I sold off most of my LPs so that I could, um, ya know, eat.

When I got my record player a couple years back after like an 8-year period without one, I rushed to my remaining record collection of about a hundred LPs to play anything I didn't have on CD. Turns out I have only about a dozen records that I did not re-purchase on compact disc! D'oh!

:iSm: (I do have that weird Monty Python 3-sided record though, and I keep the other LPs around pretty much just for the sake of the album art, I guess.)