It's the weekend which it's time for reruns Halloween Revisited where we revisit past years' posts while I take a break. Today's comes from 2013.
It's always fun to find something extra in the items I buy at garage and estate sales. Usually, I find them in in books, entrapped for years in the dark of the pages. It might be a pressed flower, a four-leaf clover, lost love notes or even hidden tardy slips. Over the summer I even found two $2 bills tucked inside a CB jargon book.
I was at an estate sale a couple of weeks back and found a few Halloween records. One was "Sounds to Make You Shiver" by Pickwick Records published in 1974.
I already had 2 copies of this record, but I make it a point to grab any Halloween-themed records I find. That way you can match up the best record with the best sleeve, etc.
When I pulled the sleeve and record out at home, I noticed something just barely sticking out of the sleeve. Pulling it out, I discovered it was this:
Looking inside the sleeve, I found 3 more:
Around Halloween of 1977, Burger Chef released 6 Monster Fun Record flexi-discs as a premium with their Funmeal. The records were vocal stories of Burger Chef & Jeff helping the monstrous residents of their world in solving their problems. To be honest, it was mostly Burger Chef solving the problems; Jeff mainly stood around saying, "Incrediburgible, Burger Chef!". Featuring a cast with such names as Cackelburger, Crankenburger, Wolfburger, and Fangburger, The Burger Chef family tree would appear to be slightly ingrown.
The records were a set of 6. I just happened to already have the two that weren't in the sleeve.
I actually had "The Ghost of Grizzly Mountain" as a child. Burger Chef was one of the few places my family would go for fast food and I have great memories of eating there (you might have guessed given my blog avatar).
Being certain someone out in the ether had already ripped these tracks, I was going to include links to them. I couldn't find a definitive location for a collection of all tracks, so I set out to remedy that. Below are rips from my personal collection. Enjoy and have an Incrediburgible Halloween!
**2025 Update*** The site I originally hosted these on is shutdown, so I've replaced my original rips with these from Youtube.
i had forgotten about this post, and these records. count me in as a person who tucked related ephemera into books and record sleeves. maybe someday someone will find my things like this.
SIDE QUESTION: have you seen the new Muppet Monster Cereal boxes? i confess i am underwhelmed from a designer standpoint. For once, i feel there's too much white space -- the monsters needs to be much, much bigger on them!
ohhhh, see how i am? judging a box by its cover. didn't even consider the back. Now i'll have to look the next time. but come on... if the cover sucks, nobody will ever even SEE the back. I also noticed the Muppet factory completely ignored the push to make Carmella a regular thing. I liked hers well enough, but it was clearly Apple Jacks with a caramel note.
i had forgotten about this post, and these records. count me in as a person who tucked related ephemera into books and record sleeves. maybe someday someone will find my things like this.
ReplyDeleteSIDE QUESTION: have you seen the new Muppet Monster Cereal boxes? i confess i am underwhelmed from a designer standpoint. For once, i feel there's too much white space -- the monsters needs to be much, much bigger on them!
Seen AND eaten. I'm not wowed, but not disappointed either. There is a lot of white on the front, but the back of the box makes up for it.
Deleteohhhh, see how i am? judging a box by its cover. didn't even consider the back. Now i'll have to look the next time. but come on... if the cover sucks, nobody will ever even SEE the back. I also noticed the Muppet factory completely ignored the push to make Carmella a regular thing. I liked hers well enough, but it was clearly Apple Jacks with a caramel note.
DeleteYeah, I thought they would make Carmella a rotating regular at least, but we didn't get Yummy Mummy, Fruit Brute or her this year.
Deletei still miss Fruit Brute :' (
DeleteI love weird rare finds like these. Kudos for salvaging some!
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