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!
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!