Release Date: 02 December 2022
Label: Jasmine Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 604988275421
Genres: Easy Listening Vocal
Description
Mad Magazine was incorporated in 1952 and throughout its existence, maintained its status as a benchmark of comedic and satirical excellence, eventually biting the dust in 2018.
The Simpsons' producer Bill Oakley later observed: "Basically, everyone who was young between 1955 and 1975 read MAD, and that's where your sense of humour came from."
Over the decades, MAD occasionally dabbled in spinoff musical projects; this unique compilation anthologises its earliest such excursions, a couple of which barely qualify as "musical", but nonetheless appeared as flexi-discs, given away with the mag.
It comprises two LPs, "Musically MAD" and "MAD "Twists" Rock'n'Roll", plus a handful of bonus tracks, which includes regular 45rpms ('What, Me Worry?'; 'Let's Do The Pretzel') and flexis ('She Lets Me Watch Her Mom And Pop Fight').
These recordings are as rare as rocking horse manure, many of these sides having never previously appeared in the digital format.
Tracklisting
The Mighty Sparrow
Skip James
Ricky Valance
Ethel Waters
Gene & Eunice
Harold Burrage
Bill Carlisle & The Carlisles
Alberta Slim
