Mad Magazine – What, Me Worry? – LPs ‘Musically Mad’ and ‘Mad ‘Twists’ Rock ‘n’ Roll’ Plus Bonus Tracks
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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 humor 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.
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 humor 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.
Track Listing
1. MEET THE STAFF OF MAD
2. POTRZEBIE
3. WHAT - ME WORRY?
4. CONCERTO FOR TWO HANDS
5. MORGAN ON "THE MIKADO"
6. ANVILS, OF COURSE
7. MAD FANS' SQUARE DANCE
8. THE SKATER AND HIS DOG
9. GUNSMIRK SUITE
10. MORGAN ON WAGNER
11. THE GREEN BEE
12. ALFRED IN THE CIRCUS
13. GIVE ME THAT GOOD OLD PROGRESSIVE JAZZ
14. CLINKERATED CHIMES
15. TWO GUITARS, A BANJO AND A MANDOLIN
16. LAUGHING RAYMOND
17. (Let's Do) THE PRETZEL (And End Up Looking Like One)
18. AGNES (The Teenage Russian Spy)
19. (She Got A) NOSE JOB
20. (Throwing The) HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAME
21. PLEASE, BETTY JANE (Shave Your Legs)
22. SOMEONE ELSE'S DANDRUFF (On My Lover-Baby's Shirt)
23. BLIND DATE (Yaaaaaaahhh!)
24. (Even If I Live To Be 22) I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER BEING YOUNG
25. (He Fell In Love With Me) WHEN MY PIMPLES TURNED TO DIMPLES
26. SHE'S A SERIOUS (Yeah, Yeah) TEENAGER IN LOVE
27. (All I Have Left Is) MY JOHNNY'S HUB CAP
28. (I Found Her Telephone Number) WRITTEN ON THE BOYS' BATHROOM WALL
29. IT'S A GAS
30. SHE LETS ME WATCH HER MOM AND POP FIGHT
