K-Tel's Bigfoot Snowshoes
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View ArticleSanto Gold
It's 1985 and you're flipping through the late night TV channels, looking for a late movie or some kind of background noise to do whatever else. And you land on some crazy local UHF TV channel. Which...
View Article"Relaxation" The John Howard Abdnor Involvement (1969)
Listen hereSomewhere at the intersection of Dora Hall,Ā Kit Ream andĀ How To Blow Your Mind And Have A Freak Out Party sits this album.Unknown artist on a record label owned by family? Check. Incoherent,...
View ArticleFurr (Magna-Glide, 1977)
Who was Furr?We still don't know. But from the knee-high go-go boots, coloured spandex pants, sequined trench coats and bad face makeup. I'm guessing we're dealing with a "If Peter Criss can do it, we...
View ArticleDance The Slurp (1967)
Side BThis was a promo 45 that was given away with the purchase of a Slurpee at 7-Eleven stores in 1967.Visit History's Dumpster on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HistorysDumpster
View ArticleSeptember 23, 2015....Did You Miss It?.....
....so did the rest of us.Apparently, there was supposed to be a meteor or an asteroid crashing into planet Earth. And God and his angels would blow their trumpets and we'll all be treated to the end...
View ArticleChipmunk Punk (Excelsior/Pickwick, 1980)
In the late 1970s, it seemed likeĀ The Chipmunks franchise was all but dead.Ross Bagdasarian Sr., the Chipmunks creator had passed away in 1972 and aside from various licensed holiday repackagings for...
View ArticleName Brand Knockoff Mania!
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View Article"Up With People" Up With People (1965)
When I was a kid, I hated this record. Like smash this record to atoms, melt it into an unrecognizable blob, jump on it, toss it into a woodchipper, melt it back down into another blob, toss it into a...
View Article10-10 Dial-Around Numbers
In the late 1990s, before cell phone service became affordable and nearly ubiquitous for nearly everyone, there were dozens of phone numbers offering super cheap long distance and other gimmicks via a...
View ArticleBefore They Were Stars: Billy Joel
In 1970, just three years before his solo commercial breakthrough with Piano Man, Billy Joel released a psychedelic hard rock album on Epic Records with partner Jon Smalls under the name Attila. With...
View ArticleWing Over America
Her name is Wing. Wing Han Tsang, to be exact. She's from Hong Kong by way of New Zealand and she's gonna rock your world.....You might have heard of Wing from an episode of South Park (they dedicated...
View ArticleSix Star Factory Outlet Stores
Hello Dumpster Divers,My kitty, Mr. Smokey GatoSorry for the lack of action, I'm caring for a terminally ill kitty right now. Mr. Smokey Gato has feline cancer and it's advanced. He is getting weaker...
View Article"Please Don't Ask Me To Go Away/With Every Beat of My Heart" Shawn (1971)
It's like this; You remember an old record and you finally drop everything and go on a mission.The record in question came to our family in a box of 45s my uncle gave my mom. He worked for an amusement...
View ArticleAttention Kmart Shoppers
"OK, I have to admit this is a strange collection. In the late 1980's and early 1990's, I worked for Kmart behind the service desk and the store played specific pre-recordedĀ cassettes issued by...
View ArticlePlastic Man
From reader/contributor Amber Walsh of Everett, WA"Seen this at Grocery Outlet today... It's called Plastic Man and looks like Michael Jackson... I laughed so hard I almost fell over...."Photo courtesy...
View ArticleThe Ethel Merman Disco Album (A&M, 1979)
There are some records you just can't make up even if you tried.Whoever thought combining an aging Broadway singer like a then 71 year old Ethel Merman, who's star had largely faded by this time and...
View Article"When I Looked At Your Face" Jodie Foster (1977)
1977 French Single Sleeve1977 German Single Sleeve1978 German Reissue SleeveThis single was only released in Europe, where she was living at the time and she starred in the French movie Moi, fleure...
View ArticleK-Tel's Krazy Katch
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