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Outsider Music
Ahhh....Another peaceful Sunday morning. Time to put on some nice, relaxing easy going music. Right?Well I'm having none of it. It's time to crank it up full blast and wake up the neighbours with some...
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Holy Toledo!
Photo: Katie Rausch/The Toledo BladeMeet Opal Covey.She's running for mayor of Toledo, OH.Well, actually it's kind of a long story. You see, according to Opal Covey, she is supposed to be mayor of...
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The JFK Memorial Albums
In the sudden aftermath of the Kennedy assassination. a flurry of tribute albums to JFK were released.Several labels participated, but it was mostly the budget labels, such as Synthetic Plastics...
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Rodney Allen Rippy
In 1973, Jack In The Box ran a TV commercial for it's Jumbo Jack burger featuring a cute little kid named Rodney Allen Rippy, who held the Jumbo Jack in his hands and said "It's too big to eat!". But...
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Children's Disco Musical Stories (Venus, 1988)
It's not every day you run into disco versions of children's stories, especially South Asian ones. And one made eight years after disco fizzled out in America. But this cassette really exists. Listen...
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Bottoms Up
One of the many politically incorrect drinking board games of the 1960s and '70s, Bottoms Up was a game produced by Colt 45 malt liquor.The object was to accumulate 30 credits, thereby completing one...
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Wheelee Board
The Wheelee Board (1977) unquestionably was the oddest skateboard. Ever.With six wheels and a plastic board with the rear wheels set at an angle, it was designed for tricks. I haven't had much personal...
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Horrifying Vintage Meal Ideas: Halloween Edition
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K-Tel Golf King
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Danka Toaster Pastries
Danka was a tragically named breakfast pastry for toasters that existed in the late 1960s and early '70s.From the advertising, Danka was for your square, sensible middle aged person who wanted their...
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"Dancing In The Dark" Bruce Springsteen (12" Extended Remix, 1984)
It seemed like a good idea.But Bruce Springsteen's music (and this song in particular) is the type that utterly clashed with the general type of the R&B infected New Wavy dance music that was...
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Reveal See Thru Roasting Wrap
Here's something you probably need this Thanksgiving that you'll also need a time machine to buy.Reveal See Thru Roasting Wrap was a hybrid foil/plastic wrap product of Colgate/Palmolive of the 1970s....
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The W.C. Fields Battery Tester
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Frozen Sodas
Ooooooh....What's this?Chills & Thills was a cherry and orange flavoured (artificially of course) frozen soda concentrate made from 1967-68 that was apparently targeted to those hip young people...
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"TV" The Judy's (1981)
A lost indie pop classic, "TV" was a song by The Judy's, Texas' (Pearland, specifically) most famous New Wave band.This song got airplay on some wavy Seattle radio stations and this was where I first...
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L'eggs, L'aura & L'erin
Somewhere suspiciously next the ubiquitous L'eggs pantyhose display stand in any supermarket of the early '80 was the L'erin cosmetics stand.Most people already figured this was a natural place to put...
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"Like A Rolling Stone" The Living Voices (1966)
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Duz and Bonus Laundry Detergent
Once upon a time, you could buy a box of laundry detergent and get something really useful out of it besides a plastic scoop.And during the 1950s and '60s, there was such a detergent. In fact, a few of...
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Dark Shadows Barnabas' Music Box
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"Here Come The Judge" Pigmeat Markham (1968)
Whether or not this is the very first ever true rap song, a jury of hip-hop scholars will probably forever be out. But this is widely considered to be the earliest known prototype of the genre.Dewey...
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