Ohhhh man, talk about a walk down memory lane. This, K-Tel's Kooky Kountry, and a 20 or 22 song nursery rhyme record (it had a big rabbit on the cover walking with two little kids) was the extent of my record collection when I was 7-9 yrs old. Dang it! I wish my mom had not gotten rid of them....
Amazing to see this!! My mum and dad bought this on vinyl for me when I was about 6 and I used to bounce up and down to 'the red baron'. Great memories. Thanks for posting this :-)
As a 5 year old, this was my favorite album. As a 35 year old it was up there too, but sadly, I lost it somewhere along the way (a rare copy, signed by my sister so she wouldn't lose it at school). I still rock out to Surfin' Bird.
Pretty cool! I was looking to see if someone posted the album on YT and found a VH1 episode called One Hit Wonders Goofy Greats hosted by Bill Shatner!
Polka Dot Bikini,Alley Oop. and the Gitarzan song were my favorites from this album that ended up broken in a million pieces[no body in the house knew how it happend] and Im still ticked off about that to this day.
"40 Funky Hits" was released in 1974 by Longines Symphonette, shortly before that company went out of business. I used to have that album on 8-track tapes, and I played the hell out of them-loved those funny songs. I also own "Goofy Greats", "Looney Tunes", "Kooky Toones", and a few other novelty-record collections, and I since found another copy of "40 Funky Hits" on vinyl. I put most of these songs on my iTunes. These songs do bring back teenage memories.
I think I still have it....In the states , "Forty Funky Hits" was the BOMB , then , later , this , "Fun Rock" , "Dumb Ditties " , etc. later came out. I did'nt have "Forty Funky Hits " when it came out , so this was my methadone , as it has some , but not all , of the best tracks that are on 40FH. "Gitarzan" is on the cover , but , not on the album. Pity.
i'm trying to go through all of the videos on here for all the silly songs and dumb ditties so I can get some of the ones I used to listen to and get them on rhapsody totally had to get Cheech & Chong's Sister Mary Elephant does anybody remember that I love that song lol
Remember my best mate's sister having this in the 1970's Good god !!! hearing some of these songs again for the first time in 40 odd years is SUCH a time machine. Utterly great memories. We used to store all our "records" in a "K-Tel record selector", that used to let your albums flop forward one at a time until you found the one you were looking for..... utter tat, but its funny the things that you remember !!!
On a "Single album"? Mine was a double LP. Here in Canada anyways. 24 tracks. Sounds like the anti-skate on your arm needs adjustment, if your turntable has adj.
I still have my copy too. I wish I could show it to you so you'd see what I mean. The album in this ad is different than mine! It has the same jacket, same title, and same amount of songs, but not all the songs are the same! Mine doesn't have Ya Ya, Wooly Bully, Georgie Porgie, Purple People Eater, or Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop, and this one doesn't seem to have Mah-nah Mah-nah, See You Later Alligator, or a few others that mine does.
really? how odd maybe because of where the album was released mine has the first songs you mentioned but not the ones on your version so difference being i bought mine here in Canada maybe?
Yeah, one album. Half the songs were butchered, like I said.They tried to fit 12 songs on one side! Seriously! I didn't even know that "Chewy Chewy" had a second verse or that "Alley-Oop" had a longer ending until I heard the original unedited recordings of these songs years later! And that's just 2 examples! Thanks for the advice, but it wasn't my tone arm or needle that was causing the skipping, it's the record. You can see the cheap grade of vinyl they used on some sections of the record.
I had this album, first album I owned. It was a double album - 12 songs on each record, so no K-Tel did not push any boundaries, for 10 to 12 songs on a record was about normal.
We had this when I was a kid & had hours of fun with it! I got it again from a 2nd-hand store a few years back, it's scratched up pretty bad! Still, I play it now & then, and the best song on it is the 1st 1 featured here, "Yummy yummy yummy". It's an old cheesy 60s tune, but somehow it's oh-so catchy!
@mgushulak Apparently, there is more than one version of "Goofy Greats" This single album with this cover in this vid is the one I have. I was just on another vid though of a commercial for "Goofy Greats" it had a different cover and at least one different song. "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose it's Flavor" was on that one, but it's not on mine. I still have the original 45 rpm "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose it's Flavor" though so I think I have all the bases covered :)
i received 'goofy greats' as a gift when it first came out. i feel certain it was a two-record set. i traded it away at a store called 'the stereo swap shop', on osborne avenue, only a few years after having received it. only a few short years (or less) after having traded it away i regretted having traded it.
Far as I recall, Goofy Greats was a single album. However, there was another collection of novelty songs that came out shortly thereafter called "Goofy Gold" and that was a 2-record set.
@Oldiesmann OK, the one in this vid is the one I have, I'm pretty certain I have the names of each song memorized cuz I've listened to it a million times. I have the vid of the other one open in another tab, the following songs are NOT on this one: Charlie Brown, Hairy Hairy Ape, Purple People Eater, Monster Mash, Does Your Chewing Gum, of the ones the advertise. A few are on this one like Alley Oop (I think) and I'm sure Bread and Butter is. I love 'em all anyway, prolly have the 45's still
Yeah , some of those comps were better than others....I did'nt even think of some of those tunes as being funny or "Novelty" songs, like "Loop De Loop" (Which I Iiked) or "The Birds and The Bees" (Which I hated , MUSH ! Ha Ha.)....But , "40 Funky Hits" had non - novelties like "Six Days onThe Road" , "Dirty Water "", etc.
***** My theory is in the famous episode of "It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown" (That's shown every Halloween on TV) Snoopy takes on the Red Baron and falls behind Germany lines after being shot down in the cartoon..
I have the "Goofy Greats" album too. I love the song selection, but I have a couple of problems with the album that really bug me. First of all, they butchered half the songs just to fit them all on a single album. Second, I've had two copies of the same album, and both were made of such crappy vinyl that the phonograph tone arm skips through half the record and gets stuck repeat...repeat....repeat.....repeat.....repeat......repeat....repeating the other half!
I have this album! Or rather, I have some other version of it. It's a two-disc set with 28 songs, and several of the ones played in this commercial are _not_ included in my copy. Save name, same cover, different selection. Go figure. I've had it since I was twelve, and I'll keep it to my dying day. :D
I have an 8-track of this album. By the way, the version of Ahab the Arab is not the original from 1962. It's a remake from 1969. Many Ray Stevens collections use this version instead. How ironic that K-Tel later became known for issuing lots of remakes!
Interesting! They must've changed something between the time they made this commercial and when they produced the Tape/LP. I have the tape in front of me and there is NO song by the Nashville Cats, nor does "Please Mr. Custar" by Larry Bird appear either! Thanks for posting this original, hard to find commercial! Almost forgot! The commercial uses the re-recorded Barnaby Records version of "Ahab the Arab" while the tape uses the original Mercury Records version
Follow up! The 8-track purports only 18 songs and there are TWO versions of the tape. One with a green background, and one with a fleshy-pink coloured background. Completely different song lists on either.
12 tracks per side?! Yeah, that would explain the skating. Kate Hell lp's were infamous for shite quality and poor sound. You can 't ram 12 cuts on a single side-that's nuts. I still have mine and, despite some scratches, still sounds not bad sonically. Not great but split over 2 lps, it actually has some grooves! lol
My brother ordered this record when I was really little. I had no idea how it would work it's way into my psyche. On the rare occasion I hear any one of these songs, I immediately recognize it as a GG track. I seem to recall the commercial playing Saturday mornings or after school. (Maybe that's because the animation reminds me a little of Schoolhouse Rock.)
This takes me back ...I had this on cassette as a kid in the 70’s 😍😍
Announcer is Winnipeg disc jockey Bob Washington, parodied on SCTV by Dave Thomas as "Harvey K-Tel."
we couldn't afford all the K-Tel albums but i went to my friends to listen to this about a dozen times sleep overs on Friday nights..those great 70's
I used to record my favorite songs from the album (speakers) to my Radio Shack Cassette-Corder
@@jamespfitz .....Didn't you just hate it when you had to sneeze in the middle of a song and the recorder picked it up. 🤣
@@jpolar394 Or when my brothers and sisters were screaming in the background when I was trying to record television theme songs on my tape recorder
@@theloneviking9145
Haha yeah
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I picked up this and the Goofy Greats album not too long ago at a thrift shop...50 cents each! Good stuff!
Love it
Ohhhh man, talk about a walk down memory lane. This, K-Tel's Kooky Kountry, and a 20 or 22 song nursery rhyme record (it had a big rabbit on the cover walking with two little kids) was the extent of my record collection when I was 7-9 yrs old. Dang it! I wish my mom had not gotten rid of them....
This was the first album I ever owned. I used to jump around on my mum's bed singing along to Bloody Red Baron lol. Thanks for sharing
That's what made it a true Goofy Great.
Amazing to see this!! My mum and dad bought this on vinyl for me when I was about 6 and I used to bounce up and down to 'the red baron'. Great memories. Thanks for posting this :-)
This was one of my first albums....my parents almost didn't buy it because "buying stuff from the TV is always a rip-off!" 1975ish?
My copy (which I still have) has 28 tracks... _Limited Collector Edition_
Had Goofy Greats on 8-Track back in the mid 70s
BRILLIANT cartoon marketing..
TY Mr.Kives there are MANY lessons taken away from K-Tel..
Rest well my fellow Canadian..
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As a 5 year old, this was my favorite album. As a 35 year old it was up there too, but sadly, I lost it somewhere along the way (a rare copy, signed by my sister so she wouldn't lose it at school). I still rock out to Surfin' Bird.
Peter Griffin also rocks out on Surfin' Bird.
Pretty cool! I was looking to see if someone posted the album on YT and found a VH1 episode called One Hit Wonders Goofy Greats hosted by Bill Shatner!
Mine was a little different. Instead of Simon Says, it had 1-2-3-Red Light. And there were seven tracks on each side instead of six.
"Available at all Woolworth and Woolco stores . . . "
Bought this for my mother's birthday back in the day.
She absolutely loved it.
I remember having this album. Great collection of novely tunes.
Polka Dot Bikini,Alley Oop. and the Gitarzan song were my favorites from this album that ended up broken in a million pieces[no body in the house knew how it happend] and Im still ticked off about that to this day.
uh 3 of those songs were not on my copy hmmm
"40 Funky Hits" was released in 1974 by Longines Symphonette, shortly before that company went out of business. I used to have that album on 8-track tapes, and I played the hell out of them-loved those funny songs. I also own "Goofy Greats", "Looney Tunes", "Kooky Toones", and a few other novelty-record collections, and I since found another copy of "40 Funky Hits" on vinyl. I put most of these songs on my iTunes. These songs do bring back teenage memories.
in Australia it was 20 tracks
I think I still have it....In the states , "Forty Funky Hits" was the BOMB , then , later , this , "Fun Rock" , "Dumb Ditties " , etc. later came out. I did'nt have "Forty Funky Hits " when it came out , so this was my methadone , as it has some , but not all , of the best tracks that are on 40FH. "Gitarzan" is on the cover , but , not on the album. Pity.
i'm trying to go through all of the videos on here for all the silly songs and dumb ditties so I can get some of the ones I used to listen to and get them on rhapsody
totally had to get Cheech & Chong's Sister Mary Elephant does anybody remember that I love that song lol
5,99? Expensive!!!! This is like 100 dollars
Have you heard the word?
Remember my best mate's sister having this in the 1970's Good god !!! hearing some of these songs again for the first time in 40 odd years is SUCH a time machine. Utterly great memories.
We used to store all our "records" in a "K-Tel record selector", that used to let your albums flop forward one at a time until you found the one you were looking for..... utter tat, but its funny the things that you remember !!!
On a "Single album"?
Mine was a double LP.
Here in Canada anyways.
24 tracks.
Sounds like the anti-skate on your arm needs adjustment, if your turntable has adj.
I remember this ad, but the version I remember had They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha and Beans In My Ears and On Top Of Spaghetti.
I still have my copy too. I wish I could show it to you so you'd see what I mean. The album in this ad is different than mine! It has the same jacket, same title, and same amount of songs, but not all the songs are the same! Mine doesn't have Ya Ya, Wooly Bully, Georgie Porgie, Purple People Eater, or Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop, and this one doesn't seem to have Mah-nah Mah-nah, See You Later Alligator, or a few others that mine does.
really? how odd maybe because of where the album was released mine has the first songs you mentioned but not the ones on your version so difference being i bought mine here in Canada maybe?
or possibly different releases?
@@THEmaggspie - Very possible, different countries did tend to have different selections in one album. Once had a US copy of this (NU 9030).
So, you just went to the K-Tel website and downloaded these onto your iPod ???
Wow, that must have been neat in the olden days.
LOL
i have this on 8-track!! brings back lots of memories!!
Yeah, one album. Half the songs were butchered, like I said.They tried to fit 12 songs on one side! Seriously! I didn't even know that "Chewy Chewy" had a second verse or that "Alley-Oop" had a longer ending until I heard the original unedited recordings of these songs years later! And that's just 2 examples! Thanks for the advice, but it wasn't my tone arm or needle that was causing the skipping, it's the record. You can see the cheap grade of vinyl they used on some sections of the record.
I swear this sounds like game show announcer johnny olson doing this commercial.
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We used to have the 8 track, lots of fun! A winnipeger eh? Cool!
They could fit 24 songs on one album? Wow, K-Tel was really pushing the boundaries of technology back then.
And they used to cut some of the song short just to fit them all in
Leonard A Berg For some of those songs, it was probably an improvement! :D
I had this album, first album I owned. It was a double album - 12 songs on each record, so no K-Tel did not push any boundaries, for 10 to 12 songs on a record was about normal.
David Cooper I still have it to this day no songs cut short here
yeah my record from 1976 has ALL the songs on one album!
First issue had more songs, 2nd version had less songs.
Wow-this brings back childhood memories!
Play this at the slowest speed and the announcer sounds drunk as a skunk. hahaha
I had this record. Played the he'll out of it.
I found this record today at Rock & Roll Heaven, my local record store. :D
We had this when I was a kid & had hours of fun with it! I got it again from a 2nd-hand store a few years back, it's scratched up pretty bad! Still, I play it now & then, and the best song on it is the 1st 1 featured here, "Yummy yummy yummy". It's an old cheesy 60s tune, but somehow it's oh-so catchy!
Remember this ad from the 70s
Better than Led Zeppelin 4
@mgushulak Apparently, there is more than one version of "Goofy Greats" This single album with this cover in this vid is the one I have. I was just on another vid though of a commercial for "Goofy Greats" it had a different cover and at least one different song. "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose it's Flavor" was on that one, but it's not on mine. I still have the original 45 rpm "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose it's Flavor" though so I think I have all the bases covered :)
i received 'goofy greats' as a gift when it first came out. i feel certain it was a two-record set.
i traded it away at a store called 'the stereo swap shop', on osborne avenue, only a few years after having received it. only a few short years (or less) after having traded it away i regretted having traded it.
Far as I recall, Goofy Greats was a single album. However, there was another collection of novelty songs that came out shortly thereafter called "Goofy Gold" and that was a 2-record set.
@@howardbeale661 i feel absolutely certain it was entitled 'goofy greats' and so it must have been just a single lp.
thnx for reply
@Oldiesmann OK, the one in this vid is the one I have, I'm pretty certain I have the names of each song memorized cuz I've listened to it a million times. I have the vid of the other one open in another tab, the following songs are NOT on this one: Charlie Brown, Hairy Hairy Ape, Purple People Eater, Monster Mash, Does Your Chewing Gum, of the ones the advertise. A few are on this one like Alley Oop (I think) and I'm sure Bread and Butter is. I love 'em all anyway, prolly have the 45's still
great memories
How goofy!
Yeah , some of those comps were better than others....I did'nt even think of some of those tunes as being funny or "Novelty" songs, like "Loop De Loop" (Which I Iiked) or "The Birds and The Bees" (Which I hated , MUSH ! Ha Ha.)....But , "40 Funky Hits" had non - novelties like "Six Days onThe Road" , "Dirty Water "", etc.
I used to have this great album but gave it away to an old girlfriend. Love the tunes!
I still have it
What’s funny and ironic, is I’ve heard all of those songs within the past month played on my 60s music station on Directv!! 😂
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I remember growing up to this tunes. I couldn't afford the records but I usually purchased the 45s. Great memories 🙂💓.
0:46 It's Snoopy from Peanuts! And why he'll holding the bomb like Hilter "Furher"
***** My theory is in the famous episode of "It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown" (That's shown every Halloween on TV) Snoopy takes on the Red Baron and falls behind Germany lines after being shot down in the cartoon..
Thanks so much for posting this. I got this album for my 10th birthday and played it constantly.
I have the "Goofy Greats" album too. I love the song selection, but I have a couple of problems with the album that really bug me. First of all, they butchered half the songs just to fit them all on a single album. Second, I've had two copies of the same album, and both were made of such crappy vinyl that the phonograph tone arm skips through half the record and gets stuck
repeat...repeat....repeat.....repeat.....repeat......repeat....repeating the other half!
I remember k tel They used to cut songs short too just to fit them all on one record
I have this album! Or rather, I have some other version of it. It's a two-disc set with 28 songs, and several of the ones played in this commercial are _not_ included in my copy. Save name, same cover, different selection. Go figure. I've had it since I was twelve, and I'll keep it to my dying day. :D
My younger brother had this, I had Music Power.
This is hilarious when played at the lowest speed. The announcer sounds drunk out of his gord. hahaha
I love these old commercials.
wore my first copy out;and bought another :D
Still have it in my collection
"Available at THESE fine stores......." (telop of list of stores)
I remember "Available at all Woolworth and Woolco stores . . . " in my area.
I have an 8-track of this album. By the way, the version of Ahab the Arab is not the original from 1962. It's a remake from 1969. Many Ray Stevens collections use this version instead. How ironic that K-Tel later became known for issuing lots of remakes!
orangehornet57 By that point in time, I'm sure the big record giants wouldn't talke to them anymore!
I also had this album, and I remember the commercial too.
This is great!
I HAD THIS!!!!!!! Loved that record!!!!!
I still have this album!
I loveit.....
I had that album!
I have this album!
Does anyone know what year this record was released?
EricEbac22 1975
@@johnboy3301966 Mine was from 1979 with only 18 tracks - they put a sticker reading "18" over the 22 printed underneath on the cover!
Interesting! They must've changed something between the time they made this commercial and when they produced the Tape/LP. I have the tape in front of me and there is NO song by the Nashville Cats, nor does "Please Mr. Custar" by Larry Bird appear either! Thanks for posting this original, hard to find commercial!
Almost forgot! The commercial uses the re-recorded Barnaby Records version of "Ahab the Arab" while the tape uses the original Mercury Records version
+Harold Lloyd
i have the LP and both them songs are on it :-)
+dean dalton Interesting! They are absent from the 8-track tape. Pay more, get less!
Follow up! The 8-track purports only 18 songs and there are TWO versions of the tape. One with a green background, and one with a fleshy-pink coloured background. Completely different song lists on either.
Nashville cats is a song not a band btw
Hey, Mr.Neuman, hope to see the revamped Mad Magazine LOL!
12 tracks per side?!
Yeah, that would explain the skating.
Kate Hell lp's were infamous for shite quality and poor sound.
You can 't ram 12 cuts on a single side-that's nuts.
I still have mine and, despite some scratches, still sounds not bad sonically.
Not great but split over 2 lps, it actually has some grooves!
lol
all these horrid songs were so over radio played ..I still want to scream when hearing a short flash of one
My brother ordered this record when I was really little. I had no idea how it would work it's way into my psyche. On the rare occasion I hear any one of these songs, I immediately recognize it as a GG track. I seem to recall the commercial playing Saturday mornings or after school. (Maybe that's because the animation reminds me a little of Schoolhouse Rock.)
OMG, I've always remembered this commercial!
i want k-tel record goofy greats by dandre androson💽💿📀📺🎵🎶