Music found on the back of old cereal boxes

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  • Опубликовано: 23 янв 2025

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  • @googleitdepartment1371
    @googleitdepartment1371 2 года назад +3988

    Sounds surprisingly not horrible

    • @unchained576
      @unchained576 2 года назад +24

      🤣lol

    • @drbobsnightmare2521
      @drbobsnightmare2521 2 года назад +102

      I played a brand new one 45 years ago that sounded absolutely terrible.

    • @randomkitty2555
      @randomkitty2555 2 года назад +24

      @@drbobsnightmare2521 Are these plastic moldings or actual vinyl?

    • @drbobsnightmare2521
      @drbobsnightmare2521 2 года назад +138

      @@randomkitty2555 cardboard cereal box with a thin plastic layer applied.

    • @drbobsnightmare2521
      @drbobsnightmare2521 2 года назад +65

      @@randomkitty2555 the record is printed in the back of the box. Cut on the dotted line. Depending on the condition of the box. It could be horribly scratched before you ever drop a needle on it.

  • @majectic-berry
    @majectic-berry Год назад +1002

    From an engineering/manufacturing standpoint this is low key mind-blowing

    • @edzhead22
      @edzhead22 Год назад +50

      analog tech that still works 50 years later...try that with a Tamagotchi...lol

    • @chewie2055
      @chewie2055 Год назад +65

      It has a layer of vinyl on the cardboard……..so technically it is a very cheap vinyl record..

    • @SonnyGTA
      @SonnyGTA Год назад +38

      No ‘low key’. Just regular mind blowing.

    • @Brendan-Black
      @Brendan-Black Год назад +3

      ​@@SonnyGTA Exactly right.

    • @resol_beats
      @resol_beats Год назад +1

      Fax

  • @jesselindsey1613
    @jesselindsey1613 2 года назад +2182

    Amazingly, this kind of thing was in production until the late 80s. I wasn't born until '85 and I remember cutting out a Ghostbusters record from a cereal box and playing it on my parents' turntable.

    • @jackson5116
      @jackson5116 Год назад +59

      yeah, records didn't really die (become niche) until the 90's, they were still very, very common in the 80's.

    • @CzarYe
      @CzarYe Год назад

      were your parents pissed?

    • @Bittamin
      @Bittamin Год назад

      @@jackson5116HOUSE MUSIC BABY! 🏠🎶🕺🪩❤️‍🔥

    • @jesselindsey1613
      @jesselindsey1613 Год назад +5

      @@CzarYe No, they helped me cut it out from the box and play it.

    • @ms.pirate
      @ms.pirate Год назад +13

      How do you feel now that record players and vinyls are back in style?

  • @jsqproductions7281
    @jsqproductions7281 Год назад +751

    I am genuinely blown away by how good it sounds

    • @wintersbattleofbands1144
      @wintersbattleofbands1144 Год назад +11

      On the surface, it's a record. Plastic surface. Cardboard base.

    • @bababab6906
      @bababab6906 Год назад +5

      @@wintersbattleofbands1144 wrong

    • @H-Vox
      @H-Vox Год назад +17

      sound isn't as complicated as our brains make it out to be

    • @RobMacKendrick
      @RobMacKendrick Год назад

      @@bababab6906 "Wrong" is a non-answer. Either make a point or shut up.

    • @RobMacKendrick
      @RobMacKendrick Год назад +6

      @@H-Vox More to the point, phonograph records are fairly straightforward, as technologies go. The question would be, how many times can this one be played before needle contact abrades the playing surfaces (i.e., what kind of quality is the material it's made of). But there's really no reason it shouldn't sound passably good, at least for awhile.

  • @snakeofminthumbugs330
    @snakeofminthumbugs330 Год назад +230

    It's amazing how so many different sounds come from a needle hitting grooves.

    • @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398
      @istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 Год назад +2

      @@yossarian6799 if you say so,.....

    • @codpug
      @codpug Год назад

      ​@Yossarian67 you mean analog?

    • @ScratchdHelp
      @ScratchdHelp 9 месяцев назад

      either @yossarian6799 deleted their comment out of embarras,ent of youtube is buggin out

  • @jorgebravo7980
    @jorgebravo7980 Год назад +135

    Holy cow, that piece of cardboard has more dynamic range that a lot of modern pressings

  • @angyboi7969
    @angyboi7969 Год назад +27

    MY JAW DROPPED HEARING HOW GOOD IT WAS MADE

  • @_A4A
    @_A4A Год назад +104

    Wow, that's actually really cool. I'm a child of the 70's and don't ever remember seeing any records on the cereal boxes but I do remember all the sugary cereals having toys, stickers or candy in them!...

    • @river8760
      @river8760 Год назад +4

      I don’t remember these records either.

    • @sacha4566
      @sacha4566 Год назад +2

      I know right???
      A new Mandela effect! LOL

    • @godbyone
      @godbyone Год назад +6

      The one I had looked like that but was. Sugar sugar by Archie’s. I think it was in ceral 1970

    • @bevshanks2972
      @bevshanks2972 Год назад +1

      Same

    • @river8760
      @river8760 Год назад +2

      @@godbyone oh I was not even born then lol, no wonder I’ve never seen these. 😂

  • @Nan-59
    @Nan-59 Год назад +36

    I had forgotten all about those records we got on cereal boxes! Those were the days, my friends!✌🏻❤️✌🏻

  • @LHChristopher
    @LHChristopher Год назад +43

    OMG!!! I had those too! I think the cereal was "Honeycomb" Now that I'm 63yrs old...I remember we had the best cereal prizes ever! Thanks for sharing an old memory with us. Stay Gold!

    • @dehydratedwater9806
      @dehydratedwater9806 Год назад +4

      Even Crackerjack had cool prizes in the 60s & 70s

    • @melodiefrances3898
      @melodiefrances3898 Год назад

      Same age, and omigod we had awesome cereal prizes.
      I loved the Whinnie the Poo figures 🤣

    • @sidewinder666666
      @sidewinder666666 9 месяцев назад

      You'd be 64 by now (I'll be 69 next month 😮) and I, too, remember all the neat toys they offered in cereal. Nothing like a little targeted marketing, lol. But I loved all that crap. Definitely remember the records, though I can't remember what cereal brand(s?) had them.

  • @Littlefroggie747
    @Littlefroggie747 4 года назад +325

    I have a ton of those too and let me tell you for a cardboard record they didnt sound that bad...some sounded great

    • @wintersbattleofbands1144
      @wintersbattleofbands1144 Год назад +9

      Well, on their plastic surface, they were a real record - just very thin and laminated to cardboard.

  • @luiszuluaga6575
    @luiszuluaga6575 Год назад +2

    Really amazing that it’s just plastic coated paper and some wires and some other electronic components that produces the sound. That’s nothing short of a miracle in my book.

  • @hotelmario510
    @hotelmario510 2 года назад +367

    love that he felt the need to clarify the record speed

    • @KeithWeston
      @KeithWeston  2 года назад +147

      When it comes to revolutions, I crave accuracy.

    • @KodakYarr
      @KodakYarr 2 года назад +14

      Vive la revolution!

    • @versebuchanan512
      @versebuchanan512 2 года назад +23

      I mean I'm glad he did, I woulda assumed it was a 45 just looking at it

    • @pinkchaos.
      @pinkchaos. Год назад +11

      Well people literally called records that size “45’s”

    • @Big_Bag_of_Pus
      @Big_Bag_of_Pus Год назад +6

      I would have guessed it to be a 45 at first.

  • @russpendergraft5057
    @russpendergraft5057 Год назад +1

    OMG! I'd forgotten about these! I remember hounding my mom to buy cereal as a kid! Just for the stuff in the boxes! Also cracker jacks, used to buy Bazooka bubble gum for the comic strips inside, and I can't remember what had the lick and stick tattoo looking pictures, but it was such fun! Oh, and the small planes you had to assemble and press the little weighted piece on the nose! Good God this sure brings back memories!!!!

  • @TheFellerHasAChannelGodDamnIt
    @TheFellerHasAChannelGodDamnIt 2 года назад +1607

    For a little piece of cardboard, it sounds surprisingly great. Now imagine some Metallica or AC/DC playing on a cardboard record.

    • @IAmCaligvla
      @IAmCaligvla 2 года назад +119

      It'd be perfect for Black Metal, imagine all the crust.

    • @MikeSparksMusic
      @MikeSparksMusic Год назад +40

      I’m sure this would somehow make St. Anger sound better 😂

    • @oatmeal710
      @oatmeal710 Год назад +12

      every record has cardboard in it, just most of them also have some vinyl on them too

    • @iuopunderstandyourjokes9914
      @iuopunderstandyourjokes9914 Год назад +3

      That's what they did in east germany and communist russia

    • @leftylou6070
      @leftylou6070 Год назад +25

      The backing was cardboard. The surface was vinyl.

  • @ThisGuyFrritz
    @ThisGuyFrritz 2 года назад +364

    As a 70's kid, I remember a couple of cardboard records from Post Alpha Bits cereal. One had some kind of spooky story, as I was expecting by the artwork. Another one was a Sci-Fi story about some mysterious trailer from outer space. It kinda sucks that they don't last long because, ya know, we were kids and would not handle such stuff carefully. I wonder how they'll make a comeback due to vinyl records being popular again.

    • @KeithWeston
      @KeithWeston  2 года назад +35

      I had those, too. I may still have them in storage.

    • @ThisGuyFrritz
      @ThisGuyFrritz 2 года назад +13

      @@KeithWeston Perhaps you could share them on RUclips as well... if you find them.

    • @fjccommish
      @fjccommish 2 года назад +3

      You like to pretend you're an old timer. You're not.

    • @ThisGuyFrritz
      @ThisGuyFrritz 2 года назад +7

      @@fjccommish I don't look like one.

    • @fjccommish
      @fjccommish 2 года назад +4

      @@ThisGuyFrritz I'm older. Going out right now to do my 1000 push ups.

  • @Couldnteventhink
    @Couldnteventhink Год назад +25

    I remember these. Aww. Thanks for thr the nostalgic walk down memory lane. I'm glad you had the foresight to glue two recordings together. That was awesome. Thank you.

  • @bhornannawindeedeigh5007
    @bhornannawindeedeigh5007 Год назад +4

    I am enriched. I had a few of these myself. 😃 How wonderfully nostalgic.

  • @tymz-r-achangin
    @tymz-r-achangin Год назад +7

    The good ol' days! I definitely remember those cereal box records. Still remember playing them on a Fisher Price record player

  • @muscleguy675
    @muscleguy675 2 года назад +200

    I still have all of my cereal box records from The Archies, The Monkees, Bobby Sherman, The Jackson Five and Kiss and are still playable to this day.

    • @morgellon7877
      @morgellon7877 Год назад +8

      That's really cool. I expected it would all be generic stuff.

    • @muscleguy675
      @muscleguy675 Год назад +15

      The music on those records were the songs you would hear on the radio. They were of the hits. In some cases ( The Jackson Five, The Archies, Kiss ) there were also album tracks used made famous through their cartoons.

    • @joelake7986
      @joelake7986 Год назад +4

      I think the only one I ever got was the Bobby Sherman record. I think the song was "It Boggles The Mind" which I don't think was ever a hit, and I don't remember anything else about it.

    • @MikeAnn193
      @MikeAnn193 Год назад +5

      Yes, Bobby Sherman too! Let me think... 🤔... "Easy Come, Easy Go" if memory serves. 😃 I might even have one of The Monkees. Aside from the Archies song playing in the video, I can't think of any others, but I've had them for decades.

    • @garystinten9339
      @garystinten9339 Год назад +5

      Digitise them and upload them

  • @jcm973
    @jcm973 Год назад +10

    There’s nothing like a trip back down memory lane ✊🏾

  • @MikeGervasi
    @MikeGervasi 2 года назад +16

    Keith, I regard these as the best prize in a cereal ever. I collected all the Jackson 5 that came on the back of Alphabits back in the 70's. Long gone unfortunately.

    • @MikeGervasi
      @MikeGervasi 2 года назад

      Found a video of one. ruclips.net/video/wBd7bZcNgSI/видео.html

  • @sherriereeves5123
    @sherriereeves5123 Год назад +2

    This brings back so many childhood memories my mom would/use buy the cereal(s) with those records on the box for my sisters and I back in the 1960's and early 1970's we would play them until we couldn't play them any longer yes we wore them out and yes my sisters and and we're all born in the 1960's

  • @JacknVictor
    @JacknVictor 2 года назад +76

    I remember about 40 years ago buying magazines with the floppy paper thin one sided discs that you could play on most record players, and the quality was very good, I'd say as good as a normal vinyl record.

    • @jhutt8002
      @jhutt8002 2 года назад +6

      I have couple of those, of them is Queens Hammer to Fall.
      They sound pretty bad, and I don't want to play it in fear it'll ruin my stylus.

    • @JacknVictor
      @JacknVictor 2 года назад +5

      @@jhutt8002 at the time they sounded decent enough, they have probably d graded now, but I remember that we placed it on a flat wooden plate with a hole drilled in the middle then they were perfectly flat, no wobble to it and they didn't scratch easily. They worked better with a lighter stylus aswell. The heavier ones would of scratched through the thin plastic I reckon.

    • @CdEmm50
      @CdEmm50 2 года назад +1

      Yes, in "Smash Hits" pulp pop magazine in the seventies.
      I had a Slade floppy single and Lieutenant Pigeon " moldy old dough" amongst other records included in the magazine.

    • @JacknVictor
      @JacknVictor 2 года назад +3

      @@CdEmm50 yesi think some of mine came from 80s smash hits magazines. I even got some vinyl floppy records from computer magazines to use with commodore/spectrum computers, which was a bit pointless because to use them, unless you had a way of hooking your record player to your computer, you had to copy them to a tape to use. Think they just did it as a gimmick to be honest. Buti do have fond memories of saving up my 50p pocket money and not buying sweets etc because I wanted the magazine with the record on it.

    • @CdEmm50
      @CdEmm50 2 года назад +1

      @@JacknVictor : ) : )

  • @xbrandi12345x
    @xbrandi12345x Год назад +44

    Seriously? They didn't do cool stuff like that when I was growing up in the 1980's and 1990's. This is awesome they had this stuff on cereal boxes!!! They need to bring this back just for me!!

    • @lawrencebraun7616
      @lawrencebraun7616 Год назад +9

      I had a couple of those records and played when I was little. Early 60s

    • @RetroReminiscing
      @RetroReminiscing Год назад +2

      and me 🤣👌

    • @ArtifactAttic
      @ArtifactAttic 10 месяцев назад +1

      I still have some cardboard records that came inside a product around 1987... something to do with Live Aid.

  • @peachesl8706
    @peachesl8706 Год назад +9

    I remember these! My neighbor was about 92 and she gave me some and holy crap I can’t believe I am seeing this again! Thank you for sharing this!!!

  • @normamcmanus1139
    @normamcmanus1139 Год назад +1

    Archie, Veronica, Betty and Jug Head-“The Archie’s”! A favorite cartoon. Nice turntable, too. Thank you for sharing. Memories and nostalgia of times gone past are priceless, especially compared to today’s.

  • @bevmacdonald9008
    @bevmacdonald9008 Год назад +28

    Flashback to starting school and the joi d'vie at the end of the 1960s/beginning of the 1970s, way back when the term "flasback" was invented. I loved the Archies, and I loved that song! My older brother had the album. It was amazing at the time that the cereal prize record was fused onto the back of the cereal box and that it really played! One had to cut it out or punch it out using the perforations after the cereal was gone. It's wonderful you still have them and awesome of your Mom to have kept them for you. I recall when my kids were small, when cds and floppy discs started appearing in over-priced boxes of cereal in Canada at the end on the 1990s, the "freebies" were samples of games and things that cost $40 to buy in the store. The prices put cereal out of reach for a lot of families and the prices exposed too how over-priced the retail price of game and movie discs were. At the start of the millennium, people complained under (at the time existing) consumer protection act and the prices of both cereal and discs came down considerably. However, that was the end of "free" prizes in cereal boxes in Canada.

    • @RevoltOfAges
      @RevoltOfAges Год назад +3

      I promise I’m not doing this to be annoying, I just thought I’d point out that it’s “joie de vivre” (you may be mixing it up with “c’est la vie”). Really nice to hear your nostalgic memories about the Archies!

    • @bevmacdonald9008
      @bevmacdonald9008 Год назад +1

      @@RevoltOfAges you are likely right. I call my smattering of French, Cerealbox French and it is a bit rusty. It's been decades since I took French in school.

    • @philipkeeler9997
      @philipkeeler9997 Год назад

      Yep. A 'Flashback' was the studied, hopefully induced and controllable, expected side efffect of CIA McGill MK Ultra and LSD.
      Or 'Flash-Back' the way JFK's face and cranium sprayed over his wife's face and trunk of the car.
      ....and to the left lol.

    • @bevmacdonald9008
      @bevmacdonald9008 Год назад +1

      @@philipkeeler9997the term Flashback was first used to describe the dissociation triggered by the shell shock or PTSD of veterans. Then in the 60s, it was the term first used to describe the unpredictable phenomenon the body metabolizing the previously unmetabolized LSD that randomly dislodges from and permeates the blood brain barrier causing a high long after the original ingestion of the drug. It can occur years after the original high.

  • @danielfournier735
    @danielfournier735 Год назад +1

    I remember these. Thanks for the memories. Salute !;!

  • @Radmountainbiking59
    @Radmountainbiking59 Год назад +22

    I remember a Jackson 5 record from a cereal box when I was 6. Michael Jackson was 13. My teacher didn't think it would play. Man, that thing would be worth serious cash I bet now.

    • @ArtifactAttic
      @ArtifactAttic 10 месяцев назад +2

      I wanted those - but they were on the back of a box of a cereal I wouldn't eat. So we didn't get them.

  • @killington2633
    @killington2633 Год назад +3

    That's so cool! So much cooler than a qr code to a digital download. Like the music was pressed on the box! Love it

  • @ritadyer9295
    @ritadyer9295 Год назад +5

    I had forgotten about these! Thanks for sharing. My cousin had (not a cereal box record) but the Archie’s Bang Shang a Lang. She also had a “close and play” record player which had no volume button. It was what is was. We used to drive the adults mad playing that record over and over!

    • @ArtifactAttic
      @ArtifactAttic 10 месяцев назад

      I had a Close'n'Play also. It was the most damaging record player ever for 45s - it could only play 7" 45s -- I ruined plenty of them. :)

  • @beverlykrebs4372
    @beverlykrebs4372 Год назад +2

    That's amazing! I grew up in those times, but we never had any kind of cereal that had tat kind of stuff with it, so I totally missed out!! I had lots of records (singles & albums) but none from cereal boxes! Lol!! Was I ever deprived!! I did get a Jolly Green Giant doll from a package of frozen vegetables. There was an order form that my mom sent in with the UPC symbol from the bag & they sent her the kit to make the doll. It was cloth that she sewed together & stuffed with cotton Thanks for sharing the video!

  • @billlonee9470
    @billlonee9470 Год назад +3

    I had a few of these, plus a couple of flexi-discs from inside of magazines. Sadly, I lost them all, over the years. Thanks for sharing!

  • @timf-tinkering
    @timf-tinkering 9 месяцев назад +1

    We had similar on Kellogg’s cereals in the UK for a while. Basically just a flexidisc glued onto the cardboard packet which you had to cut out with scissors and punch a hole in the middle. They were 33rpm too, and sounded fine. I’ve still got a couple somewhere.

  • @timothya.olmeda7299
    @timothya.olmeda7299 Год назад +11

    I remember the Honey Combs Halloween cereal box vividly.
    I believe there were three different records in total for the Halloween themed ones, though they had others in the 80’s as well.
    Cool memories. 👍

  • @stephensteele2844
    @stephensteele2844 Год назад +1

    The RUclips algorithm gods have blessed this video and from the sands of time it has arisen!

  • @MikeAnn193
    @MikeAnn193 Год назад +19

    It's great to see this because I have that same record still! 😃 I could only guess which cereal box it was cut out of, but it's very likely I was the one who cut it. I smiled when I saw the video title, my smile grew when I saw the familiar image on the record, and even more after you put the needle down. 🎶The tune came back to me in seconds. I'm pleasantly surprised by how many comments the video has received.

  • @loridyson569
    @loridyson569 Год назад +2

    I actually remember having a few of those growing up. Thanks for the memories.

  • @robertlee8400
    @robertlee8400 Год назад +4

    I totally remember these things , they also made them like very thin vinyl to & they were all kinds of music & all different colors , very cool . Kids & the younger generation the generation after mine would never know why these things are .

  • @ernest9606
    @ernest9606 Год назад +2

    Wow I forgot all about these. Thanks for the memories

  • @ForTheOmnissiah
    @ForTheOmnissiah 2 года назад +41

    I like how 8 years ago you refer to these as "yeah, remember these old things?". This was before vinyl made a comeback and became somewhat popular again.

    • @memedew6677
      @memedew6677 2 года назад +1

      (Its not really)

    • @billyd7628
      @billyd7628 2 года назад +12

      @@memedew6677 haha what? vinyl has 100% made a comeback. bands are printing records in vinyl again and people are buying them again.

    • @JOBdOut
      @JOBdOut 2 года назад +6

      @@memedew6677 yeah actually theyre a hipster trend but still a trend

    • @withcheeseproductions
      @withcheeseproductions Год назад +3

      @@memedew6677 43.46 million records were sold last year in the US

    • @varsityathlete9927
      @varsityathlete9927 Год назад +2

      @@JOBdOut LPs outsold CDs last year.
      My clients are from teenagers to retired boomers, grows every year, can't physically get enough stock.

  • @Stopstaring101
    @Stopstaring101 Год назад +2

    This was great!
    Loved it!
    Thanks for sharing the fantastic… and very missed 😢… memories

  • @nutella1021
    @nutella1021 Год назад +21

    I love how you bring new life to old things and turn them into something beautiful. Keep up the amazing work!

  • @joshburns493
    @joshburns493 Год назад +1

    I remember them. I can't believe you still have them. WOW. You really take care of your stuff..... Smile

  • @piggugudu1327
    @piggugudu1327 Год назад +11

    That’s amazing! I do wish they still made things like this today, I think cereal companies have almost completely ceased including fun little collectibles now :0

  • @kimknute6777
    @kimknute6777 Год назад +1

    I love those things I still had one off the box of Boo Berry cereal, when cereal tasted good! I believe it was Bobby Sherman but I can't remember I had it up until ten years ago when I lost my house and I had to put stuff in storage and then I lost it because I couldn't pay for it anymore. Almost said when I saw this video because I don't have it but very glad to see somebody do want on them at the same time.

  • @Ranstone
    @Ranstone 2 года назад +21

    Aged better than most cellophane audio tapes. :P

  • @unclemarksdiyauto
    @unclemarksdiyauto Год назад +2

    Sounds amazingly good for cardboard and on RUclips. I remember these! Cool memorabilia.

    • @wintersbattleofbands1144
      @wintersbattleofbands1144 Год назад +1

      Well, the surface is plastic, essentially a real record, all be it a thin one, laminated to cardboard.

    • @unclemarksdiyauto
      @unclemarksdiyauto Год назад

      @@wintersbattleofbands1144 My bad. Yes, it would have to be since just cardboard would be hard to press and would fall apart as it was played.

  • @elwoodlayhee9975
    @elwoodlayhee9975 2 года назад +42

    Wow almost sounds as good as a free digital download

    • @buttholesurfer2000
      @buttholesurfer2000 Год назад +5

      have fun owning absolutely nothing

    • @omnitone
      @omnitone 10 месяцев назад

      @@buttholesurfer2000🤟physical media forever

  • @joeschmoe1794
    @joeschmoe1794 Год назад +1

    I remember them on the back of Honey Comb boxes. Never thought of taping two together like that - great idea!

  • @TomokoAbe_
    @TomokoAbe_ 2 года назад +5

    OH YES! Those are awesome. Good old days. I remember one record I had it was the famous "Sugar Sugar" song.

  • @cassiusdeici8302
    @cassiusdeici8302 10 месяцев назад +1

    Wow some kick ass childhoods yall had. This is too cool!! Beats the small stuff you got in the boxes. Now todays kids get nothing. Just cereal. And whatever puzzle they put on the back of the box.

  • @kleets1996
    @kleets1996 Год назад +3

    30 years old works pristinely well, that’s why record players will always be around

  • @nevermore1570
    @nevermore1570 Год назад +1

    This is awsome, basically a more advanced music box where in stead of nails hitting bumps on a rotation cylinder. We have a needle on a disk of cardboard

  • @mildredpierce4506
    @mildredpierce4506 Год назад +4

    I never had cereal that had a record on the back. But I think it was very clever of you to glue two of them together to make it a two-sided record. I would have never thought of that.

  • @bobblowhard8823
    @bobblowhard8823 Год назад +1

    In the 70's I cut out the Bobby Sherman record from the back of a box of Raisin Bran. It sounded pretty good. However, after a while, the sides of the cardboard would curl up like a potato chip. We then had to stack some books on the record for a few days to straighten it out again.

  • @SunnysFilms
    @SunnysFilms Год назад +4

    My parents never had these and by the time I was born cereal companies obviously weren't doing this anymore (though this was before the whole "there's no free toy inside but how about entering this code for coupons or a video game" thing). BUT we used to do auctions and I remember a set of these coming in a lot we bid on - a few cereal box records featuring The Jackson 5 still on the back of their boxes, the back being cut off but the records having never been cut out, so we didn't play them. It's weird to think that this was once a promotion that cereal companies ran.

  • @popnfresh2928
    @popnfresh2928 Год назад +1

    Same here, my dad & mom bought us these two…The Jackson 5 & The Osmond Brothers were the ones we got😂👍….they sounded good too….

  • @Justanotherpersonontheinternet
    @Justanotherpersonontheinternet Год назад +5

    I feel blessed to bear witness to this masterpiece.

  • @jons.6216
    @jons.6216 Год назад +1

    Another video about The Archies said that singer Toni Wine was the vocalist that provided Betty and Veronica's singing voices!

  • @thomasglynn2282
    @thomasglynn2282 2 года назад +5

    My God I remember them. I was born in the 60s and we had a children's portable record player.

  • @kimsullivan5576
    @kimsullivan5576 Год назад

    Wow, thank you for sharing such a great memory of The Archies. I remember these cute little 45s on our Cereal boxes. 😊

  • @couldntmixapotnoodle
    @couldntmixapotnoodle 2 года назад +5

    Gluing them back to back probably saved them from warping as badly

  • @61JWolf
    @61JWolf Год назад +1

    I haven't thought about those cut out records since I was a kid. Although I have often been reminded about some of the toys in cereal boxes: Frito Bandito pencil erasers, Moon landing creatures, plastic cowboys and indians, etc. I also remember my mom getting drinking glasses and bath towels in boxes of powdered laundry detergent.

  • @ANDROLOMA
    @ANDROLOMA 2 года назад +10

    The saddest part of this video is that I'm old enough to remember cereal box singles AND the song Jingle Jangle.

    • @JGHOUL-oy6xb
      @JGHOUL-oy6xb 2 года назад +1

      Why is that sad?

    • @ANDROLOMA
      @ANDROLOMA 2 года назад

      @@JGHOUL-oy6xb It's an aging thing. Result of a lousy childhood.

  • @sf-jim8885
    @sf-jim8885 Год назад +1

    My dad was in advertising back in the late 1960's & early 70's. The different companies that made these records on flexible sheets, cardboard boxes, etc used to send him samples by the dozens- - many of which he gave to me to 'play around' with. I wish now I had saved some of them or at least re-recorded some for posterity, as they're all ephemeral audio curiosities now.

  • @DETHMOKIL
    @DETHMOKIL 2 года назад +7

    thats waaay to good for what I expected.

  • @license2kilttheplaidlad640
    @license2kilttheplaidlad640 Год назад +1

    My dad actually pressed those records at post cereal factory in battle creek Michigan it was weekend overtime for him and a friend.

  • @kam.ry325
    @kam.ry325 Год назад +3

    I wish they'd make stuff like this still nowadays, so cool !

  • @iffyfox9749
    @iffyfox9749 Год назад +1

    See you in two more years when the algorithm really blows this up

  • @jimmyzhao2673
    @jimmyzhao2673 Год назад +3

    Paul is dead, miss him, miss him.

  • @MrSpankee02
    @MrSpankee02 Год назад +1

    Outstanding that you’ve saved it all these years.

  • @pocketsdoesstuff3880
    @pocketsdoesstuff3880 2 года назад +4

    The beginning of the song reminded me of Hootie and the Blowfish "I Only Wanna Be with You."

  • @gailsfoodandstuff
    @gailsfoodandstuff Год назад +1

    omg, i remember these like it was yesterday and im 58 now. i wish i had saved them like you did.

  • @darkdimeondcadenvlogs5385
    @darkdimeondcadenvlogs5385 2 года назад +4

    i was surprised the first time i heard audio come from the cardboard record from a video talking about them, turns out they have a really thin strip of plastic that contains the music.

  • @TPain79lawguy
    @TPain79lawguy Год назад +1

    I had a cardboard record once, but it was from MAD Magazine - I loved that. I also had a record player that could play 16 1/2, 33 1/3, 45, and 78 RPM.

  • @davedennis6042
    @davedennis6042 Год назад +7

    I remember these. My mom never would buy the sugary cereals because we would just eat it out of the box 😂😂

  • @MidnightToker24
    @MidnightToker24 Год назад +2

    You gotta take that to an audiophile stereo show and play it on the most expensive turntable.

  • @audiospanked4787
    @audiospanked4787 2 года назад +4

    I had an Archies record from the back of a Super Sugar Crisps box the title was everything’s Archie, but found out much later the actual name of the song was Boys & Girls and is on my playlist right here on RUclips, that was when I was 12 I’m 67 now .

    • @ueno1
      @ueno1 Год назад

      Boys & Girls was from the first album. Lots of fun tunes there. Truck Driver, I'm In Love, Bang Shang A Lang

    • @audiospanked4787
      @audiospanked4787 Год назад +1

      @@ueno1 I miss those happier days when the world was a little calmer

  • @markhardiman1179
    @markhardiman1179 Год назад +2

    Wow,I missed those prizes.🙆🏿‍♂️Collecting those albums was not a "misspent youth.👍🏿

  • @redthunderfox
    @redthunderfox 2 года назад +5

    Back when companies cared about there buyers

  • @13Wolfie13
    @13Wolfie13 Год назад +1

    Oh my goodness!! I remember those! How cool that you still have them!

  • @devindevon
    @devindevon Год назад +3

    Vinyl will always be inferior to cardboard. Cardboard just sounds warmer. My hipster friends all agree.

  • @EGSimon-ds1vf
    @EGSimon-ds1vf Год назад

    Love it! I thought I was the only one. I still have the single "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies cut out from a Rice Krispies box. And mine still plays, too. Thanks for the happy memory.

  • @TerrorKidd2006
    @TerrorKidd2006 2 года назад +4

    Man. Wish brands still did this today.

  • @pihermoso11
    @pihermoso11 Год назад +5

    I miss my elementary days, my classmates had Archie comics and I'd borrow them and read them all, it was fun and wholesome comedy like Scooby Doo..
    Too bad those classics got destroyed by new Hollywood, I heard 'Riverdale' is totally different from the Archie comics I grew up with...

    • @ueno1
      @ueno1 Год назад

      Yeah Veronica and Reggie got it on in the Riverdale show.

  • @willoughby1888
    @willoughby1888 Год назад +1

    We traded those at recess, and they also had free bowling coupons I'd bring in by the handful so I could keep on bowling...at a kid's allowance anyways. They never said anything as long as I paid for the shoe rental and taxes. Bowling to me was almost as easy as playing free cereal box records was. Thanks for sharing nice, vintage memories with us. Maine said to say hello and appreciates you saving decent, tangible old memories.

  • @realretrorelapse
    @realretrorelapse 2 года назад +5

    That was such a cool idea. When I growing up I got a cassette single in a box of cereal. It was of Nickelodeons "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" theme song 😆. I don't think I ever even opened it from the plastic because I just didnt have an interest in listening to it lol. If I ever got a record on the box I definitely would've cut it put and played it just to see if it worked.

  • @JAnotherday
    @JAnotherday Год назад

    Oh my gosh I almost forgot about those it's wonderful that you still have them! Thank you very much for sharing this.

  • @perrybarton
    @perrybarton 2 года назад +3

    I had “Sugar Sugar,” from the back of a box of Super Sugar Crisp. It looks like that’s your “Side B.” 🤓

    • @KeithWeston
      @KeithWeston  2 года назад +1

      Side B is Melody Hill.

    • @perrybarton
      @perrybarton Год назад

      @@KeithWeston I know “Melody Hill” is the b-side of the actual 45 of “Sugar Sugar.” That one I still have! I was referring to the “b-side” you made by glueing the two flexi discs together. 😎

  • @mycreations318
    @mycreations318 Год назад +1

    Wow what a flashback! I totally never remember those but thoroughly enjoyed this video. You made me smile. Back then things were so different❤

  • @andrewwang8204
    @andrewwang8204 Год назад +6

    I just remember back in Asia that they have these kareoke lyric books that have record grooves on them before when I was small. My grandma had one of those and it feels funky to touch because they always are glossy and wavey. I didn't even know there were specific machines that were needed to play them until we found it in the attic years later. The childhood memories man, all this analog music really hits different even if they appear on the most unlikely of places.

  • @kdmdlo
    @kdmdlo Год назад +1

    I absolutely remember having similar cereal box disks from the 1970's. I don't recall if it was on Fruity Pebbles, Sugar Frosted Flakes, or what ... but I absolutely remember cutting these out and listening to them. I was always really concerned about getting the record cut out in a perfect circle. I would get a compass out and indent the cardboard to help make a path for my scissors. I just wish I had kept some of them.

  • @dubstepmando
    @dubstepmando 5 лет назад +9

    Awesome video!

  • @BlackKettleRanch
    @BlackKettleRanch Год назад

    I forgot about those! Thank you for reminding viewers about those records. I loved them!

  • @Patrick.Weightman
    @Patrick.Weightman 2 года назад +5

    Ironically sounds better than a lot of vinyl

    • @MeadeSkeltonMusic
      @MeadeSkeltonMusic 2 года назад +2

      Vinyl sounds better in general.

    • @sneg__
      @sneg__ 2 года назад +1

      @@MeadeSkeltonMusic no, it does not.

    • @WilliamParkerer
      @WilliamParkerer 2 года назад +1

      @@MeadeSkeltonMusicOr rather, crackling noise is pleasing to the ears.

    • @DivineLightPaladin
      @DivineLightPaladin Год назад +2

      @@WilliamParkerer crackling noise only happens if record is scratched or damaged, possibly dirty. Not new ones, my Floyd record is crisp.

  • @charleskroman5006
    @charleskroman5006 Год назад +1

    Ahh… the good ol’ days of youth when cereal was fun to buy no matter how bad it tasted. Give me the surprise anytime

  • @Littlefroggie747
    @Littlefroggie747 4 года назад +6

    The jackson 5 sugar daddy is the one that i like

  • @melsmith245
    @melsmith245 Год назад +1

    you remember back when people took an unnecessarily long amount of time to explain something really, really simple?