I actually remember this very well. As a child for some reason I believed if I could sing the song all the way through I would win a million dollars. I learned it very well then my mom told me how it really worked. I can actually still do it I think I just freaked out my girlfriend as I recited the entire album verbatim along with this video. Her eyes got really big and she pulled back her head like it was scaring her.
I remember it as well, including the feeling of disappointment when not only did the record proclaim you were a loser...the scratch-offs, at best, gave you a free small fries. This wasn't the only time McDonald's made these giveaway records. I have a rare type of tinnitus called "musical hallucinations," which only occurs in people with some significant type of hearing loss (I'm deaf in one ear from the mumps...get vaccinated, kiddos). I remember every song I hear, and I hear music 24/7/365. There is never a time when I don't hear music. And one of those weird songs that get stuck in my head sometimes is from one of those McDonald's records. I haven't seen nor heard of it in years, but I still know it: "Friends! F-R-I-E-N-D! Would you like to be friends? Would you like to be friends?"
There was a winner to this contest. A lady named Charlene Price out in Virginia, who used the Million Dollars to buy the convenience store she worked at. Also the song is a pretty obvious cover of the novelty hit "Life was a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)"
McDonald's fun facts: McDonald’s first drive-thru opened in 1975 in Sierra Vista, Arizona. What inspired the then-revolutionary concept? The restaurant was located near a military base, For Huachuca, and US Army soldiers stationed there were not allowed to leave their cars while wearing fatigues. McDonald's used to own most of Chipotle! McDonald’s invested in Chipotle in 1998, back when the fast-Mexican chain consisted of 16 restaurants. By 2006, McDonald’s owned 90 percent of Chipotle, which had grown to 500 locations, but it sold its stake in order to focus on McDonald’s.
Oh, man, that song brought back some serious memories: 7 year old me genuinely thought I was going to be a millionaire because they didn't mess up...until the VERY LAST LINE of the song. Such overwhelming disappointment like that isn't good for a kid....this is why I have trust issues.
I had a good stack of these back when they were being circulated. All my neighbors knew I loved McDonalds and I was a huge vinyl collector, even back when I was growing up, so my mom took up a collection from anyone she knew to save these records for me. I was about 17 when this contest was going. I listened to so many of those records that I was able to memorize the whole menu song. I can still sing the whole thing to this day as a result. Sadly, not one single one of the records I had were a million dollar winner, but I did manage to memorize the song. Believe me, once you get the whole song down, it never goes away...not even after 28 years!
I can attest to this. I was 9 years old during this promotional contest mcdonald's did.. that was 35 years ago and I just woke up suddenly at nearly 4am this morning with it stuck in my head. Damn Mcdonalds! It's like experiencing PTSD years later.
If a McDonald's employee said, "Welcome to McDonald's, what can I get you?", these people would just say *"Yes."* Your face at the end when the people said, "Check out those coupons!" looked like you were thinking, "What good are EXPIRED coupons when I could've gotten a million dollars?!" Well, during a time when vinyl was pretty much dead, the McDonald's contest in the late 80s at least got people interested in vinyl again! My favorite thing about McDonald's is how not all McDonald's around the world look the same, some are pretty unique like a McDonald's Georgian-style mansion here on Long Island. In Porto, Portugal, they opened a McDonald's in 1995 inside the historic Cafe Imperial, a former coffeeshop that was in the city since the 1930s. It has massive stained-glass windows and chandeliers. On top of that, it has a GIANT bronze eagle at the entrance designed by sculptor Henrique Moreira. Many call it the world's most beautiful McDonald's.
Not quite...vinyl was still alive and well in the late 80s. Yes tapes outsold records by quite a bit and CDs weren't far behind, but everyone still had a record player. Your story of a record revival due to the McDonalds contest is laughable. In fact my reaction was it would have been very cool if they would have done this on CD. Alas the cost of producing a CD would have been too prohibitive because making a RECORD WAS STILL MUCH CHEAPER and the technology readily available.
I remember making my Mom go out and grab a few papers the day this came out! I can still sing the song perfectly today, it was a thing at our school. Unfortunately I never got the million bucks.
I remember . My Moms sister , my aunt Charlene Price won the Contest , I am 55 years old now , Glad you are into Vinyl , I'm now up to 700 plus Records and still collecting :) QC
This is also a pretty good strategy. It was a very intriguing challenge, and everyone was attempting it. And when attempting it, they sang “I love McDonald’s, good time, good place, and I get it all at one place”, meaning you were basically advertising the place when singing it.
Approximately 80,000,000 records were distributed, and only one of them was a winner. The promotion was won by Galax, Virginia, resident Charlene Price, who used the money to purchase the convenience store where she worked.
For anyone wondering: The promotion was one by a virginia resident named Charlene Price, who used the money to buy the convenience store where she worked. source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_McDonald%27s_ad_programs#Promotion_overview
bet this could work as a challenge for any or all voice actors or comedians or artists everywhere. Like for a special charity performance for MacDonalds,they would to try to sing this song all the way just for fun and to donate to their fav charities. For the VAs,it would be in every voice they ever did in cartoons,films n tv shows,regardless of singing prowess,and if they can't sing it they can just say the lyrics. The same for comedians. Artists though,anything goes
Family Guy? Nope. The McDonald's commercial is actually a parody of "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)", by Reunion, a group of studio musicians from 1974.
I noticed that there's a definite similarity between this McDonald's song and "Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)" by Raydio, a novelty hit in the 70's. Check it out and see what you think.
I tried being a morning person once - gave up real quick, forget it Jarrett, it doesn't work! I love collecting flexi-discs, cardboard and plastic! Your beautiful Ortofon Red is saying Noooo!!!
"Hi, may I take your order please?" "I'll have a Big Mac, Mc DLT, a Quarter-Pounder with some cheese, Filet-O-Fish, a hamburger, a cheeseburger, a Happy Meal, McNuggets, tasty golden French fries, regular or larger size, and salads: chef salad or garden, or a chicken salad oriental, Big Big Breakfast, Egg McMuffin, hot hot cakes, and sausage. Maybe biscuits, bacon, egg and cheese, a sausage, danish, hash browns too, and for dessert hot apple pies, and sundaes three varieties, a soft-serve cone, three kinds of shakes, and chocolatey chip cookies, and to drink a Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, and orange drink, a Sprite and coffee, decaf too, a low-fat milk, also an orange juice. I love McDonald's, Good Time, Great Taste, and I can get this all in one place." *"...Sir, this is a Wendy's"* "Dammit"
Jarrett I actually had this record in 1988. It came in our newspaper. I also went to a birthday party at McDonald's and can't remember who's birthday party it was. I was about 7 at the time. And they had this weird kind of paper record which they gave out to all of us at the party. The record was blue and had a lot of different colors on it. I think the Ronald McDonald characters were on it and it played the jingle from the commercials at the time Good Time, Great Taste. See if you can maybe find that record on ebay.
Mcdonalds should have an "old-ass coupon day" or some kind of promo like that where you bring in any mconalds coupon from any year and they will honor it.
Yes! I used to have the record. Don't worry, I didn't win either. I actually have a cousin that had that song memorized and sang it all the way through without missing up. Maybe they should let him song it instead. This does make me wonder if the winning record really does exist. I looked all over RUclips and haven't found the winning version yet. I bet it's worth a lot of money if it really does exist.
This is the record that I learned to scratch on! I was wrecking it with the big volume fader on my parents receiver. This brings back so many memories.
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1734&dat=19890726&id=t88eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KlIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2380,2808145&hl=en Nope a woman in Virginia got it and bought the convenience store she worked at
I totally remember this as a kid. I appreciate you doing this video because over the years I've been trying to explain this my friends, and now I can just send them the link. Thanks!
I just picked one of these up with 5 other 45s/33s for $10! Was super excited to find one,! Unfortunately, it wasn't a winner, but probably gonna keep it as a collectors item! Loved this video, and thanks for your time, ButteryToast.
I do actually remember this contest and getting one of those records when I was a kid i am turning 40 this year so you can do the math, but until I saw you vid I would have gone on believing that contest was much older. When you said 1988 i thought to myself, holy cow, Did my parents still have a turn table as late as 1988? That same Lloyd's stereo also played 8-trac. Jeez that's old.
I remember seeing that record come in the mail and thinking that it was weird the McDonald's was sending out a vinyl. I remember my mom playing it, and then throwing it away.
my brother and i delivered news papers when this record came out. The newspaper company would deliver the sunday inserts on thursday and you would stuff them in the paper sunday morning before delivering. we called the newspaper company and said that they didnt deliver any of them so we got another shipment of inserts. we now had 400 papers worth of inserts and we took the record out of everyone. (before you tell us what ass holes we were... we were only 11 and 10 years old). We spent days listening to every single record lol. we didnt win but we did get a lot of free burgers and small fries from the scratch offs.
I remember this promotion and I even played the record. Great promotion. It just blew my mind as a kid to have a playable record there with all the other paper ads. Couldn't sing the song as a kid, but I bet I could do it now :)
Mcdonalds is so weird! What a strange thing to do in 1989, was vinyl still the main means of music distribution then? because I remember my parents already using CD's by then.
Jess Hull The vinyl to press it was defo cheapest way that McDonalds use to not spend much for own promotions. Just wonder how much would cost 'em to promote'em self by using a CD in '89. BybtheWay, what was a price of single CD back then?
Vinyl was still doing well, but there was talk of shutting down the vinyl industry and to make cassettes and CDs instead. I heard that CDs skipped a lot and one scratch would destroy it unlike records which would still play. I remember dreading the change. CDs wasn't as bad as I thought they would be. I still love my records though.
@@johnyoung4039 I remember dreading the change too, some people expecting it to become impossible to buy record players, their whole record collection having to be replaced or basically lost to them for lack of a turntable...
I'm sure most people still had record players then. Late 80s early 90s is sort of when more and more people started to adopt CDs. But if they still had big vinyl collections, why throw them away for a couple of CDs?
Hi Jarrett! In Spain we had a very beautiful vinyl competition named the "Disco Sorpresa Fundador" (Surprise Record Fundador). When you bought a bottle of cognac or brandy from the Fundador group (very famous at the 60s) you got a record of 4 songs with famous songs of that era; some were originals, others were covers from those hits. At the end of each side,you heard the publicity jingle of Fundador, which is still famous among older people; and if you were lucky, a voice would say "Congratulations, you have won...". The prices were from another record (something of a luxury around that era) to cars, fridges and Televisions. A high number of those records still survives.
The song is a version of Reunion's "Life Is A Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" from 1974ish. Also, have you ever produced a video on multi-groove records? Great channel!
Holy crap, I actually remember getting that record! I remember spazzing out as the "class" got close to the end, then being crushed when they whiffed the ending too.
The jingle they sang at the very very end of that record actually made me cry... I literally remember when THAT was the McDonald's jingle... makes me miss my family 😭
The contest was won by Charlene Price from Galax, Virginia. Hey Jarrett, could you contact her and let us listen to winning record? I wonder how it sounds like! :-D
The Name Game by Shirley Ellis 1964, and Life Is A Rock But The Radio Rolled Me by Reunion 1974, all wrapped up in one on this MckeyD's record. Interesting 1988 history footnote. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
I wonder if anyone actually won the million dollars? If this one was never played, there#s a good chance the winning one wasn't either, not that McDonalds would ever honour a competition that ended almost 3 decades ago.
i learned this song when i was a kid ,, i still to this day know it by heart !! ive sung it to my kids and they think iam crazy, but it is still a fun song !! thanks for sharing this,, it brings back alot of memories !
I had this record, and have no clue where it is anymore. The idea that a record came in the mail was a pretty cool thing. Probably one of my favorite promotional items, next to the PC game Chex Quest being packaged inside boxes of Chex cereal. Going to have to head to eBay and grab another one of these records.
Today is Monday April 30, 2018. Yesterday I plunged myself into a dilemma wrapped in a mystery. I recognized a song playing at FRYS supermarket so I to a sec to listen for chorus so I could get it on Google Play. It is a song of lists (not Rap) then chorus ...Life is a Rock but the Radio Rolled Me. I'm 58 and last time is heard this song was 1980s😎 However I had a Flash of Insight today while playing it at work for the umpteenth time...it IS the McDonalds Menu Song I once owned! And yes...i ran out to for the 69 cent Big Mac to get it. So I challenge you to find the Life is a Rock by The Records and tell me I'm wrong😎 plus tell e which came first. Did McD copy The Records or was it the other way around. It wouldn't be the first time I've encountered this because there was a Coke ad in the 70s that was huge...Id Like to Buy the World a Coke...then a non-ad version became an AM radio hit called...perhaps... Harmony by New Seekers. I'll let you look that up yourself. Anyway I dig your channel and I'll Like and Subscribe now.😎
I remember this very well. The record along with the scratch coupons came inside the Sunday newspaper. I even remember the commercial advertising it. Childhood memories.
The song itself is a rewrite/parody of the 1974 hit "life is a rock but the radio but the radio rolled me" by REUNION. (Also used as a jingle for the Tyson Mall in VA). It is on RUclips!
Yeah I remember this! They used to send them in the mail or in the newspaper to everyone. I remember another record sent out that was Cooking with ALF. I don't remember for sure what food chain that was but I remember playing the records for people who didn't have a record player. I still have the ALF hand puppet they were selling though. I think it was Burger King.
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How do I get that jingle
I decided to write a same record as the record in this video, but mine will called: Z6100 Soda 1000000 Euros
Christ Primus 1790 I love that video on vE
Now play it Backwards, smart ass
I like how the song sounds a bit like the song "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies lol
I actually remember this very well. As a child for some reason I believed if I could sing the song all the way through I would win a million dollars. I learned it very well then my mom told me how it really worked. I can actually still do it I think I just freaked out my girlfriend as I recited the entire album verbatim along with this video. Her eyes got really big and she pulled back her head like it was scaring her.
+Tony Matarrese hahaha
I remember it as well, including the feeling of disappointment when not only did the record proclaim you were a loser...the scratch-offs, at best, gave you a free small fries.
This wasn't the only time McDonald's made these giveaway records. I have a rare type of tinnitus called "musical hallucinations," which only occurs in people with some significant type of hearing loss (I'm deaf in one ear from the mumps...get vaccinated, kiddos). I remember every song I hear, and I hear music 24/7/365. There is never a time when I don't hear music. And one of those weird songs that get stuck in my head sometimes is from one of those McDonald's records. I haven't seen nor heard of it in years, but I still know it: "Friends! F-R-I-E-N-D! Would you like to be friends? Would you like to be friends?"
+Vinyl Eyezz that's what I thought in the start...
It wasn't the singing that scared her, it was the furious masturbating.
Tony Matarrese I remember the entire nutshack lyrics. Even though I never wanted to remember it :(
could this be big smoke's second order?
pronuke spontaneous yuup
Definitely
💀
So that means the winning record is possibly the rarest record ever to exist.
the flamethrower was disabled 23 years ago.
yep. 0 out of 80 million.
What?
I'm assuming they never made a winning copy? Lol
A lady in Virginia won
2:34 Eminem has a decent opponent now...
Top ten rappers Eminem was afraid to diss
Tf are you doing here? I genuinely did not expect you here but hi.
BRRREM DA DA DLA DOO DOO DOO!
@@altrostudios he's everywhere.
are you kiding me
why
are you here
that is the harshest and longest "you lose" ever.
There was a winner to this contest. A lady named Charlene Price out in Virginia, who used the Million Dollars to buy the convenience store she worked at.
Also the song is a pretty obvious cover of the novelty hit "Life was a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)"
If played in reverse, there's the answer to who actually assassinated JFK and why.
Philip Cooper TOP 5 MCDNULSZ SECRET SECRECTS 100% REAL NO FAKE
all he wanted was a Big Mac.
Philip Cooper Ted Cruz's dad and for the Vine. this shit is common knowledge dumbfuck
LOL
Legend has it if you play this while at a Mcdonald's drive thru, you'll get assassinated.
why was this recommended to me
oh no its the trash man Yeah it's pretty random, I'm wondering why too.
craziest women ever eats sand
because you forgot to skip a McDonalds ad within the last 100000000 years?
parappa the rapper bonus stage confirmed
Madstaa lmao
The McDonalds Parappa 2 Demo Disc
Madstaa You Are my saver
Your profile picture... Need for madness
need for madness is such a dope game
McDonald's fun facts: McDonald’s first drive-thru opened in 1975 in Sierra Vista, Arizona. What inspired the then-revolutionary concept? The restaurant was located near a military base, For Huachuca, and US Army soldiers stationed there were not allowed to leave their cars while wearing fatigues.
McDonald's used to own most of Chipotle! McDonald’s invested in Chipotle in 1998, back when the fast-Mexican chain consisted of 16 restaurants. By 2006, McDonald’s owned 90 percent of Chipotle, which had grown to 500 locations, but it sold its stake in order to focus on McDonald’s.
Oh, man, that song brought back some serious memories: 7 year old me genuinely thought I was going to be a millionaire because they didn't mess up...until the VERY LAST LINE of the song. Such overwhelming disappointment like that isn't good for a kid....this is why I have trust issues.
Its just like their stupid monopoly game as well.
@@hennessyblues4576 turns out that was rigged
@@Videogamehero67 and the employees kept stealing them
@@Videogamehero67 was it?
@@-Teague- yeah they have a whole series somewhere and there’s a couple good documentaries
you won something
you won *depression*
That teacher is spitting hot fire
Feralman this has no dislikes 😎
Reminds me of Tomino's hell.
This was before the McDonald hot coffee lawsuit
You're too close mon
I had a good stack of these back when they were being circulated. All my neighbors knew I loved McDonalds and I was a huge vinyl collector, even back when I was growing up, so my mom took up a collection from anyone she knew to save these records for me. I was about 17 when this contest was going. I listened to so many of those records that I was able to memorize the whole menu song. I can still sing the whole thing to this day as a result. Sadly, not one single one of the records I had were a million dollar winner, but I did manage to memorize the song. Believe me, once you get the whole song down, it never goes away...not even after 28 years!
I can attest to this. I was 9 years old during this promotional contest mcdonald's did.. that was 35 years ago and I just woke up suddenly at nearly 4am this morning with it stuck in my head. Damn Mcdonalds! It's like experiencing PTSD years later.
McDonalds is the true master of subliminal messages.
Lmao truth!
play it backwards and he says WHOPPER
The square record is actually disguised marketing for Wendy's.
howto42 I don't think you fully understand the meaning of subliminal.
howto42 you are correct
If a McDonald's employee said, "Welcome to McDonald's, what can I get you?", these people would just say *"Yes."* Your face at the end when the people said, "Check out those coupons!" looked like you were thinking, "What good are EXPIRED coupons when I could've gotten a million dollars?!" Well, during a time when vinyl was pretty much dead, the McDonald's contest in the late 80s at least got people interested in vinyl again!
My favorite thing about McDonald's is how not all McDonald's around the world look the same, some are pretty unique like a McDonald's Georgian-style mansion here on Long Island. In Porto, Portugal, they opened a McDonald's in 1995 inside the historic Cafe Imperial, a former coffeeshop that was in the city since the 1930s. It has massive stained-glass windows and chandeliers. On top of that, it has a GIANT bronze eagle at the entrance designed by sculptor Henrique Moreira. Many call it the world's most beautiful McDonald's.
Not quite...vinyl was still alive and well in the late 80s. Yes tapes outsold records by quite a bit and CDs weren't far behind, but everyone still had a record player. Your story of a record revival due to the McDonalds contest is laughable. In fact my reaction was it would have been very cool if they would have done this on CD. Alas the cost of producing a CD would have been too prohibitive because making a RECORD WAS STILL MUCH CHEAPER and the technology readily available.
*The best rap song.*
for sure.
Vinyl Eyezz My little bro. now likes the old from this song.
better than eminem
Potato22 that shit slaps
Potato22 *Better then Snoop Dogg*
I remember making my Mom go out and grab a few papers the day this came out! I can still sing the song perfectly today, it was a thing at our school. Unfortunately I never got the million bucks.
I mainly know of this because my social studies teacher wanted to prove she could recite the whole thing off the top of her head... she did
Jesus that must've been harsh
I remember . My Moms sister , my aunt Charlene Price won the Contest , I am 55 years old now , Glad you are into Vinyl , I'm now up to 700 plus Records and still collecting :) QC
Give this record to Eminem.
I am SHAMAMANANANANANANNANANA
...to later make a 'mom's spaghetti' version of it
McDonald menu song vs Rap God
Ale LGB Busta rhymes
Ale LGB holy crap you have 333 like illuminati confirmed
This is also a pretty good strategy. It was a very intriguing challenge, and everyone was attempting it. And when attempting it, they sang “I love McDonald’s, good time, good place, and I get it all at one place”, meaning you were basically advertising the place when singing it.
I wonder who won that million dollars??
Nobody did, they never pressed the winning record
so wrong
Approximately 80,000,000 records were distributed, and only one of them was a winner.
The promotion was won by Galax, Virginia, resident Charlene Price, who used the money to purchase the convenience store where she worked.
When was this?
1989
This song has the exact same flow as the one from Reunion's 1974 hit "Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)"
Iirc, they kinda copied the song. 😅
For anyone wondering:
The promotion was one by a virginia resident named Charlene Price, who used the money to buy the convenience store where she worked. source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_McDonald%27s_ad_programs#Promotion_overview
It was one what?
bet this could work as a challenge for any or all voice actors or comedians or artists everywhere. Like for a special charity performance for MacDonalds,they would to try to sing this song all the way just for fun and to donate to their fav charities. For the VAs,it would be in every voice they ever did in cartoons,films n tv shows,regardless of singing prowess,and if they can't sing it they can just say the lyrics. The same for comedians. Artists though,anything goes
could say the same for the Ozzy n Drix theme when the backup vocals check off the body lingo
that would be absolutely awesome
The song sounds like something Family Guy would do.
Brandon yup
Brandon very true
Family Guy? Nope. The McDonald's commercial is actually a parody of "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)", by Reunion, a group of studio musicians from 1974.
"Gee, Lois. This is worse than the time I won the lottery from listening to a McDonald's-branded vinyl record!"
Worker:so what do you want?
Big smoke: 2:32
I noticed that there's a definite similarity between this McDonald's song and "Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)" by Raydio, a novelty hit in the 70's. Check it out and see what you think.
I was actually so fucking happy for a minute because you almost made it through.
I loved his reaction from not winning.
I like when you smiled at the start of the record and got into it. 🙂
I tried being a morning person once - gave up real quick, forget it Jarrett, it doesn't work! I love collecting flexi-discs, cardboard and plastic! Your beautiful Ortofon Red is saying Noooo!!!
+tubeie07 haha they're pretty cool!
+Beatlesandqueen4ever Crosley would have too much static
+Beatlesandqueen4ever yeah neither would I, maybe audio technica
I agree completely with a 'plastic flexi record', however this is a laminated cardboard record and that's not good.
"Hi, may I take your order please?"
"I'll have a Big Mac, Mc DLT, a Quarter-Pounder with some cheese, Filet-O-Fish, a hamburger, a cheeseburger, a Happy Meal, McNuggets, tasty golden French fries, regular or larger size, and salads: chef salad or garden, or a chicken salad oriental, Big Big Breakfast, Egg McMuffin, hot hot cakes, and sausage. Maybe biscuits, bacon, egg and cheese, a sausage, danish, hash browns too, and for dessert hot apple pies, and sundaes three varieties, a soft-serve cone, three kinds of shakes, and chocolatey chip cookies, and to drink a Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, and orange drink, a Sprite and coffee, decaf too, a low-fat milk, also an orange juice. I love McDonald's, Good Time, Great Taste, and I can get this all in one place."
*"...Sir, this is a Wendy's"*
"Dammit"
Other notable recording artists in America: Meatloaf, Cranberries, Korn, Bread, Blackeyed Peas, Lambchop and Cake. And so began the "fattening".
Cream
May Jailer lol yes... can't forget the cream.
Don't forget the Raspberries
That'd be a great festival
Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch popkorn
Jarrett I actually had this record in 1988. It came in our newspaper. I also went to a birthday party at McDonald's and can't remember who's birthday party it was. I was about 7 at the time. And they had this weird kind of paper record which they gave out to all of us at the party. The record was blue and had a lot of different colors on it. I think the Ronald McDonald characters were on it and it played the jingle from the commercials at the time Good Time, Great Taste. See if you can maybe find that record on ebay.
Patiently waiting for a weird al
yancovik cover
Yankovic.
Bitch (or Bitkh)
You're going to be waiting for a long time. This is already a parody of Life is a Rock.
They've got allen wrenches, gerbil feeders, toilet seats, electric heaters
Trash compactors, juice extractors, shower rods and water meters
Walkie-talkies, copper wires safety goggles, radial tires
BB pellets, rubber mallets, fans and dehumidifiers
Picture hangers, paper cutters, waffle irons, window shutters
Paint removers, window louvers, masking tape and plastic gutters
Kitchen faucets, folding tables, weather stripping, jumper cables
Hooks and tackle, grout and spackle, power foggers, spoons and ladles
Pesticides for fumigation, high-performance lubrication
Metal roofing, waterproofing, multi-purpose insulation
Air compressors, brass connectors, wrecking chisels, smoke detectors
Tire gauges, hamster cages, thermostats and bug deflectors
Trailer hitch demagnetizers, automatic circumcisers
Tennis rackets, angle brackets, Duracells and Energizers
Soffit panels, circuit breakers, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers
Calculators, generators, matching salt and pepper shakers
Mcdonalds should have an "old-ass coupon day" or some kind of promo like that where you bring in any mconalds coupon from any year and they will honor it.
You were real close to winning. They only flubbed up almost at the end.
everybody (except the winner) got that one.
Yes! I used to have the record. Don't worry, I didn't win either. I actually have a cousin that had that song memorized and sang it all the way through without missing up. Maybe they should let him song it instead. This does make me wonder if the winning record really does exist. I looked all over RUclips and haven't found the winning version yet. I bet it's worth a lot of money if it really does exist.
I can't even begin to comprehend how to sing this.
ky It's very easy when you practice it alot. I've honestly gotten great at it, I just can't sing it all in one breath lol.
Major props to the singer who played the teacher, because that's some awesome breath control he had.
You should of been eating a double double while listening to that....33 and a third .....fixed it ! Lol
Ha Ha! Right???!!
+DJ LEGION it only seems like the right thing to do lol
Ya know, Mary-Lou Retton used her appearance fee payment from them to by that C4 Corvette she was driving in that commercial....
Well, it sure ain't a maxi-single...!
Or a McDLT
it's 5am and I've fallen down the youtube rabbit hole...
This is the record that I learned to scratch on! I was wrecking it with the big volume fader on my parents receiver. This brings back so many memories.
Facts..that a fat boys album and the first run dmc..lmao..was jus talking bout this
This song started out as a track from 1974 by a group called "Reunion" with a song titled "Life Is A Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)"
send this to eminem
Vatelite what lol?
profile picture checks out
Ok
This is a cover of 70s one hit wonder 'Life Is A Rock But The Radio Rolled Me' by 'The Uinon'
Wait is the million dollar record still out in the world?
No, someone got it, didn't have a player, and threw it away.
Yes, and the money was collectted by the winner. Read the comments section or google it.
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1734&dat=19890726&id=t88eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KlIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2380,2808145&hl=en Nope a woman in Virginia got it and bought the convenience store she worked at
hundreds100 why the fuck would she do that...
iAlphafox12
Who knows :(
I totally remember this as a kid. I appreciate you doing this video because over the years I've been trying to explain this my friends, and now I can just send them the link. Thanks!
I just picked one of these up with 5 other 45s/33s for $10! Was super excited to find one,! Unfortunately, it wasn't a winner, but probably gonna keep it as a collectors item! Loved this video, and thanks for your time,
ButteryToast.
I do actually remember this contest and getting one of those records when I was a kid i am turning 40 this year so you can do the math, but until I saw you vid I would have gone on believing that contest was much older. When you said 1988 i thought to myself, holy cow, Did my parents still have a turn table as late as 1988? That same Lloyd's stereo also played 8-trac. Jeez that's old.
I remember seeing that record come in the mail and thinking that it was weird the McDonald's was sending out a vinyl. I remember my mom playing it, and then throwing it away.
my brother and i delivered news papers when this record came out. The newspaper company would deliver the sunday inserts on thursday and you would stuff them in the paper sunday morning before delivering. we called the newspaper company and said that they didnt deliver any of them so we got another shipment of inserts. we now had 400 papers worth of inserts and we took the record out of everyone. (before you tell us what ass holes we were... we were only 11 and 10 years old). We spent days listening to every single record lol. we didnt win but we did get a lot of free burgers and small fries from the scratch offs.
nope, you didn't
see if you still had them records you could have sold them for 8 dollars each and had 3,200 dollars in your pocket.
not to mention all those $0.69 hamburger coupons.
loretano Bullshit!
@@slowstone72 Agreed!
I remember this promotion and I even played the record. Great promotion. It just blew my mind as a kid to have a playable record there with all the other paper ads. Couldn't sing the song as a kid, but I bet I could do it now :)
Mcdonalds is so weird! What a strange thing to do in 1989, was vinyl still the main means of music distribution then? because I remember my parents already using CD's by then.
Jess Hull
The vinyl to press it was defo cheapest way that McDonalds use to not spend much for own promotions. Just wonder how much would cost 'em to promote'em self by using a CD in '89.
BybtheWay, what was a price of single CD back then?
Crazy how now it would be the opposite, people pay 2x+ more for vinyl than CD's.
Vinyl was still doing well, but there was talk of shutting down the vinyl industry and to make cassettes and CDs instead. I heard that CDs skipped a lot and one scratch would destroy it unlike records which would still play. I remember dreading the change. CDs wasn't as bad as I thought they would be. I still love my records though.
@@johnyoung4039 I remember dreading the change too, some people expecting it to become impossible to buy record players, their whole record collection having to be replaced or basically lost to them for lack of a turntable...
I'm sure most people still had record players then. Late 80s early 90s is sort of when more and more people started to adopt CDs. But if they still had big vinyl collections, why throw them away for a couple of CDs?
Total flashback to childhood. Forgot a owned one of these at one point of my life. Thanks!
Hi Jarrett! In Spain we had a very beautiful vinyl competition named the "Disco Sorpresa Fundador" (Surprise Record Fundador). When you bought a bottle of cognac or brandy from the Fundador group (very famous at the 60s) you got a record of 4 songs with famous songs of that era; some were originals, others were covers from those hits. At the end of each side,you heard the publicity jingle of Fundador, which is still famous among older people; and if you were lucky, a voice would say "Congratulations, you have won...". The prices were from another record (something of a luxury around that era) to cars, fridges and Televisions. A high number of those records still survives.
Just wanted to throw it out there this is probably my favorite video of yours
You didn't win the million dollars, but those dance moves were priceless xD
I found this channel yesterday and I love it. you are very entertaining
What would have happened if it was a winner? That would have been so cool, and depressing at the same time, LOL!
Picked one up in a goodwill 3 years ago. It’s still when of my favorite niche records
This contest I heard was like handed out… tours of McDonalds and it ended @ your fav MCDONALDS!
Sounds like a social experiment
The song is a version of Reunion's "Life Is A Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" from 1974ish.
Also, have you ever produced a video on multi-groove records?
Great channel!
that beat is lit
Holy crap, I actually remember getting that record! I remember spazzing out as the "class" got close to the end, then being crushed when they whiffed the ending too.
I actually worked for McDonald's during this time period and remember redeeming alot of these coupons while I was there!
Omg I remember this when I was younger!!!! You would get so excited waiting to see if the song would finish!!
dude i have one of these!!! mine gets all the way to the end but isnt the winner.. but i got mine for .50 cents from goodwill
Derek Preusch I just found one at salvation army today for .50 cents as well. Not a winner though, glad we didn’t pay $8. HA!!
@Vinyl Eyezz That Song That Is On The Record ⏺ Is A Parody Of/Inspired By Reunion's "Life Is A Rock, But The Radio 📻 Rolled Me
" From 1974 Making It 14-15 Years Ago At The Time (1988-9).
Weird Paul did a video about this.
Cool to see another weird paul fan in someone else's comments
+KnightFall81 he's awesome!
Oh shit I didn't realize other people liked weird Paul
I'm a fan too!
Beach ball! Beach ball! It's a one-pack!
The jingle they sang at the very very end of that record actually made me cry... I literally remember when THAT was the McDonald's jingle... makes me miss my family 😭
The contest was won by Charlene Price from Galax, Virginia. Hey Jarrett, could you contact her and let us listen to winning record? I wonder how it sounds like! :-D
Craparella Smørrebrød probably the same
Thanks
Omg bro I remembered this when I was kid back then and we learned the song 🎵
Never heard of it but it was very catchy and very funny made me laugh. I think I'm going to try to find one.
The Name Game by Shirley Ellis 1964, and Life Is A Rock But The Radio Rolled Me by Reunion 1974, all wrapped up in one on this MckeyD's record. Interesting 1988 history footnote. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
I wonder if anyone actually won the million dollars? If this one was never played, there#s a good chance the winning one wasn't either, not that McDonalds would ever honour a competition that ended almost 3 decades ago.
my mom won
Gabbie Hannah proof?
Yes some women actually one the million dollars
i learned this song when i was a kid ,, i still to this day know it by heart !! ive sung it to my kids and they think iam crazy, but it is still a fun song !! thanks for sharing this,, it brings back alot of memories !
I had this record, and have no clue where it is anymore. The idea that a record came in the mail was a pretty cool thing. Probably one of my favorite promotional items, next to the PC game Chex Quest being packaged inside boxes of Chex cereal. Going to have to head to eBay and grab another one of these records.
Today is Monday April 30, 2018. Yesterday I plunged myself into a dilemma wrapped in a mystery. I recognized a song playing at FRYS supermarket so I to a sec to listen for chorus so I could get it on Google Play. It is a song of lists (not Rap) then chorus
...Life is a Rock but the Radio Rolled Me. I'm 58 and last time is heard this song was 1980s😎 However I had a Flash of Insight today while playing it at work for the umpteenth time...it IS the McDonalds Menu Song I once owned! And yes...i ran out to for the 69 cent Big Mac to get it. So I challenge you to find the Life is a Rock by The Records and tell me I'm wrong😎 plus tell e which came first. Did McD copy The Records or was it the other way around. It wouldn't be the first time I've encountered this because there was a Coke ad in the 70s that was huge...Id Like to Buy the World a Coke...then a non-ad version became an AM radio hit called...perhaps... Harmony by New Seekers. I'll let you look that up yourself. Anyway I dig your channel and I'll Like and Subscribe now.😎
...pretty sure I have the $1,000,000 McDonald's record.... however, I don't have a turntable to play it
Livereater00 nah you don't
Livereater00 Then buy one
make a video of you playing it
Someone in Virginia won the million dollars in 1989
I remember this very well. The record along with the scratch coupons came inside the Sunday newspaper. I even remember the commercial advertising it. Childhood memories.
THEY ALMOST FINISHED THE SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😱
+TYler SChecter I know!!! 😂
Holy crap! I haven't seen/heard one of those since I was a kid. Talk about a blast from the past.
I heard Eminem won a million dollars now I know why
The song itself is a rewrite/parody of the 1974 hit "life is a rock but the radio but the radio rolled me" by REUNION. (Also used as a jingle for the Tyson Mall in VA). It is on RUclips!
NICE KUNG FURY RECORD!!!
thank you! I really enjoy it haha :D
Did anyone else catch the resemblance to "Life Is A Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)?"
I wonder how many idiots saw the $0.69 Big-Mac ad in this vid & took-off to their nearest McDonalds?
"But I just saw it on the internets!"
zero
$6.90 now
I remember that song. One of my cousins got that record in the Sunday news paper. I was so envious. I think I remember copying it to a cassette tape.
If that song was an actual order, whoever made it would become morbidly obese.
Yevver heard the song , "Life is a Rock ! But the Radio Rolled me!" ?
I got a McDonald's ad lol
Silly Llama no you didn't they aren't playing their ads on RUclips anymore.
ClickbaitDetector 3000 yeah I did actually, remember they put back a little of there ads back
Silly Llama no it's not that
My freshman year in college we taped this, went through the drive thru, and played it as an order. They loved it.
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A direct take off on the 1970's pop classic "Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)"
See if you could get sponsored by McDonald's for this video.
+Zachary Gustafson I McTried, but they McDenied.
+Vinyl Eyezz >insert lenny here
Yeah I remember this! They used to send them in the mail or in the newspaper to everyone. I remember another record sent out that was Cooking with ALF. I don't remember for sure what food chain that was but I remember playing the records for people who didn't have a record player. I still have the ALF hand puppet they were selling though. I think it was Burger King.