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I was suddenly reminded of this for no good reason at all. I now have decided to blame my wussified 2nd generation hippiesque ways and failure to succeed in any ambition on this children's record that I haven't heard for at least 25 years and probably a good deal longer than that. It is the source of all my woes.

Man, fuck Marlo Thomas, Alan Alda and all those assholes.

― Oilyrags, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

Are you nuts? Great record, I can still hum everything on it. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 April 2007 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

it's like a part of my dna or something. to question it would be like questioning my foot.

― scott seward, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:00 (eighteen years ago)

QUESTION FOOTHORITY!

― Oilyrags, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:01 (eighteen years ago)

"It's all right to cry..."

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:02 (eighteen years ago)

it does freak me out to hear it sometimes. so many memories.

maria can't listen to it! too deep...

― scott seward, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:02 (eighteen years ago)

It's probably a really good thing I don't have access to it right now, cause I know I'd listen to it and that would send me in a fucked up spiral of nostalgia and depression.

Why did I even think of it, much less start this thread?

― Oilyrags, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:08 (eighteen years ago)

"They're closing up Girls Town
Some say it's a crime."

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:22 (eighteen years ago)

i have no idea waht this is. maybe this is waht's wrong with me. also typing issues. and laziness.

― SusanD, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:24 (eighteen years ago)

I love this c.d., but I'd never heard of it until my sophomore or junior year of college (1992 or 1993).

DON'T DRESS YOUR CAT IN AN APRON

― Sara R-C, Monday, 30 April 2007 03:50 (eighteen years ago)

i may be a late gen-x'er, but this was definitely in my cultural vocabulary at a young age

― get bent, Monday, 30 April 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

MOMMIES ARE PEOPLE
DADDIES ARE PEOPLE
PEOPLE WITH CHILDREN

― ghost rider, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:11 (eighteen years ago)

rofl! more pls!

― SusanD, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:17 (eighteen years ago)

A Doll, a doll, William wants a doll.

― jocelyn, Monday, 30 April 2007 05:38 (eighteen years ago)

oh, dollpaws..

― SusanD, Monday, 30 April 2007 07:16 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder, was there ever a backlash record.

Gary wants a pellet gun
Mommy won't buy him one
because she has been brainwashed by the PC police
Why did mommy have to go to college any way
[whistling]

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

The little babies in the crib are the cutest thing ever invented, and that includes all the cat pictures on all the Internets.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

I have a VHS copy, a 16mm film, a book, and a record of this. totally classick

crying gets the sad out of you

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

RAINDROP FROM YR EYE

― Mr. Que, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

cause I know I'd listen to it and that would send me in a fucked up spiral of nostalgia and depression.

Sad and grumpy
Down-in-the dumpy
Snuggly, huggly
Mean and ugly
Sloppy, splappy
Hoppy, happy!
Change and change and change
It's all right to feel things
Though the feelings may feel strange
Feelings are such real things
And they change and change and change

― King Kitty, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

got on my nerves when I was eleven

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

that's cuz it wasn't about iranians driving around in a car for two hours contemplating suicide.

― scott seward, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

no I wasn't watching those then. Marlo coulda used Soupy Sales.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

I never saw / heard this.

But it reminds me that just hours before this thread was started, I was watching a Frontline documentary about the press before the war, and Phil Donahue popped up, and I had forgotten that all caricatures of the Donahue speaking style are completely accurate and not exaggerated at all. Even before my brain registered that I was looking at Donahue ... it was like he was doing an impression of himself.

― nabisco, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

what does Phil Donahue have to do with anything....?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

he was married to Marlo Thomas. . .

― Mr. Que, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

I used to play the Walt Mink cover of "Free To Be You And Me" every week on my college radio show.

― John Justen, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

I remember your show, John. But not the Walt Mink cover. :(

― Sara R-C, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

This was brought up this evening and I realized that, though I know the record by heart, I've never seen the after school special. Watching clips on youtube makes me realize I think I need to own the dvd.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 03:36 (thirteen years ago)

there was an after school special? We saw this, like, once a month, during Friday movie afternoons on 16mm

― sarahell, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 06:54 (thirteen years ago)

we had a copy of this growing up, which is weird considering how totally conservative my parents are. i remember it fondly.

― for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 07:27 (thirteen years ago)

Apparently there was a show made from this in 1974. I remember the "turn the film at the beep" projector reel from my childhood (I think with stills from the book or something) but I hadn't seen any filmed clips or animated sequences before last night.

Here's Michael Jackson & Roberta Flack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdLZITiZ2VQ

and here's Atalanta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuyRi2yWWSQ

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 12:42 (thirteen years ago)

I have these on 16mm

there's a big compendium book I have that I've been reading to my daughter but a lot of the material is second-rate, unfortunately. there are some weird lessons they wanted to teach kids in the 70s.

― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:20 (thirteen years ago)

still not really sure what the underlying message is of Boyland/Girland, for example

― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:20 (thirteen years ago)

I guess it's just Girl Land...

― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:22 (thirteen years ago)

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