THE FLEXI DISC?
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- THE FLEXI DISC?
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All my vinyl can flex. Once.
Then they break
guy from 7 years ago you funny
I am an American living Beijing where vinyl is not at all a thing. there is little to no vintage music culture and here things that are thought of as old are generally not cool and disregarded as useless by the pop music obsessed youth. Because of this China can in a way be a record diggers dream when you can find them because store owners often just want to get rid of them unless they run some of the specialty shops. While out shopping I found a resale shop which is very rare here in Beijing it had an entire box full of these some even printed on old x-rays. The records i found there were during the Mao cultural revolution era and because of this many people were unable to afford full sized vinyl so the so called Flexi record was very popular. It was also more easy to sneak in music from western countries and move them around in the Chinese music black market in this format do to the ease of hiding them. Many are unmarked or simply say foreign music on the surface and the paper covers were oddly sewn not glued. needless to say i bought the entire box. in certain places in the world this format was one of rebellion and defiance. Just thought you vinyl boys might find it interesting. great channel btw
+theinkwretch1 that is SO incredible! I've heard of those types of records! Very cool that you picked up a whole box of them!
Vinyl Eyezz noice
I can't believe you have never come across these before! In the 80s they came inside many magazines (similar to the cover mounted cassette tape). A lot of training books, especially guitar lesson books and a few comics. ;-)
theinkwretch1 Hello, city.
How do you talk? Is the government official's voice ur voice?
Very interesting story! I wonder how much those are worth now in America.
Flexi discs were popular to find included in a magazine. Sometimes it would be band interviews, music and sometimes just an advertisement. You think ads on UA-cam are bad? Imagine having to stop reading your magazine, cut out the flexi disc and put it on your turn table to listen to the ad :) (far fetched, but true!)
ALSO, a lot of the time, these flexi discs would be mounted on thin cardboard to give them a firm surface to be played on. In the 60's The Monkees had flexi discs printed on CEREAL BOXES! Eat your cereal, cut out the record from the box and listen to The Monkees music. MORE WEIRD than THAT, was these Monkees cereal box records just got RE-ISSUED!
Haha it's interesting seeing how things have evolved over time!
I would prefer that a million times over ads on UA-cam.
Whaaaaat!? Cereal flexis!?
They still had those cereal box records into the 70s and 80s. They ALWAYS sounded like ass.
It would be good actually :D
You didn't even play it..
He can't because of copyright rules.
@@colinmcconnon5752 He could've played a few seconds without any issues. You see other youtubers do it all the time without issue. Techmoan frequently does this for example
@@Phoneygravy yeah, this channel is all about shittalking
yes, i admit it. i am OLD enough to remember when this was a thing inside the back covers of some really cool children's books. they seemed super groovy at the time. but hey, i was eight years old and easily thrilled. thanks for showing these things!
+iago68 haha no problem!
I must be a lot older than you are... Because I can remember these things being in magazines when I was a kid. All kinds of different advertising campaigns used them back in the '70s and early '80s.
LMacNeill there's a magazine I subscribe to called new noise that has a flexi in each issue
I'm sure you might be older than this guy, but he also doesn't know nearly as much about records as he pretends to.
LMacNeill I one that was advertising an actual music album with samples from that album on it.
Justin Channell yeah to have never heard of flexi... I mean seriously he paints himself as an expert and he knows sod all clearly.
According to Discogs, flexi-discs date back to 1928.
I have one of The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar" cut out from a Super Sugar Crisp cereal box in 1969.
It's on cardboard tho. Is that the same thing?
So does he!
Have you heard of the 'Recard'? It's basically a greeting card that comes with a 45 record and the actual card can be turned into a DIY turntable. You then play the record on the card/turntable and it plays a message based on what holiday the card is for. I think they're pretty cool and they're only like £5 and £2 postage
Oh wow I'll check that out!
They use to put them in heavy metal magazines in the 80s it was a way to preview the bands latest issues before you buy the lp .
And most of them in the magazine were red
I found a flexidisc recently that actually instructs you to put it on top of another solid record.
yes that is actually how to optimize their sound
Just found a motörhead flexidisc and sold it for 60 dollars! ;)
(Im Happy)
Nice!!
Good for you ! Bad for the bozzo who payed 60 dollars for it ! lol
Vinyl Eyezz can you please tell me how you got the parlor trick record. I saw the video where you said you wish you had it and it's impossible to find. Thanks.
Go to Parlour Trick's website; there will be a GOLD Disk version available, costing $111 BUCKS, in mid 2017
theo9952 well, maybe it worth 100 USD now! i see u know nothing “john snow”!!
FlexiDisc was a very successful format here in Japan during the 60's as SonoSheet or PhonoSheet. The multiple disc packages complete with deluxe booklets were less expensive than the regular vinyl packages.
When I was given a spinet piano, inside of the piano bench, there was a stach of old piano books, although there was a set of old piano books and in each one was a flexi-disc with someone speaking and playing along with the student. The books were still in their plastic so the records were new.
When I was a kid growing up in the 60's , it seemed like those flexi-discs were everywhere . As I recall , Reader's Digest used them on occasion for promoting / advertising their multi - record sets . Also , unless I'm confused , I owned one that came from an issue of Mad magazine , ( circa 1970 ) , parodying that ' new ' hit tv show , All in the Family .
Yes!!! I have one from a MAD magazine as well. It has a picture of Alfred E. Numan's face on it. It's absolutely horrible, but hilarious to own!
I found a flexi disc at a soon to be abandoned music store. Thanks for telling me about this!
I have a few of these, I found those at a thrift store. I know of a 12th type of record called a dictabelt, where a plastic belt has grooves etched on to it, and works in the same way as a record does.
There were some russian (soviet) magazines, which had flexies inside, like Krugozor, Kalabok, etc. And these were also double sided, but mono (western flexies are single sided and also stereo). I had a collection of about 100 soviet flexies, but I throwed them into a trash (in late 1990's), because these were only with spoken words (in russian) and no music. Now I have only two (single sided from Austria, in stereo), one with Mötörhead and one with german electro groups (with Kraftwerk's Das Model).
I had quite a few of these back in the 70s, and I think I remember a version of flexi that was clear but glued onto a cardboard cereal box or toy box. So it's basically a flexi but with cardboard backing and art.
I Live in Russia and i have LOTS of flexi-disks. By the way, they were made in USSR to lower the price of records, some of them came in some music magazines. So you had to cut it from the magazine first and play it then.
Also, we had an opportunity to record our own song or congatulation at the studio on such flexi-disk, so in the end we got a really cool and a stunning gift.
I remember only three colors - Light blue (Most popular), Red (Really rare and sometimes re-mastered versions) and White (Congratulation flexi-disk), but maybe there were more.
I was in a record store in Detroit once and they had a photo booth but instead of posing you spoke and instead of picture a flexi came out. Like a audio post card to mail to a friend on vacation. It was super cool.
I used to get books as a child that would have those flexi sheets in the back which you would pull out and read along to.
+1986Domer nice!
The Cure " Lament " and The Jam " Pop Art Poem " are the 2 best in my life. Both tracks on compilations now.
Members of the Beatles Fan Club received a special Christmas recording on Flexi Disc every year from 1963 to 1969. I have at least 4 of them. Each year the group recorded holiday greetings, messages, and inpromptu songs probably made up on the spot for their fans. They've all been uploaded to UA-cam--just search "Beatles Christmas recordings." Fidelity was o.k. but if you didn't place a coin on the label the disc wouldn't rotate properly. Thanks Vinyl Eyezz! Just discovered your videos and I'm enjoying 'em all!
my grandfather told me about these, that they came free in magazines as "kiddie music" or commercials, and were supposed to be placed on a "real record" to be played. McDonald even released these as a sweepstakes. The one I have is just a bunch of sound clips for a record label as an advertisement, although I might be getting a hold of a movie promotional disk soon.
Mad magazine 1979 "Super spectacular day" A multigroove record with a catchy song about what an awesome day you're having..... "until...." things start to go wrong in one of 8 different endings!
I have a very rare Strawberry Switchblade flexi-disc from 1984, it has a sampler from there first album.
+Sam Flynn nice!
I remember these records by finding them in magazines. Mad magazine had one that plays a different song every time you put the needle on the same side. The ancestor of the flexi disc was the cardboard record printed on the back of a cereal box back in the early 1960s.
I have some flexidiscs that came with a vintage FisherPrice record player i bought
Nice!
They were popular in the Soviet union in the 70's and 80's as magazine inserts.
I have some of them, they are mono and double sided!
So cool!
I have a "Flexi-Disc" that is recorded on both sides at 33 1/3 rpm, yet is so thin, you can see light through it. It was issued free with a copy of the satirical magazine "Private Eye" in 1989. The disc its self is called "Skeye Flexi-Dish".
Flexidiscs were also given out with magazines in the past. The format was safer for shipping, since a regular 45 could get broken when packed with the otherwise flexible magazines.
Got one. It's a guitar tuning disc and is very useful for detecting speed stability due to the long monophonic, static tones.
I found this video looking for a recording I had as a kid that was on flexi disc. I was a young kid in the 70s and we got those flexi discs included in toys and magazines (like Dynamite Magazine). I was looking for a flexi disc that was included in my toy "Earthquake Tower". Disaster movies were hugely popular back then and this toy combined the thrill of the movies Earthquake and The Towering Inferno. The flexi disc was a soundtrack with sound effects mixed in. Good stuff! I also had a few from Dynamite. Some may still exist in my basement, but are probably not playable or barely playable anymore. Thanks for the vid!
Flexi disc would also be in some computer magazines, back in the 80's, and they would have games on them. For example, you have a Commodore 64, you plug your turntable into the audio input jack and then load the game. They would also use flexi disc for newspapers. If you were blind they would mail these disc at 8 rpm or 16 rpm.
I remember at some point that flex records were attached to cereal boxes. You would have to use another record under the flex and hope it didn't stop spinning every time you put the needle on it. That, I believe is where putting a coin on it came from.
In addition to Flexi Discs that were included in magazines, they used to have similar, probably even lower-quality records that were pressed on to the back of cereal boxes. You'd literally cut it out of the box, pop out the center hole, and put it on your turntable. I sure wish I'd hung on to the one or two I remember having as a kid in the mid '70s!
I have The Jets Crush on You from 1986 on Flexi Disc, it came with a magazine
Got one from a closed music store. Found it in a bin, picked it up (obviously thinking of you) and went home happy. :)
Hey. I was given a ton of these as promos for Readers Digest collections in the 80s. Readers Digest used these as teasers to buy full priced collections. They were pretty cool!
I have a McDonald's 1,000,000 contest Flexi disc
+Anthony Olson nice! I've seen those online but never in person!
Had one years ago with the Big Mac slogan sing-a-long. Wasn
t sure if it would play at first....
i definitely have a love/hate relationship with these little guys. On one hand they look really really cool but on the other hand the sound quality isnt too good and they only sound worse the more you pay them. But i still pick them up wen i find one i like. what can i say there just so fun
Yeah they definitely don't sound great but they are fun!
Hi I love your channel so much! You have inspired me to try to get into record collecting and I was wondering if you think the Audio Technica AT-LP60 is a good starter turntable. Keep up the great work man I look forward to your new videos!
Yes that's a good starter turntable! Thank you for watching my videos!
+Amazing Kidrauhl No. That is a glorified crosley. No counterweight. Will damage your records.
The 1st time I ever saw flexi disc was back in the mid 80s Albert lee and Steve Vai in guitar player magazine.
Glad I found your informative video. I just got my first Flexi disc and was confused. Had no idea what it was and if it played music. Thank you again.
I got one in my Tame Impala's collectors box.
I have a flexy disk by the UK pop group "Thompson Twins" but it does not contain any music. It's actually a computer program containing a adventure game based on the band which the disc plays modulated screeching sounds where you plug the audio output of the record player to the audio input of a 1980's - 8 bit home computer. You need a computer called a Sinclair ZX Spectrum to load & play the game and as soon as the flex disc finishes playing, the game starts up (if you are lucky). Normally you use cassette tapes which are more reliable to load computer programs.
Your videos are awesome Jarrett!!! Wish everyone who's starting a collection would check on them! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I had one when I was a child : there was no music on it but spoken words,cartoon audio or something like that ,I don't remember what it was (it was 35 years ago).
+gregory krzyzanski Oh wow that's cool! A lot of them were used for spoken word recordings
My mom has an old one from '76 that is a recording of a guy talking about how great it is to have the pisces starsign. It also has a speed of 33 despite being the size of a 7".
I found one the other day, buried deep in a cupboard. I can't remember it's age, but it was from the cover of UK magazine "Smash Hits" and features two tracks. The tracks are, The Skids playing "The Olympian" and XTC playing "Ten Feet Tall". Both tracks are introduced by David "Kid" Jensen, so that should help date the disc. It was pretty beaten up, but it plays all the way through with no problem on my AT-LP120 with factory AT95-E tracking at just under 2 grams.
I used to get loads of these in the 80s. They're promo discs you would get free from magazines and some news papers. Mostly they would get creased and bent or it would be music I didn't like back then so they would go from the cover of the mag straight in the bin. Wish I had kept them all now.
My Parents got them in the 1970's from Readers Digest
Nice!
Yes. Mine too. I was trying to remember where they got them. It was from Readers Digest.
I remember listening to a flexidisk called "Stereo Spectacular" from Reader's Digest back around 1980 when I was 11 years old. There was a site belonging to Jacob Whitaker who put up a few videos with a lot of flexidisks played from beginning to end but sadly, at the time of writing this, I do not find the site anymore (not on UA-cam). This particular disk was also featured there but I have to say, originally it was Mad's "Super spectacular day" flexidisk that started my interest in these records.
Hey Jarrett. New to your channel, so don't know if you've mentioned this already, but here in the UK we're moving over to plastic bank notes. If you hold one of these new notes, and put a corner of it into the groove, you hear the music. Not much use, but it's kinda fun!
I had one cut out of a shredded wheat box - Mr. Green Jeans sings Hey Wacky, Do!
I'm sure I'm older than a lot of you vinyl new bees....I remember Flexi discs from my childhood. Many story books had them included so you could play the record, and read along in the book.
Another item that Jarrett may never have heard of or come across, is records printed on cardboard. They were usually on the back of cereal boxes. It was actually a type of flexidisc, laminated to the cardboard. You cut them out, punched the center hole, and you could play it. The sound quality was terrible, but a novel item just the same. I remember getting "Stop in the name of love" by the Supremes, on a box of Sugar Frosted Flakes....
I have a large collection of Polish sound postcards. It also includes something similar to flexidiscs (precisely, sound postcards produced by state-owned Polish companies that had much better audio quality than the 'pirate-produced' ones).
I got a clear blue one that Cancer Bats put out last year, they are such a cool idea!
+Gr1msauce nice!
I found a flexi disc in my basement, and it was paired with a book on how to whistle and make mouth sounds and whatnot...
Flexidisks were popular for advertising and were often available for free in magazines. I know we had one or two that were samplers for Time Life records. We also had a Mr. Bill (from SNL) flexidisk. They were mainly used for promotional purposes so the quality wasn't a concern.
Fun fact - because of censorship in USSR, it was pretty hard to find almost any official popular western music on vinil, and it was almost impossible to pirate or make an underground copy - just because it was pretty hard to obtain blank vinyl or shellac blancs eather.
So... russians find a way.
They've made makeshift flexi discs out of x-ray prints, and they was called "music on bones\skulls
ibs". The quality wasnt perfect at all, but sometimes it was the only way to listen Beatles, if you was from some little russian town.
I've got the "Billy and the Boingers Bootleg" flexi disk from the bloom county book of the same name.
i came across them for the first time a few years ago when i bought some second hand birdbooks....there were these strange flexible transparent disks, i knew they were records - each lots of birdsong recordings of various birds :)
I specifically remember owning some of these back in the nineties. You used to it get them free with certain music magazines back in the day . ideal to give away free with a magazine if you think about it because I imagine they are very cheap to produce and of course will not make a bundle of magazines a lot heavier by including them as free enclosures
+Brand X Reviews very true!
Flexi-discs are generally found in magazines.
A rare double-side flexi-disc was the one packaged inside the MAD Disco special.
MAD also issued the "MAD Mystery Record" which had eight parallel grooves, so you didn't know which variation you would hear!
Discogs lists some 21K flexi-discs.
If the vinyl/plastic is clear, they can be adhered to a cardboard backing containing a picture. (MAD did this on occasion.)
These use to come on boxes of cereal . If you come across some of these in good shape they are highly collectable . My favorite was Sugar Sugar by the Archies. Came on the back of Frosted Flakes.
+keith “yoro 70” parkhill nice!
These were very popular in the fifties and upward for advertising. In some places and in some industries they replaced the traveling salesman. Companies would record the sales pitch about their new products and then mail out the Flexi discs. I have a CD that a friend made me of several recordings from flexi disc advertisements.
Nice! That makes sense, they are very portable and novelty items so I can see them working for advertisements!
I don't have them now but I remember them from when I was younger. Lot of advertising songs were cut on that or like a freebie that came with a magazine or something like that.
These were designed for one purpose: to be as cheap to make as possible. These were usually free promotional giveaways in one way or another: included in a magazine or a toy box or a cereal box.
I remember getting some kids bible songs in Sunday School on these. I left one in the car once and it melted.
Sometimes computer magazines in the 80s would include software on these. Put it in your stereo system and record it over to a cassette, then use the cassette to load a program onto your Commodore 64. A roundabout way to get a game onto your computer, but it worked!
I own one, it's technically the first record I ever owned. My parents had it in their basement. It's a Christmas record 👏
Nice!
I just found "Fair Warning" by Van Halen at my local antique shop for $3, and I found one of these flexis tucked in it. One side has a song I've never heard, but the other side is "Cliffs of Dover" by Eric Johnson. I was STOKED.
I have one that is an advertisement for a TIME LIFE album called "The Swing Era". It still has all of the stuff that came with it and a mailing paper that has my great-grandma's name on it. :)
I've only owned two flexi-discs - the first was "Rupert the Bear" by Lush, which was incredibly rare and I believe was given out only with one issue of NME magazine in the UK. The second I still have, which is some Daisy Chainsaw single. It's different in that it's a clear flexi with an actual cardboard backing that has the single artwork on it, so it shows through the flexi-disc itself. I think this may have been released as a standalone item, which is rare for flexis. But it's certainly interesting packaging for a standalone 7" single.
+basscadet75 Nice! I really like Lush! That's a cool band! I really like their song "Desire Lines"
There were also some on the backs of cereal boxes stamped on the back of the box that had a thinly laminated vinyl plastic about 2- 3 mils thick on the cardboard. I remember collecting the Archie's songs as well as others from the Honeycomb cereal boxes when I was a kid
I recall these occasionally in magazines in the 70s, but the only specific one I recall was a "Songs of the Humpback Whale" in a National Geographic in the late 70s. My grandparents subscribed, and I'd spend afternoons at their house after school. It's a very cozy, warm memory listening to crappy vinyl whale songs when I was 10 or 11. (Oh, and my grandfather had an ancient stereo system, probably top dollar in the 50s, with big leather subwoofers, that were pretty terrible by the 70s.)
Yes boy ! i recognise the" Guitar Player" flexi disc ! That support was employed for promotion in some magasine and a lot for "Guitar method " and all kind of instruments and educationnal support ! In the sixties in france it was exist a record in card on washing powder cardbox than you cut-out when the carbox was empty ! ; )
We use to have a couple of Time Life flexidisks. They were basically advertising. And that's probably the best use for them. It's the sort of thing you'd normally only listen to a couple of times so the wear didn't really matter. Their biggest advantage is that they were really cheap to make which is why they were good for ads.
I can remember those flexi discs from when I was growing up through the 80's. There were many of them around and they would often come attached to things like music magazines. I think they were mainly designed to promote an artist's music, like a new album maybe, and would contain little snippets of songs. Also some companies such as Reader's Digest made lots of big box set compilations of music and they would often issue snippets of songs from these compilations on a flexi disc. They were just little advertising items really. But I do know some Beatles flexi discs also exist. They were issued in the 60's to members of their fan club every Christmas from about 1963-1969, but these are extremely rare and are very hard to find.
Hi Jarrett. I have Hundreds of them. The one You were holding up Is called a Untrimmed or Uncut copy. As they are always cut to a Circle. In the 80's/90's they came as Second Singles Inside the Vinyl cover. They would contain Live recording's Un-released material or a Sample from the forthcoming Album. A lot of them were mail order from company's like Readers Digest. They came In colors to. Best ones Is Gold or Silver as You can stick on those Second Label's You sometimes get on Singles. Then put It In a Glass Picture Frame and hang It on the Wall. And It looks like You have a Gold or Platinum Record. You could go as far as Getting a engraved plak done. They look quite good. Johnathan King wanted to get rid of Vinyl as a Platform for Demo's to DJ's and send them as Flexi Disc's instead. Cut the cost of postage as they were lighter. Thank god It did not catch on.
Thank you for the video. I just got a flexi, and I wanted to try it, but didn't know any tip. Thanks!
I have a few of these still myself. They were primarily for promotional use, at least when i was growing up in the 70's & 80's. And for that purpose, they did their job! They were just tools to promote a band, and get you to listen to something that would hopefully lead to the actual purchase of the album. I remember you could sometimes grab some of these off the counter at local stores as promotional tools. I still have some that were inserted into magazines like Hit Parader and Circus, and one from inside a MAD magazine!. I even have one that I cut out of the back of a cereal box from when I was a kid! Yeah, they sound like crap, but since you didn't pay for them, who cares! And like you said, they do make good conversation pieces, especially if you have a story like these to tell with it.
I recently brought Lizzo new single Rumors on a 45 that I ordered online and just got it today and it’s Flexi disc. I didn’t know those kinds of records existed until now
Eric Clayton's new Christmas album was available in a limited edition gift set which included a popup display of his Christmas drawing, the album on CD, a thumbdrive with the tracks in mp3, and a flexidisc. I confess I've never owned or played a record before... so I got one of those Victrola nostalgic units that plays CD's, tapes, USB storage, and records. I had no clue how to play this record. The unit comes with a "45 adapter" that's supposed to serve the purpose of putting a 45 under it, like shown in this video. But the center hole is so tight the thing doesn't spin with the table...
I remember a record imprinted on the back of a cereal box. That had a haunted ghost story on it. I think there was a heavy clear plastic coating on it to create the record. I wish I still had that.
This takes me back to when I was a kid. We would sometimes have a coin that would slide off the position we had it in and it would hit the stylus.
I have one flexi disc. It's a promo disc promoting some kind of dance band music. It has a golden finish as well
Got my very first flexi disc today. A Hardcore punk classis. Gai - Extermination from 1984. Your video helped me out in playing it.
I have a handful of these from Guitar Player magazine, including the Hendrix - Red House live version that you showed in this video. My favorite one is Carlos Santana and Chester Thompson playing a song live called Blues for Salvador.
Mad Magazine, had Flexi Discs, back in the early 1970's - forward, and maybe even the 1960's. The Beatles Fan Club Recordings, issued from 1963-1969, and sent to members at Christmas time, were also Flexi Discs. Some were on a plastic sound sheet, as in your video, while others were on cardboard,
with a plastic/vinyl coating. The cardboard discs, were even put on the back of Cereal boxes in the 60's & 70's...artists like
The Monkees, The Archies, The Jackson 5, and Bobby Sherman,
found their way onto the back of select Cereal boxes...I think it was the Post Cereal Brand. Needless to say, they have been around for years, and I have a handful of them in my collection,
including the McDonald's Flexi Disc, with printed lyrics, in both versions...plastic/vinyl sound sheet and cardboard, plus a
Beach Boys Flexi Disc, from 1987, for a Malibu BARBIE Doll!
Hi Jarrett. I have loads of these. You should look for the Gold Colored ones as You can use these to good effect. Some 45 singles sometimes have a Double label. You can carefully peel off this Label. Then stick It to the center of the Gold disc. Then get a Engraved label made with (Whatever the label Is) Presented to Jarrett New. Put It In a Picture Frame and hang It on Your Wall Behind the Record Deck. Nice. Great Vids keep them coming maybe one on Your new Gold Disc. Lol.
Back in 1985 I got one in a box of cereal with "Walking On Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves.
I have a Sundays flexidisc which was used to promote their (then) upcoming debut album. It came in an issue of Rough Trade's The Catalogue magazine from 1989. As of yet, it's the only flexi I have and I've never played it as it's still attached to the magazine and I have the song on LP anyway.
Where have you been man!? Wish we could get these vids more!
I've got another video on Saturday!
I actually just ordered one so I looked up "what are flexi discs" and that's how I found your video. thanks it was very helpful!
I found a 33 1/3 rpm paper record by Colleen Applegate (Shauna Grant), Copyright Hustler Magazine/American Audiographics, 1987. Tonight going through a box of records that was given to me. Honestly thought it was just a decorative art cover till i saw the grooves. I have no idea how to store it or anything. I was going to send you a message on your FB page but saw this video.
surprised you didn't know about these guys.. they used to hive them away in magazines and comicbooks, promos for kids.. kind of cool and the did work.
Two of the best songs recorded by the band Toyah in the early 80s were exclusive to flexi disc for the best part of two decades. Sphinx and Stand Proud. The former was given away free on a regular Flexi Disc magazine, and the other was tucked inside an EP release on first pressing. They're both now on CD but I'm very glad to have my original flexis!
I've also got a great Monty Python disc which has extra material to promote the Dury Lane live album.
I had one from The Monsters cereal collections (Boo-Berry, Count Choc-ula, Franken-berry) when I was young... There were a total of four, IIRC. Also had Alfred E. Neuman's face, from MAD Magazine. Those would be really collectible now!
The audio books of their day. I still have my "Davy Crockett" book & record. (There was a whole collection of book & record sets, including Star Wars and Star Trek). Also there is another type of vinyl you have missed - tiny discs on miniature turntables. I know this because when I was bought a toy Dalek that spoke I was curious to find out how. Opening it revealed a miniature disc on a tiny turntable. This is how a lot of toys had sounds & speech back in the day! Oh I feel old now!
just got one in the mail with another vinyl purchase and was baffled!!
My favorite Mission of Burma recording of 'This Is Not A Photograph' is on a flexi...lots of these guys were made once upon a time. If you like picking up unique items these are great. Generally best to record them onto another medium and treat the flexi like it's an acetate i.e. limited number of plays until it's gone.