Mad Magazine - What, Me Worry? - The LPs Musically Mad and Mad Twists Rock 'N' Roll Plus Bonus Tracks [CD]

JASMINE RECORDS

£10.49

Cat. no: JASMCD2754
Format: CD
Barcode: 604988275421
Release Date: 02 Dec 2022
Genre: Easy Listening

Mad Magazine was incorporated in 1952 and throughout its existence, maintained its status as a benchmark of comedic and satirical excellence, eventually biting the dust in 2018

The Simpsons' producer Bill Oakley later observed: "Basically, everyone who was young between 1955 and 1975 read MAD, and that's where your sense of humour came from."

Over the decades, MAD occasionally dabbled in spinoff musical projects; this unique compilation anthologises its earliest such excursions, a couple of which barely qualify as "musical", but nonetheless appeared as fexi-discs, given away with the mag.

It comprises two LPs, "Musically MAD" and "MAD "Twists" Rock'n'Roll", plus a handful of bonus tracks, which includes regular 45rpms ('What, Me Worry?'; 'Let's Do The Pretzel') and fexis ('She Lets Me Watch Her Mom And Pop Fight').

These recordings are as rare as rocking horse manure, many of these sides having never previously appeared in the digital format.

Tracks: Meet The Staff Of Mad / Potrzebie / What - Me Worry? / Concerto For Two Hands / Morgan On "The Mikado" / Anvils, Of Course / Mad Fans' Square Dance / The Skater And His Dog / Gunsmirk Suite / Morgan On Wagner / The Green Bee / Alfred In The Circus / Give Me That Good Old Progressive Jazz / Clinkerated Chimes / Two Guitars, A Banjo And A Mandolin / Laughing Raymond / (Let's Do) The Pretzel (And End Up Looking Like One) / Agnes (The Teenage Russian Spy) / (She Got A) Nose Job / (Throwing The) High School Basketball Game / Please, Betty Jane (Shave Your Legs) / Someone Else's Dandruff (On My Lover-Baby's Shirt) / Blind Date (Yaaaaaaahhh!) / (Even If I Live To Be 22) I'll Always Remember Being Young / (He Fell In Love With Me) When My Pimples Turned To Dimples / She's A Serious (Yeah, Yeah) Teenager In Love / (All I Have Left Is) My Johnny's Hub Cap / (I Found Her Telephone Number) Written On The Boys' Bathroom Wall / It's A Gas / She Lets Me Watch Her Mom And Pop Fight